Stephanie Quan | The Monsoon Diaries

I’m coming home, I’m coming home

by Stephanie Quan | Aug 23, 2011 | China, Introspection, Post-travel Reflections, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea

Traveling, as cautioned about in many a health class, is addicting. Sometimes dealers will give you the first few hits free. You’ll see a city or two on your own, find some interesting parts in your exploration and claim an unique experience/high. Then you get...

Paradise in the Lost and Found bin

by Stephanie Quan | Aug 20, 2011 | Introspection, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea, Thailand

I’m living in a postcard. sleeping in a bungalow next to the beach, hanging out with some friends I made in Myanmar, watching fish swim by me in the crystal clear water, scrambling around rocks on a nearby island, reading all day in a hammock. this is paradise....

RAILAY

by Stephanie Quan | Aug 18, 2011 | Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea, Thailand

is only accessible by boat. everything (toilet paper, water, people) is brought in by longtail boats. has no roads. the peninsula town is about a 15 minute walk across and a 30 minute walk from end to end is surrounded by gigantic limestone cliffs which fall into the...

Battambang

by Stephanie Quan | Aug 12, 2011 | Cambodia, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea

Battambang doesn’t have much, but what it does have is a bamboo train- which is really really fun to ride. I first read about this in a Smithsonian article, which is also where I read about that Yangon art gallery (where I ended up participating in a performance...