
The inaugural Southeast Asia Travel Photography and Writing Awards have concluded, and the Grand Prize winners have been selected. Thank you to everyone who submitted entries and voted for their favourite pictures and stories.
Below are the four Grand Prize winners – the Editor’s Choice and People’s Choice pictures and stories. The two Editor’s Choice winners receive awards of US$1,750 and the two People’s Choice winners receive awards of US$1,250.
Editor's Choice
A Million Smiles and a Ripe Elephant in Laos ‘My name is Death.’ I glanced up from the café table as a dark form blotted...
People's Choice
Do you know that you don’t need a “time-machine” to be able to go a millennium back? Yes, definitely you can. The only thing you...
Editor's Choice
An awe-inspiring journey to Culion Island, in the western Philippines, once the location of the world’s largest leper colony. As our outrigger boat travels across...
People's Choice
The weather was balmy and my twin boys were sleeping like a log. It’s a dreamy Saturday and hubby never missed his morning jog. While...
The Wonderful Dolphins of the Ayeyarwady River The Ayeyarwady dolphins(Orcaella brevirostris)live in the Ayeyarwady river of Myanmar. This river flows down from way up north,...
Do you know that you don’t need a “time-machine” to be able to go a millennium back? Yes, definitely you can. The only thing you...
Editor's Choice
The morning is a tumultuous blur of traffic, shops and people. Bangkok is overwhelming and confusing. I don’t have a map of the city and...
People's Choice
A holiday in a destination as diverse as Krabi must be a dream come true. Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear’ Krabi has...
How many people can you feed with a 600 pound catfish I wondered as I walked down the deserted street in northern Laos. Somewhere, in...
No streets, no cars, no houses. A remarkably beautiful lagoon hidden in the heart of an isolated island in the south of Java: Sempu Island....
Editor's Choice
A Million Smiles and a Ripe Elephant in Laos ‘My name is Death.’ I glanced up from the café table as a dark form blotted...
People's Choice
All civilisations rise and fall but at Angkor the remains of the great days of the ancient Khmer civilisation slumbered deep in the heart of...
Striding past smoky food stalls. Delighting in the sensation of being taller than everyone. Rushing across the busy street, narrowly avoiding getting hit by a...
Wondering how will it cost you and how far will it take you to find the ultimate cure for a lonesome heart? Might cost you...