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How I Plan to Cover the World’s Most Exciting Travel Region as Skift’s New Asia Editor

November 5, 2018 Loknath DasAs, Asia, Cover, Editor, Exciting, How, I, Most, New, Plan, Region, Skift’s, The, to, travel, World's

It occurred to me that I might be in trouble. Because Asia is a huge continent to cover! It occupies a third of the world’s land area and its 4.5 billion person population is bigger than that of the other continents combined. Skift’s new Asia editor Raini Hamdi And then there’s me, located in a tiny red dot on the world map, Singapore, covering the whole of Asia for Skift. The continent I’m covering is also not a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, to borrow Ang Lee’s film title. It is…

Visit Romania’s fading architectural gems before they are lost forever

June 30, 2018 Loknath Dasarchitectural, Are, Before, fading, Forever:, gems, Lost, Romania’s, they, visit

In a spa town nestled near Romania’s border with Bulgaria and Serbia, Oana Chirila puts on her hard hat and gets down to work with a dozen other young architects to try to save their country’s heritage. Some of the precious architectural gems they are striving to restore bore witness to centuries of Romanian history and the crowned heads who ruled it through the ages. Built at the start of the last century by Daniel Renard, an architect of Swiss origin, the site won the admiration of Russia’s Tsar Nicolas…

Would you consider skipping the Colosseum and Vatican on a trip to Rome?

June 28, 2018 Loknath Das'Would, a, and, Colosseum, Consider, On, Rome?, Skipping, The, to, Trip, Vatican, You

You can hardly see the treasures of Rome’s top attractions these days amid the sweaty hordes and seas of selfie-sticks. Overtourism is real, there and elsewhere in Europe. Yet look away and there is hope. Give up your ambition to name-drop the top 10 attractions, and you can unlock the experiences of a lifetime at sites with equally astounding masterpieces that just don’t happen to be in every guidebook and listicle. The central part of the ancient Roman Baths of Caracalla. At the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme museum, you might…

Your summer Goa trip can go horribly wrong. Take these precautions

June 13, 2018June 13, 2018 Loknath DasCan, Go, Goa, horribly, precautions, summer, Take, these, Trip, Wrong, Your

With the mercury shooting through the roof, Goa’s private lifeguard agency issued on Thursday an advisory for the hundreds of thousands of tourists and locals who head for the beaches in summer, especially in May, when the temperature in the coastal state peaks at 38-40 degrees Celsius. The advisory asks tourists to look out for rip tides and powerful underwater currents that are a major cause for drowning off beaches — a regular phenomenon in summer, while also advising swimmers and beach-goers to stay hydrated and avoid direct sunlight. “The…

Travel and free sex, Miss Travel app is controversial app that helps people see the world for free

June 11, 2018 Loknath Dasand, App, Controversial, for, Free, Helps, Is, Miss, People, See, Sex, That, The, travel, World

Some may call it prostitution, but Miss Travel app likes to call it dating. The app, which is also available as a service on a website, is getting popular because it apparently allows people to travel the world for “free”. Free if you discount the possibility — or rather certainty — of sex. Miss Travel apparently allows rich people — likely to be mostly men — to sponsor trips of other people, in return for companionship and — again not said so explicitly but implied — sex. The dating app…

Anthony Bourdain changed the food, travel and media worlds

June 11, 2018 Loknath Dasand, Anthony, Bourdain, changed, Food., Media, The, travel, World's

My wife and I went to Thailand last year on our honeymoon. Had we never known of Anthony Bourdain, we might have just headed for Hawaii (not that there’s anything wrong with that). But Bourdain changed me. And not just me. Bourdain changed the restaurant world. He changed the travel world. And he changed the media world. In no small way, he helped change the world at large. He made it feel simultaneously much smaller and much bigger. He died from an apparent suicide last week, and the world will…