THE PREPARATION OF THE LONG JOURNEY OF SIX MONTHS

I did two, one in 2011-12 in Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines, the other in Thailand, Malaysia and India in 2014-15 I generally organize the trip all by myself, I buy insurance for about 400 euros (Nomads) which covers me from illnesses and accidents such as theft, repatriation, etc... the international flight to the main location, in South East Asia is always Bangkok. I do the recommended vaccinations (typhoid, yellow fever, hepatitis, etc.) I buy several medicines, spending around 150 euros which I will never use and which I will end up throwing away when they expire. From Bangkok I start the tour to the Thai islands and then I buy a low cost flight or to other countries Malaysia, Philippines, India. For the second country, if it is large, I buy other low-cost internal flights and one or two nights in a hotel only if it is high season, otherwise I reach the center from the airport by bus or taxi if there is no public transport and then I find a hotel in a quarter of an hour. I study with a travel guide of the country, often the Lonely Planet the recommended itinerary depending on the time available and I try to see all the attractions of the country, reserving a beach holiday. Only once in the second trip did I decide to stay put for two months in Patong, Pukhet, Thailand, I thought shooting for six consecutive months would be excessive and tiring and it didn't go badly even though there were times when I felt like giving up the beach and start the tour right away, but I had already booked the flights and couldn't change. I made this choice because in the first six month trip I was always on tour and I got too tired.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

BEIJING

Image
I visited the capital of China back in 1983 on a five-week group trip through much of the country and we stayed about two weeks in BEIJING when the group returned to Italy while my girlfriend and I decided to stay longer because we liked the city a lot but on the given day we had seen very little. You have to think that in 1983 China was a poor and underdeveloped country and the Chinese all dressed the same way with blue or green tunics, both men and women, only the children were dressed in Western style, the small boys with dicks and bare bottoms so they didn't make a mess. There were very few cars and millions of all black bicycles. There were few skyscrapers, mostly the houses were low and blackened by the coal used for cooking, The Chinese were wary of us, it seems they feared being stung for accusing us of bothering us and in any case none of them spoke English, not even in the hotels and restaurants so it was difficult to communicate. There is a pedestrian street dedicated to...
Read more

Last thoughts on my recent trip to northern France

Image
I took about 1,200 photos and will post the best ones as soon as I can. The smallest cities are the most beautiful and all have beautiful historic centers. The castles, despite their different architecture, are similar inside and out. They have beautiful solid wood and inlaid furniture, canopy beds, separate bedrooms for the couple, numerous fireplaces, and enormous colorful tapestries that warmed the cold rooms. I've never seen a bathroom; it's said that Louis XIV bathed twice in his entire life. They used lace to cleanse their mouths, and when they smelled too bad, they anointed themselves with perfume; that's why they became masters in this field. Unfortunately, I no longer see the beautiful, elegant women I remember from my first distant travels. Even though they wear skirts more than Italians, they mostly wear baggy, shapeless jeans. The French are less obese and fat than us Italians, perhaps because they don't usually eat first courses, especially pasta, but r...
Read more