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If someone have any alternative routes that would be great! Would really like to hear other people that live in SEA or have backpacked there before.

I was mostly interested in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, but am also interested in Myanmar and Laos if the route is worth the trip. More recently I also have been more open to the idea of travelling to Malaysia or Indonesia.

If anyone have any ideas, thoughts, experiences or routes, feel free to add relevant information such as transportation, adrenalin activities, wild life resorts, cultural happenings and so on.

Also, this is an general SEA thread, not a request. Contribute anything relevant as you wish

4 weeks is too little time to experience whole Vietnam. Cambodia can be done in 3-5 days. Thailand 1-3 weeks, depending on what you want to do.

>>1209840
I recently started realizing that. Do you have any suggestions for a better route? We can't stay much longer than 4 weeks, so we want to experience as much as we can in that time.

Thinking about Chiang Mai - Bangkok - Angkor Wat - Phnom Penh - Ho Chi Minh

>>1209071
If you aren't living out of a tent then 40 litres should be enough, especially in warm climates. I lived out of my 40 litre bag for 3 months (if you can live out of it for 3 months I'm sure you can live out of it for any amount of time) and I had bulky sweaters and long pants with me.

As for brands, Osprey seems to be pretty reliable. Kelty is pretty good too but a little on the pricey side I think.

I used this one for no other reason than that I already had it, but it's cheap, reliable, and about 40 litres when you cut out the laptop sleeve.

http://www.targus.com/ca/voyager-laptop-backpack-black

>>1209401
>Not OP but thanks m8

>>1209071
Absolutely love my Osprey Farpoint 55. It's great to have the daypack included with the larger bag (ie. 40L is the large pack and 15L is the small pack that zips on).

It has locking zippers, is extremely comfortable, is large enough for plenty of things if you don't overpack, and I've never been denied carrying the large pack as a carry on (just unzip the small pack and switch the large into carry on mode, it looks smaller. Then the small pack counts are your personal item).

Can't speak highly enough about that bag. My only complaint is lack of compartments, but a simple cube system can fix that.

>>1209401
Kelty is a good brand as well, but they are actually much cheaper than Osprey, not more expensive. The Redwing 50 is very popular and available on Amazon for cheap. Only thing I don't like is lack of locking zippers, but not generally a huge deal.

Don't overestimate the size of the bag you need, 50-50L is plenty to life off, specially in a warm climate.

>>1211784
Reserve your hostel(s) in advance.

>>1211784
Just stay in normal hotel rooms. They are like $18 a night so there is no reason to slum it in a hostel with some numale "backpackers". You will want privacy with your hookers of course.

$1500 for 2 weeks should be ok but that is assume "transport" is not including airfare.

>>1211793
Yeah I took airfare out of the equation. Good point with the hookers and having a private hotel. I'm pretty much a go with the flow type of person so reservations kind of fuck with me. Like >>1211787 said how imperative is it to reserve a hotel/hostel vs just walking in? Do rooms fill up fast or what?

>>1210674
Fuck the crack of the liberty bell

>>1210674
Liberty bell
Mutter museum
Phila Museum of Art(Rocky stairs)
Reading Market
Eat a cheesesteak

As a Brit who fantasizes about moving to America, how is the Philadelphia area? My dream is to move into the suburbs near Philly. It just seems like a really comfy area.

No. You're the first person to visit Ibiza.

Hey guys, I accidentally my thread, it this bad?

>>1210575
I love your grammatical correctness OP

>>1210428
>Slips 501g of cannabis into your luggage

>>1210428
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_(Singapore)

better watch out OP

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>>1210428
don't traffic drugs you darkie

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Here you go lad, good on ya.

>>1210177
>>1210214
TOP LOLS

poor OP

noone? ok Asdios

I mean half the population lives in southern Ontario, Toronto and the surrounding area is where the majority of people are therefore so are of he jobs.
Vancouver is nice but kind of boring and ridiculously expensive nowadays.
Montreal is an icehell during the winter but rent is cheap.
Alberta is beautiful but I hated Calgary when I went.
Do you have a school you're enrolled in or what? Waterloo and western university have good engineering programs from what I hear.
Tbh I wouldn't advise moving to Canada but I'm biased and I suppose Mexico is about to go into a recession due to all the trump stuff.
Do you any other options?

How the hell did you manage to save up 100K canadian as a mexican??

PS: if you're not willing to learn french, you'll have a very hard time finding work in Quebec as a civil engineer

Extremely

>>1210158
This

>>1210149
>>1210158

I was in Alghero about 8 years ago. I really liked it, it's a nice, small, cozy town. Not much of a party atmosphere, more for relaxing. There's a cave nearby worth seeing. Sardinia is somewhat different, many people want more autonomy/independence from Italy, but it's not violent like their northern counterparts. They have their own language, Sardinian, though everyone speaks Italian as well. Note that for historical reasons, many in Alghero actually speak Catalan.

Your other questions I can't answer. It wasn't very expensive as far as I can remember.

>>1209813
>How different is Sardinia from mainland Italy?
it's not

>>1209813
I am told it smells really good. Not even kidding.

アメリカで買うのは結構高いけど。。。お土産だと若い人だと喜ぶかも。
たぶんお菓子とかのほうがいいと思います。

>>1210218
M8, don't be condescending just to try to flex your Japanese ability no one cares. Clearly his or her English is quite fine, and saying "I'm sorry my English is bad" is just a very humble Japanese thing to do.

You know how gaijin get mad when they try to speak Japanese to Japanese people and Japanese people default to English anyway?

You're doing that. Stop being a knob.

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>>1210220
>mfw im fucking japanese
you're kidding right? you're right, their english isn't bad at all. i'm just typing in Japanese so it'll be easier for them to understand. please, point out what's condescending about that.

>>1209612
>i want to move to the midwest based on climate/weather
0/10 b8

>>1209614
Let me make an amendment.

I want to move to the midwest based upon laws and culture, demographics and ideology.

The red/black ovals just representatives of the areas that have the traits that i desire to live in, that also don't get too freakin` humid.

I'd love to live in the deep south, but i can't get that humid and hot for too long.

>>1209612
>The black indicates acceptable, and red indicates desirable.
Well this is a first

Can you be a little more general? Your questions are way too specific for anyone to give you a detailed answer.

expect to see some European trains

>>1211314
Are there showering facilities on the trains as well as the bedding that you can reserve?

Of course you can, although leave the northern part and the alps for july and august only unless you have many years of experience.

You do need to take me with you, though, I really want to take time off from work to do something like this, but wouldn't want to go alone. I have a lot of gear prepared, too, good at wild camping etc.

>>1210981
I wonder how much time this path might take on foot.. 3 months?
It's probably around 3k km... Daily you can make maybe ... 50 km? So actually it would only be 2 months. But is 50 km/day achievable? Some paths are hard and I doubt you can make that through Alpes.

Just random thoughts, I hate hiking.

>>1210981
I doubt it's a good idea to hike through highly populated areas in Germany. I would buy a train ticket from Sweden or Denmark to Alps

>>1210174
you have a tour guide?
and its less of a hassle if you book in advance

I did that same route in reverse, but in half the time.
I did a whale watching tour from Mirissa which was good.
Didn't have time to go to the animal safari park that's down in that area, but it looks cool.
Overall if I'd had more time I think I would have rented a bicycle or motorbike and just fucked around the countryside meeting people and eating weird food.
I don't think you need to book in advance for trains.

Take the seaplane from Kandi back to Colombo, that's my advice. The roads are windy and it takes a long time to get everywhere.

Between the south and Kandi is Nuwarra Elia and a few other mountains, which deserve to be checked out.