Where else but Asia? Let us show you how!

Thanks for dropping by. We’re in the process of migrating our website from Drupal to WordPress content management system – this is tech-speak for “we’re really busy right now with non-travel stuff”. While we get organised on our new platform, feel free to have a browse around and see what we’re busy creating, or drop over to our Travel Tips Thailand website and organise a real holiday … but do come back soon!

Welcome to Asian Travel Tips

The travel website for independent travellers

Asian Travel Tips is a personal travel website run by Tony and Tracy from Brisbane, Australia. We have no affiliation to any other travel websites or travel agencies, tour groups or airlines. We are independent travellers who used to rely on popular travel sites like TripAdvisor and the Lonely Planet Thorntree forums, but lately these have become more and more “polluted” by commercial interests and we can’t rely on them any more. So we decided it was time to create our own … and here it is.

You don’t have to join our site to participate, but we’d love you to join if you support what we’re doing. You can sign in using your existing Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo or MySpace account.It’s so easy! Look for the icons where ever you see the login box! We’d love you to also add your thoughts, comments and possibly even some new content about places we’ve not visited yet.  If you’d like to write for us, please send an email introducing yourself to info@asiantraveltips.org.

We’re travellers just like you. We love to travel and we love to tell people about the places we’ve seen and the things we’ve experienced. We’re what you might call “flashpackers”, so we tend to stay in good quality, budget accommodation (clean sheets, comfortable beds, but otherwise fairly spartan). We generally organise our own trips and rarely go on packages, although we will book local tours when we think there’s a good reason to do that.. We like to hire a car or motorbike if we can and explore places at our own pace. We like good food but love to try something new and different. If we sound a little bit like you, then you’ll probably enjoy what we have to share.

We try to take at least one trip through Asia each year and we even lived in Asia for a while (and expect to do so again). We like to think of ourselves as “off the beaten track” travellers, willing to try new experiences and go to places we’ve never been to before. On this site we’ll be sharing our first-hand experiences from years of travelling around in Asia, and we’ll be inviting you to share yours as well.

Learn from our travel experiences and share yours with us and other fellow travellers through Asian Travel Tips. If you have any ideas for our website, please send them to info@asiantraveltips.org and we’ll do our best to incorporate them. It’s a work in progress right now but we do expect to be adding travel information and experiences progressively over the next few months.

Locations we’ll be covering on Asian Travel Tips include:

  • Burma
  • Brunei
  • Cambodia  (new website in development – check back soon)
  • China (new website under development at china.asiantraveltips.com)
  • Hong Kong
  • Indonesia (new website in development – check back soon)
  • Laos (new website in development – check back soon)
  • Macao
  • Malaysia  (new website in development – check back soon)
  • Singapore
  • Thailand (now on its own website at thailand.asiantraveltips.com)
  • Vietnam  (new website in development – check back soon)

We have made a conscious decision not to cover the Philippines at this stage, because we consider it dangerous for all but the most intrepid travellers. However, if you love the Philippines and would like to cover locations there on our website, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re also looking for ‘destination experts’ who love particular places in Asia and would like to contribute their knowledge. We can’t pay you for your work just yet, but we hope to be able to do so in the future so get on board now. We’re considering setting up our own travel forum if we can get enough of a community together among independent travellers. Let us know if you’d like us to set up a travel forum on this site!