I was on my way home to visit my grandmother when she had a stroke.
Home. That’s a relative term when home refers to Burma. Because I’m half-Burmese, Burma—which I prefer to “Myanmar,” a name conjured up by the nation’s dictators—has always felt a little like home.
My relatives, even Burmese I’ve never met, treat me like […]
In 2000, I made one of my periodic visits to Shanghai. I lived there for a year in the mid-1980s. Back then, it was a much slower-paced metropolis than it is today. When I arrived, I noticed two changes to the urban landscape. One was the appearance of countless new skyscrapers and stretches of elevated […]
1) Make travel a part of your life’s education
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
2) Keep a travel journal, at sea or on land
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The situation: After a long day of roaming the Forbidden City, you want nothing more than a sit-down meal. No visit to Beijing is complete without a
Peking duck dinner, a decadent meal ideal for ending the day. But for the beginner, this feast of poultry, pancakes and condiments can be tricky to navigate. You […]
Since we started World Hum in 2001, we’ve tried to explore travel in all its facets and publish compelling travel stories. It’s been enormously fun and gratifying, yet there’s so much more we’ve wanted to do with the site. Juggling day jobs, we just haven’t had the time or resources.
Now we will. We’re delighted to […]
Here are some of my favourites from my last trip to Hong Kong.
EATING OUT:
For fresh, creative Vietnamese cuisine, check out Nha Trang on Wellington Street. It’s a great lunch place, always full, but worth queuing for a table.
Nha Trang Vietnamese Cuisine: 88-90 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong, Tel: +852 2581 9992.
Enoteca and its sister restaurant […]
Several years ago, while I was living in Arusha, Tanzania, teaching English at a local secondary school, one of my jobs was to teach literature. This was not as easy as it sounds. Our syllabus said we should cover 13 books. But in Tanzania, books were like bricks of gold, and they were stored in […]
Almost three years ago, when journalist Dan Bilefsky was working as a financial reporter for The Wall Street Journal, he wrote
a head-turning story about Villa Tinto, House of Pleasure. The Antwerp brothel run by a transsexual prostitute named Georges/Joyce billed itself as Europe’s most “high-tech,” thanks in part to the use of biometric scanners […]
We were in the kitchen washing bundles of mint for tea, sunlight streaming through the windows and the sound of the muezzin wailing throughout Fes’ old city, when I asked Fadoua about the djinns.
I had been reading a book about Morocco called
In Arabian Nights by Tahir Shah. In it are tales of a second […]
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