Exotissimo Travel Blog

Bor Sang located on highway 1006 that heads east from Chiang Mai seems to be a typical sleepy rural village that tour buses usually stop just for a while for tourists to take a short glimpse of two- storey wooden houses and how to make umbrellas from Sa paper. But if you notice, the hidden thing […]

Thailand has been long time known as a country in Southeast Asia with warm hospitality, friendly Thai people and cultural richness to experience such as excellent foods, charming and exquisite Thai cooking, exciting Thai boxing, traditional Thai massage, Thai fun and exotic festivals, places rich in cultural aspects that become Thailand’s cultural attractions like temples, […]

After a visit in 1981, the then Director General of UNESCO proclaimed Hue to be “a masterpiece of urban poetry“. Famous for school girls in their white Áo Dài - Vietnamese national dress, and Nón Bài Tho - a conical straw hat hiding a secret poem, to the Vietnamese, Hue has ever been synonymous with […]

“Luang Prabang is in reality a love, a dream, a poetry of naive sensuality which unfolds under the foliage of this perfumed forest”. So penned Marte Bassene in his 1909 Laos travelogue, and a century later surprisingly little about this picturesque idyll has changed. Indeed, after their initial survey, UNESCO proclaimed Luang Prabang to be […]

As part of my recent tour of Thailand, I went to Chiang Mai to celebrate the new year and I had a leisure time to stroll a walking street in Chiang Mai during my stay.
You will see lively vendors hawk their glittering wares, as the ‘plink-plink’ of street musicians, and aromatic medley of blooming flowers, […]

 Hanoi the Romantic City….
The phrase ‘faded grandeur’ could have been coined specifically for the city of Hanoi. Nowhere in Asia is the architectural heritage of the past so well preserved.
Many of the grandiose villas and palaces built by the French are still in use today, mostly as government buildings. Wide, tree-lined boulevards skirt the misty […]