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Hey, planning a trip around America and hoping to get 3 'must do' activities in each state by locals...

halp pls!

ITT: We post pictures of the place we live and write one negative and one positive thing about it.
And please - Not just post a closeup of a house or something, but an overview of the whole place/city (see my for an example).

Bergen, Norway

Positive: Almost no crime or beggars
Negative: Avg. 213 precipation days per year

Going to dump some really awesome places , rate them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plitvice

Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

Ask a world traveller.

86 countries, 5 years, countless dollars/pounds/rupees spent.

So /trv/, what do you want to know?

I have an idea for a thread, /trv/.

Let's post a picture of what it looks like outside our windows right about now, and also say where we are.

I think it might be fun.

I'll start, with this picture of a dreary-looking Mariehamn, the central town of the autonomous islands of Åland (belonging to Finland), in the middle of the Baltic Sea.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Tokyo, you smelly weeaboo, you.

ramen stands and places that sell food like yakitori and stuff are cheap. The convinience stores are really good, they sell all sorts of food at am/pm prices.

Also, the rails are the best method of transportation so get a Suica card. It's better than using the machines to buy a pass every time. All you have to do is swipe it on the gate things.

If nowhere to sleep, either pay for homestay (if you can find it) or rent out love hotels by the night. They're like 50/70 bucks but be prepared to find used condoms in drawers if it's a supercheap place.

If you go to disneyland, don't go inside. Hang out around the outside and they have their own downtown disney. It's not cheap there but it's fun to look around. They have a movie theater too. If you really wanna go to d-land, go to disney sea, it's much better than the other park.

Go to odaiba bay as well. More stuff to see. and there's like cool arcades with claw machines and stuff. Go to yoyogi koen at harajuku and you can look at all the weird goth lolita girls and more weird people and that's free. They have a lot of streetside food vendors too.

Shibuya has some cheap stuff because it's designed mainly for teenagers, and the girls there all look like anime characters (cosmetic surgery) the night clubs in shinjuku are not that pricey.

akihabara is really fun to look around. You get to see Japanese Nerds. They're the OG weeaboos. Maid cafes are not that expensive and fun to go to once or twice. They also sell cheap electronics.

If you want some old culture, the shinto jinjya things are pretty entertaining. You can breathe in some cleansing smoke stuff.

Stay away from places like starbucks and coffee bean, their drinks are way overpriced and it gets super crowded.

I'm not sure how many of you are interested in traveling to China, but I just recently came back from a 2-week trip to Beijing and I've naturally accumulated information and pictures to share. A quick run-down on my own situation and reason for going: I had never been to China before, but I've been interested in living/working in a foreign country for quite some time. China seemed like the right choice, as it's full of opportunities right now, and I happen to have multiple Chinese who were able to help me out. I decided to go for a couple weeks just to scout for jobs, get a feel for what life is like there, and of course see some sights.

I'll do my best to explain the good and the bad, focusing on stuff that foreigners probably wouldn't expect or already know.

Anyway, for those who haven't been, it's a VERY different experience. I'm not really talking in terms of the physical city/landscape/etc, but more in terms of the people and their general mindset. To put it simply, Chinese people treat strangers (read: other Chinese people, not foreigners) like shit. I'm not talking like in New York or most other big cities, where people will often get frustrated and yell at each other. I mean, that might be rude, but at least you're acknowledging in a way that the other person is a human being. In China (or at least Beijing), people will run each other over with bikes, nearly kill pedestrians with cars, bump each other violently if they're in each other's way, all without even a glance or a word. Strangers are seen and treated as obstacles, nothing more. Doors will be slammed in your face, small entrances will be raced towards, and if you see someone actually smile at you, he or she is probably drunk.

Pic is a random shot I took of the city. It's hard to really capture, but as you might be able to tell, cars, pedestrians, and bicyclists alike pay little to no attention to traffic lights. They all just sort of mix together and try to dodge each other.

/trv/ is for travel photos, that's why the file size limit is so high, so ITT we post some.