Lonely Planet South-East Asia on a Shoestring (10th ed) - Softcover

China Williams; Hugh Finlay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0864426321 ISBN 13: 9780864426321

Publisher: Lonely Planet, 1999

Synopsis

South-East Asia is an incredible region for independent travel, and this is the guidebook that started it all. The 'Yellow Bible' made its reputation for reliable, off-the-beaten-track budget travel advice 25 years ago - this 10th edition remains the best, most comprehensive guide to an incomparable region.

Covers travel in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Features: visit Myanmar's dazzling Shwedagon Paya at dawn (p 515); check out the bargains at Chiang Mai's best (and oldest) Thai fabric market (p 753); ride an elephant at a Cambodian hill tribe village (p 116); sample Beerlao on the Mekong River in Vientiane, Laos (p 369); chow down at a hawker's stall, then bop till you drop at a disco in Singapore (p 674); recover with a 'hangover breakfast' on a fine Philippines beach (p 612); go diving or snorkelling and watch the sun set over the Lombok Straight (p 270); and spend the night at a traditional Dayak longhouse in Malaysia (p 472).

About this title

About the Author:

Joe Cummings was born in New Orleans, and raised in California, France and Washington DC. In high school he developed a taste for rock guitar and subversive politics, playing in a succession of garage bands while publishing an underground newspaper. After he graduated from college, the Peace Corps granted his request to be posted to Thailand, where he served as an English lecturer at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology in Bang Mot, Thonburi. He later earned a master's degree in South Asian Civilization from the University of California at Berkeley, and was a scholar in residence at the East-West Center in Hawaii.      His Thailand guide for Lonely Planet was the first guidebook to that country written in English since 1928. An instant success, it remains one of the bestselling guidebooks ever published. He has authored over 45 other books, including coffeetable books, phrasebooks and travelogues.      Joe has twice been honored with the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award and is also a recipient of Mexico's Pluma de Plata (Silver Quill) for outstanding foreign journalism on Mexico. He never gave up the guitar, and continues to jam regularly at clubs in Thailand, where he makes his home.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0864426321
• ISBN 13: 9780864426321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 936