First time travelling to Vietnam, planning on going for about little more than 2 weeks, between mid/late February to early March. (I believe it might be chaos during Tet) I've started looking online at places, I've been considering to stay in the southern area, I heard its war during the specified period. Someone recommended Phu Quoc for the tropical beaches/island vibe, but I keep seeing reviews online saying the beaches are full of trash and rats. Should I go to Con Dao instead? I heard its quieter overall. I'm not a young buck any more, I don't care about going to nightclubs, but I don't want it to be a ghost town at night time. For example, last year I went to the Philippines, Coron was quieter overall compared to El Nido, but after 9pm it was dead, at least El Nido had something going on in the evenings. Any additional advice is welcome
What is this state like? Whats the culture like? Please tell me some fun things to do in Delaware, for someone without a car.
This just made it occur to me that I have never met someone from, or ever heard anything about Delaware. Truly a mystery state
Southern Delaware (Rehoboth Beach to Fenwick Island) has beaches. Central Delaware has Dover, the state capital. North Delaware has Wilmington which is just a suburb of Philadelphia. LSD (Lower Slower Delaware) is more country and conservative vs. the north but Rehoboth Beach is full of LGBT. Other than that Delaware is just an amalgamation of Pennsylvania and Maryland without the mountains.
>>2854552Wait a couple years and you'll get the Joe Biden presidential library. Until then, Nemours Estate is pretty top tier neat if you're into gilded age mansions, and Wilmington is a nice peaceful town. Other than that, there is genuinely no reason to ever visit Delaware unless you already happen to be in the area for some other reason. Actually if you live in PA, NJ, MD area, a lot of people like to go shopping in Delaware due to no sales tax, so it has that going for it as well.
>>2854559I was thinking of taking a big trip to north carolina to philadelphia and stopping at delaware along the way
>>2854558This sums it up.But the state is the opposite of others in that its not a great place to visit but I wouldn't mind living there.
Adam The Woo has gone on adventures for you and he didn't even ask your mom if you wanted to see his zany journies you would go to Adam The Woo.comAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIITTTTT SSSOOONN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1974-2025
>>2854141he had an onlyfans girlfriend who was a regular in his videos
>>2854154Did she really have an OF or do you mean she just looked/acted the type?
>>2854158no she had an onlyfans... her onlyfans was posted many times online and trolls talked about her in his comments and on other sites. I think she dropped the OF after she was getting alot of shit cause adam had her in his videos so people were hatin on her as well. she used the name daphne del ray or some shit I dont remember i never went to OF to bother to care
>>2854158ok it was daphne del rey was her OF name
>>2854163this reeks of patheticness, in so many ways.
I don't see a lot of threads about south America, Africa on /trv/.Brazil dominates the continent, is it geographically isolated or can you go through Brazil in transit back and forth? Does anyone transit Guyana through the Brazil land border? How far can you actually get up the Amazon and is that a viable route?When it's the tourist season, which places to normie Americans ruin?How's the place doing currency wise, is Venezuela back on the itinerary?
>>2854604Then you are better off going to BA as much as I don't like admitting.Brazil doesn't have much of an underground art/music scene but you'll find plenty of artfags in BA
>>2854604>Brazil doesn't have much of an underground art/music scene but you'll find plenty of artfags in BAOh shit does it not? Thought Sao Paulo was pretty big for that sort of thing
>>2854607Also howcomes you're not into BA?
>>2854613Because I've been there and I hated it.The people are rude, everything is expensive and obnoxiously bourgeois
>>2854618Fair enough, anywhere else you'd recommend instead?
>You requested to book Anon's listing>Your trip is not confirmed yet. Anon has 24 hours to respond to your request.
>>2854257I have Instant Booking on so this rarely happens
>>2854309its hard to find rural listings with thatand the crazier hosts tend to not have instant booking and act like airbnb is their personal penal system to impose a huge laundry list of inane neurotic rules about minor details of their basement or garage apartment
A GERMAN BITCH WHO STAYED AT MY PLACE JUSG 2 DAYS AGO LEFT ME A 4 STAR REVIEW REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
Want to do a solo tripJust turned 25, I’m balding and single and lowkey don’t have a whole lot exciting going on. I am a military officer and have saved up to take about a week of leave starting the last week of march. I’ve decided to do a solo trip ala Russillo.I’m not going abroad to try and hook up with a girl in a bar (but not totally opposed if it happens and there’s a genuine emotional connection), mainly just looking for an interesting experience but also to go somewhere more obscure than the average tourist.I live on the East Coast of the US. My first choice was gonna be somewhere in Mexico since I speak pretty good gringo Spanish but after recent events I don’t think that’d be approved by my chain of command, along with anywhere else in Latin America with the exception of maybe Argentina. I deployed to Asia and the Middle East and loved it there, but don’t really feel like flying that far. Caribbean I’m going to say is a no-go because it’s going to be spring break. So I guess that leaves me with going to either Europe or somewhere in Africa. I’d like to go to Spain but like, it’s just going to be completely mobbed with Americans then and I want to do something a little more adventurous. I listened to the entire Iceland podcast and thought it sounded neat, but what if I get there and get bored??I have a ton of credit card points so the flight anywhere would be free, and I’m only out for a week so the budget is kinda irrelevant. I’m not looking to stay in a five star resort, just looking for a private hotel room with clean sheets lol.Any of you guys have advice?
