Re: Best Southeast Asian country for a backpacking-beginner?

Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:49:49 +0200
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"Peacenik" <email-address-deleted>
wrote:
>
> Thailand is the easiest, whether you want to go or not. I would say
Malaysia
> comes next.
I had already thought Thailand might be the easiest country to travel as
it's very trendy to go there and lots of people go there right now, but just
because it's so trendy to go there I expect masstoursim and massbackpacking
and this is not what I'm looking for.
I'm sure that, as some of you have already mentioned, you can find places in
Thailand which are secluded, but I'm not sure if I would find them, as it is
my first backpacking trip. I think the "risk" to go there, where everyone
goes, is higher in a country as Thailand, where most of the people go (and I
think most of the people go there - maybe I'm wrong!?), than in any other
SE-Asian country.
Thanks mates,
-CHRIS-