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Alright /trv/, so there's an idea going on in the back of my head. I'd really love to travel around the world, but I'm not that rich and I want to save as far as I can and earn money whenever possible.
I'm an amateur astronomer and I know quite a lot about telescopes, so I thought that it'd be a great idea to pack a telescope small enough to fit in my backpack and travel from place to place and show people various objects on the sky and ask for a small, optional donation for it. Basically, I'd explain people stuff about the things they're...
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>>1065141
I don't think it would work. Unless you're showing sun spots you're dependent on doing all of your work at night. People are more into food and drink in cities at that time. I guess plazas would be a good place to do this.
I wouldn't give you money to look at your telescope. Where I live there's astronomy clubs that let you do that for free. In most of Europe I'd think it would be the same.
If you're into astronomy take your telescope with you. You could try doing it...
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>>1065141
If you do this your telescope is going to get busted or stolen.
>>1065141
Let me get this straight, you are going to pack a portable telescope that is easy to travel with which means shit tier optics. Then you are going to set up in the middle of a city with limited field of view, light pollution, and drink assholes? Then you expect said drink assholes to pay you to look at... What, the moon? Someone undressing on th fifth floor?
I finally saved up 2 weeks worth of vacation time at work so I'll be traveling for the first time outside the US and Mexico in July 2016. Where should I go?
Originally, my number one destination was New Zealand. Mainly because of all the outdoor activities I hear you can do, for example Zorbing, cave rafting with the glow worms, and bungie jumping.
But at the same time I wanted to visit as many places as possible.
Aside from New Zealand I wanted to visit areas like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia are next down the list. And eventually Japan and Australia.
Now...
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>>1064456
Remember the flights are a long time. Then you have the time differences. You will be exhausted when you arrive more likely than not.
>New Zealand and Thailand/Cambodia/Singapore doable in 2 weeks
You will get about 2 full days in each country. It would be one of the worst trips I could imagine.
If you only have 2 weeks, I'd recommend picking one country and staying there. In SEA, Singapore doesn't really need more than a few days, so you could go somewhere else...
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>>1064456
go NZ and australia and go to different states in Oz, though Im not sure if activities are still available because July will be winter season in Nz and Oz, though skiing and snowboarding will be available.
Or sg, malaysia,thailand.
2 weeks is not anough though for all of them
>>1064468
hmm thats a good point about, not just flight time but the time it takes to get to the airport and waiting/security checks for the actual plane ride and then the time it takes to get to next destination coming out of airport.
Yea so definitely not NZ/Australia + SEA.
>>1064477
That is also a good point about being Winter time. If I'm not interested in skiing or snowboarding is it even worth visiting in July for any other activities?
At this...
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yo trv, I got like six thousand bucks and I just got laid off from my job and also my car just shit the bed. Where the hell should I go? I don't mind living in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-tier conditions, I just wanna get the hell out and go experience something besides the murican bullshit I'm buried in. I'm willing to do basically whatever at this point. Just gimme some food, a bed to sleep on, and some booze and smokes. Also some human interaction might be nice. Also I'm willing to work my ass off to subside, after all I'm not a lazy faggot. What place would be...
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>>1064453
Go to the Philippines, or Thailand its aight and pretty pro american
>>1064453
If you want to get a job and don't mind settling somewhere a pint of beer costs $9, consider Australia or New Zealand. If you're less than 30 you can go on a 'working holiday' visa.
Otherwise, it sounds like you'd enjoy southeast Asia for the social scene.
Cambodia
Hey /trv/! I'm going to China in June. I've been to Canada, the UK, and France, but China is a whole different beast. I've got a few questions. Are the pickpockets really as bad as people make them out to be here? How bad is the air quality really? How much money should I bring for a 9 day trip?
>>1064145
>Are the pickpockets really as bad as people make them out to be here?
Just be careful of your stuff and you should be fine. Also: http://kotaku.com/chinese-man-pickpockets-an-iphone-by-using-chopstick-472615317
>How bad is the air quality really?
Beijing has really shitty air but other places should be ok. Generally, the more north you go, the shittier the air.
>How much money should I bring for a 9 day trip?
No...
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>>1064145
It's probably not the best reply your going to get, but my parents went to china, and they always say how they were some of the most friendly people they have ever met.
