Can't afford a European vacation this summer? Do what our contributor Claire Duffett did: Explore Southeast Asia instead.
Southeast Asia is a land of contradictions--pristine and filthy, welcoming and conniving, conservative and hedonistic, archaic and progressive. In other words, we loved it!
We enjoyed experiencing all of it, whether it was navigating our way out of the Cambodian jungle using furious hand gestures, eating fried grasshoppers with Japanese tourists on Bangkok's Skytrain or getting massages from dominating blind Vietnamese masseurs at an institution that resembled the asylum from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
The region isn't for the leisurely traveler. It is, however, for anyone with a few thousands dollars burning in her pocket and several weeks to spare, who wants to experience contradictions as well as extremes--heat, isolation, poverty, kindness, beauty, frustration, suffering--because sometimes travel is more than the sights you see and the snapshots you take.
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