Luang Prabang - A Place where Heaven meets Earth

  Even though often referred to as the Land of a Million Elephants, Laos borrowed this title from the translation of Lane Xang - the kingdom that, over six hundred years ago, spread throughout present day...

Jubilant spirit marks Indian lights festival

Indian festivals and legends asssociated with them are legion, but Diwali, or the Festival of Lights, is exceptional even by these standards. Usually, the different stories about a festival are variations of a...

Sihanoukville - a Cambodian Paradise on Earth

 Because the Mekong was long Cambodia’s major thoroughfare, the coastal region never developed as a trade center. With the Vietnam War, however, Cambodia was forced to look for  alternate routes. A...