Exploits in Southeast Asia
Button-faced gibbons lankily toss themselves through the canopy, a petite mouse deer gnaws at a bush below, and Betek – the chief and shaman of his tribe – methodically whittles another blow dart to such slender precision it nearly becomes invisible to the eye. He sheathes the final product into a vacant hole in the …
Continue reading Trekking to the Orang Asli in the “World’s Oldest Rainforest,” Malaysia
The Philippines, the world’s second largest archipelago next to Indonesia, speckles the eastern side of the South China Sea with thousands of islands blooming with baron beaches, cross-cultured cuisine, and complacent locals wearing content smiles. An illustrious array of diverse languages, topographies and island cultures intertwined with Latin colonialism, the Philippines is a destination that travelers …
Continue reading A Willing Castaway on Negros, The Philippines
It’s dusk in Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as it is still locally known, and the haze of the last ounce of light from the crimson setting sun is smothered in smog. The thousands of motorcycles and scooters that clog the streets of Saigon turn on their headlights lighting up the entire city in …
The reflection of me in her metallic bonnet seemed to project my weary state of mind. The red hue of my sunburn could be seen contrasting with undamaged parts of my pale skin. The mirror image projected from the overlaying pieces of metal upon her head made my lanky body appear to double in size …
Justin Calderón 