#hotel thailand

[ecoharbor]

📍Chiang Rai, Thailand 🇹🇭

[dream-world-universe]

Lebua at State Tower, Bangkok, Thailand: Lebua at State Tower is an all-suite luxury hotel occupying the 21st to 25th floors of State Tower adjacent to the Chao Phraya River on Silom Road in the Bang Rak District of Bangkok, Thailand. The hotel is managed by Lebua Hotels & Resorts, which also manages Tower Club at Lebua, located in the same building, on the floors just above. Wikipedia

[salvadorbonaparte]

Would you mind sharing your views on backpacking? 👀

Take all of this with a grain of salt because I'm mostly just bothered by backpacking content on Instagram.

I think the concept is fine. I'd actually like to do some backpacking some time.

But backpacking content, as well as most overland* content, always has a really weird vibe. It almost feels like cosplaying poverty if you know what I mean??

It's almost always young people from the so called "West" and almost always they're somewhere in South or Southeast Asia. The most popular backpacking destinations I'm seeing at the moment are Bali (exclusively that part of Indonesia for some reason), Thailand, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. The algorithm has recently also started showing me content from Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.

Since flights to these destinations are usually quite expensive, and many of these people stay abroad long enough that they might need a visa and that accommodation and food would also add up, it can be safely assumed these people have a certain amount of financial stability. Some of them are full time influencers too.

And while travelling with a backpack instead of a suitcase makes sense, and while you want to have an "authentic" experience, the vibe on those videos is often sooooo weird.

They're always like "I just spent 45h standing in a cramped bus without AC because it was only $1. I'm sleeping on the floor of this abandoned building that costs me $4 a night. I only carry 2 t-shirts with me, can't find a laundromat and I'm travelling for 3 months. Yesterday I got scammed and got food poisoning."

And I'm like why are you doing this? Is it really more "authentic" just because it's a foreign country? You can find the same uncomfortable situations and people who live like that all the time in your home country, but when you're abroad it's cool and authentic and #humbling #eatpraylove. Meanwhile there's also people in that same country you're backpacking through who, like, have a comparable standard of living you're used to. Your holiday doesn't have to be luxury resorts but it also doesn't have to be absolutely god awful.

And of course there's also the factor of adrenaline and stepping out of your comfort zone but with these videos it seems like they're almost glamorising having an awful time in an "exotic" country because that's what it's supposed to be like? I guess?

Idk I feel like I should get the opinion of someone living in one of those backpacking hotspots to make sure I'm not just getting annoyed at nothing but I think the vibe is off.

*overland content as in "travelling from XY to YZ without flying - Day 420" type videos. They're often interesting and I follow some of those people and I actually have some ideas for cool overland or long distance train trips but some of the accounts also have a weird vibe. Most of the ones I saw were men and they're like hitchhiking through some desert somewhere and I'm like oh this would feel so unsafe to me as someone perceived female. And obviously they also make lots of content where you know they have lots money because they've been travelling for several months but it has that same fake low budget backpacker vibe.

I hope this makes sense. I'm not sure it does.

[captainkirkk]

did u somehow miss the april fools joke this year? re the boops

I haven't been on tumblr for several days and for some reason it wasn't showing up on mobile :((

[downfalldestiny]

Spectacular view in Phang Naga 🌅 !.

[mensministry]

The Spa Resorts, Koh Samui , Surat Thani, Thailand,

Design in Motion

[boltedgarlic]

03/01/2008

[keepontalking]

Apparently, this is THE hospital to have your reality-changing freakouts.

[cinematicnomad]

if you could travel anywhere in the world that you havent been yet, where would you go?

that i HAVEN'T been? hmm ok. well, i really want to go to china! mainly bc i was supposed to go in 2020 and that got cancelled bc of, you know, a global pandemic. i also really want to go to singapore, which i've only heard amazing things about, and vietnam for the same reason.

i have done zero traveling in south america, so i'd love to hit up brazil and columbia, probably chile and venezuela as well. and of course!! australia and new zealand. honestly, there are SO many places i haven't been to yet, and i'd love to travel to all of them.

💌honesty hour💌

[ecoharbor]

📍Phuket, Thailand 🇹🇭

[maisonsleluxe]

[rrrauschen]

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, {2012} แม่โขงโฮเต็ล (Mekong Hotel)

[theinfinitedivides]

abso-f*cking-lutely love how this ep feels like a tourism ad a short film and a travel log in one so far. like the rewatch quality of this ep specifically (sans any scenes with Hwa Ran's face) is insane

[mensministry]

Tara Villa Riverkwai Resort, Kanchanaburi, Thailand,

IDIN Architects

[k-star-holic]

Lee Joon-ho - Im Yoon-ah, Swimming Pool - Kissing the Roof - Thanks for coming to me

[milkywayrollercoaster]

Player

Banyan Hotel

Macau

China

photos cjmn