Places

I got back from the Perhentian Islands early this evening. I had a wonderful few days there swimming in crystal clear water and laying on white sandy beaches. To think a year ago I had never heard of the place.


One of the most important things I've learned here is that you can't pass judgment on a place without being there. I've been traveling alone most of the time and had been quick to assume how this place is going to be like that and etc. For example I thought Laos was going to be like North Korea. But hey! I went there and discovered a beautiful country filled with some of the kindest people I have ever met sans Pyongyang totalitarianism.

The next time someone/a book/the internet/TV tells you the French are rude or Prague is better than Vienna or all the food in India will make you sick or Alabama is full of rednecks or that there isn't much to see in Sarawak, don't take their word.

Go find out for yourself.