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Welcome to All Points East
All Points East is an independent, fully licensed, UK based travel company offering adventure tours, holidays and vacations to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Malaysia (including Borneo), Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), and China.
Our goal is to produce unusual, original and quality trips at reasonable prices with an emphasis on off the beaten track destinations and eco-tourism and a commitment to responsible travel.
Our holidays - both scheduled tours and tailor-made itineraries - are designed to appeal to those wishing to discover the real South East Asia; singles, couples, families - old and young - anyone with a sense of adventure!
For schedules and prices check the relevant tour page and for 'last minute' holiday departures and adventure tours throughout South East Asia check out our late availability section
In depth knowledge of the Indochina region enables us to offer original itineraries with a balance between the region's better known 'must-sees' and it’s off-the-beaten-track, 'well kept secrets'.
All Points East tours will provide a real insight into the countries you are visiting - culture, history, landscape and natural world - and allow opportunities for genuine interaction with the local people and communities.
As much as possible on our adventure trips we will stay in smaller, family-run accommodation, eat in local restaurants and use local style transport. In addition all guides and agencies used are considered friends rather than 'business contacts'. The idea being that you will visit Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Brunei, and Malaysia as guests rather than as tourists.
Respect for local people, their cultures, traditions, religions and environment are essential to All Points East philosophy, and we work hard to ensure our groups have a positive impact on the places and people visited.
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News
New web-site
Our new website is currently under construction and we're hoping to have it up and running soon, so in the meantime if we've been a bit slack in updating info included in our old site apologies and please bear with us! Burma/Myanmar
In the light of recent comments by Aung San Suu Kyi, (see article here), and discussions with Responsible Travel we've decided to begin offering Burma/Myanmar tours from 2012 onwards. Next availability 28th of July. See full details here.
You can find a more complete overview of our thinking and policy on Burma tours at this link.
Vietnam; Cheaper and simpler!
We’re also really pleased to see that Vietnam Airlines are now promising to introduce direct flights from London to Saigon, (and Hanoi?), later this year which will make Vietnam trips simpler and cheaper so hopefully giving a big boost to both our All Points East tours of Vietnam as well as tourism in general in a country that, as S. E. Asia goes, has been sadly under-represented in terms of UK visitors. Ask Les in the UK office for further details.
Best UK Tour Operator for Local Communities in Thailand!
All Points East are very proud to announce we are the 2010 winners of the Tourism Authority of Thailand Green Award, for Best UK Tour Operator for Local Communities in Thailand. The award is given in conjunction with responsibletravel.com, who's Director, Justin Frances said "All Points East are an excellent example of a tour operator with long-standing commitments to providing tours that work with and preserve the traditions of local people. Their off-the-beaten-track itineraries provide a focus on bringing the benefits of tourism to rarely-visited communities, employ 75% Thai national guides, and visit 100% locally run restaurants. They visit local markets as alternatives to souvenir shops, and insist their travellers only visit sites with minimal negative impacts to wildlife and the environment."
More details can be seen here on Responsible Travel
All Points East Travelblog
We've also added a link to our new travelblog with plenty of anecdotes, tales, information and photos on S.E. Asia so have a peek now. We're also more than happy to post 'guest blogs' so anyone out there with anything worth saying please mail us your scribblings and/or pix!!
Note we've also added a blog 'category' for each of our tours allowing you to check; reviews, feedback, inside info and the nitty gritty of each itinerary as well as viewing lots more sample tour photos! You can follow our All Points East travelblog by clicking on this link.
New Tours, New Itineraries
Due to changes in local transport infrastructure etc and customer suggestions, we have tweaked/fine-tuned many of our existing itineraries for 2011. Places change; some become just too popular whilst other remoter destinations open up with new roads and so-on. We have also added shorter versions of many of our most popular tours to cater to those with less time to spare. If tour lengths do not correspond to your time-frame please consult out office staff for alternatives.
Malaysia
Check our new Malaysia tour including Southern Thailand which we're hoping will be very popular since it's certainly one of our favourites! We reckon it ticks all the boxes with culture and history in KL & Penang, awesome jungle and nature in Cameron Highlands & Belum Forest and some of South Thailand's best scenery and beaches in Trang Province. Check here for full details.
Vietnam & Laos
We've been out and about in Vietnam & Laos, checking out some new roads, new destinations so please check our exciting new Vietnam and Lao tour itineraries.(Vietnam and Laos.)
Upcoming Tours
 Borneo - the land below the wind
Lying just south of the Philippines typhoon belt, Malaysia's Sabah State, known as the 'Land Below the Wind', covers the northern part of Borneo and contains some of the Island's most spectacular landscapes and accessible flora and fauna.
