TunnelBroker routing causing high latency.

[ruifung]

I'm using the Hong Kong server, and tunnelbroker is forwarding my traffic all over the world?

Traceroute:

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Tracing route to forum.lowyat.net [2401:3400:2000:1::17]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     8 ms     1 ms  my.router [2001:470:f984::1]
  2    55 ms    45 ms    48 ms  ruifung-1.tunnel.tserv20.hkg1.ipv6.he.net [2001:470:18:a70::1]
  3    40 ms    41 ms    49 ms  ge3-13.core1.hkg1.he.net [2001:470:0:ba::1]
  4    91 ms    95 ms    99 ms  10ge3-1.core1.tyo1.he.net [2001:470:0:26a::1]
  5   193 ms   199 ms   184 ms  10ge15-2.core1.lax2.he.net [2001:470:0:294::1]
  6   202 ms   199 ms   211 ms  10ge10-2.core1.lax1.he.net [2001:470:0:72::1]
  7   251 ms   249 ms   249 ms  10ge10-8.core1.nyc4.he.net [2001:470:0:10e::2]
  8   313 ms   318 ms   324 ms  100ge7-2.core1.lon2.he.net [2001:470:0:2cf::1]
  9   322 ms   327 ms   322 ms  100ge5-1.core1.par2.he.net [2001:470:0:2ce::2]
10   522 ms   519 ms   525 ms  10ge3-1.core1.sin1.he.net [2001:470:0:2df::2]
11   512 ms   512 ms   513 ms  45352.sgw.equinix.com [2001:de8:4::4:5352:1]
12   519 ms   521 ms   518 ms  2401:3400:2401::1011
13   520 ms   520 ms   519 ms  2401:3400:2401::100a
14   538 ms   529 ms   532 ms  forum.lowyat.net [2401:3400:2000:1::17]

Trace complete.

As stated in the trace, it appears my traffic is being forwarded to europe / america and being bounced around there? Why is this happening..?