Ed Peters

Ed is a freelance writer and editor based in Hong Kong. What is your 2019 travel goal? ‘To go further off the beaten track more often, and to eat more adventurously – though I think one scorpion is enough for this lifetime.’

Bangkok

A Local Chef’s Bangkok Food Tour

Aussie chef David Thompson, founder of Bangkok's acclaimed Nahm restaurant, shares where to eat in his adopted hometown
Travels with

Recounting the Many Miles and Tall Tales of Odoric of Pordenone

Way before mileage runs were a thing, the footloose friar Odoric spent 12 years crisscrossing Asia and turned his adventures into one of the first must-read travelogues
Top hotels

Stay Here: Potato Head Studios, Bali

Potato Head studios brings music, art, design, food, wellness and sustainability together in a single, sophisticated location
Top hotels

Stay Here: Aman Kyoto vs Park Hyatt Kyoto

Kyoto gets a true five-star hotel-off, thanks to two brand new openings
Hong Kong SAR

How the Lei Yue Mun Waterfront Reflects Old-Time Hong Kong

On the eastern end of Victoria Harbour, sleepy Lei Yue Mun charms with its no-frills fresh seafood restaurants, a centuries-old Tin Hau temple and a few newfound attractions
Hong Kong SAR

Exploring Hong Kong’s Secret Islands

These lesser-known outlying islands offer intriguing draws, from rock climbing and unusual geology to camping and deserted beaches
Travels with

Paying Tribute to the Russian Naval Officer Who Discovered Antarctica

Let's travel back 200 years to join the voyages of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who discovered Antarctica during the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe
Cathay Pacific

How Cathay Pacific Continues to Improve the Passenger Experience

Recounting the many improvements Cathay Pacific made to the flying experience in the past year, as it sets its ambitions on the ground, in the air and online for 2020
Travels with

Globetrotting with the Great Moroccan Scholar Ibn Battuta

Ed Peters tries to keep track of roving scholar and judge Ibn Battuta, whose travels took him from Morocco to Mecca, Beijing and beyond
Greater Bay Area

How to Travel from Zhuhai to Hong Kong International Airport

Ferry and bus are two efficient ways Zhuhai-based travellers can reach Hong Kong International Airport. Which is best? We put them to the test and share a step-by-step recap of what to expect
Beaches

Imagining the Perfect Asian Island of Kuniumi

Come along to the dreamed-up destination of Kuniumi, an imaginary isle that combines the best features of islands in Asia
Urban life

How Victoria Peak Became Hong Kong’s Status Symbol

As the Peak Galleria reopens, we look at how Victoria Peak became the acme of Hong Hong – and how visitors can experience its most serene green spaces and best new restaurants and attractions
Urban life

A Wonderfully Unpolished Harbour Tour of Hong Kong

Hop aboard the Ming River ferry boat for the best value, most authentic Hong Kong harbour tour available
Travels with

Keeping Up with Formidable Traveller Isabella Bird

This fearless Victorian adventurer wasn’t restricted by boundaries – of social convention or otherwise – as she hopped the globe leaving good deeds in her wake
Art and culture

A New Era for Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui

A wave of development is making 2019 the year of Tsim Sha Tsui and bringing back the glamour of this harbourfront district in Kowloon
England

A Traditional Christmas in Southern England

Heads south to the castles, pubs and byways of rural England in search of a Holly-and-the-Ivy kind of Christmas
Urban life

How The Mills Is Reinventing Hong Kong’s Textile Heritage

A look inside a new project that merges the Hong Kong textile industry’s past and future
Travels with

Imagining a Voyage with Chinese Admiral and Explorer Zheng He

Our writer (and a giraffe) get onboard with the Marco Polo of the Ming dynasty
Art and culture

Rural chic: the Chinese villages where heritage meets cool

Stunning guesthouses, hip cafes, design-led galleries: in the undulating tea fields of rural Zhejiang, residents are reimagining the Chinese village
Urban life

The history of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour

Victoria Harbour remains Hong Kong’s proudest asset. But what’s next for Asia’s most photographed stretch of water?
New York

The new New York: How Lower Manhattan came back

How the fashionable money moved to New York's south
Chinese mainland

Changsha: China’s most ‘up-and-coming’ city

Changsha has long been famous for its millennia-old history and its associations with chairman Mao. But now the capital of Hunan province is on the verge of an avant-garde transformation

Ed Peters

Ed is a freelance writer and editor based in Hong Kong. What is your 2019 travel goal? ‘To go further off the beaten track more often, and to eat more adventurously – though I think one scorpion is enough for this lifetime.’

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