"I spent 4 weeks in Paris and didn't even visit the Eiffel Tower. It's too mainstream and touristy"
"I was traveling through Kenya and I saw another white tourist. It ruined my day."
I slept in the dirtiest, most run down disease ridden beds in India.
>"you slept in beds?"
>>1084317
I went to NYC and never left brooklyn. time square not even once
>>1084452
>not spending the entire trip in Harlem
do you even travel?
When I was 19 I was backpacking through South America, not failing out of college like you
Did I ever tell you guys about the time I island hopped across the south pacific by stowing away on cargo ships and mail steamers?
"I spent 4 months in SEA on a budget of $250"
>>1084459
>going to SEA at all
Absolute pleb tier desu senpai.
I wintered in Antarctica.
flying 1st class isn't what it used to be....
>>1084470
I've been too busy living off the grid for the past 4 years and it's my first time on travel forum. Why do you guys make brief points where the text is green?
spent a night in a tent on mount fuji with only 3 candles.....and porno mags, weird ones.
>>1084317
Just got back from Orlando.
I spent all my time in dive bars getting drunk with locaks, never came withing 5 miles of Disney World.
had a bad encounter with a tranny in hong kong, i don't want to get into it...
did 24 hours in a canadian drunk tank, best sleep of my life!!!
caught an std from a whore in amsterdam.... dont ask.
spent a night in a mongolian yert.
visited detroit city.
>>1084494
shit was cash
spent 3 days with bums in new york..... it rained....alot.
two words las vegas
two words.....two words
eiffel was awesome, op. how do you sleep at night? i slept on it, op. i slept on it.
>>1084453
went to harlem too a guy named Al Sharpton talked my ear off while I was trying to eat.
>>1084481
this is underrated.
here let me try:
>won an action-packed trip to Detroit a few years ago from a hamburger.
>spent it getting drunk at bars in ferndale with hairdressers
>>1084317
You've been to how many countries? That's really impressive for a beginning. Let me tell you where I'VE been...
"Eh, France and Italy are too mainstream, I visited the rough parts of Europe, like Prague, Vienna and Krakow."
>>1084481
Know any good huants in O-town?
The fewer drinks on top, and worse service and seating the better. No Disney shit please.
>can someone tell me interesting or unique places BUT NO TOURIST TRAPS
>Had an amaaaazing time in Equador. Gave one of my cigarettes to this old guy selling fruit. Couch surfed with this super chill family. It's amazing how simply not staying in a hotel gives me such unprivileged access to a people and a way of life. Even though I get to escape back to my first world home after two weeks and they don't get to leave ever, I definitely had the authentic experience. I truly pity the people who do group tours or stay in resorts. So pathetic.
Once you've been to 50 or so countries you will realize that the only worthwhile sex is with prostitutes
I stopped counting countries after I got to one hundred.
>>1084492
spent a night in a mongolian yert.
>in Taos, NM
"Oh you only have ONE passport? And it's an American passport? Enjoy only being able to see half the countries that I can visit"
"I use Periscope to see what people dress like before I visit that country so I can dress like a local"
>>1084317
related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZk1WHJ_fwo
>He still travels on Earth
Just got back from backpacking through STU-1163 for 3 months with only $2 and a pack of menthols
>i stayed in a hostel
Just got back from flying half way around the world to take photos with a selfie-stick in front of famous monuments, and authentically experience what is directly infront of me via a 4 inch pixelated screen and upload it all on instagram.
Got so many likes, was totally worth it.
Dude weed...lol... Amsterdam
>>1084770
In a weird way I actually dont get mad at people who prioritize taking photos of themselves or their friends while traveling as long as they arent missing out on account of it.
When you are older, sure you will always have the memories of those places, but you always seem to regret not having more photos of you and the people you care about in those moments.
Obviously this doesnt mean every self absorbed selfie douche is justified. Just my thought process.
