travel
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Gulshan 3: Weekend Escapes to Thailand
Mae Klong Market and Bangkok’s Unexpected Order Living in the diplomatic heart of Dhaka—nestled between Baridhara, Gulshan 1, and Gulshan 2—you learn to appreciate the finer points of organized chaos. Twenty million people, constant honking that’s considered not just normal but polite communication, and traffic that defies all logic. So when we learned the expat…
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Trip to Nosy Be
I knew we had chosen the right place when the owner/manager greeted us in shorts and bare feet. No snooty welcome drinks and wet towels here! Although when I think back, I think there were actually welcome drinks and wet towels. But with a different vibe… Nosy Be is a mixed bag in terms of…
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Madagascar: Visiting the Tsingy de Bemaraha (Part 2)
This post is a continuation of my previous post, where I described out trip from Antananarivo to Morondava, and then north across two rivers and to the “petit tsingy” and a boat ride through the Manamobolo Gorge and the caves that border it. In this post, I will share our experience in the “grand tsingy”…
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Madagascar: Visiting the Tsingy de Bemaraha (Part 1)
Travel and Leisure has listed Madagascar as one of its 50 places to visit in 2017. Since we’re talking about a country that would stretch from New York City to the tip of Florida, I’ll help narrow things down a bit. Despite the hassle of getting there, the Tsingy the Bemaraha National Park is one…
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Having a Whale of a Time in Sri Lanka
We recently took our first trip to Sri Lanka. Growing up on the opposite side of the globe, the only thing you would hear about Sri Lanka was the ongoing civil war, which dragged on for more than a quarter of a century, resulted in between 60,000 and 100,000 deaths, and displaced nearly 300,000 people.…