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The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia on a Budget is the ultimate guide to exploring this fascinating region on a shoestring, with coverage of all the top sights, the clearest mapping of any guide and handy hints on how to save money. Discover all of the most popular Southeast Asian destinations, alongside lesser-known places, with information on getting off the beaten track - whether you want to hike through the rainforest, visit remote hill tribes or just find a quiet stretch of white sand.
The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia on a Budget has detailed practical information that will help you make the most of your time and money, whether taking a slow boat down the Mekong or catching the 'Jungle Railway' through Malaysia's interior. And you'll discover the things to see and do in each country, plus all the best hostels and budget hotels, bars, cafés and cheap restaurants. This guide is the budget-conscious traveller's must have item for Southeast Asian trips.
Make the most of your time on earth with The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia on a Budget.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book did exactly as I was excepting from it nothing less nothing more. Accurate with most prices as well as description on places. Could do with some more illustrations and maps but overall has been a useful tool.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
With the Rough Guides usual sense of humour, this is a fantastic book for a backpacker who is going for a short visit and does not want to carry a massive book.
In this book Rough Guides have trimmed the information back to the bare minimum. Please note this book is around half the size of the equivalent Lonely Planet guide for S E Asia on a shoestring - and if you want more info, get that book.
However if, like me, you are travelling in this part of the world for a few weeks only, and want to stay in many places and therefore only want to stay a couple of days, then this is a good book. Not too big to carry, this book has filtered out much of the lesser known places. The book has identified the main places where backpackers go to - and gives brief materials on where the main places to go are. Instead of giving a wide variety of choice, they have identified the MUST see sights. If you are like me - it is easier enough to fill in the gaps of this book by speaking with other travellers, going to agoda.com for hostels (lets face it - in SE Asia the listings in all the guides are never that up to date anyway!) and other travel agents and locals, then this is a great read. The book then serves as a guide to ensure you see coolest must see sights.
For example the bangkok section - if I did everything in the book I probably would run out of things to do after 2-3 days. The places mentioned frequently come up in travel tours like gap travels - so again if you want a rough ideas of what areas are covered - go to those websites.
Remember you can always pick up a guide in those countries itself where they are sold for a fraction of the price. However this rough guide can give you a good idea of what roughly you want to do overall.
If you are travelling for months rather than weeks, I'd recommend the lonely planet one which gives much more detail. (Or just buy the individual guides as well when you get to each country). But if you are travelling for a few weeks only - this guide is perfect as it's much smaller and much more compact, as well as being filled with the usual good advice.
In this book Rough Guides have trimmed the information back to the bare minimum. Please note this book is around half the size of the equivalent Lonely Planet guide for S E Asia on a shoestring - and if you want more info, get that book.
However if, like me, you are travelling in this part of the world for a few weeks only, and want to stay in many places and therefore only want to stay a couple of days, then this is a good book. Not too big to carry, this book has filtered out much of the lesser known places. The book has identified the main places where backpackers go to - and gives brief materials on where the main places to go are. Instead of giving a wide variety of choice, they have identified the MUST see sights. If you are like me - it is easier enough to fill in the gaps of this book by speaking with other travellers, going to agoda.com for hostels (lets face it - in SE Asia the listings in all the guides are never that up to date anyway!) and other travel agents and locals, then this is a great read. The book then serves as a guide to ensure you see coolest must see sights.
For example the bangkok section - if I did everything in the book I probably would run out of things to do after 2-3 days. The places mentioned frequently come up in travel tours like gap travels - so again if you want a rough ideas of what areas are covered - go to those websites.
Remember you can always pick up a guide in those countries itself where they are sold for a fraction of the price. However this rough guide can give you a good idea of what roughly you want to do overall.
If you are travelling for months rather than weeks, I'd recommend the lonely planet one which gives much more detail. (Or just buy the individual guides as well when you get to each country). But if you are travelling for a few weeks only - this guide is perfect as it's much smaller and much more compact, as well as being filled with the usual good advice.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This guide was completely awful- I wish that we had just picked up individual Rough Guides from hostels in each individual country. The descriptions of things are sparse and inaccurate, and seems preoccupied with bars and clubs rather than interesting things to see. I think this guide would be useful to you if you are going to SE Asia with the sole intention of getting completely wasted, however if you actually want to do any exploring or real backpacking then it's pretty much redundant.
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A decent one stop shop for SE Asia!
I used the Rough Guide to SE Asia on a recent trip... although not as detailed as the individual country books - it's a great guide. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Steve o 33837
Handy guide
I used this when i went to Thailand and Cambodia. Good guide but it did fall apart as mentioned by lots of other reviews. Read more
Published 5 months ago by E. Alexander
accommodation reviews were a joke
I have always been a huge rough guide lover, but I dont really know what went wrong with this book. I used it mainly for indonesia and malaysia. Read more
Published 8 months ago by tina86
Abundance of info??
Am in the middle of planning a big trip and thought that this might give a good insight into South east asia. Read more
Published 9 months ago by zexyzazzy
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