Which of These 4 Countries Would You Visit 🇺🇬🇲🇺🇧🇳🇲

thank you for all your awesome interest on the first version of this post!!! 🥰🥰 (You Can Find It Here!) i seriously didn’t expect to find so many off-grid travel enthusiasts here and i’m 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 locations… but i’m stoked to have been proven wrong!

i guess there are a lot of us who love the idea of taking roads less travelled 🤩 and just in case you feel conflicted about this let me assure you that it’s perfectly acceptable to want this… *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 Picchu… AND still enjoy a 100% cliché Korea holiday. these things are not mutually exclusive and wanting one thing doesn’t make you less of the other. ♡ ♡

to keep with the previous format, you can find out more abt these destinations ☝️, and the stories behind the 'WHY' i chose them 👇!

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𝗨𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗔

Uganda has chimps and the Nile and a hundred other things in between – 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. ✨️

𝗠𝗔𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗨𝗦

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 – 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 again… and yet, there Mauritius stood, with its affordable flights and semi-affordable AirBNB stays and super exotic landscape, and i just couldn’t 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.

𝗕𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗘𝗜

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 – the one that started it all, so to speak– and looking back, it really does feel like the reason i even put it on my radar was for all those aforementioned reasons.

it’s not that bad, don’t get me wrong. just don’t expect to do… much. it’s 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, that’s got to count for something right? 😆

* 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪 𝘴𝘢𝘺 '𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭', 𝘪 𝘢𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭. 𝘪’𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 8 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘦.

𝗠𝗬𝗔𝗡𝗠𝗔𝗥

once you’ve 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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✨️ PART I: 4 Uncommon Countries I Visited and What I Really Think of Them

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