The Far East

So my real travel has begun. Australia was cool but it felt too similar to back home. First started out with a night in Singapore. The first thing I see when I get to Singapore is not a welcome sign but a sign in giant red letters saying "Death To Drug Trafficers." Singapore has some hardcore rules, they will fine you if you don't flush the toilet! The big highlight was where the hostel was, Little India. Food was amazing and I'd swear I was in India. Streets were crowded, smell of curry in the air and the occasional dance break out in the street. Well maybe not that but it was on the tv everywhere.

Next day we flew to Phuket, Thailand. Phuket is extremely touristy and there is an abundence of old white guys with young thai girls, pretty disgusting. There are alot of girlboys eveywhere, so it's fun playing guess the girl that has the penis! Since passover hit the day we came to Thailand we can't eat any noodles for 8 days so it's been hardcore curry all the time. The curry's are great here, although the food here is similar to american thai but very different too. For instance most curries have very little sauce on them, whereas in the us its almost a soup. They are also hella spicy when you ask for thai spicy and my stomach has been on and off the whole time. So far no big food poisoning story but as I hear everyone will get one.

From Phuket we went to Koh Phi Phi which is the big/famous island everyone knows pictures of. The movie the Beach was also shot on one of the Phi Phi islands. The main beach was very overated, Long Beach. Although we took a long boat out to the other islands for snorkling and beach bumming and they were much nicer. It was also nice to have the wind in your face from the boat since I can't even begin to explain the massive amount of heat here. The second you step out of the shower you sweat and you spend every night in a pool of sweat.

The major excitement now is the demonstrations in Bangkok and it's surrounding areas. US government has asked us not to go to Bangkok due to military clashes with the protestors. It looks like it is cooling down a bit now so hopefully we can go since northern thailand looks like a lot of fun and i'm starting to get bored of beaches and buckets of joy. Bucket of joy is a bucket with vodka/rum, red bull and coke. One bucket gets you wasted and you can't sleep for the night.