Mikey Leung is a freelance journalist, designer, and photographer with matrix-like knowledge of the social media world. He's a co-author of Bangladesh: The Bradt Travel Guide. Finally, as a self-admitted 'geek', he serves several online projects as a jack of all social media and master of none.
Cooking, Trekking, Touring: Yangshuo and Yunnan 2010 Part 1
Thanks for your interest in joining us on this unique hosted tour to the lesser explored regions of China. As a former Tour Leader for Intrepid Travel, China used to be my stomping grounds. Nowadays, I hanker for any opportunity to return and share my favourite places in China with whoever would like to join!
Wordpress Membership Plugins: My experience with “Your Members” so far
As a writer, journalist and very amateur web designer, I’ve been pretty pumped to see the various improvements in Wordpress over the years. The platform has become so powerful nowadays that developers are building universes of plugins, some of which run extremely powerful membership sites, and can integrate with online payment gateways like Paypal.
Buy a signed copy of Bangladesh: The Bradt Travel Guide; support Jaago
More importantly, I fully believe my guide is important for the wonderful people of Bangladesh — some of the kindest and most hospitable people our planet has to offer. It is my hope that more people visit Bangladesh to see the reality behind the veil, the truth behind Bangladesh’s horrible headlines.
Do you want more foreign tourists to buy your tourism products?
Let’s face it. Bangladesh doesn’t get many tourists. Not yet at least.
But it does get thousands of expatriates, NGO workers, volunteers and diplomats every year. And all of these ‘tourists’ could be a part of your potential market.
So how do you get your product in front of that market?
Answer: Advertise in the right place.
Bangladesh: The [...]
Friendship's floating hospitals
In a climate-changed world, Bangladesh will be one of the first countries underwater.
Bangladeshis already have a lot of experience with rising waters.
The nation is inundated with monsoonal rain and floods every year.
In the face of this rising tide, one organisation has developed a novel solution.
They’re delivering high quality health care to Bangladesh’s poorest people, in [...]
Crossing into Bangladesh, without a carnet, the third attempt
Having totally given up on crossing into Bangladesh with the bike, I re-settled my sights on Siliguri, which is the gateway to Darjeeling, Eastern Nepal and Bhutan. I figured, if I had to park the bird somewhere, it might as well be as close as possible to the mountains.
As I drove, I kept getting tempted [...]
