Back in her native Malaysia, Teja uses post-lockdown freedoms to visit some aboriginal tribes - and finds they often retreated to the forest to avoid the global pandemic.
Kate Rae makes the epic journey up to Western Australia's north coast. The remote town of Broome is her destination but the only thing people do here seems to e gaze at the sunset.
Over the years, Kate Rae has visited Australia's iconic surf spot in various moods. As a child, adolescent, and now almost grown up. It retains a timeless charm.
Melinda Malcolm flies into Fiji and is welcomed by 'bulas' right from the start. Over her stay she comes to believe the Fijian word for 'Welcome' is fully sincere.
A campervan - or RV to our brothers across the Atlantic - is ideal for exploring Australia. Jasmine Gruber has all the details you need to plan an epic Aussie road trip.
Liveaboard dive boats offer intensive dives in limited time. But health issues mean Teja can only snorkel: will this ruin her time on Australia's Barrier Reef?
With just 24 hours to spend in Sri Lanka, Donna Richardson headed to the capital Colombo and commandeered a ‘tuk tuk’ to see the sights in a city break with a difference.
Katrine Levin’s mission is to discover extraordinary art from places that are less explored and for her, the Yunnan Province in China is the perfect location to find rich experiences.
As a low profile Muslim travelling in Oceania, Teja finds herself fighting a whole host of preconceptions spread by Australians - and others - with no experience of anyone quite like her.
Off the coast of Australia Anthony Toole explores Bruny Island. Though little-known elsewhere it's Tasmania's premier day-trip destination, a haven for wildlife off its southeastern coast.
Jetlagged and confused, John Gimlette finds himself slipping in and out of reality on a - very slightly dangerous - drive across Madagascar's highlands, now a deforested, landslipping plain.
Somehow we should have known that 2020 has been the 'Year of the Rat' according to the Chinese calendar. In Singapore's traditional street-vendor region Amanda Jaffe gets a taste of things to come with a cataclysmic horoscope.
Paul Michelson visits the Southeast Asian country of Laos and finds it's capital city challenges his preconceptions. Not least because there seems not a lot goes on. Apart from a mysterious set of gleaming golf clubs.
Paul Michelson breezes through Cambodia's greatest city, but takes time to visit Tuol Sleng, the infamous prison used by the Khmer Rouge when the country went thoroughly to the bad. This brings unsettling thoughts.
The Principality of Hutt River rejoined the nation of Australia this month, in August, 2020. Nick Elvin recalls crossing the border from Western Australia into a wonderfully strange micronation.
Paul Michelson finds Bangkok's klongs reach to the heart of Asia's busiest city in a way the clogged roads can't do. Welcome to the Venice of the Orient.
For a first time visitor Japanese customs are unfamiliar and daunting. Elizabeth von Pier has learned some useful lessons, including how to operate their high-tech loos.
Good, better best butts with bad, terrible, are you kidding? Bonnie Lynn's Australian tour slips in between the bushfires and a growing Covid epidemic.
Paul Michelson needs crutches to get around. Next year his health might be better - or not. So he travels to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and does it now.