GoMadNomad.com founder and friend of our site Stephen Bugno spent a good part of this year traveling through Southeast Asia as part of his nomadic wanderings. To try to encapsulate such a trip in 10 or 11 pictures would be futile, but I asked Stephen if I could share with our readers some of my favorite pictures from his Flickr sets<\/a> to try to give a small taste what it’s like for those who’ve never been.<\/p>\n From the 1000-year-old temples, to the food, to the other backpackers one encounters on such a trek, what follows, I hope, is a gentle kick-in-the-behind motivation for those thinking of traveling there.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The walls at Preah Khan, probably the most famous temple in Angkor, Cambodia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Looking downstream in Muang Ngoi, a Lao town along the Nam Ou River.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An early-morning stroll in Luang Prabang’s morning market, north central Laos.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dinner during a two-day trek to an Akha hill tribes village near Phongsali, the northernmost province in Laos.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Taking the slow boat ride down the Mekong River in Laos from Houayxai to Pakbeng.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This tea salesman, in the Chinese village in northern Thailand called Mae Salong.\u00a0is writing out the brewing instructions I asked for.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An older woman from Mae Hong Son, in northern Thailand near the border of Burma.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Visakha Bucha Day in Chiang Mai. The holiday celebrates the birth, enlightenment and entry into nirvana of the Buddha.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A vendor prepares for the crowds at the night market in Chiang Mai.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stanley Ho, my favorite artist in Melaka. He’s holding the painting I bought from him. Visit Stanley at 46 Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock in the old part of town. He loves to chat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Near Kampong Cham in central Cambodia is the\u00a011th-century religious compound, Wat Nokor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Sunset in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.<\/p>\n By Stephen Bugno<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n Stephen Bugno has been traveling the world for more than a decade as both a volunteer and a wanderer, and is the editor and publisher of the online travel magazine\u00a0GoMadNomad.com<\/a>\u00a0and his personal site\u00a0BohemainTraveler.com<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow Stephen via twitter\u00a0at @bohemiantrav<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GoMadNomad.com founder and friend of our site Stephen Bugno spent a good part of this year traveling through Southeast Asia as part of his nomadic wanderings. To try to encapsulate such a trip in 10 or 11 pictures would be futile, but I asked Stephen if I could share with our readers some of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2049,1,35,2572,2567],"tags":[273,225,972,1361,131],"yoast_head":"\n