Sorry for the rediculously long time it took me to write this. This was an amazingly relaxing vacation with jaime (one of the loves of my life! hehe) We flew into Manilla, and were sitting there in the parking lot outside until 3 in the morning when they opened up the airport. It was hot and muggy. Once we got into the airport there was NOTHING there. We roamed around and dodged the creepy stares from the locals. our flight left at around 0530, and we couldn't schedule an earlier one. We sat around even longer, watched a guy walk through [View Full Entry]

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Tuesday we spent the day laying out on the beach. I knew that I would get a little burnt, but I had no idea it would be as bad as it was! I had SPF 45 on, but i'm not used to rubbing lotion on. Usually I buy the stuff in the aerosol can and spray it on, so I never miss a spot, well I missed some spots, and you can tell over my akwardly lobstered body! It was something else though, you could tell who the foreigners were on the beach becuase we were the only ones in bathing [View Full Entry]

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Saturday afternoon Lea came to my room and proposed a hiking trip. Of course I agreed. Sunday morning at the butt-crack of dawn we headed east to the coast to Seoraksan National Park. When we got there, we spend the first half an hour trying to find a place to stay. We ended up in a motel, which was cheaper than the hostels and nicer than the hotels. 30,000W a night for the two of us. What a rip off haha We headed out to start climbing the mountains. When we got to the park office to get a map of [View Full Entry]

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After the temple tours, we were hot and exhausted. It was around noon and I really didn't want to be in the open sun with my already extreme sunburn. We went to eat at a cute little place. I ordered the alligator, which tasted like chicken. After eating we will had 5 hours until we had to be to the airport. We were hot and tired and it was near 100 degrees. We decided to pay 15 bucks to go on a tour of a floating village. Which so far on this trip was the most expensive tour. We took the [View Full Entry]

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As Lara Croft said in the movie, there is "no rest for the wicked." We had decided to meet downstairs at 5am for our tour at sunrise of Angkor Wat. Leslie woke me up that morning and we were both absolutely exhausted! She was like we can just go later, we have all day. Both of us were laying in bed wishing we weren't so tired because we knew we would regret not getting there at sunrise, but we were just too tired. There was no way we could get out of bed. So we decided to stay in bed for [View Full Entry]

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The pounding on our door at 6:30 in the morning was brutal. I woke up soaking wet, because i sweated all night long. Even though without contacts in I couldn't see anything, I still didn't want to open my eyes. I was terrified my mosquito net was going to be covered in bugs! Luckily it was not. We went up for our free breakfast on the boat. Eggs, bread, and tea. I bought a JUMBO sized water and we all headed to the boats. They told us to put our luggage on a pile, they'd put it on the boat for [View Full Entry]

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We were up bright and early again this morning. We were down in front of the travel agency by 7:15am. Again this morning there were a bunch of busses lined up outside. Problem was we didn't know which one was ours. We kept getting sent up and down the street. Now it was fifteen minutes past when we were supposed to leave and we still had no idea. Eventually we found our bus. Thank goodness. We would have had a cow if we missed the trip after everything. The bus was even smaller! I had absolutely no leg room. Our tour [View Full Entry]

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We enjoyed our free breakfast at our hotel. Eggs, bread, and fruit. We met for our first tour down the street at 8:15am It was already hot and muggy. Our tour guide: Slim Jim, was a talker! He spoke pretty good english and joked with an australian accent. Even though we were only 60km outside the city, the buses don't move to fast because of traffic, and we spent hours throughout the day in the bus. Our first stop was right outside the city where they made paintings out of crushed egg shells. I bought one of course because they were [View Full Entry]

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We got to the Incheon Airport in good timing. We sat around and waited for a long time. Once we were seated on our Vietnam Airways flight, we realized that we were on a 6 hour flight! We had no idea it was so long. It was a nice flight though. I had pleanty of leg room and i sat in the middle of two people. We were served a nice meal with free drinks (including wine). Much better than all the United or Delta flights I've been having experience with. We walked off the plane and the heat from the [View Full Entry]

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What a trip! My flight got in early..just under 10 hours from Incheon International to San Francisco International. Not bad...I watched three movies and slept a little and before I knew it I was landing. Piece of advice. When you confirm your tickets online, request a low calorie meal. It is SO much tastier than what they normally bring you. I had fresh fruit and an omlette, whole grain bagels...plus I got my food before everyone else since it was "special order" and it didn't cost any extra. I'm doing that from here on out! It was sunny and bright out [View Full Entry]

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