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Some of the domestic and regional flights you’ll come across on our Southeast Asian small group tours

Myriad is not an exaggeration so this post is very much a rundown on just a few of the most iconic noodle soups of Southeast Asia you may come across on one of our small group tours of the region.

…pick up a green mango, give that durian a go, try a soursop shake in Phnom Penh’s Russian Market, or, if you’re really lucky, try Wi’s fresh passion fruit cheesecake but stuff the imported blueberries and perhaps forget the cashew fruit.

As far as Mekong boat cruises go, Southeast Asia’s longest river offers some 5,000 kilometres to choose from. The Mekong originates high up on the Tibetan Plateau and after passing through, or past, six countries, eventually emerges into the South China Sea.

For Southeast Asia’s citizens, and indeed the lucky visitors, why celebrate New Year when you can celebrate 2 or 3 new years instead?

New tours for 2026-27 Every year, as soon as things quieten down after the November to February high season, it’s time to turn our attention to any necessary changes, tweaks and amendments or worthwhile additions to our existing range of Southeast Asia small group tours. Full details, tour by tour, can be seen by following the relevant links below but…

Capital Cities of Cambodia Off the top of our heads we’ve come up with no less than 11 different capital cities of Cambodia over the course of some 1500 years – although we may well have overlooked another one or two – while several of these sites have been the capital on more than one separate occasion. Many of the…

Vientiane We’ve run through our favourite see and dos in  Vientiane before so this post is more of an overall description and brief rundown on the history of the laid-back Lao capital.(1) Although of course growing, it is still by some distance the smallest of the various Southeast Asian capitals with an estimated 215,000 inhabiting the downtown area, increasing to…

Favourite Southeast Asian hotels Excuses for the slightly deceptive title – it works better for SEO purposes – and our list is not in any way intended to be our all time favourite Southeast Asian hotels, but rather a rundown on some favourite new spots we’ve added recently to our range of small group tours. Obviously, new hotels and resorts…

At its 12th century peak, the Angkor Empire encompassed much of what is today central and northeastern Thailand

Southeast Asia a-arrival cards – how do they work? We’d say the new system of Southeast Asia a-arrival cards is probably, all things considered, a good initiative, but it does take a bit of getting used to and has occasionally caused a certain amount of confusion. We can’t remember which immigration department first came up with the idea – maybe…

Angkor and Angkor Wat On our small group tours to Cambodia we often see, amongst first time visitors, a certain amount of predictable confusion between the names Angkor and Angkor Wat. They do, of course, refer to two different sites, so here’s a brief explanation on the differences between Angkor and Angkor Wat. It can certainly be somewhat confusing for…