Okay so just had the most baffling conversation of my life.
I'm doing my OE and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia right now. For some reason there was already another guy in my Grab and the driver asked me if it was okay and I didn't care so I said sure why the hell not. Turns out it's a rather young Albanian guy who needs to go to the airport. So I get talking to him and ask him about his experience in Malaysia, he tells me he pretty much never left KL, in fact never really left Bukit Bintang for 3 months here so had really nowhere he could recommend to me I hadn't already been to. He then tells me he's heading to Vietnam because Malaysia is an "Arab country and everyone is too conservative here"... Word for word, what he said. I almost did a spit take.
There's literally part of town where you can walk to a Gurdwara, a Taoism temple, a Buddhist temple, a Church, a Hindu temple and a Mosque within minutes of each other... Hello? The night scene is also amazing, especially as someone who doesn't drink and loves walking about and watching the lights...
Then this reminded me of this fella I met in Chiang Mai at an ice cream shop. Got talking and he asks me "is there a 'real' Thailand that isn't touristy?". He then proceeded to tell me how he's seen all the most visited temples in Chiang Mai and how he's staying at a 5 star hotel...
And I overheard a guy complain about why he had to fill out an e-entry form for Indonesia when he was entering Bali...
I mean what the fuck, does no one read a paragraph in Wikipedia at least before dropping $1000 bucks on a plane ticket any more?
Tell me some of the most outrageous shit you've heard.