South-East Asia is an incredible region for independent travel, and this is the guidebook that started it all. The 'Yellow Bible' made its reputation for reliable, off-the-beaten-track budget travel advice 25 years ago - this 10th edition remains the best, most comprehensive guide to an incomparable region.

Covers travel in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Features: visit Myanmar's dazzling Shwedagon Paya at dawn (p 515); check out the bargains at Chiang Mai's best (and oldest) Thai fabric market (p 753); ride an elephant at a Cambodian hill tribe village (p 116); sample Beerlao on the Mekong River in Vientiane, Laos (p 369); chow down at a hawker's stall, then bop till you drop at a disco in Singapore (p 674); recover with a 'hangover breakfast' on a fine Philippines beach (p 612); go diving or snorkelling and watch the sun set over the Lombok Straight (p 270); and spend the night at a traditional Dayak longhouse in Malaysia (p 472).