Southeast Asia is full of hawkers, touts, and scam artists combing the streets where many tourists tend to congregate, and they are the most intense and aggressive in the border towns of Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Burma. The minute you get off the plane, train, bus or outside of your hotel touts of all types will undoubtedly approach you and quote you a price of a service you don’t even want or need. “Sir, tuk-tuk to bridge, 100,000 kip” was the first thing that came out of the tuk-tuk driver’s mouth who was parked across the street the minute I
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