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If you could vacation for two weeks anywhere in the world, where would it be?

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Oct 8, 2012 4:05 PM
Roaming around Southeast Asia, in Bangkok, Malaysia and Bali. Not only is it one of the most beautiful and pulsating regions on the face of the earth, with its crystal-clear beaches, wild party nightlife and adrenaline-filled downtown atmospheres, it's also incredibly cheap to travel, all things considered. Much more so than many places in Europe or other tropical destinations. While I have never been, many say you can stay there for months on a budget that would give you three weeks or less on European backpacking vacations. The major downfall of Southeast Asia is the region's relatively strict drug law; getting caught with narcotics can get you beheaded.

While drugs are not essential to a great vacation, if you are somebody who enjoys that sort of thing or is prone to a particular brand of drinking and partying that might lead to that kind of behavior -- Vegas, anyone? -- this isn't the vacation for you.
Oct 8, 2012 4:05pm
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Oct 8, 2012 4:06 PM
reclegend22;1290507 wrote:Roaming around Southeast Asia, in Bangkok, Malaysia and Bali. Not only is it one of the most beautiful and pulsating regions on the face of the earth, with its crystal-clear beaches, wild party nightlife and adrenaline-filled downtown atmospheres, it's also incredibly cheap to travel, all things considered. Much more so than many places in Europe or other tropical destinations. While I have never been, many say you can stay there for months on a budget that would give you three weeks or less on European backpacking vacations. The major downfall of Southeast Asia is the region's relatively strict drug law; getting caught with narcotics can get you beheaded.

While drugs are not essential to a great vacation, if you are somebody who enjoys that sort of thing or is prone to a particular brand of drinking and partying that might lead to that kind of behavior -- Vegas, anyone? -- this isn't the vacation for you.
F'real?

Damn.
Oct 8, 2012 4:06pm
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Oct 8, 2012 4:14 PM
justincredible;1290508 wrote:F'real?

Damn.
Ever seen the 1998 movie Return to Paradise with Joaquin Phoenix? It's a real eye-opener and scary as shit. It's about how a group of friends from the states go to party in Malaysia and they do hash and then when it is time to leave one of them doesn't get to leave because
Spoiler
police arrest them and he gets his head chopped off.

This wikipedia page documenting a particular capital punishment case due to drug possession in Malaysia is pretty interesting. Granted, they were carrying 141 grams of heroin. However, from what I have read, the amount of drugs you have on you doesn't have to be that much to be considered trafficking. Enough drugs for you and your friends might just be a lethal amount.
Oct 8, 2012 4:14pm
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Oct 8, 2012 4:15 PM
ernest_t_bass;1290232 wrote:If it wouldn't cost me anything, then I'd go with the most extravagant tropical island vacation. Perhaps teh Maldives or India.
I have a friend who lives in the Maldives, he's been complaining about having to watch football games at 2am. Hehe

I'd go to Alaska because I've had plenty of nice tropical vacations. Scenery & fishing up there has me wanting to finally go now that a close cousin of mine has moved back, NE of Fairbanks.
Oct 8, 2012 4:15pm
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Oct 8, 2012 4:20 PM
reclegend22;1290509 wrote:Ever seen the 1998 movie Return to Paradise with Joaquin Phoenix? It's a real eye-opener and scary as shit. It's about how a group of friends from the states go to party in Malaysia and they do hash and then when it is time to leave one of them doesn't get to leave because
Spoiler
police arrest them and he gets his head chopped off.

This wikipedia page documenting a particular capital punishment case due to drug possession in Malaysia is pretty interesting. Granted, they were carrying 141 grams of heroin. However, from what I have read, the amount of drugs you have on you doesn't have to be that much to be considered trafficking. Enough drugs for you and your friends might just be a lethal amount.
Yikes. Wonder how much weed it would take to get your head lopped off.
Oct 8, 2012 4:20pm
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Oct 8, 2012 4:27 PM
justincredible;1290514 wrote:Yikes. Wonder how much weed it would take to get your head lopped off.
I don't know the answer to that, but had the King of Pop ever performed in Kuala Lumpur we might have found out. Maybe not for weed, but I imagine recreational Diprivan is probably frowned upon.
Oct 8, 2012 4:27pm
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Oct 8, 2012 7:07 PM
Right now I would pick an African safari.
Oct 8, 2012 7:07pm
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Oct 8, 2012 9:46 PM
Was in India and the Seychelles last February. While beautiful I was miserable because I was sick virtually everyday. If it wasn't the terrible bottled water (bisleri made me sick days 1-9, dasani 10-14), it was the travel on their woeful roads. I don't get road sick but riding in a van in India was like riding in a paint mixer. Third world countries which many in the se pacific are, is a crap shoot. Stay on the resort otherwise you ate gonna get held captive in the bathroom from their bottled water. Give me europe's beaches on the riviera or the mediterranean over Bali and bora bora.
Oct 8, 2012 9:46pm
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Oct 8, 2012 9:57 PM
Those are certainly helpful first-hand experiences to hear before making a trip so that you know some of what you might encounter. I would still love to visit the energetic urban areas of SE Asia. Bangkok at night would be something else, I imagine.

