South East Asia

From rum tasting in Cuba, to gondola riding along Venice’s many canals. Here’s your guide for where to travel in March.

For a lot of travellers to Malaysia, Mt Kinabalu is the whole reason they visit: to get up at 2am, drink several cups of strong coffee, and watch the sun rise over Low’s Peak.

There’s a whole lot more to this “poo coffee” than meets the eye.

You can’t go to Chiang Mai in Thailand and not have a massage – the city is famous for them. But having a Thai massage in a prison will do more than ease your own aches and pains. Here’s why.

Vietnam may not immediately spring to mind when you think about the craft beer scene, but interesting new lagers and IPAs have been brewing away in the country for years.

While the frenetic streets of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City offer a unique insight into Vietnam’s urban life, it’s not until you’ve ridden through the serene – and surreal – surrounds of Mai Chau that you get to know the real Vietnam.

While Halong Bay may be one of Vietnam’s shining stars, Cat Ba Island is a hidden gem. Here’s why you should add it to your travel itinerary now.

Most people tend to focus their Cambodia itinerary on Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, perhaps with a jaunt along the coast thrown in. Between the temples of Angkor and the bright lights of the capital, there’s a whole country waiting to be explored.

If you want to see the face of overtourism, take a plane to Phnom Penh and catch a bumpy five-hour bus to Sihanoukville – a once-sleepy town on a little peninsula in the Gulf of Thailand. Sihanoukville is the jewel of Cambodia’s tourism industry. Or at least it used to be.