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Heard of Wonderfruit? It's more than 'The Burning Man of Asia'
Asian Wander Women
June 14, 2023
If you’re not dancing like this, you’re not having a good time.
In today’s email:
What is Wonderfruit? An annual gathering to celebrate music, creativity, and community in Thailand 🍈
Future of travel: hotels on the moon, localization, and underwater rooms
Featured AWW Bonnie is a neurodivergent figure artist who left her engineering career to become an artist
RESOURCES & OPPS FOR THE TRAVELING AWW
🏠 Housing: here are all of your options to find accommodation as digital nomads
🛂 Traveling: The 33 best countries to work in as a digital nomad
🟢 Job Boards: Work for Good is the go-to job site for people looking to start a career or make a switch in a mission-oriented organization. Truly Remote is a general job board for anyone who wants to work from anywhere.
📷 Inspired by an AWW: we curated a list of top 5 Indian travel creators you should be following. They contribute to the travel community by promoting responsible and sustainable tourism!
📚 Reading: Ivy shared an insightful LinkedIn post on finding sparkly people in your life. A couple of qualities include being multi-passionate, does things instead of thinking about doing things, and have presence with depth.
ANYONE HEADED TO THE WONDERFRUIT FESTIVAL?
Photo by Crystal Kay on Unsplash
People detail it as the Burning Man of Asia, and they’ve offered almost everything under the sun – from group yoga to aromatherapy music, muay thai to glamping.
It is an annual festival that is held every December at The Fields at Siam Country Club, Pattaya, Chonburi Province of Thailand. The festival focuses on rock, indie, hip hop, electronic dance music, and other genres.
Experience world-class live music acts, inspiring talks and workshops, delicious cuisine, innovative art installations, and much more
The highly anticipated Public Sale will commence from 14th to 17th June at 6 pm (GMT+7).
Photo by Mahdi Soheili on Unsplash
THE FUTURE OF TRAVEL BY THE GUARDIAN
Hyper-interactive spaces - Within 10 years, travelers will “have no need to encounter another human being” from the moment they check in. Electronics will be wired to start your day, from massaging your neck to waking you up in the morning.
Space travel - Architects Foster + Partners are currently involved in a project with the European Space Agency exploring ways they could build structures on the moon with the help of 3D printers, so a lunar hotel could be on the horizon.
Underwater rooms - Sub-aquatic hotels will be a “far more mainstream proposition” by 2024 and underwater tourism will certainly trump space travel.
Localization - More tools for personalized travel abroad will continue to increase in popularity; the gap between culture will close as travelers want to seek authentic experiences. It’s estimated that 5-10% of people could be renting out their homes to travelers.
FEATURED AWW MEMBER: Bonnie Zhou
Bonnie was formerly a software engineer, but now she’s a mixed media artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She creates bold and whimsical paintings, exploring freedom, sensuality, and release. Bonnie is currently creating large figure paintings, exploring femme empowerment and sensuality.
👉 Check out Bonnie’s page @thebonniezhou to connect with her and check out her website for art prints!
In my art I hold space for the chaotic, the provocative, the imperfect; all things I was told not to be as a woman and child of immigrants. Portraying the beauty in diverse bodies of all shapes, sizes and colours is extremely important to me, especially in an art world that repeatedly centers the white and thin.
UPCOMING AWW EVENTS
AWW Toronto Meetup at Chop Chop (771 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON) on Friday, June 16th at 6 PM EST.
Midyear Mixer of Cozy Chats - meet fellow AWWs online for an hour of intimate chats and games. Hosted by Justine, we’ll get to know each other a bit better! Join us for some fun on June 22nd at 7 PM EST.
AWW MEDIA
🎙️ Find our Asian Wander Women Podcast on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple. Please rate our podcast if you’ve found it helpful!
Emily shares a personal journey on how she fell into depression during her sophomore year in college. Out of desperation to leave her environment, she she applied to study abroad at Peking University in Beijing and even received a scholarship grant. Tune into her personal journey of how travel and study abroad had changed her life course forever.
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