Asia
Asia is almost too massive and diverse to conceptualize as a digestable travel "destination". Even defining the borders of this continent is difficult - from the mountains around the Black Sea in the west, to the snow fields of Siberia in the east, there are more people and cities in Asia than outside of it.
Travel options range wildly from the desert ruins and modern malls of the the Middle East to the beach bungalows and jungle treks of South-East Asia to the megacities and technology capitals of East Asia. Find out more about regions, destinations, and itineraries below.
Sections
Countries
Central Asia:
East Asia:
Middle East:
- Bahrain
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Oman
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Syria
- Turkey (that part not in Europe)
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
South Asia:
South-East Asia:
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- East Timor
- Indonesia
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Russia
Other territories
- Hong Kong (part of China)
- Macau (part of China)
- Tibet (part of China)
- Palestinian Territories (Gaza, West Bank)
Itineraries
- Two weeks in Japan
- Two weeks in South Korea
- One month in Southeast Asia
- Six months overland from Istanbul to Indonesia
The authors of this document are Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel, Evan Prodromou, Peter Donaghy, Rene Malenfant, Yann Forget, Yongdeok Cho and the following WikiTravel users: Akubra, Cjensen, Dhum_Dhum, Fuzheado, Huttite, InterLangBot, Maj, Nils, PremPatel, Yzerfontein. The original version of this article can be seen at http://wikitravel.org/en/Asia.