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braunshade
Joined: 19 Apr 2006
Location: Somewhere better!
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 Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:07 am Post subject: Fun,cheap country to hang out for a couple months?? |
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I will have more than 2 months free between my present job and my next job (out of Korea) and I am trying to come up with some ideas about what to do with my time.......I do not want to go home..........any ideas ?
What would you do if you had a couple of months to kill? I also do not want to blow all my savings....... |
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Matt_22
Joined: 22 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| I'd do a combination of Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Though you could really kill 2 months in Laos for a damn good price. Might get boring alone though. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:41 am Post subject: |
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| If you're travelling alone, Beijing is a fun, cheap city with a growing music scene and a lot of cool people to meet. |
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arisketch
Joined: 09 Nov 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject: ... |
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depends on your interest
thailand would be a nice choice for cheap place to hang out for a while, nice beaches as well in phuket ... |
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Nemesis
Joined: 29 Jan 2006
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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I agree. Depends on your interest.
One cheap place to lay low that I've always enjoyed is Puri, India. It's in Orissa state, and about a 6-hour train ride from Calcutta. It's a Hindu holy town, which means that ganja is legal -- you can buy it in government shops. Comes wrapped in newspapers.
I spent a three weeks there playing chess in cafes, riding around on motorbikes, eating fresh-caught tuna steaks for dinner, and sitting around on the beach (the beach has got a deadly undercurrent, though, so I wouldn't go in more than knee deep). Must've spent $200 in total.
Personally, I'm lazy, so I don't lugging my gear from place to place. Much rather find a cool spot to tuck into for a while. Depends on your interest... |
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maddog
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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There are fun times to be had in Laos and Cambodia. If you like lounging around, watching beautiful sunset, eating mushroom pizza  and drinking cheap beer, laos could be just the ticket.
If you want some LBFMs, Thailand, Cambodia and, apparently, the Philipines will see to your needs 
LBFM = little brown ####ing machine |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. 
There's something disturbing about that little acronym. It's also about as politically correct as recommending that someone zip down to Kenya for some BBFMs. |
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
There's something disturbing about that little acronym. It's also about as politically correct as recommending that someone zip down to Kenya for some BBFMs. |
Or to Canada for some FWFMs
*Here come the angry (m)asses now* |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Nemesis wrote: |
I agree. Depends on your interest.
One cheap place to lay low that I've always enjoyed is Puri, India. It's in Orissa state, and about a 6-hour train ride from Calcutta. It's a Hindu holy town, which means that ganja is legal -- you can buy it in government shops. Comes wrapped in newspapers.
I spent a three weeks there playing chess in cafes, riding around on motorbikes, eating fresh-caught tuna steaks for dinner, and sitting around on the beach (the beach has got a deadly undercurrent, though, so I wouldn't go in more than knee deep). Must've spent $200 in total.
Personally, I'm lazy, so I don't lugging my gear from place to place. Much rather find a cool spot to tuck into for a while. Depends on your interest... |
I'll second that, I spend months in Puri back in the 90s. Interesting shore temples at Konarak too and if you really want to go wild there are the Orissan Hill Tribes in the hinterland.
Aside from that, I would also recommend Indonesia. Stay a while in a Dayak longhouse in Kalimantan, lie on a beach in Manado, Sulawesi and scope out some of the hottest chicks this side of Brazil, Bus it through Sumatra and see Lake Toba, orangutans and Nias. City hop through Java and hang with students in places like Bandung, Jogja and Salatiga or take in Bali and Lombok, all for about 25 bucks a day if you learn some local habits. |
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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| India. India, India, India. Beaches? Yes. Deserts? Yes. Temples? Yes. Safaris? Yes. Jungle? Yes. Mountains? Yes. Amazing food? Yes. Seriously, it has more variety for the money than anywhere on the planet, and English gets you by just fine, what more do you want? Go have fun. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
There's something disturbing about that little acronym. It's also about as politically correct as recommending that someone zip down to Kenya for some BBFMs. |
Oh yes. The guys on here never cease to amaze me how disgusting they are. And they trash Korean men. HA! The Korean guys I know would not go on public websites and talk trash like this. They also wouldn't go on some public forum and slam a race of women as being fat, ugly, and disgusting. Hey white men, get some class and manners...FAST!!! |
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smurfystew
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Seoul, ROK
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| Nam is good. Plenty of different types of scenery and definately a cheap place to hang out. I think I spent maybe 400 in my month long stay there. |
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Matt_22
Joined: 22 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| princess wrote: |
| Oh yes. The guys on here never cease to amaze me how disgusting they are. And they trash Korean men. HA! The Korean guys I know would not go on public websites and talk trash like this. They also wouldn't go on some public forum and slam a race of women as being fat, ugly, and disgusting. Hey white men, get some class and manners...FAST!!! |
hey, let's not overly-generalize here... |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Matt_22 wrote: |
| princess wrote: |
| Oh yes. The guys on here never cease to amaze me how disgusting they are. And they trash Korean men. HA! The Korean guys I know would not go on public websites and talk trash like this. They also wouldn't go on some public forum and slam a race of women as being fat, ugly, and disgusting. Hey white men, get some class and manners...FAST!!! |
hey, let's not overly-generalize here... |
OK, not ALL of them are like this, but you have to admit, some of the guys say some pretty disgusting things on here. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| princess wrote: |
| kermo wrote: |
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
There's something disturbing about that little acronym. It's also about as politically correct as recommending that someone zip down to Kenya for some BBFMs. |
Oh yes. The guys on here never cease to amaze me how disgusting they are. And they trash Korean men. HA! The Korean guys I know would not go on public websites and talk trash like this. They also wouldn't go on some public forum and slam a race of women as being fat, ugly, and disgusting. Hey white men, get some class and manners...FAST!!! |
Maybe maddog is not a SWFM but a FBFM, LKFM or HHFM (skinny/white, fat/black, little/Korean, huge/Hawaiian, respectively.) |
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