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my travelling tips for responsible travellers ;)

First of all, we're all different and all the travellers I met on the road had different opinion of countries
mentionned below, everything depend of your own experience, and the people you meet. I'm just sharing my personnal experience.


THAILAND

Don't go there!!!
Seriously, if you care at least just a little bit about earth and people, don't.
Thailand is one of this typical example of a country being, in my humble opinion, totally devasted by tourism.

It has deeply ruined the culture, everything seems so great from the outside but is stincky on the inside. (hilltribe being reduced to slavery, tigers being dru to Va
gged, elephants treated like dogs, woman as sexual things). You have, of course, good things in the country, like beautiful landscapes, and nice food. But I was seriously disgusted by the tourists behaviour and the locals as well actually. Act responsible if you go there! Careful to act eco-friendly with the environment and the locals... Remember, drinking and having drugs with the british you can do everywhere in Europe!

LAOS

Is wonderful: go to the North and small villages for cheaper places, to Vang Vieng if you actually wanna get drunk with the british, but please : People are very prude there, be respectful, don't show your shoulder, breasts and legs, be cool : people don't know what yelling means nor hatefulness. You'll get incredibly soft and peaceful in a very short time! Never refuse a glass of Lao Lao. As I heard once, "we are small but spicy" Go with the flow!

VIETNAM

Vietnamese are much more alive, strong, with a great sense of humor, curious and cheerful. What might be taken for aggressivity is more likely to giving you a hand, trying to help. Negociate before buying or ask for the price first (offer half of it). Vietnamese can be trusted, it's really easy there. Amazing food, amazing women, amazing landscapes, great architecture, culture, amazing history, great infrastructure!

Have a great trip in SeA!!!!

Last days.... (written on march 29th)

My last days on Phu Quoc was amazing: went on a snorkeling boat tour in the south of the island. There's actually a bay with several small islands with very clear water, I was amazed by the underwater life, amazing colours, many fish, coral etc. We had an amazing lunch, tried some fishing (very unsuccesful for me but the others got a lot of fish) and then moved to the most beautiful beach I've ever seen, with a lot of very big beautiful jellyfish, but you could so easely see them to avoid touching them. Bai sao beach is awesome.

After this we went back to long beach where I stayed, have a last swim and enjoyed the evening on the beach. There was a huge storm that wake me up in the middle of the night, because oh the rain I cancelled my hike in the national park and went to the museum instead. It shows the prehistorical life on the island, potery, plants and animals, also the history. It was very nice, very interesting. After lunch I just chilled out on the beach, enjoyed the water, at night it started to rain again, but stopped really quickly.

In the morning (really really early) I took a boat to Rha gia, then take a bus to Cathon, in the Mekong Delta. It's really nice. I just walked around the city near the river, had a great diner and went to sleep. I wake up at 5 to go on a boat trip on the river, saw the sunset, the floating markets weren't that impressive but it's actually pretty funny to buy your morning coffee from a small wooden boat. The canals were great. It was a little bit too long but nice. After I came back, I went to the bus station and went to Saigon. It was a very long ride and I arrived at 7 pm. So after 6 hours boat, I spent 6 hours in a minibus and took a moto'bike guy to finally arrive to Buy Vien. I was so exhausted and starving, went to eat, met these australian guys, we went to a small bar that just opened, there I met a crazy guy named Paul, such a funny guy! and a very nice couple, we spent the evening together, it was really nice. The next day I actually waited for my money transfer for ages, was starving like a refugee, got a really bad experience with Thai people who at least offered me lunch and finally got some money so I finally went to eat a proper diner, went for some shopping for my friends ;) and went back to the bar, where I spent my evening with Alexander, very nice guy from Zurick and Paul showed up also. Nice last night in Asia! I went to bed quite late and woke up at 7 to get my flight. I arrived at 12 pm and I'm spending the day in Bangkok chilling out: massage, manicure, pedicure, shopping, and a lot of food!!! It's nice!
I'm so exhausted that I cannot even think about the fact that this is it: the end of my trip. Two months already being away, travelling through Asia. All good things come to an end...

So, this is it. I will post one more message to share my impressions and give travelling tips when I'm home and relaxed.
Cheers.