Southeast Asia

Temples, beaches, street food and island hopping.

Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 4.0

Countries

Brunei

A tiny, oil-rich sultanate.

Cambodia

Angkor's temples, and a people's long memory.

Indonesia

Temples, volcanoes and 17,000 islands.

Laos

Slow rivers and gold-roofed monks' towns.

Malaysia

Rainforest, orangutans and great hawker food.

Myanmar

Bagan's temple plains, in a land of conflict.

Philippines

Thousands of islands and green rice terraces.

Singapore

A garden city with the world's best hawker food.

Thailand

Golden temples, street food and limestone islands.

Timor-Leste

A new nation of coral and coffee.

Vietnam

Karst bays, lantern towns and great noodles.

The Short List

Must-See
Spiritual · UNESCO

Angkor Wat

Cambodia

The world's largest religious monument, with faces of Bayon and jungle-clad Ta Prohm.

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Must-See
Beaches · UNESCO

Bali

Indonesia

Hindu temples, rice terraces at Ubud, and surf beaches.

Guide Coming Soon
Must-See
Cities · UNESCO

Yogyakarta and Prambanan

Indonesia

Java's cultural capital, with towering Hindu temples and Mount Merapi nearby.

Guide Coming Soon
Must-See
Mountains · UNESCO

Mount Kinabalu

Malaysia

Borneo's great granite peak, climbed in two days.

Guide Coming Soon
Must-See
Spiritual · UNESCO

Bagan

Myanmar

Over 2,000 temples across a misty plain, among the world's great sights.

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Must-See
Nature · UNESCO

Ha Long Bay

Vietnam

Thousands of limestone islands in emerald water, by overnight junk boat.

Guide Coming Soon

On the Map

Grey pins: guides still being written.