I left my hostel in the morning to grab a mango smoothie when I was struck by a narrow pint of pressured water from a gun. Welcome to Songkran, the water festival, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Songkran celebrates the Thai New Year and is on April 13 of each year. But the...
The faces of Easter Island: that’s what I called them when I was a kid. This mythical place—that many don’t know its whereabouts—offers a mysterious and volcanic enchantment that can only be experienced by looking eye-to-eye with a moai (monolithic human-like faces)....