Before Phuket and Koh Samui became travel hotspots, there was Hua Hin. Once a sleepy fishing village, Hua Hin became a royal resort and summer retreat in the 1920s. Patronage by Thai royalty slowly ...

Needing nana naps by three in the afternoon, laughed at by your youthful companions who suggest hiring you a mobility scooter ...

a famous cave temple containing nearly 6,000 Buddha statues. While most tourists visiting Laos head to the ancient royal city of Luang Prabang, the capital Vientiane with its temples, markets and ...

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket.

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

The giant Buddha statue is carved into a cliff of sandy rocks at the Tianti Mountain, separated by a dam in the Huangyang River Reservoir in Wuwei, Gansu province. SHEN LONGQUAN/FOR CHINA DAILY ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...

One monk said his old temple was ‘reduced to heaps of ashes,’ as the fires continue to rage across the country ...