TRAVEL IN ASIA · TEN COUNTRIES
Temple dawns, island ferries, the long way across Asia.
Hand-checked tours and day trips in ten countries, from Thailand and Vietnam to Japan, Indonesia and Cambodia. Find the one experience worth planning a whole trip around, then the ten more to build around it.
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Where in Asia are you headed?
Ten countries, hundreds of cities and day trips between them. Pick a country to see its best tours, or scroll on for the handful of experiences worth crossing the continent for.
Only here
Three things you can only do in Asia.
Temples, beaches and food markets exist the world over. Watching the sun rise over Angkor, crawling the Cu Chi tunnels and waking on a Balinese temple morning do not.
Cambodia
Sunrise over Angkor
The largest religious monument on earth, and the crowd that gathers in the dark to watch the sun come up behind its five towers. Beyond Angkor Wat lie the giant stone faces of the Bayon and the strangler figs of Ta Prohm. Nowhere else is a single morning worth flying for like this.
- 1 Angkor Wat Sunrise or Sunset Tour with Guide from Siem Reap
- 2 From Siem Reap: Kampong Phluk Floating Village Tour by Boat
- 3 Siem Reap: Angkor Wat: Small-Group Sunrise Tour
Vietnam
The Cu Chi Tunnels
A 250-kilometre warren the Viet Cong dug by hand and lived in for years, a couple of hours out of Ho Chi Minh City. Guides walk you over the trapdoors and tripwires at ground level, then you drop in and crawl a stretch of the real thing. Nowhere else puts you down inside the war like this.
- 1 From Ho Chi Minh City: Cu Chi Tunnels Tour
- 2 HCM: Cu Chi Tunnels & Mekong Delta with Coconut Village Tour
Indonesia · Bali
Bali’s temple heartland
An island where every village has its temple, every doorway its morning offering, and the rice terraces step down the hills in a dozen shades of green. From the water temple at Tirta Empul to the cliff-edge shrine at Uluwatu, Bali’s Hindu heart is unlike anywhere else in Indonesia.
- 1 All-Inclusive Ubud Private Tour
- 2 Best of Ubud Full-Day Tour with Jungle Swing
- 3 Ubud: Monkey Forest, Jungle Swing, Rice Terrace, and Water Temple
Booked the most
The most popular experiences in Asia
The tours travellers rate most highly across the whole continent — the Korean DMZ, Bangkok’s floating markets, Mt Fuji and a morning at Angkor.
Start here
The single most-booked day in Asia.
More trips are built around this one experience than anything else on the site. If you only book one thing before you fly, make it this.
Thailand
Temples, islands and food, all in one country.
Bangkok’s gold-spired temples and floating markets, the long-tail boats and limestone cliffs of the Andaman, elephants and night bazaars up in Chiang Mai. Thailand packs more into a single trip than almost anywhere, and it is the easiest place in Asia to begin.
See the best of Thailand →Vietnam
A thousand miles of coast, river and old town.
The Cu Chi tunnels and the Mekong Delta out of Ho Chi Minh City, an overnight junk through the karst islands of Halong Bay, the lantern-lit lanes of Hoi An and the street food of Hanoi. Vietnam runs the length of the map and rewards every stop along the way.
See the best of Vietnam →Japan
Bullet trains, neon, and quiet old temples.
Mt Fuji and the hot springs of Hakone a day out of Tokyo, the food alleys of Shinjuku after dark, the temples, geisha streets and bamboo groves of Kyoto. Japan moves fast and slow at once, and a single rail pass ties the whole country together.
See all 43 Japan tours →Cambodia
Stand in the dark and wait for Angkor.
The temples of Angkor spread for miles through the jungle outside Siem Reap — Angkor Wat at first light, the giant faces of the Bayon, the strangler figs swallowing Ta Prohm. Two days barely scratches it, and it is the single most extraordinary sight in Southeast Asia.
Angkor & Siem Reap tours →Or pick a city
Straight to the city you fly into.
Bangkok, Tokyo, Bali, Hanoi, Siem Reap and the rest. Every city’s best tours, day trips and skip-the-line tickets in one place.
First time in Asia?
Three ways to start, by region.
Not sure where to begin? Here is how the continent breaks down, and the easiest way into each part of it.
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