Phi Phi Island
Similan islands
Phang Nga Bay
Beijing is about 30 degrees right now and I decided its too cold for me. I may not end up seeing the Great Wall of China on this trip.
Sharman, the couchsurfer from Melbourne who I met over the summer, happened to text me today since she's back in NYC. She just got back from Singapore and I told her I was having a hard time finding cheap flights out of Tokyo. It didn't matter which Asian destination, they were all about $500. So she told me about AirAsia and I found a super cheap flight from Osaka to Phuket!
I also sent Chihiro an email asking if she lives in a safe area since she told me to wait by the police station. She said, "It is safe everywhere in Tokyo. The front of the police station is a good place to look for you". Well that makes sense and I hope she doesn't think of me as a xenophobic American! Really, I'm more afraid of needles than I am of traveling by myself!
Hostels in Thailand are as cheap as $8 a night! They have excellent reviews so I don't think they are cheap because they are shabby. But staying with a couchsurfing host is also possible in Phuket which, honestly, I didn't expect. I didn't think people would actually live there. Naive American thought #2 (I'm sure I'm going to have several). But really, when you see a picture like the ones above, can you believe that people actually LIVE there?!?!?! I'm so jealous! They probably have such an amazingly calm and stress free life (naive American thought #3?). It sure seems that way in comparison to my own life which often consists of slaving away in a NYC hospital.
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