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Originally Posted by acratophorum
Has anyone actually done a trip like this? There must be someone out there, with a friend of a friend who's done something like this!
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You really should go to lonelyplanet.com and read the S.E. Asia board...for some great tips and routes... I backpacked for 3 months in 2001 through several countries. I didn't end up doing this route, but an efficient one is fly to Bangkok then go see northern Thailand, cross into Laos, boat up the Mekong to like Luang Pragang and then head to northern Vietnam and make your way down through Vietnam into the Mekong Delta and cross into Cambodia there and go through country to Siem Reap to see Angkor Wat (highlight of my trip by far), and then cross back into Thailand to chill on the beaches for a while after all that backpacking. You could bus same day back to Bangkok from Siem Reap and take train/fly.. to southern Thailand beaches or head back south to chill on the Cambodian beach and take a boat back to Trat and maybe chill on Ko Chang... before heading back to Bangkok and heading south. From there you could take a boat to a nice Malaysian island like Langkawi to chill more and go down to Kuala Lampur and then cross into Singapore and if more adventurous...fly somewhere like PI or Indonesia or fly back to Bangkok if you are flying home from where you started.