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Any recommendations for an Asia tour package for about 2 weeks (7/11-7/25)? I'd like to include these places if possible: Hongkong, Bangkok, ..?
 

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I think it's a lot better to do a few places and spend more time in them. 2 weeks you could do all of Thailand, or Hong Kong and a bit of mainland China. I find HK a bit boring actually, no more than three of four days worth of things to do.
 

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Originally Posted by Kent Wang
I think it's a lot better to do a few places and spend more time in them. 2 weeks you could do all of Thailand, or Hong Kong and a bit of mainland China. I find HK a bit boring actually, no more than three of four days worth of things to do.

+1. Hong Kong is pretty boring. Spend maybe 2 days there and a day in Macau

For first timers, I would recommend

Beijing
Bangkok
Tokyo

That said, you can easily spend 2 weeks in each of these countries, it really depends on what you are looking for in your vacation

Asia also has some great resort towns like Boracay, Phuket etc but I don't think you have time for that
 

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Any purpose for during your trip in Asia?

Do you want to be shopping or sipping young coconut juice on the beach or visiting ancient ruins of long passed dynasty?
 

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Originally Posted by Cordwinder
Any purpose for during your trip in Asia?

Do you want to be shopping or sipping young coconut juice on the beach or visiting ancient ruins of long passed dynasty?


No shopping. I just want to have some fun and sip some young coconut juice on the beach... would also be tempting to visit ancient ruins too. Any recommendations for packings for a 2 week trip would be helpful too.
 

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Originally Posted by jakejake
No shopping. I just want to have some fun and sip some young coconut juice on the beach... would also be tempting to visit ancient ruins too. Any recommendations for packings for a 2 week trip would be helpful too.

How about HK-> Thailand -> Vietnam -> Cambodia?
 

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Originally Posted by jakejake
No shopping. I just want to have some fun and sip some young coconut juice on the beach... would also be tempting to visit ancient ruins too. Any recommendations for packings for a 2 week trip would be helpful too.

If the purpose of your trip to lay around the beautiful beach, you are NOT going to find that in Bangkok because there is NO beach. Even ugly beach cannot be found here!

It seems you should just fly directly to Phuket then try to go to some isolated island and a nice resort where you can get sometime alone and away from it all. A little diving in the sea, having gourmet seafood, staying in 5 stars resort, how does that sound to you?

Krabi is really a place to be!
 

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Originally Posted by jakejake
No shopping. I just want to have some fun and sip some young coconut juice on the beach... would also be tempting to visit ancient ruins too. Any recommendations for packings for a 2 week trip would be helpful too.

avoid the city, go straight to the beach of your choice: bali, sipadan, phuket, boracay....
 

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Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, the grasslands are really good this time of year, and only an hour by plane from Beijing.
 

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Originally Posted by jakejake
No shopping. I just want to have some fun and sip some young coconut juice on the beach... would also be tempting to visit ancient ruins too. Any recommendations for packings for a 2 week trip would be helpful too.



Bali has both beaches and ancient temples. But by the 3rd day you might get bored mindless.
Thailand/Malaysia/Bali.
 

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I've done all of these trips (except Mongolia) and would agree w/ the above. Only 2 weeks skip HK. Go to Bangkok for a couple days (it's controlled chaos of the best kind & delicious food as well)...then Koh Samui, Phuket or Krabi (something like that for beach time) then Boracay or Bali to switch it up. Have fun!
 

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p.s. try to make it 3 weeks and hit Cambodia... I loved it there!
 

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Here are some ideas. Personally, I'd limit myself to one country, two at most. Thailand is a good choice. Combine with Cambodia or, if you're feeling adventurous, Burma.
 

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