Where to go for two months?

Been a while since I posted...and I've never posted in the Student travel section

Long story short - We've traveled a lot as a family including 1 year rtw with the kids 9 years ago. Now #1 son has just graduated from university. He and three friends were planing on travelling this summer before jobs & responsibilities start

They had planned on going to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. Thailand is out, so the kids are back to wondering where to go again.

Here's your part - make some suggestions! 2 of the 4 kids are saying that maybe they should not travel... but we're trying to push them out the door because there will never be a better time to travel for them than right now.

grounds rules:
- June/ July/ August travel only. Consider the weather
- they are definitely on a budget. Europe is probably out
- they will probably not want to/ need to work while travelling.
- they only wanted Thailand so they could return to Railay Beach for climbing/ beach and snorkeling. Any other similar areas to Krabi?

Any suggestions on where they should go? I was going to suggest they fly to Hong Kong and use that as a base to explore China and then down to Vietnam.

I have been to Africa Kenya and Tanzania during my summer holiday.
The people,the culture,the food the Animals in the National Parks was great and superb.
I travelled with my wife,covering both two neighbouring countries in East Africa.
Its very cheap to do holiday in Africa esp East Africa.We had local Tour Operator from Kenya who booked all our hotel/lodges in advance.After confirmation we paid a deposit of 20% to hold the accomodations.Here is there web www.lipiadventure-ke.com
All the best of luck

understandably thailand is off, but keeping in the same area have they thought about malaysia? i recently got back from malaysian borneo and met quite a few travelers who had booked flights to thailand but were denied insurance coverage due to recent events, so they rerouted through malaysia. i've noticed too that malaysian airlines are dropping their prices considerably, perhaps because they are on to the fact that could be an alternative to their (at present) unstable northern neighbor.

Hi zoinks

All of those places sound great but, if it was me, I'll say South America! It's a totally different world, full of energy, sun, colours and new things and experiences to learn every day, and despites what some people think is safe to go!! So many different places and cultures within each country, adventure, beaches, jungle, amazing cities, sun, snow, exotic fruits and sites.

Why don't you take a look at this video from Colombia? It will give you more or less a hint of what Latin America is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzZe0gcc ... re=related

Good Luck!

Sarah

Its funny when people write places off based on what they see in the news. I live in Thailand (and have done for more than 10 years) and we really do not notice any kind of unrest. The first I know of how bad the political situation has become is when my Mum calls me up worrying whether I am OK or not.

No doubt the images on the TV are horrific but you will only come across anything like this if you are right in the middle of it. Most of my Bangkok friends are similarly unaware of the violence in the city centre they are mostly upset that the 7-11 is closed due to curfew.

The upside of the unrest is that tourism plummets and this often leads to reduced prices and better service.

I wouldn't worry too much about going to anywhere like Krabi? If you are really worried then just fly into Phuket to make sure.

Having said all that. There are many other great places in the world to travel. Personally I love Nepal & South America.

Thanks everyone... decision's made. The kids have decided to still go throughout SE Asia. South America was a close second, and they were keen on Africa for a while.

The main hops are Vancouver - Hongkong - Phuket - KL- Malaysian Borneo - Bangkok - Ho Chi Min City - Hong Kong - Vancouver. I'm thrilled they're going.

Melbourne Australia is also a suitable place to travel. There are a lot of attractions and good bars/pub. If you're a bar enthusiast, you can work part-time as long as you have a RSA certificate!
In that way, you'll have fun while working for extra cash

A place that never gets mentioned is Taiwan, i was there for 5 months, it is awesome.
Fly in to kaohsiung, first go to kending then up the east coast, Beautiful, then finish in Taipei, fly to HK! before august though, that's typhoon season in SE Asia.
But Seriously TAIWAN!

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