fatlever wrote:welcome back. glad you werent flying from korea to sf yesterday. thats awful stuff.
where were all the places you visited over there? what were your favorite and least favorite places? coolest sights? most random sights?
i love hearing stories from other countries.
went to hong kong, several places in thailand and several places in vietnam. hong kong is incredible and definitely a bucket list-worthy destination for anybody.
thailand my sister-in-law was getting married so we chilled on koh phangan, a little island in the gulf of thailand. some cool little spots there. then we went to bangkok which is a stupendously large city. think two houstons smashed together with the density of london. mind-boggling size. then we went to a small town a few hours from there where the bridge over the river kwai is, and stayed at an elephant sanctuary, which was way cool.
vietnam we mostly stayed in the two big (and i mean BIG) cities, hanoi (6.5M people) and ho chi minh city (also called saigon, 9M people). although we went to ha long bay which was amazing. no place like that anywhere else in the world. stayed on a fancy shmancy boat for the night and got drunk on the roof surrounded by gorgeous cliffs and crags, and visited a floating fishing village only accessible by boat 30km from the mainland. very neat.