I guess most of us would prefer large caches with bountiful exchange content, pristine logs and not under close scrutiny by muggles.
However where I cache, Bangkok, we are distinguished by having the least area of parks than any other city in the world. These parks have more security than El Al, and dossers sleeping at a great concentration.
Add to this torrential rain during the "summer" and the continual pumping of the lake onto the shrubbery/trees in greater volume than the amounts used to douse raging fires.
As only "farangs" i.e. foreigners do any caching they, and non farang cachers are subject to intense curiosity.
Think you are not being watched, look up at the nearby high rises.
Searching for a cache requires lengthy anti muggle ploys, extended searching will bring a posse of "security"
Indeed at one cache near a large adjustable sundial, where the cacher is requested to check the "time", one was virtually arrested for swivelling the sundial to its correct position.
On top of this, being a third world country,"write on wet" paper is unheard of and unobtainable.
The end result of the foregoing is that a large cache will last as long as as a snowball in hell, and the bravest attempts to keep a cache dry are severely tested.
A camoflaged micro can last a few months, and the owners are constantly replacing them.
Why bother ? , well since caching started here we have had hundreds of cachers from overseas and thousands of "good" logs.
So those of you disparaging micros, we will return your fare if you can come to Bangkok and place a full size cache which lasts more than a week.
For the occasional whiners, we do have a free service which will deliver a cache to their hotel room.
Thankfully we are able to place caches in other parts of the country which are more satisfying and challenging.
One of our cachers is even revered by some USMC cachers for the testing quality of his caches, yet he's the same guy who sets micros.
NB a Garmin is double the price here.
