Planning a Vacation in Asia

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(World Map above – click for full size)

Currently living in Macau near Hong Kong and wanting to book a vacation somewhere around here (Southern China or Islands). But I have no idea where to begin. EVERYWHERE here is exotic to me. All the countries around are places I’ve heard about but don’t really know much about.

Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam – go up North to Beijing or even into Russia. So if you could go anywhere in this area where would you go? Ideas appreciated. Here’s a map you can click on to see the countries over here:

Asia Map – (click for full size)

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If there was a full scale Disneyland over here the choice would be a lot easier. (I LOVE Disneyland – but the one in Hong Kong doesn’t have all the rides). I’ve already traveled a lot in Japan and South Korea, and have also been to Shanghai. So you can’t pick those.

Hopefully you guys will give me some ideas!

3 thoughts on “Planning a Vacation in Asia

  1. We loved Thailand – spent ten days on an island there last Christmas, and it was just so relaxing. Next on the list is Tokyo, but that’s very expensive. Also, a lot of the techs spent weekends in Borneo when we were first here with not much to do – a place called Kota Kinabalu – cheap flights direct from Macau to Sabah, a couple of hours flying, ten minute cab ride from the airport to the beach, and after that it’s just sun and swimming.

    Chiang Mai in Thailand is supposed to be lovely, but a bit busy with tourists at high season (October is probably ok though 🙂 I have friends who love Vietnam, too. I think it’s probably hard to go wrong if you’ve never really been to Asia – as you say, *everything* will be fascinating.

    jai.
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