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I have spent a month in China living with my friend's family, two weeks in Italy, another month backpacking Western Europe, and a week in Hawaii.

I like to travel. This year I need to plan my trips around school breaks.

January 1-19 and March 13-22.

I plan on bringing 1-2 friends on these trips, incurring most of the costs.

I've looked at cruises out of Miami in January, 4-7 days, but the costs seem to be extremely hidden. Since it's per person and not per room I would imagine it would be better just to get each person their own room.

Also my friends and I will all be 20 or days away from being 20, so I guess we would only be able to drink on the island we traveled to? If anyone knows about cruises I would be very interested in hearing from you.

My friends and I were thinking Amsterdam and a day trip, by train, to Paris in March, but having looked into "when to go" type sites that seems poorly advised.

Really I'd like to go somewhere exotic. A hotel or even a hut on the Amazon. Somewhere in Thailand? Trains in India.

Not looking to cover a ton of ground. Would rather go to one place, sit around, drink, relax, enjoy. Any suggestions for destinations during those dates? I don't think I'd mind the rainy seasons of the world as long as there was a covered balcony to watch it from with some cool backdrop.

Trying to spend less than $7,000. The destination here being more important than the accommodation, but I would imagine there are some pretty nice places on the cheap in the 3rd world. I stayed in one hotel in China that cost only $200/night that would be insanely priced in America.

Most of the budget is for airfare, room, and food.

Not a fan of tour groups, not a fan of tour guides, don't care how safe or unsafe the area is considered.

So hopefully this thread can stir up some ideas because every site I read sounds like it was written by the content writers in the BST. Or just share some cool ass places and photos.

Detian Place
Border of Vietnam
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Li River
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Li Jiang
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Tienanmen Square
The news will say how security is being stepped up around the protests anniversary, but it's always like that.
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Great Wall
3 hour drive from Beijing only 3 other tourists seen in 4 hour span
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droplister said:
I have spent a month in China living with my friend's family, two weeks in Italy, another month backpacking Western Europe, and a week in Hawaii.

I like to travel. This year I need to plan my trips around school breaks.

January 1-19 and March 13-22.

I plan on bringing 1-2 friends on these trips, incurring most of the costs.

I've looked at cruises out of Miami in January, 4-7 days, but the costs seem to be extremely hidden. Since it's per person and not per room I would imagine it would be better just to get each person their own room.

Also my friends and I will all be 20 or days away from being 20, so I guess we would only be able to drink on the island we traveled to? If anyone knows about cruises I would be very interested in hearing from you.

My friends and I were thinking Amsterdam and a day trip, by train, to Paris in March, but having looked into "when to go" type sites that seems poorly advised.

Really I'd like to go somewhere exotic. A hotel or even a hut on the Amazon. Somewhere in Thailand? Trains in India.

Not looking to cover a ton of ground. Would rather go to one place, sit around, drink, relax, enjoy. Any suggestions for destinations during those dates? I don't think I'd mind the rainy seasons of the world as long as there was a covered balcony to watch it from with some cool backdrop.

Trying to spend less than $7,000. The destination here being more important than the accommodation, but I would imagine there are some pretty nice places on the cheap in the 3rd world. I stayed in one hotel in China that cost only $200/night that would be insanely priced in America.

Most of the budget is for airfare, room, and food.

Not a fan of tour groups, not a fan of tour guides, don't care how safe or unsafe the area is considered.

So hopefully this thread can stir up some ideas because every site I read sounds like it was written by the content writers in the BST. Or just share some cool ass places and photos.

Detian Place
Border of Vietnam
2655480996_4944821ae4.jpg
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Fucking. hell. yeah. If your goal was to make someone green with envy, you've certainly accomplished it with this pic!
 
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I demand someone come forth with their secret gems of destinations.

makethatgreen that's what I figured, but the official policies on their website always say different.
 
droplister said:
Tienanmen Square
The news will say how security is being stepped up around the protests anniversary, but it's always like that.
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....So are you into nice, submissive, nontalkative women who can cook, clean and love you for a long time?