From tranquil coastal villages to the dramatic Mt Kinabalu and the orang-utans of Sepilok to the awesome Danum Valley. An unforgettable journey!
Some feedback from Land Below the Wind
"The whole holiday was amazing from start to finish but the most exciting (part) was spotting a wild orang in the jungle. Our guide Alex was truly fantastic and made our trip a true adventure. Danum valley is an incredible place and not to be missed by anyone travelling to Borneo." Deanne Ward-Thompson 2010.
Go to this link to check; reviews, feedback, inside info and the nitty gritty of our Land Below the Wind tour as well as lots more sample tour photos!
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| Next departure: 19th May, 2012 | Cost: GBP 2,575/1,675 | HTML Itinerary | PDF Itinerary |
Borneo - the land below the wind
Lying just south of the Philippines typhoon belt, Malaysia's Sabah State, known as the 'Land Below the Wind', covers the northern part of Borneo and contains some of the Island's most spectacular landscapes and accessible flora and fauna.
From tranquil coastal villages to the dramatic Mt Kinabalu and the orang-utans of Sepilok to the awesome Danum Valley. An unforgettable journey!
Some feedback from Land Below the Wind
"The whole holiday was amazing from start to finish but the most exciting (part) was spotting a wild orang in the jungle. Our guide Alex was truly fantastic and made our trip a true adventure. Danum valley is an incredible place and not to be missed by anyone travelling to Borneo." Deanne Ward-Thompson 2010.
Go to this link to check; reviews, feedback, inside info and the nitty gritty of our Land Below the Wind tour as well as lots more sample tour photos!
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| Next departure: 23rd June, 2012 | Cost: GBP 2,575/1,675 | HTML Itinerary | PDF Itinerary |
 Cambodia: Cambodia Overland - Phnom Penh to Bangkok
An exciting tour, combining Cambodia’s best known sites, with some of the more off the beaten track ones, in a road and river adventure through this fascinating and little known country. From the charming riverside capital Phnom Penh, overland through picturesque countryside to the mysterious & dramatic, jungle-clad temples of Angkor, then across the Tonle Sap Lake and down river to the town of Battambang before finishing the tour in Thailand’s vibrant capital Bangkok. ... Read More |
| Next departure: 8th July, 2012 | Cost: GBP 1,865/965 | HTML Itinerary | PDF Itinerary |
 Thailand, Cambodia & Southern Laos : The Emerald Triangle
An adventure tour that reaches parts few other tours reach! Explore the rarely visited Emerald Triangle region, where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia meet.
From Eastern Thailand we'll journey into South Laos’ Champassak Province to explore the Boloven Plateau and Sepian National Bio-diversity Area before heading south via the World Heritage ruins of Wat Phu Temple, to discover the stunning Four Thousand Islands region, where the Mekong cascades into Cambodia over a series of spectacular falls. From here we'll continue down-river through the jungles of Northern Cambodia to our final destination of Phnom Penh.
Some feedback from Emerald Triangle."I was a bit worried about doing this on my own as I had never holidayed solo before, but the small group and the fact that we ate together family style made me feel from the start that I was travelling with a group of friends. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to see Indochina and is thinking of travelling alone." Nathalie, Dec 2010.
Go to this link to check; reviews, feedback, inside info and the nitty gritty of our Emerald Triangle tour tour as well as lots more sample tour photos!
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| Next departure: 25th July, 2012 | Cost: GBP 2,360/1,260 | HTML Itinerary | PDF Itinerary |
 Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand: Saigon to Bangkok
An exciting river and land adventure through the heart of Indochina: from Vietnam's bustling Saigon and picturesque Mekong Delta region, up-river to the fascinating Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, before heading west via the mysterious & dramatic, jungle-clad temples of Angkor to Thailand's vibrant Bangkok.
Please note for those with limited time there is now a shorter version of this itinerary finishing with a return flight from Siem Reap on day 13 whilst we also offer extended versions with either a stay on the Vietnam’s magnificent Phu Quoc island prior to your Delta tour or a 3 day stop-over on Thailand’s unspoilt Koh Mak island before departing from Bangkok. ... Read More |
| Next departure: 3rd July, 2012 | Cost: GBP 2,390/1,490 | HTML Itinerary | PDF Itinerary |
Featured Tours
 Burma/Myanmar
Myanmar - “Burma...quite unlike any land you know about”.
From the faded Victorian splendor, and breathtaking Shwedagon Pagoda, of Yangon, (Rangoon) to the ancient cities of historic Mandalay, the incredible temples of Bagan and the colonial hill-stations, myriad traditional hill-tribes and justly celebrated Lake Inle of the picturesque Shan ... Read More
Next departure: 20th May, 2012
Cost: GBP 2,255/1,225
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