How we work
Le Réseau Asie is an independent Asia travel and culture guide: reference writing about places, food, festivals and the practical machinery of getting around a very large continent.
The premise is simple. Most travel writing is either a diary or an advertisement. We wanted the third thing — the reference shelf: guides that stay useful for years because they explain how a place works rather than what happened there last week.
What is here
Four sections. Places covers where to go and what it is like when you arrive. Food is a working atlas of what is in the bowl. Festivals treats heritage and celebration from a visitor’s side — what happens, what it asks of you, when the whole country is travelling. Practicalities is the unglamorous half: monsoon systems, sleeper trains, visas, thresholds.
Everything is pinned to geography. A guide that is not tied to a place on the map does not belong on this site.
How the map is made
The Atlas on the home page is drawn from public-domain Natural Earth 1:110m admin-0 geometry, projected once with a Mercator fit over a fixed all-Asia frame and shipped with the page. Region changes are zoom transforms, never re-projections, so pins and country labels stay on their true coordinates at every scale. Pin coordinates come from the guides themselves.
We never draw geography by hand. If we cannot source real geometry for a shape, the map does not ship.
What we do not do
- We are not a research network, an institute or a conference — the name is the site’s own, and nothing here is academic publishing.
- We do not write doctrine. Religion appears as festivals, heritage and etiquette, from a guest’s point of view.
- We do not run first-person trip diaries, sponsored itineraries, or affiliate roundups dressed as guides.
- We do not photograph identifiable people. Imagery is places, objects, architecture and food.
Corrections
Prices, borders and timetables move. Everything else — where a river bends, when the rain arrives, how a temple threshold works — changes slowly, which is why the guides are written the way they are. If something is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say so.