If there is any place else in the world I'd want to spend a good week, though, it's the French Riviera. Monaco and Nice, in particular. I agree there. Those are my types of places.
Oct 8, 2012 9:57pm
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Oct 9, 2012 3:51 AM
If you want a relaxing vacation for two weeks, SE Asia is the way to go. It is very easy to get to Bali, Thailand, Hanoi, etc. and spend 3-4 days in each place and not get bored. Flights are relatively cheap and even if you don't get a direct you connect though Changi in Singapore which IMO is a vacation in itself.

Europe is fun, but every time I go there I feel like I need a vacation after a vacation. I feel like I have to see everything and I don't get a chance to relax.
Oct 9, 2012 3:51am
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Oct 9, 2012 6:53 AM
Cedar Point
Oct 9, 2012 6:53am
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Oct 9, 2012 6:59 AM
justincredible;1290196 wrote: Or I'd travel for two weeks through Europe and see as much as possible.
You'd probably get Taken.
Oct 9, 2012 6:59am
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Oct 9, 2012 8:18 AM
ZWICK 4 PREZ;1290893 wrote:You'd probably get Taken.
Where would they take me? Hopefully to a spot I had not yet visited.
Oct 9, 2012 8:18am
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Oct 9, 2012 8:25 AM
justincredible;1290927 wrote:Where would they take me? Hopefully to a spot I had not yet visited.
Your garage.
Oct 9, 2012 8:25am
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Oct 9, 2012 9:01 AM
justincredible;1290927 wrote:Where would they take me? Hopefully to a spot I had not yet visited.
sodomyville
Oct 9, 2012 9:01am
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Oct 9, 2012 9:09 AM
justincredible;1290927 wrote:Where would they take me? Hopefully to a spot I had not yet visited.
Poundtown. And not the good kind like on Cinemax, the man kind.
Oct 9, 2012 9:09am
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Oct 9, 2012 9:40 AM
I"m kind of hesitant to leave the country these days. I'd just go to the Keys or something.
Oct 9, 2012 9:40am
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Oct 9, 2012 10:34 AM
ZWICK 4 PREZ;1290893 wrote:You'd probably get Taken.

Nah, he's got a very particular set of skills.
ZWICK 4 PREZ;1290960 wrote:sodomyville
Best response possible. Reps to come.


I'd probably go to Dubai or Abu Dhabi.

Either that or maybe stay at the Sands Skypark in Singapore.

The famous Skypark pool:
Oct 9, 2012 10:34am
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Oct 9, 2012 1:57 PM
O-Trap;1291035 wrote:Nah, he's got a very particular set of skills.



Best response possible. Reps to come.


I'd probably go to Dubai or Abu Dhabi.

Either that or maybe stay at the Sands Skypark in Singapore.

The famous Skypark pool:
LOL you can see my office from that picture.
Oct 9, 2012 1:57pm
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Oct 9, 2012 1:58 PM
Manhattan Buckeye;1291199 wrote:LOL you can see my office from that picture.
do all the girls look that hit in the face?
Oct 9, 2012 1:58pm
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Oct 9, 2012 2:49 PM
Justin's already been to Sodomyville. Fellatioburg, as well. It was the same trip, actually.
Oct 9, 2012 2:49pm
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Oct 9, 2012 2:51 PM
Steel Valley Football;1291230 wrote:Justin's already been to Sodomyville. Fellatioburg, as well. It was the same trip, actually.
That's rich.
Oct 9, 2012 2:51pm
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Oct 9, 2012 3:54 PM
Manhattan Buckeye;1291199 wrote:LOL you can see my office from that picture.
Which one? A friend of mine just went and has a picture of it up on Facebook sitting like that guy is.
Oct 9, 2012 3:54pm
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Oct 9, 2012 4:56 PM
I'd probably go here: http://www.poseidonresorts.com/

These underwater resorts just seem so cool.
Oct 9, 2012 4:56pm
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Oct 9, 2012 6:28 PM
Italy, and specifically:
Rome
Naples
Venice
San Marino
Monza (Racing history)
Maranello (Ferrari)
and Milan
Oct 9, 2012 6:28pm