in today's video i'm going to give you three places to
travel to if you're intimidated by international travel so let's go
what is going on youtube greetings for my beautiful beach view apartment here
in Pattaya Beach Thailand i mean it's just a gorgeous view this apartment is 600 a month
all utilities included and wi-fi Netflix all that stuff it's one of the reasons i love international
travel you can travel to some amazing places and get some amazing deals but i know some of
you might be a little intimidated by international travel and maybe Thailand isn't a place you would
go to first because of the language barrier and other different cultural barriers so
i came up with a list of three places that are pretty exotic but i think are easy places to
travel to for people that might be intimidated by international travel there are a couple obvious
choices that are excluded from this list like i said i i picked three rather exotic places because
you know if you're going to travel you don't want to go to a place that's too similar to
your home country i know most of my audience is Canadian and from the u.s being from the us and
Canada we could travel to England and Ireland and feel pretty comfortable but while those are great
places to travel to they're very similar to our own culture so i picked three places that i think
are a little bit different and a little bit more exotic for you to travel to if you're intimidated
by international travel i picked three countries one of them is in Europe and two of them are in
Asia i had really two criteria for these countries to make it a good jumping off spot to someone that
is you know like i said might be intimidated by it by international travel number one is that
the country is an english-speaking country and number two the country is safe the first
country on the list is singapore so singapore is an island nation of about five million people in
asia it is considered the business hub of asia it's very modern state-of-the-art very few cities
can compare with their public transportation system it's super super safe i remember the first
time i went to singapore i got on the metro system and there were little like four and five-year-old
kids on there by themselves with their little backpack going to school there's not a lot of
countries that a four or five-year-old would jump on the metro by themselves and go to school but
it's very common in singapore it is super super safe also just about everyone in singapore speaks
english one of the things i love about singapore and probably the main reason i put it on this list
is the cuisine there is next level it's like a mix of like thai food malaysian food singaporean food
indian food chinese food there's so many different influences on the cuisine there you can just get
some amazing food there if you want a little preview of singapore watch the movie crazy rich
asians one of my favorite scenes in there is when they go to a hawker stand a hawker stand is like
a food court that has a bunch of little stands that specialize in one item maybe this stands stan
specializes in chicken and rice this one in spring rolls and you just go to each stand and get
an item bring it all to the table and eat it's a really cool experience the weather in singapore is
very similar to florida you also have like a rodeo drive there where they have like a
saks fifth avenue so if you're into shopping singapore is one of the best places in the world
for shopping so highly recommend singapore all right the next country on the list is one of my
favorites it's the country of malta malta is an archipelago in the central mediterranean between
sicily and northern africa because of that location there's a bunch of different
cultural influences you have the italian influence you have the middle eastern influence the north
northern african influence throughout its history malta's been occupied by somebody whether it was
the romans the moors the knights of saint john the french the british so many different cultures have
influenced this little island country and you'll see that in the architecture and in the cuisine
there are some amazing castles on malta some of the most amazing in the world and you can
have some amazing food it's like a mix of italian middle eastern it's like all the good stuff from
all these different cultures wrapped up into one like i mentioned because they were occupied by
so many different cultures there's some amazing fortresses and some amazing temples there and a
6 000 year old burial chamber underneath the city the reason malta made this list is it's one of the
safest places in the world it's usually ranked the number one safest place in europe and guess
what everybody speaks english on malta i first went to malta in 1998 and it's been one of my
favorite places ever since every time i go there i stay in st julian square and i have an amazing
time i mean i have it on this list because i love it so much but also like i mentioned it's just
a really easy place to travel to super safe and everyone speaks english so the last country on my
list might be a little bit controversial but i don't think it is it's malaysia malaysia
is in southeast asia and it's on the malaysian peninsula as well as borneo which is pretty cool
malaysia is known for its beaches its rainforest and its state-of-the-art city of kuala lumpur
culturally malaysia is a mix of malay chinese and indian which makes for some amazing cuisine
you'll see that's a common theme that runs through these three places they all have amazing food when
people ask me what country has the best food in the world it's often a hard question for me to
answer but i always end up coming back to malaysia the food is just so good here it's like a mix of
malay food which is kind of similar to thai and indonesian indian and chinese i like took all
the best things from those three cuisines and kind of combined them together or you can eat
separately you can get separate malay food indian food and chinese food it'll be some of the best
malay indian and chinese food you've had in the world malaysia is also primarily a muslim country
it's really interesting culturally for that region so indonesia and malaysia are both
primarily muslim where the rest of asia is not so it's really interesting to see
the muslim culture in the asian region if you want to live in a state-of-the-art city you can go to
kuala lumpur if you want something different kind of old world go to georgetown penang
but if you want something really really cool go over to borneo go to kodakanabaloo over in
borneo is where they have the largest population of orangutans in the world so you can go on a hike
see some orangutans it's pretty cool almost anywhere you go in malaysia you're going to
see some monkeys so if you're into monkeys you'll probably see some in malaysia just like the other
two countries on this list everyone in malaysia speaks english so you'll have no issue with the
language barrier barrier malaysia is very safe i've never had a safety issue there i do get the
question hey if i'm an lgbtq person or couple how will i be perceived in malaysia to answer
that question go check out my friends beer for breakfast they're an lgbt couple that spent a ton
of time in malaysia they'll be able to give you more insight on that than i could as a straight
male but i've never had an issue in malaysia and i've never met anyone that had an issue there
okay so those are the three places that i recommend people travel to if you're a little
bit apprehensive or intimidated by foreign travel what do you think do you agree with those three
places what would you add to my list let me know down below thanks for watching see you next video
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