In late, late December 2010, I bolted cold South Korea for warm, Southeast Asia. I returned here to South Korea on February 10, 2011.

This is a photo essay of that trip.

I started in Bangkok, went west to Kanchanaburi by bus, then back to Bangkok, then up to Chiang Mai by train, then to Laos by van, then to Luang Prabang by boat, then to Vientiene by bus, back to Bangkok by train, by train to (Butterworth) Penang in Malaysia, by bus to Cherating in Pahang, Malaysia, then to Kuala Lumpur by bus, and by train back to Bangkok via ... (more)