The Travel Intern

So you're interested in applying for The Travel Intern Programme. I mean why will you not want to travel and get paid while doing it. But with so many people applying, how can one stand out from the crowd! To...

I disembarked from the plane, alone and disoriented, and shuffled my way out of Yogyakarta’s small airport, following the throngs of people streaming out into a sleepy Indonesian afternoon. Straight ahead were the taxi touts,...

 We arrived in chilly Hangzhou in the late hours of the evening. Immediately after exiting the airport terminal, my throat was ambushed and became slightly irritated by the choking smog. Thankfully, after a few minutes...

Last year, I spent just under a month in New Zealand, and wrote a post about how I spent 2.6k SGD over 26 days. I briefly mentioned my experience WWOOFing in New Zealand so now...

When I told my friends and family that I was in China (specifically Hangzhou and Nanjing), they immediately asked if I had brought Imodium. Apparently, some of them have the impression that food in...

People usually plan to travel to Osaka or Kyoto for their vacations as they are more popular among tourists. However, less than an hour’s pleasant ride away by train is Nara, Japan’s first permanent...

Going on safari in Africa was a childhood dream for me. I'd always imagined it as a honeymoon destination, the kind of prohibitively expensive experience that you save up your whole life for. But it isn't!...

The overnight train from Hangzhou pulls up at Nanjing Train Station shortly after daybreak, and we tumble out into a chilly morning. On the way to our hotel we peer out at streets...

As Jonathan Safran Foer eloquently puts it “Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.” Cultural cuisines are in a way, time capsules. Traditional dishes are shaped by a long history of...

Finding warmth in China, hidden under a slew of bad press and its gruff, sullen veneer. Curly haired Chinese ladies in puffy vests and mismatched scarves push me backwards at the Hangzhou airport luggage carousel,...