Asia

Kuala Lumpur: Five Days During Ramadan

The morning sun filtered through the sleeper car’s blinds as I sprang out of my bed and grabbed my bag. The announcement boomed over the train’s intercom that we had arrived in Kuala Lumpur. I had boarded the overnight train from the southern Thai city of Hat Yai to spend five, gluttonous days in Malaysia’s cosmopolitan capital during the height of Ramadan. Although many of the city’s restaurants will be closed from sun-up to sun-down,…

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Bangkok, Thailand

“The City of Angels,” known in Thailand as Krung Thep, is a crowded metropolis built on the swampy shores of the Chao Phraya River. Once a small trading post for a mighty kingdom, it is now one of the largest and fastest growing cities in the world. Politically divided, polarizing, loud, colorful, chaotic, exclusive yet embracing, and full of equal parts spiritual divinity and exuberant hedonism; there is nowhere like it on earth. I came…

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