Despite recent and rapid economic progress, CHIANG MAI - Thailand's second city - manages to preserve some of the atmosphere of an overgrown village. The old quarter, set within a two-kilometre-square moat, has retained many of its traditional...
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Bali's capital city, DENPASAR (formerly known as Badung, and still sometimes referred to as such), has lost some of its charm to the roaring motorbikes and major traffic congestion that now dog much of south Bali. However, it remains a...
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To ancient travellers along the Kathmandu-Tibet trade route, the ten-kilometre corridor from Pashupatinath to Sankhu was known as the zone of siddhi (supernatural powers), where guardian deities dwelt and all wishes were granted. The biggest,...
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