>>1084782
I've thought about this more recently. I usually travel alone and theres no much in terms of memory there, but when ypure with people you should capture that. When i look back at my photos of beautiful or exrraordinary things its like hey this is neat, nice place. But you dont feel or remember anything, you could just as easily look up that thing on google. Also, natural wonders and old architecture, etc arent going anywhere in your lifetime, but people and moments with them go. Photos with people will help you remember that time.
I'm not good at writing but i hope i explained my thoughts well enough
>>saved $45 on my last international flight by taking two hidden cities and 4 extra connections. It only landed 20 hours after the direct flight but I can use that money to stay two extra days in a hostel. I really enjoyed the time in the airport bathroom.
>>1084932
> only landed 20 hours after the direct flight.
You're doing it wrong if you're under 30 hours.
>>1084839
>Also, natural wonders and old architecture, etc arent going anywhere in your lifetime
>palmyra....
>this golden mao....
>Lmao you actually take pictures while travelling?
>>1084953
Here it is folks. The EPITOME of 4chan/teenage pseudo-intellectualism.
>miss the point of a phrase
>find super rare exception
>point it out for no purpose, no end
>just to point it out and feel smart about himself
Congratulations. We could also mention Timbuktu's shit if you want
>>1085058
Nice catch mate, almost played yourself. Also
>You actually bought the mini Eiffel towers from those Africans? Ha ha I never buy those
A lot of these posts have the same theme:
>I went to (popular destination) but didnt do the most popular thing that people typically do when they go there.
>>1084473
kek
>>1084497
>>1084494
Did you drink this
it taste like an unwashed Ginger
>Done Karaoke countless times across 4 countries
>Never sang a Journey song
I slept rough in Antartica teaching African kids how to read whilst simultaneously teaching myself Buddhist meditation for 6 months
I say "slept" I didn't actually sleep once, thanks to a mixture of rare herbs and polar bear dung that put me in a trance like state in which I connected with the heavens and the earth, the plants and the animals, a rekindled the fire within my soul
also I got dreadlocks
Hey guys, even though I am only 19, my year travelling around South East Asia with a bunch of other white people, getting drunk, having promiscuous sex and basically being seen by the locals as a cash cow really opened my minds eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKFjWR7X5dU
>>1084782
Yeah I've had a bit of a u-turn on taking photos too. When I did my first few trips I took a really moralistic stance and refused to take any photos at all because I thought that somehow that would detract from actually 'experiencing' whatever it was I was doing. Then, even just one year later I'd try and remember the trip and found that I was missing huge chunks of it because I had nothing to trigger the memories.
Now I try and take at least one picture of every landmark, beautiful view, or anything I encounter that I think is cool/different. If I've made some friends and gone for a day out it's nice to take a group picture too, because we inevitably part ways and don't stay in touch. That said, once you've got the photo you should put your phone/camera away and return to the experience itself. It's about finding a balance.
>>1084932
>tfw I unironically slept in a bathroom cubicle for six hours because my flight arrived at midnight and I didn't want to pay for a hotel room for that night
Uncomfortable experience 2bh, kept thinking that if I fell asleep the cleaners would think someone had died in there and break the door down or something like that.
Wow
>>1085312
That's the gayest shit I've ever heard.
Are people like this because they are insecure?
>>1084492
This does look like fun.
>>1084503
>cringe
>>1085287
Not that guy but isn't this the norm? Usually when get it out of your system you want to settle down a little. Or you've seen that it isn't that much of a lifestyle. It's the worst for the people who haven't done it when they were young for whatever reason and now when they're older they want to do all of the stuff they missed out on.
>>1085312
>>1085312
Looks like a Chevy of some sort.
>>1085301
I thought most airport would just let you sleep out in the open at the gate. Just pretend you got there really early for your flight.
side note as a hotel manager anytime someone was in a public bathroom for a long time they were always masturbating. if it makes you feel weirder they just assumed you were in there for a marathon session.
