by Anne Betts | Jan 11, 2024 | Taiwan
Updated January 11, 2024 Of the most visited countries in the Asia-Pacific region, disappointingly, Taiwan rarely makes it to any list featuring the top ten. That’s both surprising and unfortunate as it is one of my favourite countries. Hopefully my 10...
by Anne Betts | Jan 1, 2018 | Cambodia
Updated January 1, 2018 Do you include dark tourism in your travels? If you’ve visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Auschwitz in Poland or the 9/11 Memorial in New York City, you’ve engaged in dark tourism. ‘Dark tourism’ describes travel to places...
by Anne Betts | Dec 15, 2016 | Taiwan
A brief trip to Taipei’s mountainous suburb of Beitou revealed qualities I was growing to appreciate about Taiwan. These included scenic wonders, preservation of national gifts, inexpensive or non-existent admission prices, volunteerism, and a people-friendly...
by Anne Betts | Jul 31, 2016 | Cambodia, Cycling Trips
I’ve never waffled so much about a trip as I did with cycling Cambodia from Siem Reap to Sihanoukville. This type of indecisiveness was a stark contrast to other adventures where I’m often the first one out the gate. Source of my hesitation It wasn’t the cycling, and...