Must See Places In South East Asia

Being a tripper myself, I know how it feels like to be planning for your next holiday trip with your friends and loved ones. For those who are in tight budget, it would be advisable to plan your trip at least six months before your travel date. In this case, you will be given ample time to save enough money to spend during the trip to make your holiday more worthwhile.

Wondering how much money do you need to go travelling? Consider these five basic questions you need to ask yourself:

1. What will your core expenses be each day?

2. How long will you be travelling for?

3. Do you intend on working while you travel?

4. Are there laws requiring a minimum amount of available funds for the country you are visiting?

5. What is the exchange rate between your home currency and the country you are visiting?

Since I'm into adventures & learning different cultures, here are some of the places which, for me, are really worth visiting.

1. Angkor Wat, Cambodia
The site of Angkor in Cambodia is a must on anyone’s trip to South East Asia

. Angkor Wat is the largest temple in the world and seeing the sunrise over it is just a view you cannot view anywhere else in this world. You can spend so much time here looking and the vast amount of temples here and never get bored.

The sunset view of the temple of Angkor Wat, glowing gold in the evening rays, is a showstopper. But Angkor is far more than this much-photographed monument. When it was built by the Khmer Empire in the 15th century, the temple lay at the centre of the largest city in the world.

2. Hue, Vietnam

The UNESCO-listed imperial city of Hué has a magical setting to rival Angkor. Towering Indo-Chinese pagodas, fortified citadels and temples lord it over the Perfumed River on a range of lushly forested hills. Some are pristine. Others lie broken by the Vietnam War.

Make sure you see the Forbidden Purple City – once reserved for the Emperor and his retinue – and the seven-storey octagonal Thien Mu Pagoda. The old Austin car behind is a shrine; it once belonged to Thich Quang Duc – the Buddhist monk who made international headlines by committing self-immolation in Saigon as a peace protest.

3. Ubud, Bali
Ubud is a town on the Indonesian island of Bali. The town is located amongst rice paddies and steep ravines in the island’s central foothills in the Gianyar regency. One of Bali’s major arts and culture centres, it has developed a large tourism industry.

Ubud has a population of about 8,000 people, but it is becoming difficult to distinguish the town itself from the villages that once surrounded it.

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4. Sunrise at Mount Bromo, Java, Indonesia

Dawn at Mount Bromo is Southeast Asia’s most impressive natural spectacle. As the sun rises, it warms the mist shrouding the Tengger Plateau that runs along the spine of Java. The air clears to reveal a Lord of the Rings landscape of wrinkled indigo mountains and hulking volcanoes as far as the eye can see. The scene is lit by the deep red-gold of the equatorial sun, which dramatically changes the hues and shadows of the landscape.

5. Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
Those who like to work for their views should head for Southeast Asia’s tallest mountain – Kinabalu. Its rocky summit is at the heart of Borneo’s remaining wilderness, and the arduous climb takes two to three days. It involves a trek through the jungles of lowland Borneo, with accommodation in bamboo huts in Dusun tribal villages and a makeshift camp near the summit. From here it’s a steep scramble for another magnificent misty panorama.

6. Bako National Park (Borneo, Malaysia)
Bako though one of the most smallest but is the most popular of the national parks in Sarawak. As one strolls his/her way through the Mangrove forest with the surroundings so amazing and pleasing, the feeling of shedding off the stress from your life is something obvious.

7. Grand Palace, Bangkok Thailand

Grand Palace is a complex of buildings in Bangkok, Thailand. It served as the official residence of the Kings of Thailand from the 18th century onwards. Construction of the Palace began in 1782, during the reign of King Rama I, when he moved the capital across the river from Thonburi to Bangkok. The Palace has been constantly expanded and many additional structures were added over time.

8. Yangshoul, Yunnan China
Yangshou (Yunnan, China) is an important and traditional city located in South-East Asia region "The Light Show" at the Yangshou, Guilin is a visually attractive show attracting huge crowds of people walking, singing, fishing - doing all sorts of stuff on and off the water.