>>1084976
the post
I met a guy in a hotel in Tokyo
>I was in India for the last 3 years and this is the first time seeing a white person since then
>I was living with the locals in some obscure villages
>Oh wow a TV, I haven't seen one of those in years
>I feel like traveling has made me so much of a better person
>this is my 17th consecutive year of traveling
I mean, he was an okay guy after a while but holy shit, that was the first time I met one of those real travelers IRL and it was exactly like those descriptions in the threads
>>1085391
They actually had signs up saying no sleeping, which surprised me because it was in tolerant Iceland. That said, I'm pretty certain that I would have been fine and they wouldn't have moved me on or anything like that, there were other people who did it. The reason I went for the bathroom is because I was travelling alone and I'm a bit paranoid about my security - if any one of my bags had been stolen then I'd have been completely fucked, and I was uncomfortable taking the risk.
>>1085591
Rent a car
Dont go anywhere, just sleep in,it in the parking lot
Cheaper and closer than a hotel room
i went to thailand and didn't pay for sex with a ladyboy
>>1085669
what are you, gay?
>>1085584
This is sad. It took him 17 years of travelling to become a better person. How much of a shitty person you gotta be?
>exactly like those descriptions in the threads
The threads don't lie.
>>1084317
went to Japan and never left Tokyo.
>Me:"I went...did..."
>Real traveller:"I went...did..."+1
>>1085719
Nothing wrong with that.
>>1085723
yes a some kind, my plan was to "explore" japan
>>1085568
we have a winner.
>>1085568
Yep, can't argue with this one
Couldn't make a more exaggerated caricature if i tried
>"the amount of tourists kinda ruined it for me"
>"but you were a tourist yourself"
every fucking time
yeah yeah you're right
>>1086053
Yea but it's quite obvious what they were trying to get at.
>Being the only tourist there.
Or at least not as much.
>>1086062
Not that guy, I just find the best thing is to find a balance. The one thing I try not to do is trying to get the "perfect" picture. Wasting too much time thinking about it. I'd rather just get a few pictures here and there and try to take a few of everyone in it. Just so I can remember who was in the trip and if I can bring forward what I felt than and there.
I enjoy watching his show, but Anthony Bourdain is such a "real traveler"
2bh i've spent about 3 weeks in bareclona on 2 separate trips and never seen the sagrada familia up close
i've only seen it from the hills above at carmel overlooking the whole city
>dreadlocks
>bandanna
>flipflops
>sari
>>1086256
Why? oh why? I get it if it's once or twice just to fit in or try it out. But when they wear it always as part of their fashion it gets to me.
You also forgot another one.
>kimono
>>1084467
>I wintered in Antarctica.
Okay, this one is actually pretty impressive.
>>1084317
I went to Berghain in Berlin. It´s so crazy.
Hearing about all this reinforces my stereotypes abput annoying and pretentious college age backpackers. Happy I am not a poorfag and can affort hotels and cottages.
Am i real traveler for going to north korea?
>>1084518
>Prague
>Vienna
>Krakow
>rough
>>1085568
>This is what Africa is. Danger. Excitement. The Unpredictable. Black people.
Yeah, "black people" fits right in there...
>>1084513
too accurate anon
too accuate
>>1086583
That's the point. There aren't really any rough parts in Europe compared anywhere else. I mean parts of the Balkans and ex-Soviet states are relatively poor and shitty but not that rough really
Spent a month in Vancouver. Ate subway sandwiches and drank cheap vodka ($25 liter) in my hotel room the whole while.
>>1085568
I did all this in Detroit.
>>1084764
underrated post
slept in the most run down hotel in dublin for free becuse i threw up and woke up to a irish man smoking a cigarette or something right next to me outside my patio
>went to germany and maxxed out my little renault diesel on the autobahn
>that feeling has never been felt again of no limit
didnt ride a fucking goldola in venice. walked my ass to the st marc square from the roundabout where the road ends.
>>1087758
>went to Venice
Already failed the Real Traveler test.
>>1087758
was my moms idea. i stayed at the jw marriott. the nicest hotel there. i saw all of italy.
>>1086379
>Berghain is so mainstream now, there's dozens of better and more underground clubs in Berlin
I actually mean that though
>setting foot in Europe
>not sneaking onto a cargo plane en route to Kazakhstan with no food, money, or clothes and hitchhiking your way to Panama
>>1087760
>staying in the nicest hotel
It's like you're proud of being bourgeois.
