| Traveling in Asia can be ridiculously cheap and fun | | | | chance to really sample some of the local flavor |
| if you know what you're doing. Cheap Asian travel | | | | that is quite good. Don't worry about getting sick, |
| is done by being intelligent with your cash and | | | | the locals wouldn't be eating there if they were |
| being well informed of what is going on. Last year | | | | getting sick, so you shouldn't either. |
| when I was in Thailand the ratio of the dollar to | | | | One of the biggest keys to cheap asian travel is |
| the thai baht currency was about 40 baht to 1 | | | | how you decide to go about seeing asia. Clearly if |
| dollar, now it is about 30 to 1! Paying attention to | | | | you want to fly it's going to cost you quite a bit |
| the local politics and what is going on in the world | | | | more then the local bus. Now there are some |
| is just one of many ways that you can make | | | | tourist busses that are great and get you to |
| Asian travel cheap. | | | | where you need to go for cheap, but be warned, |
| One of the most basic things for cheap asian | | | | there is a reason for why they are cheap. One of |
| travel is to live like the locals. This doesn't mean | | | | the reasons is that they stop at specific locations |
| that you are going to be out the rice fields work | | | | for meals that are out in the middle of nowhere |
| from dawn to dusk like some of the locals, but | | | | so they can jack the prices up. So if you do take |
| you will have a similar lifestyle that will also add a | | | | these busses take a sack meal or bit the bullet |
| lot of culture to your trip. Instead of eating at | | | | and pay the jacked up prices. The best option in |
| that nice Westerner restaurant go down and eat | | | | my opinion for cheap asian travel is to take the |
| from one of the street stalls. You'll have a blast | | | | local bus. You'll experience that countries culture |
| eating with the locals and attempting to | | | | up close and directly and you'll be doing it for the |
| communicate with them and you'll also get a | | | | same price as the locals themselves. |