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From family adventures to deep cultural explorations, we tailor every trip to your pace & passions. Trips@Asia is a travel and tour company registered in Hong Kong. Though we are not a family business, coming from all corners of the earth, we certainly feel like one! Our expertise is in creating bespoke tours for small groups of travellers. We also offer many fixed schedule tours each year, for th

ose who want us to show them what we believe to be the most beautiful parts of Asia. However, over 80% of our trips are customised, or created from scratch, tailored perfectly to our customers interests and available time. Let us be part of your journey, your story.

From above, the valley floor at Huanglong looks less like a landscape than a mosaic, thousands of pools in blue, green, ...
31/08/2026

From above, the valley floor at Huanglong looks less like a landscape than a mosaic, thousands of pools in blue, green, and gold stepping down the mountainside in terraces built entirely by mineral water. Over 3,300 of them, the color shifting pool to pool with the calcium bicarbonate carried in from the peaks above, no two shades quite the same.

The name means Yellow Dragon, and it comes from the formation itself, a travertine ridge 3.6 kilometers long that winds down from the snow line like a golden dragon descending the valley. A temple by the same name has stood near its base for over 600 years, long before anyone could have seen the full shape from the air.

Huanglong was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992, and the surrounding forest still shelters what the pools alone do not announce, giant pandas and the Sichuan golden snub nosed monkey, moving through terrain that looks, at every elevation, like it was built rather than grown.

📍Huanglong, China

Kids will be kids, in Bhutan, everywhere, always up to something.📍Bhutan
27/08/2026

Kids will be kids, in Bhutan, everywhere, always up to something.

📍Bhutan

At 1,645 meters above sea level in Mongolia's northernmost province, close enough to the Russian border to feel it, lies...
25/08/2026

At 1,645 meters above sea level in Mongolia's northernmost province, close enough to the Russian border to feel it, lies a lake that holds roughly seventy percent of the country's fresh water. Khuvsgul reaches 262 meters at its deepest point, making it one of the deepest freshwater lakes on earth, and among the clearest.

It is a rift lake, formed the same way as Siberia's Lake Baikal to the north, which places its origins in tectonic movement rather than glacial melt or river deposit, a geological age measured in millions rather than thousands of years. In a country where most lakes run salt, shaped by desert and evaporation, Khuvsgul's fresh, cold water has made it sacred to those who live around it.

Herders still bring their horses to its shore the way they have for generations, the lake earning its local name, the Blue Pearl of Mongolia, honestly. Trips at Asia's journeys through Mongolia pass through country like this, where the scale of the land does most of the talking.

📍Mongolia

Once a year, during the full moon of the third lunar month, the ruins at Wat Phou fill with more people than the temple ...
21/08/2026

Once a year, during the full moon of the third lunar month, the ruins at Wat Phou fill with more people than the temple has likely seen since the empire that built it. Boun Wat Phou is the largest festival in southern Laos, three days of alms giving, candlelit processions, and offerings carried up the same stone terraces that pilgrims have climbed for over a thousand years.

The temple itself predates Angkor. Construction began as early as the fifth century, though most of what stands today, the twin sanctuaries in sandstone, the long galleries and carved pediments, was built between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries under the Khmer Empire. It was raised first for Shiva, its axis aligned with Phou Kao mountain rising behind it, before later becoming a place of Buddhist worship, which it remains.

In 2001, UNESCO inscribed Wat Phou and the surrounding Champasak landscape as a World Heritage Site, recognizing not just the temple but the full plan behind it, mountain, shrine, and river bank laid out as one design a thousand years old. The festival each February is proof the design still works. People still come

📍Laos

Ha Long Bay means Descending Dragon Bay, and the name comes from a legend rather than a survey. When invaders threatened...
19/08/2026

Ha Long Bay means Descending Dragon Bay, and the name comes from a legend rather than a survey. When invaders threatened the coast, the Jade Emperor is said to have sent a family of dragons down from the sky. The mother settled here, her children in nearby Bai Tu Long Bay, and together they spat jade and jewels into the sea, which hardened into the thousands of limestone islands that now crowd these waters and once closed the passage against enemy ships.

The geology tells a slower story. These karsts began forming more than 500 million years ago, with the thickest limestone laid down between 280 and 250 million years ago in warm, shallow seas, before tectonic movement lifted the seabed into the towers now scattered across 1,553 square kilometers of the Gulf of Tonkin. More than 1,600 islands rise from the water, most of them uninhabited.

