Cambodia.  Don't tell my parents I went there, 'cause they told me not to go (there are Malaria-infected mosquitoes, and though I'm taking preventative medicine it's not 100% effective).  I went to the ~1000 year old Angkor Wat, which I think is listed as one of the world's seven most amazing architectural human accomplishments.  Amazing it was -- countless huge temples made of stone, and literally every single one of the millions of stones were carved with images, scenes, etc. in incredible detail.  To study each scene of every temple would take longer than a lifetime.  The jungle had been cut back at many of the temple complexes, but at several it had not and so it was cool to see the jungle's assault--huge trees with the roots engulfing walls, etc.  The temples complexes were miles apart, and while a guy on a moped brought me from place to place I was able to see how Cambodians live in the jungle.  Some tidbits of my impressions:

- straw houses built on stilts (~10 feet high) to keep above the floods of the rainy season

- bicycle as the most popular delivery truck, loaded with huge bundles of wood, fruit, goods, etc.

- cows often crossing the road

- to deal with the heat, everyone taking a nap in hammock between noon and 3pm  (there is no cool season; there is the "hot" season and the "very hot" season -- fortunately it is only the "hot" season now in which it reaches about 90 degrees every day)

- very different sunset -- perhaps an hour before the sun disappears, while it's still got a good distance to go, it already has turned orange.  makes me guess this is what the sunset might look like in the African plains?

- moon literally orange as it rises.

Cambodia ~ Thailand ~ Malaysia ~ Singapore ~ China ~ Mt. Fuji ~ Japan