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aepowers

I have the same problem when I travel anywhere. I too am really really extremely goodlooking. The good thing about it in a foreign destination is that people pay me to eat in their restaurants and drink in their bars. I sympathise with you on this matter and can assure you that being really really extremely good looking will not be a problem when you travel.

The only people you'll have to watch is the other foreigners in the bars..

Enjoy your trip!! :)

Hey aepowers,

Well, of course everyone is going to stare at you, but that's about it. It's very unlikely anyone will say anything (to you, in English).

Enjoy the trip and your temporary celebrity!

// blond, green eyed, and speaks enough Thai to know when people are saying she looks like a ghost :o

Posted from within Vietnam.

Your height & hair may draw some stares but what you wear and how you carry yourself will usually determine what kind of attention you get & this probably applies to most women anywhere: Intimidating (cap & dungaree), sexy (low cut, slinky, bare back or mini skirt) sloppy (baggy faded t-shirt & jeans), ordinary (button up blouse & loose pants) or casually elegant (the way you probably usually look). I would say be natural & exercise common dress sense. You wouldn't want to ruin your holiday being paranoid about your physical stature.

God has given diff. look and features to all human being and so there is always attraction between two opposites. You are bound to get bit more attention due to your ht. as you will stand out in the crowd. Take it easy and be street smart to enjoy your trip abroad.

altmtl
The things my neighbors ask me - it's like a locker room full of guys asking you about the girl you went out with the night before. It never ceases to amaze me.

One of my neighbors is a Vietnamese lady. Very gregarious, early 50s, good business woman. She will say things like "Did you boom boom (my wife) last night" and make a hip thrusting motion and cackle insanely. Another friend of my wife's will come over and start patting my ass and tell my wife "I like his ass" - like I'm a dog or horse being checked out for physical qualities. And these are normal, middle class Thai ladies - not ex bar girls or something. It's just unbelievable. But it is funny too.

aepowers, I'm very interested to hear your experiences (I assume you've gone to Asia and are back by now)! I'm a 6'4" blonde woman myself, and my husband and I will be doing a RTW trip in the next couple of years-- I can't change how freakishly tall I am, but I'm wondering if dyeing my hair dark might help with unwanted attention (since I get lots of negative attention here in good old liberal blonde California).

Hi Valuemeal2,

I wouldn't bother dying your hair - since you're considerably taller than the locals, you'll stand out whatever you put on your head. But most of the time you won't experience anything other than good-natured curiosity.

Yes you'll get stared at sometimes (all westerners do, especially when you're travelling off the beaten path where the locals are less used to seeing tall / blond / busty / fill-in-the-blank-here visitors).

Yes, you'll get locals wanting to ask you questions about your height or get their picture taken standing next to you (which happened to me repeatedly in Vietnam, and I'm only 5'10" ... I just grin and pose with them for their "look-at-the-foreign-giantess!" photos).

But as long as you dress respectively (keep your cleavage under wraps, especially if it's on the ample side, etc.) and carry yourself with confidence, you're unlikely to experience anything more than some curiosity.

"But as long as you dress respectively (keep your cleavage under wraps, especially if it's on the ample side, etc.) and carry yourself with confidence, you're unlikely to experience anything more than some curiosity."

I've seen this before - this applies in Muslim areas. It does not apply in Bangok, any of the tourist areas or Issan where I live. Girls flash their cleavage all the time. And Issan women can be quite busty - it's a misnomer to think they are all small built in the chest. In general, at least for Thailand, it is less, not more, conservative concerning clothing than most western societies.