I had to get two additional inserts into my passport.
>>1084518
Paris is rougher than Vienna.
>>1087853
when the average temp was 40c and i was in europe for 4 weeks already staying in a hotel with functioning air con was a blessing
>>1084362
>>1087447
Underrated post
>>1084526
/trv in a nutshell
The very first time I ever played solitaire not on my phone was on the Three-Country Cairn.
>>1085568
>emus
haha fucking idiot
i went to flint by way of saginaw on bicycle. yall soft.
Threads like this remind me that even the people you mock are much, much more worldly than myself.
I read /trv/ all the time, but I am worried about making a thread since I don't know how to drive, swim, or ride a bike and never have more than $1000 to my name.
I even learned some Mandarin at university, but I don't think I have enough off-days to go to Shanghai by boat.
Been in iceland never been to blue lagoon and the golden circle
>>1084473
that's so funny
i went to amsterdam and DID NOT use any cannabis products.
>>1087757
https://youtu.be/B3h2Rw1mHew?t=4m27s
reminds me of Tom Hanks bragging how I he went 140km/h with a Volkswagen Bus
>you need to eat THREE times a day??
I work at a semi rural mountain town in Japan and we get a lot of tourists who put simply, overdress like OP's pic.
Like layer upon layer of winter clothing, hiking pack and those stick things. I see them every day. Walking along the road. ready for their big hike up the steady slope hundreds of school children walk up and down ever day.
What in gods name were they expecting on the hike? Bears? Yetis? A blizzard?
>>1084317
Spent 3 months in Egypt and haven't visited any archeological site or museum with entrance fee.
Just spent a month in Thailand.
I didn't get laid because I travel to explore, NOT to seek romantic encounters with drunk backpackers
>>1084673
I follow this person on instagram. I don't know how people can manage all that time to prepare and do as many hikes as some of these insta celebs manage.
>>1084782
some people take it too fuckin far though. you really need 300 selfie pics of you and your buddies walking across a bridge?
>>1088051
>staying in hotel
what is the point of travelling then
>>1084317
went to NK via china,
was held captive for 3 months before being rescued by a travelling iranian ambassador who expected me to be an low life amerifag who can help him with his illegal loads of adderall to cross border. we ate them all by ourselves and went straight to tibet on foot to meet dalai lama.
I've lived in Thailand for 4 years and never went to a "tourist" island or a backpacker party. Actually the only island I've been to is Koh Si Chang, where with my Thai friends, on the only beach on the island, we ate the leftovers of a local wedding party that they didn't clean out for the night.
I would've been to the southern islands several times though but I never had time when my friends were going.
You went to a town/city for the day? That's not even traveling bro, you have to spend a good week there to get the whole experience.
Spending the day in a city and hopping over to another is not traveling. That's a fucking pit stop brah, You have to stay onger to get that good experience nigga
I went hiking in Maccidonia and spent days under the rain with no sleeping bag or a tent , all I had was a backpack full of snickers and water bottles , oh and 100 euros
>>1091718
>all I had was a backpack full of snickers
Truly god's food. If I had to pick a chocolate bar to survive on it would be Snickers or Picnics
Going to do Paris , London and Amsterdam .. in just 5 days xD .. omg wanderlust xD
http://www.garfors.com/2014/09/19-countries-in-one-day-see-how.html
>>1085568
This is hilarious.
Brah, I've been I've just came from living in India for three years. I totally understand how the world works now.
>How does it work?
It's all money man. All the love, compassion, friendship, respect is all lies man. It's all about the money. Nobody really cares about anyone else anymore. I have a hard time adjusting to this "fake" world.
>Ok cool...
>*try to cut the convo and GTFO
>>1090376
gotta be prepared anon, the terrible snowman can strike from any angle, dimension, and time
got so drunk in vegas that it involved a wheelchair and a security guard..
>>1084452
Why would you ever leave Williamsburg?
Manhattan is for shills.
>>1085912
Q did a pretty good job in the first TNG episode.
