phuketrichard wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:23 pm the poll "how long in Cambodia " got me thinking.
other than the country ur living in, which country in Asia/ SE Asia have you visited more than once and will always return back to>
choose 2

for me its
Burma
Nepal

I wanted to add
Philippines
South Korea
Japan
China
Singapore
but limited to 10

Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:14 pm Being an Australian eighteen year-old with a new passport Bali was almost a rite of passage for the first sojourn abroad. Little did I know then how that first foray overseas to Indonesia would shape much of my future and the love affair which would follow over the following forty years.

It’s hard to articulate my fondness for the country as describing the food, beaches, people, lifestyle, and the many other aspects I enjoy about the place, seems to be inadequate. I feel I've got a deeper connection to Indonesia, and at the risk of sounding like some pretentious knob or hippie dipshit - it’s become a state of mind.

As soon as I arrive there’s a sense of relief, a feeling that everything before, the frustrating tumult of existence that once was, has evaporated and I’m reduced to my simplest and best self.

I haven’t travelled as much as some, but those places I have seen don’t affect me in the way Indonesia does. I’m rather pleased to be heading there again soon for a couple of months, and with any luck a more permanent move isn’t too far beyond the horizon.