Vientiane, Laos, on the banks of the sleepy Mekong river, is a city in the midst, a confluence of traditional Buddhist culture, bureaucratic communism and an emerging consumer marketplace of goods and ideas.
We don’t often get to see the behind the scenes preparations for parades and festivals. These kids on a country road in Tobago must have put in long hours to master the art of stilt-walking for Mardi Gras.
The doorman at Mandawa Castle Hotel, complete with red turban and white beard, took a relaxed pose, framed in the ornate doorway of the intensely fortified castle…
While covering the historic capital of Sukhothai with the Tourist Board of Thailand I saw a group of saffron-robed monks heading out before dawn with their begging bowls…