#when-to-go

Thailand

Thailand keeps three seasons and two opposite coasts. A photographer's month-by-month guide to the cool-dry peak, the white heat of April, and the green low season the brochures undersell.

Indonesia

Indonesia is too big for one calendar. A photographer's guide to timing the country by what you came for — Komodo dragons, manta rays, Borneo's orangutans, Raja Ampat's reefs and Java's volcanoes.

Komodo

Six stays along the Trans-Flores Highway, from a Phinisi-inspired resort on the Komodo coast to a hilltop bungalow under Inerie's cone — and how to thread them into a road trip that earns its slowness.

There isn't one best month for Southeast Asia — there are two weather systems pulling in opposite directions, and a calendar of light most travelers never learn to read.

Vietnam

Vietnam's genuinely cheap windows, the shoulder-season sweet spots, and the regional weather trade-off nobody warns you about — plus the Tet 2027 spike to dodge.

Singapore

Honest take on Singapore family hotels under SGD 250/night — which ones are actually OK, which to skip, and when the budget play backfires.

Myanmar

The seasonal answer is November to February. The harder question is whether to go at all in 2026 — and what your dollars actually fund if you do.