I don't know which cities they went to, its a big country,but every time my parents pulled out their ipad, the Chinese faces lit up with excitement and wonder. not even kidding.
Where did you go in Canada?
>>1064161
Toronto and Montreal for layovers.
I want to travel to Toulouse to visit my fiancée for about a year or so but unfortunately I don't have that much money. I want to get the cheapest flight I can and that is Turkish Airlines. Is Turkish Airlines dangerous or safe ?
Bombastic
>>1063990
Turkey is isis ally, you should b safe bro
Turkish airlines are 10/10, never had a bad experience flying with them
Hey everyone, I know that these threads get posted about 100 times a day but I need some advice.
I'm considering traveling to tokyonext summer for about 10 day.
I can read hiragana, some katakana and some kanji. My main problem is getting lost and such. Has anybody that has traveled to Tokyo or Japan in general ever gotten lost or how did you get around? Did the taxi drivers speak some English? We're there signs located?
P.s: not related but is it true that Japanese women love foreigner?
Holy crap, my grammar is shit. Sorry, I'm on mobile.
>>1065314
I've answered your questions in the new Japan General.
>P.s: not related but is it true that Japanese women love foreigner?
holykek just stick to your animes
I just uploaded a GoPro montage.
Just trying to get it some views :)
Not trying to spam but I really do think it has some quality footage. You might like it. Show it some love.
Also, this is the "travel" thread.
It was filmed in:
Turks and Caicos
Aruba
Puerto Rico
Curaçao
St. Maarten
St. Kitts
Connecticut
Feel free to share ;)
The link is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iv06azU8Nw
Looks like you had a fantastic summer, Joey.
Cheers!
Nice montage..
Video quality of that gopro is pretty snazzy.. I feel like getting one now ;)
![hotel-carter[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/iDvzMPj.jpg "hotel-carter[1].jpg")
What's the deal with Hotel Carter in NYC? Anyone stayed there?
Seems to be lots of murders, crimes, bed bugs, mold, grime, etc etc etc basically the worst hotel ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zLL-NeiZKE
>>1064986
I stayed there once, for one night, many years ago. The deal with it is that it is cheap and in central Manhattan--close, among other things, to the Port Authority bus terminal, which probably increases the scumbag quotient. It stays cheap by offering a large number of very small rooms in a mostly unrenovated 80-year-old structure, together with negligible housekeeping or other services.
There are actually a couple of other similarly awful sleep mills in Midtown, but thanks to word of mouth and the Internet,...
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>>1065244
Interesting. Why have bed bugs gotten out of control recently?
>>1065247
I'm not sure. Periodic, cyclical population boom? Import of superbedbugs from abroad? Global warming? But I know that I only started to hear horror stories over the last 10 years or so. I was staying in seriously subpar accommodations in NYC 20+ years ago and that wasn't one of their problems. Roaches yes, but not bedbugs.
So this is a lengthy one, but any help would be great. I'm an illegal immigrant from Honduras living in Texas, brought here at the age of 4(21now) and lived illegally until I received DACA in 2012. All that means is that I'm not going to be deported and can work for a living. SO I look at my situation as a sort of limbo state where I am not a US citizen/Resident, and I am not prepared to live in Honduras because I have no paperwork or knowledge of the history and the entire country in general. I want to leave the US, but where can I go? How could a person in my situation...
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The other 200k people on immigrant visas would love an answer too. I wanna go to Scotland and bang all the redhead qt3.14's already.
>>1065137
OP here, do you have DACA too?
>>1065133
Can you obtain a passport from Honduras? This should be possible in the embassy. Then apply for university in a European country where studying is free (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, etc.). With a student visa you can stay in said country for as long as you study and work too whilst you get a degree. With the degree it should be easier for you to go live places.
Hi there, I'm not much of a traveler myself but I visit this board fairly often.
I'd like to ask if anyone uses software for planning their trips?
I'm a software developer with intrest in logistic algorithms, and I've been wondering would people be interested in software that would allow them to pick a bunch of towns and find an optimal route for several criteria(cost, least time spent enroute).
The thing is, also it sounds easy, but finding a good solution for a problem of covering a set of cities is difficult and optimal routes...
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I'd be very interested in that as a traveler and frankly there's probably some monetization potential if you could make that as an app and slap some ads on it.
