Travel destinations: South East Asia

Travelling Asia is cheap! My girl friend and I did it for 12 weeks on less than US$5000, on a shoestring if you will, and all with the help of the good old Lonely Planet. In 12 weeks we travelled Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, then back into Thailand, down the east coast of Malaysia and finished up in Singapore again.

All our travel was either bus or train. A great deal of it was very unpleasant, yet absolutely priceless in some of the adventures we had.

We scuba dived, trekked, tukk tukked, rode elephants, fed monkeys, toured temples and museums, bought tailored suits, ate fantastic food, drank beer and met countless numbers of amazing people.

At the start of our journey we never thought our budget would allow us to travel so much of South East Asia for so long and do so much.

South East Asia is cheap and great fun. Don’t take a flight, take the bus or train and you’ll see and do more.