List of Maps vi
1 THE BEST OF SOUTHEAST ASIA 1
2 INTRODUCING SOUTHEAST ASIA 13
3 THAILAND 27
4 LAOS 177
5 VIETNAM 232
6 CAMBODIA 358
7 SINGAPORE 410
8 MALAYSIA 508
9 BALI (INDONESIA) 576
10 PLANNING YOUR TRIP TO SOUTHEAST ASIA 624
Index 647
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
Spiral Guide to the Dominican Republic (Automobile Association,
UK). Ron has also made major contributions to several other guide
books, such as Top Ten Bangkok (Dorling Kindersley, UK), 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 Frommer's Singapore & Malaysia, she has authored
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.
Jen Lin-Liu is the author of Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey
Through China (Houghton Mifflin) and the founder of the Beijing
cooking school Black Sesame Kitchen. She was raised in southern
California, graduated from Columbia University, and has lived in
China since 2000, when she was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to
study in Beijing. She has also written for Newsweek, the New York
Times, the Wall Street Journal, Travel + Leisure, Saveur, and Food
& Wine.
Daniel White is a British writer who has been published in major
magazines and newspapers in Europe and Asia. He has written for
publications such as the UK's Guardian, Observer, Maxim, and Marie
Claire. He has also worked on guidebooks and political commentaries
as both a writer and editor, and was editor-in-chief of the now
defunct Absolute Phuket magazine in Thailand. He has traveled the
corners of Southeast Asia by motorcycle and is currently working on
a website project chronicling his trips on two wheels. Previously
based in London and Paris, he has been based in Bangkok since 2002.
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