Ecuador vs Malaysia vs Costa Rica

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I am planning a trip to one of these places. I would ideally like to go to Costa Rica, but I want to go in September, when the rains are perhaps too heavy. Does anyone know anything about any of them? I want a mixture of culture and beaches and stuff like monkeys, frogs, and pandas. or whales, even.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 2 March 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The monkeys being a priority.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 2 March 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Pandas in Costa Rica?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 2 March 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

No, the equivalent.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 2 March 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't think any of them have pandas, unless in a zoo. I'd go to Malaysia myself, for all the temples and apparently very good beaches, and it's quite cheap once you're there. Lots of monkeys, I believe. The top beach resort - and this might clinch the argument - is Phuket, I believe.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 March 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Phuket is Thailand.

Malaysia has grebt monkeys though.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoops, quite right Sterling. I do apologise!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.phuketisland.com/beer/pil_lable_10.jpg

Malaysia is known for not having toilet paper anywhere (do not touch things with your left hand and do not touch anybody else's left hand, I've heard) and Ecuador is rumored to be a shithole. The only one of yr three I've heard ANY good things abt is Costa Rica.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 2 March 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom just got back from Costa Rica and said there are monkeys everywhere. Also that the volcano is eerily beautiful.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 3 March 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

My mother and step-father came back from Costa Rica with some wonderful photographs of sloths and lizards and such.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 3 March 2003 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I was in Costa Rica for Christmas once and received the worst sunburn of my life. I highly recommend it despite this.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 3 March 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend of a friend died after getting some horrible tropical disease after jungle trekking in Costa Rica. Have fun!

Though September in SE Asia usually means monsoon - though malaysia is sort of weird with the two coasts and all. Check it out.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 3 March 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Malaysia is lovely but not as lovely as other places in its environs. If you went out east to Tioman you'd have fun but Penang is a pit. It does have a monkey temple though.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

oh shit. im supposed to be going to penang in a week. is it really that bad?

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It depends on where you are now.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ive been in australia for 2 months. and china/vietnam/cambodia before that.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 3 March 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

"Malaysia is lovely but not as lovely as other places in its environs. "

Care to expand on this? Was tempted by Thailand, but worried that the rest of the Western world would be there as well. Is there an escape from this/anywhere else in this part of the world that is comparable?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

nordicskillz is extremely well travelled. i am jealous

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 27 July 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The further one travels, the less one knows.

― G. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 27 July 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

nordicskillz is extremely well travelled. i am jealous

Pshaw! I am certain your frequent flyer miles tower above my own pitiful heap.

BTW, the result of this thread=I am going to Belize in September.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

subtext: "yay!"

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Have adventures and report. Do not lose your wife in the jungles, we will berate you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! She has an Indiana Jones-style mortal fear of snakes.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

hol chan marine reserve

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 28 July 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You should hop over to Guatemala whilst you are in Belize.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 28 July 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i keep seeing this as:
Ecaudor vs Malysia vs Costa Mesa

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 28 July 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I will fight them on the beaches, on the peninsula, on Balboa Island...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Nordicskillz, go forth and live the dream, man....

When your passport drops from exhaustion, tis memorial time.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

Gygax, I went to that "Shark Alley" place in your link! And swam with sharks! And stingray!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Also - I did "hop over to Guatemala". It was great.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha @d@ml. Seriously, this thread could be authored by me circa May 18th, 2004: Montevideo vs. Singapore?

PS: Has anyone ever been to Medan, North Sumatra? How safe is it for Westerners... I enjoy telling my father, "Oh, I'm planning a trip to the country with the largest Muslim population in the world". I know the bombings/kidnappings took place in Java but what's it like in the North? Also, only 5 hours from Phuket but i'm thinking that's a little too touristed.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Phuket's nasty dude

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell us about Belize and Guatemala, @d@ml. I was over there last year. I drank a bottle of Belize rum and it erased my memory.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

you owe me a grand Mikey

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I'm going to Costa Rica in Feb... Help me find something weird/different to do. All the requisite stuff in travel books, sure .. but I need something additional - like anarchists' puppet theatre or a sporting event unique to Central America ... hep me, pease.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

is costa rica where they eat pupusas? those are SO TASTY!!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

This is my thread.

― knife (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Going to Costa Rica in June, very excited.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 10 April 2008 01:03 (seventeen years ago)

Ecuador

― gabbneb, Thursday, 10 April 2008 01:07 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

Our own Roz is keeping an eye on events in Malaysia now:

https://twitter.com/RozLatiff

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 9 July 2011 06:01 (fourteen years ago)

Cheers, Ned.

Five hours later, finally finished filing my stories - after being tear-gassed, water-cannoned, walking around 20km, sweaty, exhausted...

Full disclosure: I write for state-owned conservative media here, so my news reports aren't particularly worth much (yay, autocracy) - but I do it because the avenues for actual journalism are slim to non-existent. and where I am, for all its faults, is great for noobs like me because we cover everything from goofy ribbon-cutting ceremonies to yes, massive chaotic protests. Also pays better.

The leftist, online-based, media here is just as disgustingly biased anyway and they don't expose their journalists to as many different forms of newswriting (it's 90% politics all the time).

That said, today was a particularly hard day to work - would've relished being on the other side of the fence for once.

― Roz, Saturday, 9 July 2011 15:06 (fourteen years ago)

I've been to two of three, and would favour Ecaudor over Malaysia except for food, which Malaysia obviously trounces it in. Some of the best food I've had in Malaysia.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 10 July 2011 01:44 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

I go to Costa Rica

― recent 2Pac news (admrl), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 01:30 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

In like, two weeks!

― gAng ReLated (admrl), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 20:29 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

I'm in San Jose. What surprised me the most was the amount of reggae/dub on the local radio stations, which it probably shouldn't, being connected to the Caribbean and all

― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 16:44 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.ticotimes.net/2016/11/22/otto-costa-rica

Costa Rican mainland (as well as Nicaragua) is about to be hit by a hurricane for the first time since 1851, which sounds pretty scary. Thankfully my gf live in the central valley, which should be relatively safe... But apparently the coastal areas aren't very well protected against something like this, which sounds scary.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 November 2016 10:37 (nine years ago)

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