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Le Grande Tour, Day 12 – 13: Racing History in Hanoi

20 Nov 2012 / 2 Comments

HANOI — Hanoi! The very word sounds exotic, doesn’t it? I arrived Oct 15 after a — I kid you not — 26-​​​​hour bus ride from Vien­tiane to Hanoi. And just as all happy fam­i­lies are alike, …

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Le Grande Tour, Days 4 – 6: Questioning Luang Prabang

18 Oct 2012 / 5 Comments

Luang Pra­bang, the for­mer royal cap­i­tal, is being devel­oped as a tourist des­ti­na­tion by the very gov­ern­ment that killed off the royal fam­ily. If this strikes you as a lit­tle cyn­i­cal, well, wel­come to the club.

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Le Grande Tour, Days 2 – 3: Life on the River

10 Oct 2012 / 1 Comment

MEKONG RIVER — If the first day leav­ing Chi­ang Mai was some­what leisurely, the morn­ing of the sec­ond day seemed almost fran­tic. Well, as fran­tic as life gets in north­ern Thai­land — which is …

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Learning to See

07 Aug 2012 / 1 Comment

INDIRA GANDHI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, New Delhi — So check out that date­line. That’s right. I’m at an air­port. And I’m about to get on a plane. Do you know what that means? That’s right: …

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The Prologue is Past

18 Jul 2012 / 1 Comment

I’ve now been in India for about six weeks, and I’ve come to real­ize that much of what has hap­pened up to this point — flee­ing Pak­istan, leav­ing Reuters, land­ing in New …