Southeast Asia

From Wikitravel

Southeast Asia is the southeastern section of Asia, a collection of dissimilar but not unrelated states squeezed between the twin giants of India and China.

Countries

• Brunei — tiny oil-rich sultanate in Borneo
• Cambodia — home of Angkor recovering from decades of war
• East Timor — one of the world's newest states at the eastern tip of Indonesia
• Indonesia — the sleeping giant of the region, spread across a vast archipelago
• Malaysia — multicultural country covering the skyscrapers of KL and the jungle headhunters of Borneo
• Laos — the forgotten country of Southeast Asia between Thailand and Vietnam
• Myanmar (Burma) — military dictatorship open to the adventurous traveller
• Philippines — freewheeling former Spanish and American colony
• Singapore — clean and orderly city state in the tropics
• Thailand — the most popular destination in the region
• Vietnam — firmly on the long march to capitalism

Itineraries

• One month in Southeast Asia

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