Table of Contents

LIST OF MAPS. WHAT’S NEW IN SOUTHEAST ASIA.

1 THE BEST OF SOUTHEAST ASIA.

2 INTRODUCING SOUTHEAST ASIA.

3 PLANNING YOUR TRIP TO SOUTHEAST ASIA.

4 THAILAND.

5 LAOS.

6 VIETNAM.

7 CAMBODIA.

8 SINGAPORE.

9 MALAYSIA.

10 BALI INDONESIA.

INDEX.

About the Author

Sherisse Pham graduated from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and immediately flitted across the Pacific Ocean to set up residence in Asia. She has worked on Frommer’s travel guides for Beijing, China, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia. When not traveling on assignment, Sherisse covers the Beijing beat for international publications such as Women’s Wear Daily, People Magazine, CNN.com, the South China Morning Post, and Zagat Survey. She currently resides in Beijing. Ron Emmons taught English in Africa and the Americas before moving to Thailand, where he now works as a freelance writer/photographer. He is the author and photographer of Portrait of Thailand and Walks Along the Thames Path (New Holland, UK), as well as writer of Top Ten Bangkok (Dorling Kindersley, UK) and Spiral Guide to the Dominican Republic (Automobile Association, UK). Ron has also made major contributions to several other guide books, such as the Rough Guide to Vietnam and National Geographic Traveler Vietnam.

Jennifer Eveland spent part of her childhood in Singapore, has studied in Hong Kong, lived for a spell in Bangkok, and has traveled extensively throughout East and Southeast Asia. In addition to her contributions to Frommer’s Southeast Asia, she authors Frommer’s Singapore & Malaysia and has updated previous editions of Frommer’s Thailand. In 1999 she returned to Singapore, where she has been based as a full-time freelance writer. She writes regularly for The International Herald Tribune, and contributes travel, finance, and lifestyle stories to numerous local and international magazines, newspapers, and books. She lives near Little India with her husband, a Singaporean musician and producer, their toddler son, and their three cats.

Jen Lin-Liu is the author of the food memoir Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China and the owner of Black Sesame Kitchen, a cooking school in Beijing. She was raised in southern California, graduated from Columbia University, and went to China in 2000 on a Fulbright fellowship. She has also written for Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Saveur, and Food & Wine. Jen would like to thank Candice Lee for her research help.