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Gallery: Street fashion on Bangkok's Khao San Road
Is this the scariest hotel swimming pool ever?
Full speed back to work for the 'boring' Aussie business traveler
How to make your shoddy vacation photos look great
Insider Guide: Best of San Francisco

Gallery: Street fashion on Bangkok's Khao San Road

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 03:20 PM PDT

Nowhere in the world will you find a more varied group of people than Bangkok's famed Khao San Road.

Two decades ago, this strip was little more than a ragged mash-up of guesthouses, pubs and travel agencies geared towards international backpackers.

Though that vibe still dominates Khao San, it's long since been gentrified. Today you'll find everything from an iStudio to Starbucks, along with higher priced boutique hotels.

Fortunately, the outfits are just as eclectic as ever. Following up on a gallery we shot back in 2010, we hit the streets again to find out what's inspiring the Khao San crowd's fashion choices these days.

Jeroa, 12, Netherlands: "Michael Jordan and hip-hop."

Is this the scariest hotel swimming pool ever?

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 03:10 PM PDT

by CNNGo staff

Holiday Inn Shanghai Pudong Kangqiao's swimming pool has a view with a difference, as the image above shows.

Part of the indoor pool, which perches atop the 24-story hotel, protrudes from the main building and is suspended mid-air. Its bottom is constructed with toughened glass.

This gives guests a delirious sense of swimming in the sky -- they can see the street clearly down below while passers-by on Xiuyan Lu (秀沿路) can see the swimmers way up above.

"I felt as if I was flying in the sky -- I could also enjoy the beautiful scenery of Pudong from here ... it's so cool and wonderful," a swimmer told CCTV.

More on CNNGo: World's 15 most spectacular swimming pools

Full speed back to work for the 'boring' Aussie business traveler

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT

We always thought every business traveler knew that a work trip out of town or to another country is generally fair game for a little extension at the end. A day or two of "me time," if you will.

Most Aussies, it seems, missed the meeting where that wheeze was approved -- instead, the vast majority rushes back from road trips to hit their desks instead of the beach.

That's the verdict of a new survey by hotel group Accor Asia Pacific that reckons 89 percent of Australians don't stay on location after a business trip has finished.

The Business Traveller Survey 2012 polled 2,586 people sent on work-related trips.

It found that, among Aussies, only 11 percent of those polled were willing to hang around and enjoy some personal time before returning to the daily grind.

How to make your shoddy vacation photos look great

Posted: 05 Aug 2012 11:10 AM PDT

by CNNGo staff

There's plenty of advice going around on how to take stunning photos. And yet you still can't get it right.

Check out these tips on how to salvage those less-than-perfect shots to turn them into the outtakes that could.

Also on CNNGo: How to take stunning landscape photographs

Food: Forget the taste, it's about the light

You can rave and rave about that unexpectedly perfect meal at the little Italian place you just happened to stumble upon and which isn't in any guidebook. But the photos probably won't do it justice.

The main problem with food photos, especially for dinners, is the lighting inside restaurants. During the day, you can use the natural light coming in from a window to illuminate your image, but at night you won't have that advantage.