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Koh Yao Noi for an isolated treehouse experience
Backpacking Thailand on the CHEAP (2022 Budget Guide)In all honesty, staying in Phuket kinda sucks
Backpacking Thailand on the CHEAP (2022 Budget Guide)One downside, however, is that the treks here can sometimes feel commercialized, verging on a bit exploitive of the hill-tribe people.
Backpacking Thailand on the CHEAP (2022 Budget Guide)Lumpini Park is Bangkok’s answer to New York’s Central Park. It’s a great place to have your morning coffee while watching local life happen.
Backpacking Thailand on the CHEAP (2022 Budget Guide)staying in the hippy village of Pai high in the mountains. People get stuck in Pai; it’s one of those places
Backpacking Thailand on the CHEAP (2022 Budget Guide)Here you can reach the 200m-high Tee Lor Su Falls by rafting and hiking your way through the jungle on a three-day trip.
Backpacking Thailand on the CHEAP (2022 Budget Guide)Khao Yai first. Just three hours north of Bangkok, this park is a great place to find wild elephants as well as hike and swim.
Backpacking Thailand on the CHEAP (2022 Budget Guide)Koh Tao is known for its laidback diver vibe
Backpacking Thailand on the CHEAP (2022 Budget Guide)The infamous full-moon party is on Koh Phangan,
Backpacking Thailand on the CHEAP (2022 Budget Guide)You’ll meet a lot of people (mostly a certain kind of ex-pat) who are living out their “dream” in Thailand and they fall into the seedier side of the country pretty quickly. You just don’t face the same moral consequences here as you do back in the West.
Backpacking Thailand on the CHEAP (2022 Budget Guide)Most people who did great things were clumped together in a few places where that sort of thing was done at the time.
Cities and AmbitionGreat cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder.
Cities and AmbitionNear and within the horizon, space and time are modified so violently that it even becomes tricky to figure out what is space and what is time.
How black hole thought experiments help explain the Universe | Aeon Essaysalthough Noé conceived the premise, the large majority of the film was unrehearsed on-the-spot improvisation by the cast, who were given no lines of dialogue beforehand and had almost complete liberty as to where to take the story and characters
Climax (2018 film)The film is notable for its unusual style and production, having been conceived and pre-produced in only four weeks and shot in chronological order in only 15 days:
Climax (2018 film)