Smiling Albino Celebrates 15 Years With New Bangkok HQ
As we begin 2016, Smiling Albino celebrates 15 successful years of pioneering luxury and adventure travel in Southeast Asia. It has been a lot of fun and we cherish all the new friends we’ve made, as well as all the fabulous experiences and achievements. The last quarter of 2015 was been a busy time […]
Round Bolaven With a Bike
While not quite as large as Ireland, cycling the Bolaven Plateau sometimes felt like it, and while a bicycle was a little more manoeuvrable, on occasion, while climbing up a boulder-strewn dirt path or fording a wide river, the conveyance might as well have been a fridge. Our less-common choice of transport in this remote […]
Bangkok Then and Now
Bangkok’s history is fascinating. There’s nothing we love more than getting lost in its spaghetti-like maze of streets and alleys that have been worked and reworked since before the city was founded in 1782. As Smiling Albino calls Thailand home, we have a special affinity for the steamy, huge, wonderfully complex capital. Indeed, one of […]
The Art of Navigating Crowded Attractions
Tourism in Asia has been growing at an impressive, consistent rate for some time now. Every once in a while the numbers will dip in the wake of a natural disaster or political upheaval, but still… the numbers keep climbing. For a bit of perspective: in 2010, the ten member countries of ASEAN saw a […]
Experiential Learning
There have been a myriad of books written about how travel provides an education that no school ever could. The basic idea is summed up in the famous quote “I never really started learning until I began to travel.” Over the years the travel experience has embraced, rejected, created, and re-embraced many different identities, be […]