Asia articles

Train to Taj Mahal
Travel Briefs, August 2016 issue.
The Gatimaan Express began operating high-speed rail service from Hazrat Nizamuddin Station in Delhi, India, to Agra, location of the Taj Mahal, in April. The train makes the nearly 130-mile journey in about an hour and 40 minutes.

Hotel Takachiho dining
Travelers' Intercom, August 2016 issue.
During our 6-week koyo (autumn foliage) trip to Japan in November-December 2015, my husband, Clyde, and I took many of our dinners at small, family-owned restaurants and izakayas (taverns), also exploring the side streets and back alleys where such places abound. 

Heijō: Japan’s eighth-century capital
Columns, August 2016 issue.

Angkor Wat frontage road
Travel Briefs, July 2016 issue.
On May 3, Cambodia banned motor vehicles from the road that runs directly in front of the 12th-century Angkor Wat complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site near Siem Reap.

Kanjing Temple, China
Travel Briefs, June 2016 issue.
Visitors to the Longmen Grottoes near the city of Luoyang in Henan Province, eastern-central China, now can enter Kanjing Temple, which opened to the public on March 10. 

‘Marvelous sights’ of Oman and the UAE
Travelers' Intercom, June 2016 issue.

What's Cooking in... Myanmar
Columns, June 2016 issue.

Tempurung Cave, Malaysia
Travel Briefs, May 2016 issue.
The largest cave system in peninsular Malaysia, Gua Tempurung (Tempurung Cave), is 4.5 kilometers long, with 1.9 km (1.18 miles) open to visitors. It features five massive domed ceilings, an underground river and stalactite and stalagmite formations. 

Bagan balloons restricted
Travel Briefs, January 2016 issue.
In Myanmar, new rules for hot-air balloon flights over the site of Bagan, whose pagodas were built in the 9th to 13th centuries, began on Oct. 15.

Deported from UAE for Facebook post
Travel Briefs, September 2015 issue.
In Abu Dhabi, an Australian woman was fined $2,700, spent 53 hours in custody and was deported from the United Arab Emirates on July 15 for posting a picture to Facebook of a car parked across two handicapped parking spaces near her apartment and adding criticism.