I'm still a CS student so this might be impractical, but that sounds like something that a genetic algorithm would excel at for the larger problem sizes. Semi-randomly generate a first generation based on physical distance, give the user the option to choose between faster and more optimized pathing (fewer or more generations). I've never actually implemented a genetic algorithm but I've...
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>>1064055
>soliciting quasi-solutions to the Traveling Salesman Problem on /trv/
You're in way over your head
>>1064055
This isn't the board for tackling Traveling Salesman Problem on. Talk to /g/.
But research more first, you clearly haven't thought about this enough to start asking for help.
Secondly, no one goes on 65 city holidays anyway. I've travelling to every major city in China and that's only 40. Where the fuck else would you be talking about? Every state capital in the USA is less than 65 and who does that kind of trip?
There are all sorts of heuristic simplifications that you could...
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Rank your Top5 airports you've been
1. Venizelos
2. Charles de Gaulle
3. Ezeiza
4. Fiumicino
5. El Dorado
CLT - Charlotte
ATL - Atlanta
AMS - Amsterdam
BAH - Bahrain
ABU (?) - Abu Dhabi
Fuck Frankfurt in the ass with a cactus
1. Singapore
2. Hong Kong
3. Zurich
4. Munich
5. Seoul-Incheon
1. Helsinki
2. Amsterdam
3. Detroit (no kidding)
4. Alicante
5. Orlando
absolute shit: JFK, CDG and Frankfurt
Hello /trv/, I'm new to this board and I'm sure this topic appears a lot, but how does one go about traveling the world for free?
You really don't.
Nothing in this world is free.
Better to ask about traveling cheaply.
http://imgur.com/gallery/owNWa
>>1064941
>how does one go about traveling the world for free?
Hitchhiking, walking, train-hopping, dumpster-diving, and begging work for lots of scumbags, but you're almost certainly limited to your starting continent. I do not believe there is any realistic way to cross an ocean without paying for it.
Perhaps crewing on a yacht if you're in the right Point A and have skills that someone would desire en route to the right Point B, but I don't see that as a long-distance...
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I've never traveled far by myself before.The logistics make me anxious. How do I know where to go to get checked in once I get in the airport? etc
It's confusing
Hi /trv/,
quite new to this board and have mostly been lurking around here on 4chan.
the travellers board seems more like the common man than any other board.
I have a question, or more likely a problem. anyways, any hints, tips, post experiences, faults, warnings etc. will be considered.
I'm 24 and have lived in a religious community for 2 years and a half. I'm from scandinavia and lived outside of my country of birth for most of my post teenage years.
Here's the drill, I don't like money, and I don't like routine, I like nature and...
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>>1064601
it could also be squatting opportunities
I only know about two options for squats; I'm sure there are many.
On the farthest north tip of Sardinia there's a hippie colony. It's a bad option in the winter, though. I visited in June and there were only old people there, with no teeth and nowhere else to go. They told me "Come back in August. Naked girls, swimming, we bake pizza every day."
Pic related, the old hippies.
There's also the Faslane Peace Camp in Scotland, which is a year-round squat community of anti-nuclear protesters. Apparently in winter there's some competition...
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Try volunteering in southern europe through helpX, wwoofing, etc?
Why do people circlejerk about the food in other countries? Every single time I tell a fellow traveler about my plans to visit another country. I get bombarded with
>oh man the food there is AMAZING
>you HAVE to try the food there
>you're going to gain 10 kilos over there
>oh I love the food there
Every single country I've been in the local food tasted either like shit or just alright, or tasted like western food but with a...
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>>1064805
They are foodies
>>1064805
>very single country I've been in the local food tasted either like shit or just alright
I'm no gourmet foodie faggot, but sounds like the problem is with you.
>tasted like western food but with a weird twist.
That's because you're a total fucking pleb who sticks to what he knows.
>Yet every single country people rave about the local food.
Wow, people like food. What a shocker.
a) How...
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I completely agree with OP. Non Western countries do not do food well. It's always good enough so that you can live on it cheaply but you're not going to enjoy it.
So what petty crimes do the more opportunist of you do while travelling?
We all know how easy it is to do shit on camera or even in front of witnesses, and get away with it because we'll be out of town before long.
**cough cough**
Stealing is bad. Mkay?
>>1064434
I admit to shoplifting from time to time, but you do realize if you are arrested you'll probably be deported and never allowed back into the country, right?
Rape
