Basler Herbstmesse, or the Basel Autumn Fair in English, is not your average funfair. This is a 554-year-old celebration, stitched into the cultural DNA of Basel. Every year from ...

In fact, after five months, I returned to Basel, the country’s cultural capital, with cabinets of curiosities ranging from ...

Out of the past 12 months, I spent one-fourth in Thailand. For another three months, I was in Croatia, working on its coast. And then there was a trimester in Switzerland, too, a country from which I ...

The air at Kathu Shrine before dawn feels different. Thicker, charged, almost breathing. Smoke curls above a sea of white, the scent of incense mixing with the tang of gunpowder. Devotees move through ...

The oldest parish in the Croatian region of Hrvatsko Zagorje is the final resting place of my father. He passed away almost five years ago, in a period when I processed that saying goodbye is the most ...

For thousands of years, the local economy here rested on salt. Some 75 kilometers southeast of Salzburg (translates to Salt Castle), Hallstatt or Salt Settlement is home to some of the oldest salt ...

That’s only in spirit because, last week, I tried my best to focus on finishing my long-awaited report on Penang Thaipusam, a gigantic Hindu festival that only India makes bigger than Malaysia does.

The perception of a travel blogger’s life is often built on glamorous illusions. Since I started an intense global journey back in 2017, I’ve had my fair share of high-end stays. From wildlife lodges ...

If you’ve ever experienced a Chinese New Year celebration, you know it’s long, lively, and loud. But for the Hokkien people, the 9th day is the grand crescendo of the 15-day event, a festival within a ...

Do you ever enter a hotel, and then have trouble finding the room they assigned to you? Hotel corridors can sometimes resemble a maze, and navigational numbers signposted on walls can be not helpful.

“Fasten your seatbelt”, a gray-haired driver tells me before turning on the engine. The ride to the outskirts of Lopburi is just five minutes long, but as someone with a Thailand visa overstay fine ...

An October dawn spills over the Jor Soo Gong Naka Shrine in Phuket, bathing the gathered crowds in soft light. A barely teenage boy stands still while a father-figure man attaches a flower garland ...