Postcards to ATL: Sights

July 25th, 2007 · No Comments

My two-month stay in Asia is finally winding down. I really love going to this part of the world regularly. I meet so many people, see many different sights, and eat tons of different kinds of food. The short list of where I’ve been and what I did:

scuba diving in the remote beaches of Southeast Asia
spelunking in torrential rains wearing flip-flops to go to a distant yet private fruit bats cave
hiking in the highlands to find Indonesia’s rare Coffee Luwak (Civet coffee)
hike 1000 feet above sea water to visit an old monastery in the middle of nowhere
hike 2 miles in unfriendly terrain to swim under a remote waterfall
cross a deathly flash flood that swallowed the last bridge to get to the other side of the road or get stuck for days while they build another way out
eat specialty beef soup in front of an active volcano
took a propeller plane and landed on a dirt road to get to a private island in the South Pacific
travel 12 hours by bus just to eat rare grilled fish high in the mountains
traverse the famous Floating Market in Bangkok
shop along famous Orchard Road in Singapore
shop in gigantic malls of Thailand and Philippines (both have the biggest malls in the world)
visit Disneyland Hongkong
see Cambodia’s famous Ankor Wat
see palaces, temples, old churches
see mountains and fields
eat, sleep, shop. repeat. everyday. for two months.