One of the first things the seasoned Western traveler to Bangladesh will encounter is the lack of signage in English. To us here at WoWasis, it was most apparent beginning with the main train station in the country’s capital of Dhaka. There is zero signage in English and even the numbers are listed in Bengali. […]
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Sharia follies continue in Indonesia’s Sumatra with proposed banning of face-forward female motorcycle riders
Ignorance remains bliss in Indonesia’s Aceh province in Sumatra as the city of Lhokseumawe has proposed a Sharia law that would ban female motorcycle passengers from riding face-forward. Deeming the position “improper,” according to the mayor, women now must ride side-saddle. Sumatra recently banned tight trousers on women, as reported in an article appearing in the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bangkok traffic to get worse, fast, with new car-buying program now in force
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s new first-time car buyer program, while solidifying future votes, will add an estimated 1.3 million vehicles to Thailand’s streets, much of it in already overcrowded Bangkok. It’s already being called a transportation nightmare, where gridlock slows incoming traffic to an average speed of 16.5 km per hour. A brainchild of […]
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Here at WoWasis, we hate traffic. No seriously, we really hate traffic. We do know of some workarounds, like taking the BTS Skytrain or MRT subway in Bangkok, and rarely going anywhere in town that’s not serviced by those, or water taxi routes. As bad as Bangkok is, we weren’t prepared for the traffic hell […]
Read the rest of this entry »Visit South Korea’s information kiosks and they’ll help with just about everything
The modern, industrialized nation of South Korea is a wonderful place to visit for the westerner, with loads of historical places, museums, and geographical treasures. One challenge for the traveler is that many Koreans don’t speak English. This can present problems for westerners ranging from trying to find a particular business, to renting hotels and […]
Read the rest of this entry »Seoul’s Metro subway… easier than it appears at first, but requires practice
Seoul’s subway is easy to use, once you take a day or so to learn it
Read the rest of this entry »Visit South Korea’s historic city of Gyeongju in 2 days… by city bus!
Korea’s historical city of Gyeongju is worth seeing, and you can see lots in only 2 days, inexpensively, by city bus
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis transportation review: Korea’s ultra-fast KTX bullet train
Korea’s KTX high speed train may get you to your destination, door to door, faster than an airplane
Read the rest of this entry »WoWasis product review: a Korean world class GPS unit, the AVOL HN90R8
Here’s a GPS device that will make traveling by auto in Korea a lot more easy for English-speaking travelers
Read the rest of this entry »The tuk-tuk driver took me on a wild goose chase in Bangkok
The Good Manner: Advice on Thailand from WoWasis’ Pa Farang This week’s dilemma: The tuk-tuk driver took me on a wild goose chase Dear Pa Farang, I agreed to pay a tuk-tuk driver 50 baht to go to a temple. Instead, he drove us around to two different gem shops.you to gem shops, and finally […]
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