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thank you for all your awesome interest on the first version of this post!!! ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ (You Can Find It Here!) i seriously didnโt expect to find so many off-grid travel enthusiasts here and iโm thrilled + relieved that you guys found it useful enough to save. tbh i was worried they'd be unrelatable cos these are not popular travel locationsโฆ but iโm stoked to have been proven wrong!
i guess there are a lot of us who love the idea of taking roads less travelled ๐คฉ and just in case you feel conflicted about this let me assure you that itโs perfectly acceptable to want thisโฆ *and* still love your common destinations. there is literally NOTHING you have to prove even if you prefer to identify as an offbeat explorer, so feel free to want to go to Machu Picchuโฆ AND still enjoy a 100% clichรฉ Korea holiday. these things are not mutually exclusive and wanting one thing doesnโt make you less of the other. โก โก
to keep with the previous format, you can find out more abt these destinations โ๏ธ, and the stories behind the 'WHY' i chose them ๐!
// W H Y I W E N T W H E R E I W E N T //
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Uganda has chimps and the Nile and a hundred other things in between โ but the one thing that drew me to her unequivocally, is the Equator Line which cuts through the whole country, leaving most parts in the Northern Hemisphere and a small little chunk in the South.
i've always loved the idea of borders because you can go to the border line, put one foot on each side and then be at both places at once. but in Uganda this really took the cake.
i was in 2 HEMISPHERES at once. โจ๏ธ
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this was one of those years where AirAsia was rapidly expanding its route and i noticed that they had flights to FREAKING MAURITIUS for like, $600+ or something โ and the rest, as they say, was history. after my grand East Africa trip in 2015, i never imagined i would ever see this continent againโฆ and yet, there Mauritius stood, with its affordable flights and semi-affordable AirBNB stays and super exotic landscape, and i just couldnโt let it slide.
sadly, this same AirAsia flight to Mauritius now costs a whopping $1.3k; and while that breaks my heart, i guess i can be glad too that i had the chance to go before prices became astronomical.
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one of those places you say yes to because it is small* and it is cheap and you just want to cross countries off your list.
Brunei was officially the first country i travelled to solo โ the one that started it all, so to speakโ and looking back, it really does feel like the reason i even put it on my radar was for all those aforementioned reasons.
itโs not that bad, donโt get me wrong. just donโt expect to doโฆ much. itโs good for a bit of (superrrr) slow living; and even as my first real experience travelling solo, i had no trouble navigating its public transport and figuring out its systems. i mean, thatโs got to count for something right? ๐
* ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช ๐ด๐ข๐บ '๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ', ๐ช ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ต๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐ช๐ป๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ. ๐ชโ๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ด๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ช๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ 8 ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ช๐ป๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ.
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once youโve made your rounds through the likes of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, your eye will naturally pivot here. fresh out of military rule in 2012, it was still a baby tourist nation when i visited in 2017 - and there was something very fresh-faced and magical about that. i thoroughly enjoyed Myanmar and still think about it now; and i hate what its people are being put through - just as they were beginning to do well for themselves too.
i truly wish some semblance of normalcy to return for them soon, cos this nation is one of the friendliest i know.
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โจ๏ธ PART I: 4 Uncommon Countries I Visited and What I Really Think of Them
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