Last time we covered the first five shocking realities of Southeast Asia that may make us experience (a sometimes pretty intense) culture shock when visiting.

From the mildly disgusting to the heartbreaking, in this post I’ll finish the list and let you know more about the things that bring us together as humans.

Allow me to try something different in this post, why don’t you finish reading the article and then head over to my Facebook Page and share some of your shocking Southeast Asia pics with everybody?!

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Can Southeast Asia get any more different than our boring and predictable 9 to 5 western reality?

You know, to me cultural travel is all about broadening our horizons; it’s about seeing how other people live, how they solve their problems.

It’s about enriching one’s life through the experiences of others; it’s about being in the places where history happened and understanding how it affected our current reality.

But we fail to remember that mankind is a very diverse species indeed and we tend to believe that what we see and live is the correct way and the others are clearly mistaken.

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Ok, I know roller coasters are not exactly historical sites or key features in political events.

But to me sometimes travel is also about leaving the mind behind a little bit and giving the body some exciting new experiences.

I happen to adore the Orlando (and Tampa) Theme Parks and in future posts I’ll cover the most amazing attractions. However for this post I will concentrate on the scary and amazingly fun steel and iron beasts that are roller coasters.

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I had never heard about Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day) until very recently when my old time friend Isadora came back from Cambridge UK, where she lived for a year and brought me a poppy flower as a souvenir from England.

Except this was no ordinary souvenir, when she started telling me the story behind it, it actually had a lot of meaning.

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Does everybody have a getting-robbed-while-on-vacation story?

So we’d had a wonderful lunch next to La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and had taken the metro to the Block of Discord, to visit Casa Milá (La Pedrera) when… Wait a minute… where’s my wallet ?

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