Exotissimo Travel Blog

Just 60 kilometers away from Kanchanaburi town in Central Thailand, this bucolic resort set in large private grounds offers 56 luxuriously appointed and fully air-conditioned chalets and traditional Thai thatched cottages on the banks of the Kwai Noi River. The resort is an ideal base to explore the rugged natural beauty of Kanchanaburi and staff […]

Along the borders of Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and China, there are dozens of mountain-dwelling semi-nomadic people collectively known as ‘hilltribes’. Although they do share an elevated lifestyle, these colorful communities actually represent a diverse myriad of languages, cultures and belief systems.
The Akha, one complex hilltribe group in the region, are closely related to the […]

Imagine walking through a 180 million year old rainforest, the morning filled with the sound of gibbons calling across the canopy above. You reach a clearing and your guide tells you to be quiet and look to the sky. There you see a hornbill flying low as it searches for food in the jungle below. […]

Ringed by over a dozen bays and beaches with an archipelago of islets off its south coast, a rugged jungle interior, white sandy shores, clear turquoise waters and a handful of fishing villages, the tear-shaped island of Phu Quoc just inspires superlatives and is one of Vietnam’s rarest finds and finest treasures.
Occupied by the French […]

Myanmar is blessed with an amazing variety of natural resources ranging from pristine beaches and dense forests, to high mountains and remote islands, and the relaxed region surrounding the district town of Putao is an undeniable showcase of this diversity.
Hidden far in the north of Myanmar’s Kachin State, the remoteness and inaccessibility of the area […]

Winter is leaving, yet you may not leave it behind. Late February until beginning April is still the perfect period to take a laid back vacation to the north of Thailand. Especially Mae Hong Son, the year round travel destination. Dubbed the Thai Switzerland because of its mountainous geography and cool weather throughout the year, […]

I had been part of a volunteer vacation in the northern part of Thailand, with western teachers and students, to live with local hill tribe villagers. The trip, even though was long time ago, is still fresh in my memory. I can still picture in my mind when local kids running, seemingly wanting to know […]