There are often countries that you automatically discount when planning a vacation because, like, there’s a WAR or something going on there! (Unless you’re Bono, who will go anywhere anytime.) Then when the situation improves, you don’t think about them again. Pro Traveller takes a look at six nations you might want to reconsider as travel destinations. Pictured is Indonesia, birthplace of Neatorama’s webmaster. Link -Thanks, Andy!
There are often countries that you automatically discount when planning a vacation because, like, there’s a WAR or something going on there! (Unless you’re Bono, who will go anywhere anytime.) Then when the situation improves, you don’t think about them again. Pro Traveller takes a look at six nations you might want to reconsider as travel destinations. Pictured is Indonesia, birthplace of Neatorama’s webmaster. Link -Thanks, Andy!
Cambodia is swimming in tourists; so are Peru, Indonesia, Ireland,.. Maybe if this was 1998 or 1988 the article would have been relevant.
We also have Joya de Ceren and some pre-columbian temples that have turned out to be completely different from Stanley Boggs' concrete "reconstruction"
I go to Cambodia every year. I have Cambodian friends there. Cambodia is not swimming in tourists outside of Siem Reap, Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville. I have been to remote corners of the country where tourists are extremely rare. I visited a hilltribe in Ratanakiri with an instamatic camera and gave people photos of themselves. They were so stoked. I remember a very serious old man who started smiling and then laughing, showing his picture to his friends.
The opportunity to make a difference in peoples lives often presents itself when I travel. It is important to think carefully before intervening, but donating notebooks and pens to a rural school is a little thing that makes a big difference. Or bring an old laptop you aren't going to use and give it to a college student or business.
But seriously, Indo is now safe?
Aussies have been making dicks of themselves in Bali for 40 years until this little event...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Bali_bombings
you might remember, or not, the bombing of the bali night spot killing 202 people
Everything was so much better when Suharto was in charge, with the death squads and the ruthless repression the draconian control
So who wants to go?
did i mention that the sharia courts effectively pardonedany one involved?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqFyhE-N4OU
And just to be fair, heres Redgum doing "I was only 19" the single grewatest vietnam song ever recorded.
bugger
Yes, I was born in Jakarta, Indonesia and stayed there till I was about oh, 13 years old. So I do speak Indonesian quite fluently. Apa kabar, simon!
Bali is gorgeous, and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes the tropics.