Finding Trouble in Asia: Let Us Count the Ways

Travel Blog  •  Julia Ross  •  06.09.09 | 4:31 PM ET

Is it me, or has it been a surreal few months for Americans in Asia? Guidebook writers and State Department travel monitors, take note: a few new travel “don’ts” have entered the lexicon. To recap, here’s what we know not to do next time we journey East.

* Sit next to someone feverish when flying to Shanghai

* Venture too close to the Hermit Kingdom

* Get caught with classified documents and/or have a chat with the local CIA contact

* Take a nighttime dip in Rangoon

* Consort with the Kung Fu mafia

Let’s hope the rest of the year will see more successful cross-cultural forays in the vein of U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, whose trip to Beijing last week was blissfully free of hotel quarantines or mysterious midnight visits.

Tags: Politics, Travel and Security, Tres Loco, Asia, Burma (Myanmar), Yangon (Rangoon), China, Beijing, Shanghai, North Korea, Thailand, Bangkok, Middle East, Iran, Shrinking Planet

Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications.


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