86 countries, 5 years, countless dollars/pounds/rupees spent.
So /trv/, what do you want to know?
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Anonymous 05/28/09(Thu)13:03 No.145129
>>145124 Which country did you like the most and why? Which country did you dislike the most and why?
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Anonymous 05/28/09(Thu)13:04 No.145131
Where did you find the best weed/hashish? What was the price?
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Anonymous 05/28/09(Thu)13:09 No.145133
>>145129 One of my many fvourites was surprisingly Syria. Ridiculously cheap, some truly modern facilities (bus travel is dreamlike by comparison to the region), and surprisingly friendly people. There are many others, but it is one of the more recent of my travels, and one that sticks in my mind.
One of the worst places Ive visited is Uganda. Nothing of worth there, the people arent friendly (not unfriendly, just actively indifferent), and godawful travel. Most of the region is a tie, with Rwanda and Burundi being utterly crap (there are no ATMs in Burundi at all, which is a PAIN). Also, the smell is incredible. There is a lot of racist claptrap on here, entirely unbased. The 'niggers' you speak of are western. Due to no hot water, and minimal facilities for many, no one bathes in most of Africa, which coupled with plentiful diseases and hot temperatures, is a nightmare.
Note that Im not a squeamish traveller (its hard to be), but still, this was amongst one of the hardest areas to travel in, for so little rewards (the countryside is beautiful though, but it loses its shine after 3-40 hour bus rides through monotonous country)
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Anonymous 05/28/09(Thu)13:11 No.145135
>>145131 Amazingly, dont smoke it. But from what I hear by the many people Ive met, central Asia and North Africa is pretty cheap. But it is far harsher punishment if caught. Eastern Europe is probably your best bet (Prague, Budapest, Berlin to an extent)
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.
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Anonymous 01/24/09(Sat)09:50 No.101245
Sweet, a Swedefag. I'm saying that because Åland should belong to Sweden, there's nothing Finnish about it. sooo, Fuck you.
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Anonymous 01/24/09(Sat)09:59 No.101248
>>101245 Yeah, I know. All Ålandfags want to be Swedish anyway, and people aren't too positive against Finnish people. My mom is Finnish though, so I've luckily grown up with a not so narrow-minded perspective.
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.
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Anonymous 10/24/08(Fri)01:58 No.72335
Korea town is also pretty cheap, it's right past love hotel lane (this huge street with lots of love hotels) You can get some good korean food, but nobody there will speak either English or Japanese, so you're better of being a k-fag.
Don't go to Kyoto unless you want to spend money. The society there is stuck up and closed off to foreigners unless you have the money to spend.
Stay away from onsens cause they tend to be expensive.
For shopping, go to Shibuya 109 (if you're a girl) there's a bunch of cheap cute stuff there. They opened up an H&M in Ginza, which is about the only cheap thing you're going to find there.
If you have the money though, Ginza can be a really fun place to go, there's a lot of classy whores, but you can only really have access to them if you're japanese (cause they're worried about STDs)
Best place to meet girls is a nightclub, because many of them are on the prowl for foreign guys. If you want to talk to high school girls, they're total sluts in harajuku and shibuya~
Generally, girls who have their hair dyed are out of school, and girls which black hair are either from Kyoto (or the country) or still in school.
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Anonymous 10/24/08(Fri)01:59 No.72336
Omotesando is also a really good place to go shopping, but things can be pricey there too. They opened up a new shopping center there like 2 years ago, which looks like a trapezoid, but it's really hot and smelly inside.
If you're a guy, wear really snappy clothes, have well trimmed facial hair, wear nice shoes, and be clean. If you're a girl, all of the above, except hopefully you wont have to think about trimming your facial hair.
Actually if you're a guy, be white, stylish, tall, slender, rich, and charming.
The onsens in Nikko are really fun and there are both communal baths (men only or women only) and family baths (you can take your partner/child with you) but they are pretty expensive. Stay for the night, and you will usually get dinner and breakfast. You need to drive or take the bus there though.
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.
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Anonymous 07/16/08(Wed)22:12 No.45098
yeah like in the thread below this one, fuck china and the chinese mindset, i would never go to china, they are ruining the world
I should clarify, in regards to the above information, that the Chinese are not assholes through and through. If they happen to know someone for any reason or have any sort of connection to a person--even if it's a distant relative, a friend of a distant relative, or a friend of a friend of a distant relative--they'll treat him or her like family and insist on being *ridiculously* accomodating. It just takes some sort of connection. It's like they're completely black and white when it comes to dealing with other humans. Weird, but whatever.
On the topic of food: I was introduced to all kinds of amazing, delicious new things that I had never heard of or seen before, but for each one of them I was also introduced to some kind of horrible, ridiculous thing that should never be ingested by human beings or even animals. I'm serious when I say this--I honestly ate some things that I wouldn't even feed to my dog. Speaking of dogs, I did NOT see a single trace of dog meat being served anywhere. I even asked some of my Chinese friends if there were any places that served it and they said they didn't know of any. I'm sure it's available somewhere in the city, but it's hardly a pervasive thing, as one of the other threads that's up right now on /trv/ would seem to suggest.
One funny thing about the restaurants that always managed to amuse me was the Engrish that appeared on most of the menus. Sometimes it was really bad, and other times it just baffled me. Pic very related (it's almost like they made this with 4chan in mind).
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Anonymous 07/16/08(Wed)22:24 No.45102
Anon posting a quality travel review? With pictures? Go on!
Anonymous 05/28/09(Thu)12:59 No.145124
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