Thailand
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China
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Israel
Jordan
Egypt
France
USA
Canada
עבריתIt hasn’t been two weeks since I got back from my journey to Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, and I already started planning my next year journey. I got addicted to traveling, but learned well that in order to travel seriously you need to come prepared, which includes not so few expenses.
My first journey was carefully planned while considering unplanned time. This means that a good plan must include wide parts which are unplanned so it can be a good plan. My program included general targets along with specific attractions that I wanted to go to. I have given every place its own time, and retrospectively looking, it was a good plan. The structure of your course also affect the general planning. A bad planned course might cause problems when something doesn’t go as planned, or it can give you the feeling that you missed something important.
My next course is still theoretical today. I want to go to places I haven’t seen in the East Asia toward China. As it looks today, what I have to do is go to Vietnam and continue from there to China. I still don’t know any of these countries apart from rumors and stories I heard from travelers I met. China is a huge country. Most of its inhabitans doesn’t speak English at all. It’s very hard to get along there, using transportation, communication, buying food, and more. I was warned about going there alone, and was recommended to go on an organized tour or go with another person so it would be easier to travel. After a two month journey in the far east in countries which are easy to travel in, I’ve come into a conclusion that I like it much better traveling alone. It’s not fun in an organized tour, and the last thing I want is to get stuck to another person for so long. At least I’m not willing to commit so this connection will not make it hard on both of us.
The course that came right into my head for my new journey was getting a flight to Thailand, cross the border to Laos from Ubon Ratchathani, check the 4000 islands which I didn’t visit last time, go south and cross the border to Cambodia. Then I can go see the capital Phnom Penh which I also missed and go south-east to the Mekong delta, cross the border to Vietnam. This should total a two weeks travel. I would then travel in Vietnam for one month all the way from south to north. From north Vietnam cross the border to China and travel there for two months in an unknown route. The journey ends in Hong Kong for shopping and then to another country or back to Israel.
This article was originally written in Hebrew. It was translated to English at a later time.
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