Thailand's cultural and social roots are firmly set in the countryside, in fact, when Mahatma Gandhi said of his home country "... the real India is in the villages". He could just as easily have been referring to Thailand, a country whose political and cultural birth was in the "million rice fields" of the ancient Lanna Thai Kingdom.

Off limits to Westerners till relatively recently, Vietnam is the South East Asia that Elvis knew.

The Mekong Discovery Trail is a network of safe, ecotourism journeys through some of the most natural and least populated parts of the Mekong River basin in Cambodia.

This is the ultimate mountain ride, a cycle-journey through Southeast Asia's most spectacular mountain range.