Unwrapped travel

Getting a medical check-up in Thailand can be a great option for top-notch treatment at a fraction of the cost of what you’d pay in the west — plus you can tack on a beach-holiday to the end. So says the latest story we’ve added to Travelfish. You can read the full story here.

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Soundtrek has started producing mp3 walking tours for Bangkok — a great idea and one we’ve been tossing around but haven’t had the time to move forward on. Until we get our act together please go take a look at their site — you can listen to the tracks individually for free or download the [...]

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As promised, below are a few happy snaps from Java’s Boroburdur. It was our first time there, and earthquakes, a bubbling volcano, terror attacks, both tsunamis (there was a second one last night — thankfully not as destructive, but still over 100 dead) have really taken a toll on Indonesia’s tourist industry — Yogyakarta (the [...]

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The Hawaii-based Star Bulletin ran an interesting feature on CM Blue House — one of the most popular guesthouses listed on Travelfish — over the weekend. It is an interesting interview with the owners — and one I’m sure they’ll be happy with…
“Our goal is to turn this into a boutique property,” Riley said [...]

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We’re off to Java’s magnificent Boroburdur shortly and will be back on Monday. As the laptop is most definetly not coming with us, there may be some delays answering emails and queries — our apologies — we’ll make it up to you with some nice pics come Monday

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Ruth Schaffer, over at Let’s Visit Asia has some very kind birthday wishes for us.
Indeed! And $$ aside, online travel guides such as Travelfish is your best bet if you want up-to-date information about the place you’re headed to. No more outdated hotel reviews. No more confusion about prices. No more looking for recommended restaurants [...]

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Carl Parkes put together one of the benchmarks of SE Asia guidebooks with his SE Asia guide for Moon publications, and in response to a PR we circulated for our third birthday, we squeaked onto his very well-regarded blog.
While I’d venture he’s probably not our number-one fan, we’ve nevertheless booked him in for an [...]

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Had enough of bamboo bungalows furnished with a mosquito net modelled on swiss cheese? Of bucket flush toilets with a hole in the bucket? Of soiled sheets you wouldn’t bury your garbage in? Of chickens and dogs waking you at 4am? Then don’t fret — we’ve just added a new series of features to offer [...]

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TTR reports that Vietnam and Laos have opened a bus link between Qui Nhon in Binh Dinh province and Pakse in Champasak, Laos . The route is intended to draw overland tourist across border between Thailand and Vietnam . The new service launched on July 4th takes about 12 hours and costs US$16. The busses [...]

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JAKARTA, July 12: Southeast Asia is one of the fastest changing travel regions in the world.
“So why do travellers spend almost US$60 on more than two kilograms of out-of-date guidebooks, when they can get everything they need online and it won’t cost them a cent?” asks Travelfish.org co-founder Stuart McDonald.
Travelfish.org, an online travel guide to [...]

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