Southeast Asia Photo Gallery

Remote jungles, ancient temples, golden beaches, and life-giving energy every direction you look… Better still, new kids on the adventure-traveler block—Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam—are giving Thailand's well-trod backpacker classics a run for their money. Here, GORP delves into SOUTHEAST ASIA'S 20 BEST ADVENTURES.  

In a land of happy smiles and enchanting experiences, one visitor discovers the 21st-century face of the NEW VIETNAM.  

Despite concerns over regional instability and worrisome crime stats, the Philippines is a hotbed of adrenaline-filled fun—you just need to know where to look. Outside hones in on the best the island nation has to offer, from world-class diving on Cebu to trekking in northern Luzon.  

If you're despairing of the Brit-packer-trammeled shores of southern Thailand and some of tourism's less salubrious aspects, escape to the highland sanctuaries of northern Thailand and join an expert hill-tribe guide for A TREK INTO THAILAND'S HIDDEN HINTERLANDS.  

Inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1992, the stunning temples of Angkor Watt are rightly considered one of the world's wonders. GORP takes you on a TOUR OF THIS CULTURAL AND ARCHITECTURAL TREASURE.  

Winding a thousand miles from India to China, THE BURMA ROAD was built to defend China in World War II, but the atomic bomb made it irrelevant and the jungle reclaimed it. Mark Jenkins vowed to do what no one had done for nearly 60 years—travel the entire Burma Road—and discovered the madness of present-day Myanmar.  

INTO THE DRAGON'S LAIR: Witness one of nature's most primeval creatures, the lolloping komodo dragon, as it prowls its realm on Indonesia's Komodo Islands. Then, once you've had your fill of up-close ogling, ply a sea kayak around the islands' spectacular marine environs of reefs, riptides, and mangrove inlets.