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Planet Asia Podcast: How to best communicate while traveling in SE Asia

Traveling in unfamiliar territory can be a challenge, let alone how to try and speak with locals in languages you don’t understand, but it’s possible. We chat with David Long, a longtime resident in Thailand who runs the Thai Language Department at the AUA in Bangkok, as well as Real Life Bangkok, about how to […]

Video: Stand Up Paddling in Chiang Rai, Thailand

One of the things we love most about travel is getting out there, trying new things and blazing new trails. A while back we met a person selling inflatible stand up paddle boards in Thailand. After chatting for a while it was decided we would take one up to Chiang Rai province, Thailand’s northernmost and […]

Planet Asia Podcast: Talking Photography with David Lemke

One of the great things about being in the travel business in SE Asia is meeting interesting people. Canadian David Lemke is one of them. He didn’t intend to become a professional photographer or live in Vietnam, but both happened. Over the last few years he’s gone from being an avid photographer to making it […]