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How to divide 15 days among Bangkok, Hanoi, HK, Beijing? Posted on: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:46:15 GMT

I am extremely inexperienced in Asia outside India and would appreciate
all advice.

1. How would you divide 15 days among the following cities (including
side trips):

Bangkok (incl Angkor)
Hanoi *OR* Ho Chi Minh (which one do you recommend?)
Hong Kong (incl Macau)
Beijing (incl Great Wall)

"Zero days" is also acceptable as an answer if you feel it is better to
spend more days in fewer cities.

2. How much would a clean/safe but unfancy budget room cost per night
in each of these cities?

3. Is it possible/easy for individual tourists to visit China on their
own without being part of a tour group?

[By the way of background: I am the cousin Kiran has been posting for.
I thought I should learn to ask my own questions and with her help and
her computer here I am!
I am going on an extended family visit to India followed by business
meetings in Tokyo. Never having seen SE/E asia, I wanted first to take
2 stops over 4-5 days. Since then I have become excited about this new
experience and by cutting the fat from my India trip, mostly overeating
at relative's homes and attending weddings of people I don't really
know, :) I could bump this up to 15 days.]

Thanks!