After Switzerland, we originally planned to start out in Australia and New Zealand in November/December (spring in the southern hemisphere, so high season), then go to Asia (Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, maybe Myanmar, and Indonesia, where we met), then India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, and finally make our way to Africa. When we saw the prices for November travel in New Zealand, we changed our plans and decided to see Asia first and only got a one-way ticket to Bangkok. We left a lot of our things at his dad’s house in Switzerland; we went from about 200 pounds of checked luggage, plus our day bags, down to about 60 pounds total. We also took care of all the chocolate we had bought in Switzerland (we didn’t want it to melt in the heat) so our
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