@awk I was there two months ago exactly. Had about 24 hours stopover with the fam on the way to Germany. We rented a car instead of a hotel room, which worked out really well. The sun was up until it started raining at about 3am. The only thing is that most places close at night. You can see the big falls and everything, but the bathrooms and gift shops and spas do close at like 9, 11 if you’re lucky. Also the car rental places offer insurance in case of bird. Highly recommended. When we were driving back to Keflavik (where the airport is) at night, there were lots of birds both on the road and um…in aerial contact with the car. My dad was driving faster than I would have knowing the number of birds out there, but I always complain about his driving. Avoids using a turn signal at all costs, smh. Anyway last tip, Joe & the Juice, in the airport. Get a ginger latte, if you like Ginger at all. If you don’t, it might just turn you. I hear the chain is coming to the states. I kinda hope they take over the world.
Anthony Bourdain falls in love with Vietnam’s street food (Parts Unknown)
Check out (I think several) episodes of Anthony Bourdain’s foot/travel show Parts Unknown on CNN where he goes to Vietnam in search of cheap excellent food.
He loves to go to Vietnam and find new places to eat.
Have seen similar remarks from Vietnam Vets who visited.
Spent a couple months in Japan and a couple days in South Korea. Ok places. Folks kept asking if I was Mormon, which was odd. Apparently they get a lot of missionaries. May be catching a wedding in northern China at some point in the next couple years, and will likely see about popping up to Mongolia just to check it off the list.
Siberia, because thats the closest place that can be remotely close to hell freezing over, and there is not a chance in hell that I will buy todays offering till hell freezes over and I am there to see it. So Meh, you want someone to buy one of these meh bundles, buy me a ticket to siberia and Ill bite.
We just got back from visiting family and friends in Taiwan and South Korea last month. I can’t deal with humidity, yet somehow only end up in the tropics during summer.
@GLaDOS mostly Tokyo area to send time with my wife’s family. Weay go to Ehime to visit extended family. And if we can well go to Okinawa for a couple days since we’ll be in Japan for our anniversary!
@curtw4 If you ever go there also take a boat and see the floating village as well (is near by). Angkor Wat is seriously cool. My kid (who is from there) and I climbed to the top, and of course, like all kids, she then said she needed to go to the bathroom (those were all the way out of the complex and over the moat. LOL). There are some other really interesting temples nearby so don’t just limit yourself to Angkor Wat.
I hate the idea of traveling to a place where I don’t speak the language and don’t know the culture.
And then there’s the food issues… not really a fan of seafood and significantly allergic to nuts. So I’d never feel safe eating anything.
I know that, even still, Internet and all, going to a place communicates knowledge in ways you can’t get otherwise.
I just don’t want to be that guy – that idiot American, who basically flew around the world so he could stand in a spot and congratulate himself, without having any idea where he was or why. Plus it’s expensive.
Travel is something that I think about sometimes. I wish it was a thing I did. Can’t really see it though.
@InnocuousFarmer If language is a worry, I would recommend Singapore. (I’d recommend Singapore, anyway ). It’s technically South East Asia, being only 1 degree North of the Equator.
Not cheap, but Awesome people, awesome food, tons of things to do and very pretty. Everyone speaks English in addition to their cultural language. You might not want to go near rainy season, because the rain comes down like freaking golf balls. (Seriously, first time I got caught in a rain storm I thought the opening drops were someone throwing water balloons at me. There’s a reason for all the buildings having overhangs or awnings.) Other than that, it’s as close to a paradise as you’re likely to find.
Been to China and Japan, loved them both, but would prefer to see someplace new. Chose Macau because, other than North Korea, its the one i’m least like to actually get to.
@PocketBrain China was lovely, and the regular person on the street was quite capitalist. We went not long after over 1 million people had been displaced by the massive Three Gorges Dam project, and many of those displaced people became street vendors in the big cities. The people in our party who hadn’t much experience with aggressive street vendors ended up being intimidated or embarrassingly adversarial with them till they noticed I had very easy interactions with them and asked me to teach them my trick over dinner one night. It went easier after that.
@moondrake I have zero fear of the average person on the street; it’s the government and their world-class decryption tools that give me pause, in addition to the fact that they have lots of information on me from the OPM hack so not within my circle of comfort.
Iceland (sorry I’m not good at geography)
@awk I was there two months ago exactly. Had about 24 hours stopover with the fam on the way to Germany. We rented a car instead of a hotel room, which worked out really well. The sun was up until it started raining at about 3am. The only thing is that most places close at night. You can see the big falls and everything, but the bathrooms and gift shops and spas do close at like 9, 11 if you’re lucky. Also the car rental places offer insurance in case of bird. Highly recommended. When we were driving back to Keflavik (where the airport is) at night, there were lots of birds both on the road and um…in aerial contact with the car. My dad was driving faster than I would have knowing the number of birds out there, but I always complain about his driving. Avoids using a turn signal at all costs, smh. Anyway last tip, Joe & the Juice, in the airport. Get a ginger latte, if you like Ginger at all. If you don’t, it might just turn you. I hear the chain is coming to the states. I kinda hope they take over the world.
So - how are the beaches?
Tibet. Is that East Asia?
Assuming no problems with altitude or politics …
I hear you can live like a king in Vietnam for like $10 a day and sleep in a palace for like $30/night.
