Independent Travel Guide to Asia

Fascinating, exotic, vibrant and exciting... Welcome to Asia! Where past, present and future blend harmoniously together and where gleaming skyscrapers stand alongside dazzling temples and ancient ruins. Asia has it all and never ceases to delight.

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South East Asia

A long-time favorite of many travelers and backpackers, South-east Asia boasts beautiful beaches, low prices, fantastic cuisine and mind-boggling ancient ruins:

• Brunei - a tiny and fascinating, oil-rich sultantate / mini-state
• Cambodia - dashing head-long out of decades of war and home to Angkor
• East Timor - the 21st century's first independent nation, at the eastern tip of Indonesia
• Indonesia - an archipelago of over 13,000 volcanic and sun-drenched islands encompasing the island jewel of Bali.
• Laos - landlocked, slow-paced communist country harkening to times gone by.
• Malaysia - multicultural melting pot often overlooked by travelers featuring everyting from the skyscrapers of KL to the former-headhunters of Borneo
• Myanmar (Burma) - military dictatorship shuned by the internatinal community but boasting some incredible sights.
• Philippines - over 7,000 islands dotted with beautiful tropical beaches, fantastic diving and Spanish colonial charm
• Singapore - gleamingly clean and orderly, yet quintessentially Asian
• Thailand - deservedly one of the most popular tourist destination in the world, with hiltribe trekking to white sand beaches.
• Vietnam - communist country that is vibrantly capitalistic, a land of contrasts.