Frommer's Southeast Asia
Chapter One
The Best of
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia offers a glimpse of the extraordinary, an explosion of
colors, sounds, smells, textures, and life that will send you home with a wider vision of the
human experience. In this chapter, we share our picks of the region's unrivaled highlights.
1 UNFORGETTABLE TRAVEL EXPERIENCES
Making Merit (Thailand & Laos): For
centuries, the sangha, or monkhood,
has lived off the donations of food and
money from the community. The tradition
continues to this day: Every morning,
monks walk the streets around
their temple not just to receive their
daily food, but also to allow the giver to
make merit. By giving food in this lifetime,
Buddhists believe that they will
not go hungry in the next lifetime. If
you are interested in making merit this
way, talk to your hotel's concierge. See
chapters 4 and 5.
Staying in a Hill-Tribe Village near
the China Border ... read full excerpt from Frommer's Southeast Asia (Frommer's Complete #671) ebook