So probably there.
@meauxfaux
And the food.
@f00l I’m American. Would I be welcome in Vietnam?
And if I rode around on this?:
@meauxfaux Do they speak murican good?
@InnocuousFarmer
@FightingMongoos
Anthony Bourdain visits dive in Vietnam with President
(Obama)
http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/09/23/anthony-bourdain-on-dinner-with-obama-new-season-lead-live.cnn
Anthony Bourdain falls in love with Vietnam’s street food (Parts Unknown)
Check out (I think several) episodes of Anthony Bourdain’s foot/travel show Parts Unknown on CNN where he goes to Vietnam in search of cheap excellent food.
He loves to go to Vietnam and find new places to eat.
Have seen similar remarks from Vietnam Vets who visited.
Hawaii is “east” of East Asia, does that count?
Where’s my “none of the above thanks to Drumf f***ing it all up” button?
@WTFsunshine that would be north korea
Spent a couple months in Japan and a couple days in South Korea. Ok places. Folks kept asking if I was Mormon, which was odd. Apparently they get a lot of missionaries. May be catching a wedding in northern China at some point in the next couple years, and will likely see about popping up to Mongolia just to check it off the list.
Siberia, because thats the closest place that can be remotely close to hell freezing over, and there is not a chance in hell that I will buy todays offering till hell freezes over and I am there to see it. So Meh, you want someone to buy one of these meh bundles, buy me a ticket to siberia and Ill bite.
South Korea to visit my brothers again and meet my niece in person. (She’s 5 now but wasn’t even conceived yet when I previously traveled to Korea.)
I want to see a rock show.
Tuva
We just got back from visiting family and friends in Taiwan and South Korea last month. I can’t deal with humidity, yet somehow only end up in the tropics during summer.
I’m going to Japan in less than a month, so I’ll have to say Japan!
@luvche21 Where will you go there?
@GLaDOS mostly Tokyo area to send time with my wife’s family. Weay go to Ehime to visit extended family. And if we can well go to Okinawa for a couple days since we’ll be in Japan for our anniversary!
@luvche21 sounds like fun. Congratulations on your anniversary!
PS: If you go to Akihabara in the Chiyoda ward in Tokyo, check out Jangara Ramen. They are super awesome!
Kyushu Jangara Ramen Akihabara
3 Chome-11-6 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tōkyō-to 101-0021, Japan
+81 3-3251-4059
https://goo.gl/maps/FhH8d3ZWpnP2
Japan for the Obon Festival because I already know some of the dances. Also the food.
Um, Cambodia? He can you look at a picture of Angkor Wat and not want to visit?
@curtw4 If you ever go there also take a boat and see the floating village as well (is near by). Angkor Wat is seriously cool. My kid (who is from there) and I climbed to the top, and of course, like all kids, she then said she needed to go to the bathroom (those were all the way out of the complex and over the moat. LOL). There are some other really interesting temples nearby so don’t just limit yourself to Angkor Wat.
I hate the idea of traveling to a place where I don’t speak the language and don’t know the culture.
And then there’s the food issues… not really a fan of seafood and significantly allergic to nuts. So I’d never feel safe eating anything.
I know that, even still, Internet and all, going to a place communicates knowledge in ways you can’t get otherwise.
I just don’t want to be that guy – that idiot American, who basically flew around the world so he could stand in a spot and congratulate himself, without having any idea where he was or why. Plus it’s expensive.
Travel is something that I think about sometimes. I wish it was a thing I did. Can’t really see it though.
@InnocuousFarmer If language is a worry, I would recommend Singapore. (I’d recommend Singapore, anyway
). It’s technically South East Asia, being only 1 degree North of the Equator.
Not cheap, but Awesome people, awesome food, tons of things to do and very pretty. Everyone speaks English in addition to their cultural language. You might not want to go near rainy season, because the rain comes down like freaking golf balls. (Seriously, first time I got caught in a rain storm I thought the opening drops were someone throwing water balloons at me. There’s a reason for all the buildings having overhangs or awnings.) Other than that, it’s as close to a paradise as you’re likely to find.
Well, I’m currently in China, and we might be doing a visa run to Taiwan. So, Japan.
Been to China and Japan, loved them both, but would prefer to see someplace new. Chose Macau because, other than North Korea, its the one i’m least like to actually get to.
I’ve always wanted to visit Thailand and the Philippines - if they count as ‘east Asia.’
@aetris Thailand is my #1, and I’d like to stay here. Spend time with elephants and help fund their rescue.
I have been to colonial Hong Kong and Singapore; I think South Korea would be next, then Japan. Please pardon my aversion to the communist nations.
@PocketBrain China was lovely, and the regular person on the street was quite capitalist. We went not long after over 1 million people had been displaced by the massive Three Gorges Dam project, and many of those displaced people became street vendors in the big cities. The people in our party who hadn’t much experience with aggressive street vendors ended up being intimidated or embarrassingly adversarial with them till they noticed I had very easy interactions with them and asked me to teach them my trick over dinner one night. It went easier after that.
@moondrake I have zero fear of the average person on the street; it’s the government and their world-class decryption tools that give me pause, in addition to the fact that they have lots of information on me from the OPM hack so not within my circle of comfort.
Well, I’m currently in China, and we might be doing a visa run to Taiwan. So, Japan.