Smiling Albino

Eat your way through the Bangkok night!

Smiling Albino’s Bangkok Headlights tour is one of our most famous excursions. Since we started it in 1999, this dynamic evening out has been wowing our guests, showing them the best of Bangkok after dark at street level. It hits the city’s unique transportation, people, sights, hidden alleys and secret party spots – and most […]

Bangkok on Foot: 5 Great Walking Areas in the City of Angels

Bangkok’s traffic is legendarily bad, which is why it makes so much sense to give that FitBit a workout by using your feet to see the city. What’s that? Bangkok is huge and sprawling and confusing? Yes, well, it does cover over 1,500 square kilometers, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t great neighborhoods to see […]

Phnom Penh Adventures

Phnom Da built in the 6th century is best reached by speedboat. Cambodia’s capital city Phnom Penh has had a rough time over the last few decades with political chaos, bloody regimes and regional wars. However, since the UN-sponsored elections in 1993, the city has slowly gotten up, dusted itself off and developed into a […]

SEA Dynasties: What happened to the royal family in Vietnam?

SEA Dynasties

Southeast Asia Dynasties: What happened to the Royal Family in Vietnam? 23 june 2016 As many readers know, Smiling Albino is based in Bangkok, Thailand, but also works extensively in Nepal, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Besides being awesome places to explore, the one thing that all of these countries have in common is that they […]

Southeast Asian Dynasties: What happened to the royal family in Nepal?

As many readers know, Smiling Albino is based in Bangkok, Thailand, but also works extensively in Nepal, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Besides being awesome places to explore, the one thing that all of these countries have in common is that they entered the 20th century with a strong monarchic system in place. But of them […]