Online Travel Research
Online Travel Research: What’s Good, What’s Bad, and What to Avoid When Smiling Albino first came to Southeast Asia, the Internet was in its infancy. There were rudimentary blogs and pages with photo albums, but nothing even remotely resembling the selection today’s travelers have. In 2016, we are spoiled for choice. Indeed, there is actually […]
Beyond Angkor
Quick! How many countries’ national flags include a building? Give up? According to our exhaustive research, there are only four – Spain, Afghanistan, Portugal, and Cambodia. Of those, only Cambodia’s flag includes a specific building – the magnificent stone spires of Angkor Wat. This little trivia tidbit is quite telling. Without a doubt, Cambodia’s biggest, […]
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 […]
Behind the Scenes of a Smiling Albino Trip – Part 3
Photo: Guide Eak is always popping up when you need him! Like many industries, the travel and tour business is a lot like an iceberg – what you see is only a small fraction of the whole package. From a client’s point of view, most any service they pay for – be it getting a […]