Help Myanmar
View a directory of aid organizations dedicated to helping the victims of the cyclone disaster in Myanmar (Burma).

Quotes from our contributing authors

"Take time to get to know each person you meet, every smile, tear or frown has a reason, a story. A smile could be a mask for sadness, a tear a sign of happiness, things sometimes aren't what they seem. Explore. Ask. That's travel."

- Angela LCW

"With the iridescent blue sky and cottony white clouds above us, we traced perilous dirt switchbacks whose collapsing shoulders threatened to toss us hundreds of meters below into the Mekong River; it looked peaceful enough from above - its banks and farmland dotted with eye-catching, whitewashed adobe homes, which seemed to beckon us into Tibet."

- Tom Carter

"Not every sight or moment is picture-postcard perfect and rightly so. This is Bangkok, a city where the less fortunate young and old hold up a dirty plastic cup for your spare baht, and where the humid air and chocking traffic could lead you to pop an antidepressant."

- Sim Jui Liang

"Of course I know that wherever I go I take myself with me. But traveling, that temporary immersion in a life unlike your own, allows for pondering of the age-old conundrum; if I were on a reality TV show, would it be that hard to pretend I'm well mannered? Or perhaps more to the point, a trip provides an escape when your real life has grown unfamiliar."

- Lisa Kirchner

"The Koreans rightly saw modern industrialization as the way out of their predicament. They set to work with a vengeance. By any measure they have succeeded. No longer a 'Hermit Kingdom,' modern day Korea is a wonder of skyscrapers and sophistication."

- John Regan