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Ian Lloyd Neubauer
SCMP Contributor
Ian Lloyd Neubauer is a freelance journalist and photojournalist with 20 years experience covering news, business, property, investigations and travel. His photos of subjects as strange as the smoked corpses of the highlands of Papua New Guinea and places as beautiful as the blue city of Morocco have been published in newspapers, magazines and websites around the world. He's also the author of two books – Getafix (2003) and Maquis (2006).
Amid the well-surveilled streets of Tibet’s main city, a Western traveller discovers an alien cityscape where the past and present collide in a riot of colours and characters
Athens, Greece’s tourism capital, was recently said to be dirty, overcrowded and losing its soul to tourism. But stroll its fragrant lanes and Unesco World Heritage site and the city is as charming as ever.
Bethlehem, jewel of Palestinian tourism, is run-down, its shopkeepers gloomy. My reception as a Westerner sends chills down my spine, and a taxi driver’s menacing words make my heart pound.
Our correspondent got a small taste of the frustrations and cost blowouts caused by the Israel-Gaza war after finally finding a ‘cheap’ flight to Israel’s Ben Gurion airport this month.
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Kayaking up Thailand’s Andaman from Satun to Phuket, we absorb the nature and culture of a lesser-known part of the country, while sleeping in some great homestays and hotels along the way.
Travel influencers Fernanda and Vicente open up about Fernanda being gang-raped in India earlier in March and their Taliban interrogation while on an epic six-year motorbike trip.
Bali has taken from Ibiza, Spain, the title of beach-club capital of the world. However, the Indonesian holiday island is not the only place in Southeast Asia with a thriving beach-club scene.
A travel writer takes two overnight trains in China on a journey from Lhasa in Tibet to Chengdu to find out what sleeping, eating and socialising is like on the world’s busiest rail network.
Russian entrepreneur Felix Demin reveals why his Private Jet Villa – a new luxury residence in Bali built in an old Boeing 737-200, which rents for up to US$6,500 per night – was so hard to create.
A writer bites off more than he can chew on a motorcycle tour through China’s Tibet autonomous region, riding to heights of over 5,000 metres and shivering through temperatures well below zero.
On a visit to Chengdu, in Sichuan province, Ian Neubauer has a culinary epiphany. His disdain for Chinese cuisine turns into a devotion to all things touched by the famous Sichuan pepper.
Applying for a China tourist visa in 2023 can be a trying experience – from forms and photos to drawn-out in-person appointments, one traveller explains how he eventually got one.
Post Magazine returns to Lombok, Indonesia, to see places we’ve not been to before. We camp on a desert island, share a micro-resort with a Russian draft dodger and find a top kitesurfing beach.
Indonesians in Sulawesi fought to stop the mining of karst hills and caves containing ancient artefacts. Today, the Unesco-recognised Maros Pangkep Global Geopark employs hundreds of locals in eco-tourism roles.
Phuong Canh Ngo has spent 25 years in an Australian prison for the assassination of political rival John Newman. But was the Vietnamese-born politician dealt a bad hand? Post Magazine investigates.
Dinner parties at which guests dress all in white became a thing in the 1990s with Dîner en Blanc and Sean Combs’ New York gatherings. Bali’s Ku De Ta beach club has put its own spin on the format since 2003.
One of the most complex yet misunderstood cuisines, Indonesian cookery continues to redefine itself for the modern era. Chefs are creating new fusion menus by blending cooking styles from across the country.
A two-week solo kayaking odyssey around Thailand’s Phang Nga Bay to celebrate a 50th birthday, which involved various challenges, leaves Ian Neubauer happier, healthier and in less of a hurry.
With little to disturb the peace other than crashing waves, Sumbawa is a destination for surfers and those who relish going off the beaten track in Indonesia – but for how much longer?
Bali is the most searched destination on Airbnb and the island’s rooms are getting booked out despite rising prices. And that’s without the return of Chinese tourists.
Now an art deco monument invoking the grandeur of a bygone age, the five-star Hotel Majapahit in Surabaya, in Indonesia’s East Java province, was the scene of the ‘Flag Incident’ in 1945.
After being forced online because of Covid-19, the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival returns to Bali. Co-founder Janet De Neefe reveals what to expect, from intimate vibes to Ukrainian poetry and music.
An Australian multimillionaire is only interested in selling his 21 pristine islands in Papua New Guinea to conservationists, and he certainly won’t sell to the Chinese Communist Party.
Six months into the Russia-Ukraine war and with no end in sight, Post Magazine visits two port cities - Mykolayiv and Odesa - to see how people are living in Ukraine’s combat zones.
The Tin Horse Highway in Kulin, Western Australia, is lined with horse sculptures made from various bits of discarded metal – and it has proved effective in promoting the town’s annual Bush Races to tourists.
Starting from the Romanian capital, Bucharest, a travel writer journeys to Odesa, one of the last major Black Sea ports under Ukrainian control amid the war with Russia.
The people of Kampung Madras are unmistakably of South Indian origin, but are so thoroughly assimilated it takes some legwork to find tandoori chicken, naan bread, an Indian tailor’s and a vibrant Hindu temple.
The psychedelic fleet of fishing boats found sailing around Perancak village has to be seen to be believed. Shame you have to travel Bali’s most dangerous road to get there.
Jetliners given new life on the ground are not an uncommon sight, but compact Bali has no less than four. One serves in-flight meals, another is part of a nightclub, a third will offer exclusive luxury accommodation.
![Ivy Lounge, Bali.
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From restaurants and BBQ to a cafe-bakery specialising in croissants, these exciting new spots should be on your list when normal international travel resumes.
