Location: Ayutthaya, Thailand | Photographer: Dean R. Owen, Federal Way. Photographer’s description: The nonprofit elephant sanctuary Elephantstay is dedicated to caring for Thailand’s most ...

Last week, contributing editor Carl Hoffman set off on a story assignment in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to visit his 81-year-old father, who now lives there. He sent us this dispatch from his travels ...

Ko Samui, Thailand | Photographer: Terry Arndt, Bainbridge Island | Photographer’s description: A temple on the island of Ko Samui — Wat Plai Laem — features a statue of an 18-armed Buddha ...