Because I am willing to give up making money online to join you on that trip mate, hehe

Actually I heard the high end clubs in Beijing rock! But boy can they be expensive - lots of expats and newly rich Chinese....
 
riddarhusetgal said:
....So are you into nice, submissive, nontalkative women who can cook, clean and love you for a long time?

Because I am willing to give up making money online to join you on that trip mate, hehe

Actually I heard the high end clubs in Beijing rock! But boy can they be expensive - lots of expats and newly rich Chinese....
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I was only in Beijing for a few days, spent the majority of the time in Guilin pictured below. Near the end we traveled for a week all over. Traveling with my friend who was fluent in Chinese helped a ton.

From what I could tell most of that is true of the women, what they don't tell you is they rip farts and it's no big thing.

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So hopefully this thread can stir up some ideas because every site I read sounds like it was written by the content writers in the BST. Or just share some cool ass places and photos.
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Well what is a "dream to you?" I mean when I look at the map, the world is so big, I really feel like a country hick.

Is it only Asia you want? Have you done Malaysia? Not just Kuala Lumpur but some of the Islands like Penang? Goa is cool but alot of like "far out man that's groovy" types - not too bad (remember the scene from the Borne Supremacy....)


If you really want an experience you will never forget and can up your budget for another 5K you can do Antarctica!

I only have one friend who did it with his wife and he says it was an experience he will NEVER FORGET!

You an do some great research here:

International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators
 
If you plan on going to Amsterdam, Which is an awesome city btw. I would say fuck Paris. Don't waste your time if you plan on going there for only a day. The train travel alone would not be worth your trouble. Plan Paris when you have more time. Stay in a hostel in the red light district on the cheap. And your next to everything that you want to be at. Bars, smoke shops, and pretty girls in the windows.
 
Found this place which I think is near grindstone's picture.

Layana Resort & Spa, Krabi hotels Thailand on krabi.com

Either way it's right up my alley.

I've been to both Amsterdam and Paris. I like them both. The train I think would take like a little under 4 hours one way. So we'd go in the AM, walk to Notre Dame, cruise the Louvre's gardens and check out the glass pyramid, and see the Eiffel Tower. That can be achieved in one day on foot. Then nap on the way back to Amsterdam.

I think Europe is bunk though it would be pretty cold and there wouldn't be many fellow tourists to hit on.

Southern Spain could be nice.

I'm liking this Thailand hotel right now.
 
Yeah, Koh Lanta is super nice too. Be interesting to see how worked that place got in the tsunami, I know the outer islands (basically atolls) got hammered pretty hard while the places on the mainland with lots of shallows (it was low tide when it hit) caused the waves to break farther out and limited the destruction somewhat.

Basically anyplace in southern Thailand where they don't have cars kicks fucking ass.

Hope you like snakes.
 
droplister said:
I think Europe is bunk
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try central/eastern europe and the balkans. western/touristy europe is what's bunk (except netherlands & denmark). czech republic, slovakia, hungary, poland, romania, ukraine, slovenia, croatia, bosnia, serbia, macedonia, montenegro, greece, latvia, lithuania, estonia, finland... all interesting places.
 
thailand/asia sucks imho, fucking garbage everywhere & ppl who just want to sell their shitty fake t-shirts to you.

I would prefer Australia to any asian country. Ashmore reef is a fucking awesome place for example
 
sailing trip from darwin (australia) to bali (indonesia) passing the ashmore reef istheshit.

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Everywhere I look right now is literally on the other side of the world from Boston.

The cheapest flights to Thailand I found were $1100, but would take 30 hours to get there and 40 hours - 50 hours back.

South America is looking much better.

I'm trying to find places that are per room rather than per person. That way I can just get a big room and that cost I would have had anyways if I was by myself and they only cost my friends need to pick up is the ticket which I'll help with.

Seville, Spain would be pretty cheap to get to and we could buzz around to surrounding towns by train as well as visit Morocco.

Could always make it a ski trip in Europe which would probably be enjoyable.

This is why I need some suggestions because I'd go everywhere if I could.

Ankor Wat would take 40 hours both ways to get to because of 20 hour layovers. Boston has such an unfortunate geographical position.
 
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