Cindy Fan is a Canadian freelance writer
based in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico & Southeast Asia
Bylines TIME, The Independent, Fodor’s Travel, Fodors.com, The Australian, CNN Travel, The Telegraph’s Ultratravel Magazine, The Toronto Star, Postcards Magazine, Silkwinds (SilkAir’s inflight magazine), AMEX Essentials, Roads & Kingdoms, GlobalPost.
She’s also a researcher/writer for Travelfish, authoring their Laos and Vietnam travel guides since 2014.
Her story on Senegal’s Gorée Island, published in The Toronto Star, won an award from the North American Travel Journalists Association.
Select writing samples
Human interest & culture
Embarking on a cape crusade (driving Cape Breton Island, Canada)
Rockin’ lobster on Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Food & drink
Into the melting pot (Taipei’s Raohe Night Market)
Spice of Life: Get a taste of the West Indies on a new ocean yacht
Nature, wildlife & conservation
Australian’s Kangaroo Island is a wildlife-filled wonder
The bear necessities (conservation in Cambodia & Laos)
Laos: Nam Nern Night Safari helps tigers back from the brink
First-person experiential stories
Legendary full moon parties of Thailand
Column: Catty passengers high in the sky
Adventure
Get your wetsuit ready, it’s Gauley Season (rafting Class V in West Virginia)
Travel guides
The Independent: Mexico travel guide
Time Magazine’s World’s Greatest Places
Fodor’s Travel cruises travel guide
Travelfish’s guide to Laos & Vietnam
About Me: I purchased my first camera while studying English Literature and creative writing at the University of Toronto and moonlighting as a bank manager (good for the pocketbook, not so good for the creative mojo). Since escaping corporate life in 2005, I’ve crisscrossed the globe, exploring and photographing 60+ countries, as well as a few disputed zones.
In 2011, I packed up my life in Canada, made the leap to travel writing full time and have lived abroad ever since. Luang Prabang, Laos was base camp for the first three years; now I divide my time between home in Mexico with Laos, Vietnam, Switzerland, Canada and the world.
I love the craft of telling stories–big and small–through words and my camera, capturing wonder and beauty in both the workaday world and the planet’s most exotic, faraway places. From hanging out in kitchens in Laos, to digging the truck out of the sand in Western Sahara, to four-wheeling the backroads of Botswana, I live for the road, learning from and laughing with the locals.
I’d love to hear from you.
Cindy
