so you're looking to travel around southeast asia for maybe one month three months six months maybe
eight months nine months this is the place to be i'm gonna be talking through my trip my six and a
half months traveling around southeast asia and everything that i did the budget-wise the route
accommodation food and drink and all those fun activities so here we go so if you've not traveled
before southeast asia is probably the best place to start traveling as it is cheap and it's a great
starter place then going to somewhere like india which can be quite intimidating or south america
southeast asia is really easy to get around if as long as you speak english which you probably do
as you're listening to this then you can get by it so easily because most people tend to speak
english so you're gonna be all right but before i get started if you have a question which i don't
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anyway let's start with the fruit the best route to get around southeast asia is well the first bit
is called the banana pancake trail which you may or may not have heard of banana pancake trail is
basically around thailand lao vietnam and cambodia which is like the four main countries in like
the mainland southeast asia and basically you fly into bangkok
thailand you go around north of thailand you go around lao then into vietnam down vietnam and
then into cambodia and then to the thai islands and this is called the banana pancake trail
do this it is the best place if you're a solo traveler you will meet so many other people who
are traveling around there and you'll likely be able to travel with people for a long time because
so many people do this room it is like the most common route in backpacking in the world i think
i'm not 100 sure on that anyway from the thai islands i recommend
you flying to the philippines the philippines is like nowhere else there's thousands of islands
and it is beautiful and definitely recommend going there because it's not as touristy at the moment
but it's gonna it's gonna blow because this place white beach is everywhere you almost get bored
of those white beaches from the philippines i recommend you fly into indonesia into jakarta
and then travel along like the bottom islands of indonesia from through java bali lombok and flores
which i spent almost three months in indonesia and i could feel like i could spend another six
months there because it is stunning indonesia is more than just bali but bali's nice still go to
bali get that bali experience which you're dreaming of i know it so from indonesia
fly into malaysia and singapore not as many people travel around malaysia but is an amazing country i
only went to kuala lumpur but there are there are other places that you can go which are supposed
to be really nice in malaysia like penang and langkawi there's also the parentian islands
it's a cool place if you want to scuba dive and all that stuff then finish the best place to
finish is probably singapore because it is such a big airport and a stunning place it's got like a
botanical gardens in there so check that out and singapore is amazing days just spend about three
or four days in singapore but it's a great place to finish a trip because from singapore airport
you can literally fly most places in the world it is a great transport hub to get around the
world if you're going home or going somewhere else get yourself to singapore and get yourself out or
you probably want to stay by this point the time to do this route is probably at least six months
if you are doing that full route but if you were just doing the banana pancake trail with thailand
vietnam and cambodia you can do that in easily two or three months um but if you want to do
it all probably six months at least looking towards nine months but of course you could
go on for a year or two years there's always more places to explore so now let's have a
look at the accommodation where you're going to stay every single night on the floor now
the best place to stay is hostels especially if you're solo traveling because you
that is the place to meet people hostels is the place to be that's where all the young
people are all the wild young free energetic people are and that's where you want to stay
although it's not always the cheapest places i found using agodabooking.com and hostelworld that
sometimes staying in guest houses or private rooms were actually cheaper than staying in hostels so
do your research see what's see what's best for your budget and all of that the next thing i'm
going to talk about is transport so transport is there's lots of ways of doing it you could spend
hundreds of pounds flying everywhere or you could go super local and make it really really cheap
it just depends on your budget and the amount amount of time you have if you're taking flights
every place you go is going to get so expensive but there's always a cheaper way to doing it
if you take local buses local trains you can get around southeast asia for so cheap
one place which is kind of expensive though is the philippines as you can take ferries
which are still fairly expensive but flights is the way to go around the philippines because
there's so many islands and you've got to get across them but you can get around to most
countries just through buses trains all that kind of stuff so go local if you want to save money
a free way of getting around southeast asia is hitchhiking i did this a couple of times and it
was actually really fun even though i had to wait quite a while so my number one tip when you get to
a place is rent a moped because it is the best way to get around wherever you're staying and
see places not just in the touristy hub and see people see houses see everything around rather
than just the tourist attractions get a moped get a driving licence and you'll love it always
get a moped if you can drive so the next topic is food and drink getting that alcohol okay so food
a lot of people are step are scared of trying the street food because they think they might get ill
you might get ill i'm not gonna lie to you i had food poisoning i think three three times in my six
and a half months in southeast asia but i still don't know whether it was from the street food
whether it was from a restaurant you're likely to get food poisoning at least once if you're going
on a long trip it's almost inevitable but don't let that stop you trying the street food because
normally they're cooking it right in front of your eyes and so it's normally safe the other thing is
if you are scared don't eat meat meat is what's going to give you some sort of
diarrhea or something so just get the meat and you'll be all right but street food is the best
way to try the local food imagine not going to vietnam and not trying any of their local dishes
like you've got to and also if you are going to try western food which you might want to if you
so bored of eating that cultural like local food it's not as good and is more expensive
unless you're in somewhere like bali where there are so many western chefs and stuff then try and
stick to the local food because it is better and it is cheaper alcohol wise cocktails are expensive
but beer especially local beer is so much cheaper one of my beers in vietnam cost me 20 u.s cent
do you know if that is a dangerous thing when a beer like a can like a coke can cost 20 cent
because i could get drunk of about what four four us dollars or maybe less than that
depending on what i'm doing the other thing to try is the local spirit like in vietnam you can
you can drink vietnam vietnam mars vietnamese rice wine which is disgusting but it will get you drunk
and get you having a good time if you want to do that so try it it's cheap and it's strong ass
you're gonna have a wild night so the last area is budget a lot of people ask me about budget about
every single country how much they should how much they could spend how much they should spend and to
be honest it varies so much but don't worry i've got an answer for you so i actually wrote down
how much i recorded everything i spent in each country and how much um i spent in each country so
i've kind of got a rough budget per day of what i spent in each country so starting in bali i
spent in bali you've got to be a bit more lenient because it is so touristy you're going to spend
about 30 pounds a day you can spend less you can spend more but this is what i kind of recommend
then in other parts of indonesia you can actually get away with spending only 20 pounds a day
in vietnam is a cheap country only 20 pounds a day in north thailand you can spend just
20 pounds a day but in southern thailand you're going to spend more because it is more touristy
at 30 pounds a day the philippines you're going to spend 30 pounds a day because you've got to
take flights and ferries to a lot of places which makes it a lot more expensive the food is cheap
but those flights and getting transport around the country is what is expensive cambodia i spent
30 pounds a day which was quite surprised about but it is quite touristy now with angkor wat which
it costs like at least 30 us i'll check that um cambodia is becoming a more expensive place to go
to in lao i spent 25 pounds a day which is pretty decent in between um but it's awesome going allow
not as many people go there and it is beautiful so that is all my tips on southeast asia again if
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anyway that's the video i will see you next week next sunday for another one
i don't know what i'm doing yet but i'm just gonna wing it you know okay see you then bye