We chose an adventurous, rather than romantic, honeymoon. It was a struggle to get around with very little ability to speak Thai, and it was hotter than heck and we tried to be respectful by covering arms, legs, and feet making us even hotter, and facilities were not as upscale, let’s say, than we’re used to, but it was the best experience of our lives! We trekked in the north, where it is in the 90s by day and freezing at night, and slept in a village there on a hard floor with a mosquito net (awesome!). We went shopping in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. We stayed on a beach on Koh Chang and saw wild elephants and the best preserved rainforest in SE Asia. We bathed (literally, with shampoo and everything) under a waterfall and got sun poisoning and hallucinated and ate spicy noodles for breakfast and drank coffee in 90 degree heat and bartered in the few words on Thai we were able to pick up and made friends and got scammed by a tuk-tuk driver and rode an elephant and took a ride on a bamboo raft and woke up from a nap outside to find our bodies covered in mosquitos and ate some of the best food we’ve ever had and slept in a private compartment on a train and were woken up by screaming monkeys outside our resort…

And we were only there for 11 days! It was 2 years ago, but we still talk about it almost every day. The country has a way of staying with you.