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Lädt ... 25 Ultimate Experiences: Southeast Asiavon Rough Guide
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Make the most of your time on earth! Whether you are planning a trip to Southeast Asia, dreaming about going or already have a trip booked, check out Rough Guides 25 Ultimate Experiences to Southeast Asia, not to see what you could be doing but to see what you should be doing! From cookery lessons in Thailand and diving the Tubbataha Reef in the Philippines to exploring the temples of Angkor and orang-utan encounters on Sumatra. Covering well known and off-the-beaten track experiences this book gives you 25 reasons to grab your passport, stop what you are doing and go. One of 25 Rough Guide Ultimate Experiences - collect the set of 25 pocket sized books and make the most of your time on Earth! Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This volume breaks out destinations as follows:
Borneo: 1
Cambodia: 2
Indonesia: 5
Lao/Laos: 1
Malaysia: 2
Phillippines: 4
Thailand: 6
Vietnam: 3
Cross-country river crossing (Thai-Lao): 1
This count corresponds pretty well to the level of development of the tourism infrastructure in each country. Destinations and focus cover a nice range of activities, with a good representation of history and contemporary culture. The write-ups of the activities I've done and places I've been seems pretty accurate. The "miscellany" in the last section provides useful information on food, festivals, and other cultural and tourist information. The "Literature" section seems strangely sparse, with no narratives of Cambodia (despite the inclusion of Tuel Sleng in the destinations). The language section also ignores both Cambodia and Vietnam.
Oddly, there's no discussion of the exclusion of Burma/Myanmar from the guide, though Rough Guides: 25 Ultimate Experiences: Ethical Travel discusses this obliquely in its brief "Human Rights" section. Also from an ethics perspective, it's interesting to read the Ethical Travel volume, then see Grand Hotel D'Angkor listed under "Five Fabulous Hotels" in the current guide. I've stayed at the Grand Hotel D'Angkor; it's a beautiful property, but the staff are dressed in costumes, the grounds are fumigated by drifting clouds of pesticide every afternoon, and one notices the lack of local ownership on the grand hotel row in Siem Reap. Rough Guides might want to think more about this sort of within-series discrepancy.
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