Chris Forse, a former resident of Hong Kong describes his five decades of travel through the exotic landscapes and cultures of this beautiful part of the world. Where, until quite recently only five countries (The Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia) were open to foreign travellers.

He has hiked in jungles in Thailand, taken boats deep into Borneo and down the Mekong River in Laos, crossed tragic Cambodia by bus and travelled overland through Sumatra and Java to exotic Bali.

Chris was among the first to travel to Vietnam on an individual visa, later to explore Burma/Myanmar, a land that time forgot. As in his talk on Thirty Years of Travel in China, he witnessed the enormous changes that economic development (and mass tourism) has brought, for good or ill.