The scene of one of the most publicised atrocities of America's Vietnam war has now been thoroughly commercialised. David Calleja finds raw emotion struggles to find a way through the slick presentation.
Fifty years after spending his childhood in Chittagong in East Pakistan, Adrian Harman-Bishop revisits to find his old family home is now surrounded by a new country, Bangladesh.
Japan's island of Okinawa has enough festivals to keep expat photographer Michael Lynch busy all year. But few are as authentic and spiritual as the Shinugu Matsuri in Ada Kunigami.
Don't take the locals' encouraging comments too seriously, warns serial linguist Antonio Graffeco. Learning Far Eastern languages takes time and comittment.
John Edwards finds getting around New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula is a breeze if you're ready to stick out your thumb and trust the first Maori that stops.
Rob McGovern takes a short flight from mainland Japan to find the island of Okinawa, bombed to bits in World War II, has re-invented itself as a tropical getaway.
