Bangkok refuses to stand still: between the temples, the street food and the chaos of everyday life, there’s enough to fill a month. Here are my 15 favorite activities, from the khlongs to Muay Thai, with prices and pitfalls to avoid. For an overview, start with my complete guide to […]
Bangkok has at least 6 modes of transport, each with its own way to pay, well-rehearsed scams around the major temples, ATMs with flat fees and 3 seasons that determine when to go and what to pack. Here’s what I sort out before arriving, with prices in baht and euros. […]
Bangkok has more than 300,000 street food vendors, in every soi and along every canal. From 6:00, office workers grab moo ping and sticky rice at 15 THB a skewer (0.40 EUR, the price of a piece of chewing gum in France), and at midnight Chinatown’s pavements are still packed […]
Bangkok has more than 400 active Buddhist temples, places where Thai people actually come to pray, and attracts more than 20 million visitors a year. Here are my 13 favorites, from the 3 big riverside temples, which I visited in a single morning, to the hidden temples most tourists miss, […]
Bangkok has 2 sides: monks collecting alms at dawn along quiet canal-side lanes, and midnight food stalls on Yaowarat Road, where smoke from charcoal grills fills the entire block. It’s noisy, hot, sometimes stifling, and one of Southeast Asia’s most striking cities. Here’s what I recommend for your visit to […]
Bali is a collection of towns and neighborhoods separated by traffic-clogged roads, each with its own personality, price range and crowd. Choosing the wrong base can ruin a trip: stay in Kuta when you wanted peace and quiet, and you spend your vacation listening to drunk Australians at 02:00. As […]
Bali plays by different rules from most destinations in Southeast Asia: a visa with plenty of fine print, traffic that can hold you up for 1 hour on a 10-minute journey, police who target tourists on scooters, and money changers near Kuta whose sleight of hand would impress a Las […]
Bali often overwhelms first-time visitors: between the temples, waterfalls, surfing, volcano hikes and cooking classes, most people cram 2 weeks of activities into 5 days and spend more time in traffic than actually doing things. Here are my 20 favorite activities, with my honest take on what’s worth it and […]
In Bali, I ate far beyond the smoothie bowls on your Instagram feed: suckling pig roasted over coconut shells from dawn, plates of rice with sides chosen by pointing in family-run warungs, grilled seafood on the beach in Jimbaran. A plate of nasi campur for 25,000 IDR (around 1.50 EUR) […]
Bali has more than 60 named beaches on an island roughly the size of Luxembourg, and choosing the wrong one can ruin your week: most first-time visitors land in Kuta, see the gray-brown water and the line of trash on the sand, and wonder what the hell went wrong. Here […]
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