Traveling in Southeast Asia during the rainy season calls for a bit of flexibility and patience as the weather -- rainy -- will no doubt change your itinerary.
At this very moment, Larissa and I should be sampling some fine banh mi in Hanoi, Vietnam. But as "Super Typhoon Megi", a category 5 son-of-a-, barrels through the northern Philippines and heads towards Vietnam, we've decided to delay our trip and sit tight in Bangkok for the moment.
Our Thai visas are good until October 27th, so we plan to explore Thailand a bit more, track Megi and other possible storms, and head to Vietnam (perhaps from Malaysia) around the beginning of November when the rainy/typhoony season supposedly ends.
Don't worry! We'll keep you updated.
In other news, below is the wild, adolescent monkey in Cambodia who played a one-sided game of "slap-n-scratch" with Larissa. I helped her out by throwing in a "just don't let him get the water!!" jab. Because, you know, it was really hot there.
Smart move...Megi is not a storm to be trifled with.
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Be careful of these macaques, the males are very chauvinistic at this young age.
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