Travel in Asia | Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand | Charlie on Travel https://charlieontravel.com/category/asia/ UK Travel Blog Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:16:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://charlieontravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/cropped-Charlie-on-Travel-Favicon-32x32.png Travel in Asia | Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand | Charlie on Travel https://charlieontravel.com/category/asia/ 32 32 Where to Stay in Munnar: 6 Tea Country Hotels & Estate Stays https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-munnar/ https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-munnar/#respond Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:13:28 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=17389 Where to stay in Munnar makes all the difference to how much you enjoy this beautiful tea country stop in Kerala itinerary. Munnar town itself is a scruffy, traffic-filled junction. The reason you’ve come, the rolling tea estates and the cloud forest above them, starts a few kilometres outside of the town. That’s where the […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-munnar/feed/ 0 Windermere Estate Munnar Review: 3 Nights on a Cardamom Estate https://charlieontravel.com/windermere-estate/ https://charlieontravel.com/windermere-estate/#respond Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:32:07 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=17401 The Windermere Estate in Munnar is one of the most special places we’ve stayed. For us, it made our two-week trip to Kerala magical and showed us what Indian hospitality really means. We stayed for three nights at the Windermere Estate and it’s the place we would recommend to every traveller. This is our review […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/windermere-estate/feed/ 0 Best Things To Do in Munnar: 10 Tea Country Experiences We Loved https://charlieontravel.com/things-to-do-munnar/ https://charlieontravel.com/things-to-do-munnar/#respond Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:52:56 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=17395 The best things to do in Munnar all come back to the rolling tea fields, wildlife and mountain air. At 1,500 metres up in the Western Ghats, the hills roll away in that bright, clipped green for as far as you can see, and after the heat of the coast it feels like a different […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/things-to-do-munnar/feed/ 0 Where to Stay in Varkala: Odayam, South Cliff or North Cliff? https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-varkala/ https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-varkala/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:15:18 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=17391 Where you stay in Varkala decides what kind of trip you have. Stay on the North Cliff and you’re in the middle of the restaurants, the shops and, at the weekend, the party zone. Stay in Odayam or on the South Cliff and you’re a short walk from all of it, with rice paddies or […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-varkala/feed/ 1 12 Things To Do in Varkala: Kerala’s Cliffside Beach Town https://charlieontravel.com/things-to-do-varkala/ https://charlieontravel.com/things-to-do-varkala/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:29:28 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=17385 Varkala is the beach bit of Kerala: a red laterite cliff with a ribbon of cafés and shops along the top, surf breaks below, and a yoga studio on every other rooftop. We spent a week here at the end of our two weeks in Kerala and came to love it. Our first impression of […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/things-to-do-varkala/feed/ 0 Where to Stay in Kumarakom: 10 Backwater Resorts & Homestays (2026) https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-kumarakom/ https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-kumarakom/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:48:18 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=17332 We chose Kumarakom over Alleppey on purpose. Alleppey is the houseboat capital, with the biggest fleet and the biggest crowds. Kumarakom, across Vembanad Lake, is quieter, more villagey and the reason our backwater days felt peaceful rather than processional. We spent two nights on the Kerala backwaters in November. This guide covers where we stayed, […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-kumarakom/feed/ 0 Best Vietnam Films https://charlieontravel.com/films-to-watch-before-travelling-vietnam/ https://charlieontravel.com/films-to-watch-before-travelling-vietnam/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:50:00 +0000 http://charlieontravel.com/?p=719 There’s more to Vietnam films than just war films. When we decided to travel to Vietnam, I realised that the only “Vietnamese” films I had seen were American war films, like Apocalypse Now and Platoon. All I remembered of them was a lot of explosions, guns and a questionable and outdated binary between Americans/Vietnamese as […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/films-to-watch-before-travelling-vietnam/feed/ 13 11 Winter Sun Destinations (That We’ve Actually Been To) https://charlieontravel.com/winter-sun/ https://charlieontravel.com/winter-sun/#respond Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:13:42 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=15657 Every “best winter sun” destination list says the same thing: Tenerife, Dubai, the Maldives. They’re not wrong, those places are reliably warm, but the lists all read like a travel brochure, written by someone who hasn’t necessarily been. This one is different. Every destination on our winter sun list is one we’ve travelled to, picked […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/winter-sun/feed/ 0 Where to Stay in Bangkok on a Budget https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-budget-accommodation-in-bangkok/ https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-budget-accommodation-in-bangkok/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:30:00 +0000 http://charlieontravel.com/?p=4322 Wondering where to stay in Bangkok without breaking your budget? Well, so were we. While the cost of travel in Thailand can easily be kept to a tight budget, Bangkok is unsurprisingly the most expensive city in Thailand. The majority of travellers to Thailand will arrive or depart from Bangkok and spend a few days in the […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/where-to-stay-budget-accommodation-in-bangkok/feed/ 3 Should You Take a Kerala Houseboat? Why We Didn’t (And What We Did Instead) https://charlieontravel.com/kerala-houseboat/ https://charlieontravel.com/kerala-houseboat/#respond Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:18:41 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=15359 The Kerala houseboat is the image on every brochure for “God’s own country”: a wicker-and-wood kettuvallam drifting past palm trees while you recline on deck with a fresh coconut. It’s the reason many travellers put the backwaters on their itinerary at all. We went to the Kerala backwaters in November and didn’t take a houseboat. […]

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