Ha Long Bay was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994, one of the few places where legend and geology point, almost exactly, to the same shape.

📍Vietnam

Carved into a boulder near the summit of Phnom Kulen is a footprint left, tradition says, by the Buddha himself. Preah B...
17/08/2026

Carved into a boulder near the summit of Phnom Kulen is a footprint left, tradition says, by the Buddha himself. Preah Bat Choan Tuk is worn smooth by generations who climb to leave an offering at its edge, coins and folded bills tucked into the stone for luck. It sits close to Preah Ang Thom, where an eight meter reclining Buddha lies carved directly into a single sandstone boulder, dated to the sixteenth century, the largest such figure in Cambodia carved in place rather than assembled.

Kulen carries history beyond these two shrines. In 802, King Jayavarman II climbed this same plateau, then called Mahendraparvata, and declared himself devaraja, a god king independent of Java. What began that day became, within a century, the Khmer Empire and the temples of Angkor.

To walk this mountain is to pass through two layers of the sacred at once, the empire that began here, and the older, quieter practice of leaving something behind at a footprint said to be the Buddha's own.

At the top of a short flight of stone steps in central Seoul stands the building that introduced an entire style to Kore...
13/08/2026

At the top of a short flight of stone steps in central Seoul stands the building that introduced an entire style to Korea. Myeongdong Cathedral, completed in 1898 after six years of construction, was the first Gothic structure ever raised in the country, and the first built of red brick rather than stone or wood.

Its design belongs to E.G. Coste, a French priest and architect who also built Yakhyeon Cathedral and the Yongsan seminary. What he gave Seoul was a Neo Gothic silhouette of practical restraint, a single central spire flanked by two smaller octagonal towers, rather than the twin spires more common to European cathedrals of the same era.

The ground beneath it carries an older history still. In 1784, more than a century before the cathedral's cornerstone was laid, the first Catholic community in Korea gathered on this same site, then known as Myeong Nae Bang. What stands here today is not simply a landmark. It is the place where a faith took root in the country long before it had a building to call its own.

By night, lit against the dark, the tower still marks the skyline much as it did for the city's first modern skyline a century ago.

📍South Korea

In a workshop beside the pits at Xi'an, restorers work by lamplight over fragments buried for more than two thousand yea...
11/08/2026

In a workshop beside the pits at Xi'an, restorers work by lamplight over fragments buried for more than two thousand years. The warriors were never mass produced. Each was sculpted by hand, so that no two faces among the thousands standing guard are quite alike.

The army was found in 1974, when farmers digging a well outside the city struck clay where none should have been. What they had opened was part of the mausoleum built for Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of a unified China, who ordered an army raised in terracotta to guard him in the next life as his soldiers had guarded him in this one.

The work of uncovering it has not stopped since. Conservators clean, document, and piece together each figure by hand, racing against air itself, since most of the original paint, once bright across armor and skin, begins to fade within minutes of exposure. What emerges from that patient labor is not a copy. It is the same soldier that has stood in the same spot since before the Great Wall bore its first stone.

Xi'an is one stop on our journeys through China, where the past is still, quite literally, being excavated.

Naadam calls its three main events the "manly games," archery among them, alongside wrestling and horse racing. For cent...
07/08/2026

Naadam calls its three main events the "manly games," archery among them, alongside wrestling and horse racing. For centuries, women weren't allowed to compete in any of the three. That changed in the 1960s, when women were let back into Naadam through exactly one door: archery. It wasn't really a new idea. Mongolian history is full of women who could handle a bow, from a 13th century princess remembered as an undefeated wrestler to a 15th century queen who reunited warring Mongol factions and is still pictured with her bow in hand. What you're looking at in these photos isn't a modern exception. It's a tradition finding its way back to where it started.

📍Mongolia

By ten in the morning, this market is basically done, most of the real business happens before the sun gets high, locals...
05/08/2026

By ten in the morning, this market is basically done, most of the real business happens before the sun gets high, locals moving through the early dark for garlic and scallions to make jeow and larb before work starts. Laos eats more sticky rice per person than anywhere else on earth, and it shows in every basket stacked along these lanes. Somewhere in the mix is kaipen, river algae pulled from the Mekong, pressed with sesame seeds, and dried in the sun, one of Luang Prabang's most specific tastes.

📍Luang Prabang, Laos

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