We are back home aboard Scorpio in Langkawi after our 15-day road trip to Indochina and Siam. Our route is explained by the map below. The red lines indicate flights (7x) and blue lines show bus trips (3x).
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Before we took off I had only a rough idea of our route. Our strategy was to plan as we go and we only booked one flight and hotel at a time. Therefore I tried to find hotels with internet in the room, I was carrying a laptop and did all flight and hotel bookings on the web.
We didn’t go for the dirt cheap guest houses, but stayed in four star hotels paying an average of 50 USD per night. You could probably do this trip and stay in 2-3 star hotels for around 20 USD, if you know where they are. We had no recommendations and didn’t want to risk arriving in a place we didn’t like, and as you usually arrive in each place in the evening. Therefore we always booked only one night and then extended our stay and it worked fine every time.
The full report will be posted in due course in the Log & Yarns section.