James Mundy

2017: What’s hot in the year of the rooster

Some destinations in Burma will always be popular: the mist-cloaked pagodas scattered across the plains of Bagan; great, glassy Inle Lake with its floating villages; the “winking wonder” of Shwedagon Pagoda watching over Yangon. But Burma is one of the fastest-changing countries in Southeast Asia, and every year we see new areas open up to […]

What’s hot for 2017: The year of the rooster

Southeast Asia is packed with perennial favourites: places we go back to again and again because of their classic appeal, whether it be natural, historical or cultural. But the world is changing fast, and we’re constantly seeing developments across our destination countries that bring new regions to our attention, or let us see our well-known […]

On the Water: A day on Inle Lake

Our very own James Mundy, stalwart of the InsideAsia team, goes in search of peace on Myanmar’s magnificent Inle Lake. This article first appeared in issue #1 of East, the Inside Asia Tours magazine. Click here to download a copy or sign up to receive your FREE paper subscription.

Burma Beach

Culture on the beaches of Burma

Burma has a whole lot to offer in the form of beautiful countryside and culture, but it is not known for its beaches…but it should be! I wouldn’t class myself as a beach person really, but soon after flying into little Ngapali airport, it’s hard not to appreciate the tropical surroundings. As the ‘season’ had […]

Côn Đảo

Côn Đảo’s Calling

Reasons to go to Côn Đảo – by guest blogger, Kirsty Denison Côn Đảo is an island of day-job, desk-bound fantasies; a place where cloud-topped, jagged mountains encase bays of turquoise and paper-white sands. Just an hour’s flight from frenetic Saigon, this 50km square patch of paradise is skirted by 15 other smaller islands and islets, making […]

Happy child

The highway to the highlands

InsideVietnam’s Charlotte Bower recently headed north from Hanoi to the Sapa highlands on the new express way (opened September 21 2014). The express way from Hanoi to Lau Cai is the longest in the country and cuts journey time to the far north dramatically. Here’s Charlotte… Sapa is a stunning mountain destination with trekking and […]

Cruising at night on a motorbike

Hanoi motorbike style

Earlier on in the year, we blogged about the impressive motorbike loads that we have seen in Vietnam. Here are some pretty impressive Hanoi motorbike style shots of girls on bikes….and lots of them… Three people to a bike is pretty much standard in Vietnam, but Thanhnien News recently published a few pictures of girls […]

TV's Helen Skelton gets to meet InsideAsia's James Mundy twice at the Guardian Travel Awards

2014 Guardian Travel Award Winners

Winners!!!….Twice! Just a quick post here to say a big ‘thank you’ to those of you who may have voted for us in the 2014 Guadian Travel Awards. The reader voted awards ceremony took place in Agadir, Morocco (20-22 November) and we are delighted (and pleasantly surprised) that InsideAsia Tours have received not one, but […]