>>2854364Go to turkey and get your hair transplant done now while you still have a good foundation to work with. You cannot be career officer and also be bald. You know that.
>>2854430Instead of Costa Rica, wouldn't it be better to see Puerto Rico?>geographically close>US colony>many speak english>everyone speaks spanish>tropical island>rainforest, dancing, bars
>>2854364Argentina and Patagonia.
>>2854466> You cannot be career officer and also be bald.> You know that.What?
Morocco is my favorite place for choose-your-own-adventure solo travel, hiking or dirtbiking or whatever. Not to say the cities aren't touristy as shit, they are.
Moved here a couple months ago, and it'd been hard meeting any expats that are like me. They all seem really performative and uptight. I feel like a normal dude out of place and moved here so I could live a nice life on the cheap in a beautiful country around nice safe people. Figured I'd come to 4chan, my old stomping grounds seeing if anybody similar wanted to meet up.https://discord.gg/3HAh6Em2w
No offense but I don’t come to Bangkok to hang out with a bunch of stinky farangs.
>>2853766>coomers hate Vietnamwtf are you talking about? it's everywhere in nam, just not as open, theres that whole road of blowjob parlours and japantown but otherwise you have to actually look for it
I'll be in Bangkok in April before Songkran. Will you be around?
Never been to Bangkok so I can't offer any actionable advice, but I was thinking about it for ages and my Youtube feed is full of people vlogging about their lives in Bangkok, hyping it up as this affordable place where you can reinvent yourself and make lifelong friends with likeminded peopleBut I've noticed that all these vloggers are the same, not bad people or anything but just really normie and consumerism oriented (focus on condo tours and new mall openings). From afar it looks like the lines between the commercial and the cultural are often blurred in Bangkok too (creative spaces in malls, a lot of art is just kitschy slop). I got put off it because it felt very normie and I figured I'd get lonely out there, I could be wrong though
>>2854585>muh normiesi've got news for you anon, if you're really that bothered about what other people think or do, to the extent that it stops you living your own life and experiencing things yourself and forming your own opinions.... the biggest "normie" is you
>Your plans for the coming year>Your dreams for the coming year
>plansA month in Thailand mid year, a month in Vietnam end of year.>dreamsMeet a Vietnamese sugar mommy and get a green card marriage.
>>2854379I'm going to Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia. Really hope I kiss some girls in the hostels
>>2854379I am going to Japan for a few months starting in May. Gonna bum around in hostels and live off of strong zero and onigiri. I'm just hoping my Japanese has improved enough since going last time.
>>2854379>traveling to a few new countries>traveling to Antarctica
I'm going to Brazil, and I have a long layover in Panama City. From my research, Panama looks a hell of a lot more interesting than where i am going (Goiania).
How much effort do you put into learning language for travel?In particular:1) how much time do you spend learning it and how long before your trip do you start learning2) have you found the effort you put into it to be worthwhile (especially nowadays with translate apps bing pretty good)3) what is your main intention with learning the language 4) if the language is difficult for Westerners (i.e. an Asian language like Thai) do you put less effort into it and just stick to the very basics5) when your trip is over do you continue practicing the language
>>2853580>$110/month rentProbably not great.
>>2853817For languages I'm just trying to cram before a trip, I pirate the Michel Thomas course, which teaches all the grammar you need to know pretty painlessly. Then I start with Pimsleur level 2 or 3 which is a good way to build vocab. Flashcards can be useful but understand the difference between having an active vocabulary vs a passive one (words you have memorized, but are inaccessible during conversation). Ask chatgpt to quiz you on how to say stuff.My approach to become really proficient over time is basically all of the above, plus a fuckton of comprehensible input vids/podcasts, plus paying online teachers to chat with me.>>2853713I have a lot of respect for people who are good at this. You are right to stress the importance of extra-verbal communication. But if you can do this AND learn a language, why wouldn't you?
Depends on how many people learn the language as a second language. So Chinese, a billion people speak it, but they're all Chinese people and mostly in China. It's of no value when speaking to someone who is not Chinese. Spanish, not many people in Spain, but a lot of south America speaks Spanish, it's not an uncommon second language in Europe and America, it has value when speaking to Portuguese speakers, some value to English, French, Italian speakers. AND, nationals of any other county, they might have learned Spanish to speak to any of the aforementioned.You're far more likely to find a African who speaks Spanish, then an African who speaks mandarin. They might have learned Spanish in Europe, but that means they can talk to you as a Spanish esl.And that's why English rules the world, so many people learned it already as a second language that esl English is the most widely spoken language almost everywhere on earth, and those who refuse to learn, typically there's a political reason and they suffer badly for it. So you see it's not really about how many primary speakers the language has, it's about how many secondary. Tertiary speakers. I've been up mountains and yelled at people in English, they didn't understand. OK, regional languages. French, Spanish Russian. One of them yelled back in Spanish. They weren't Spanish, they were from south America and spoke Portuguese. Fuk. So someone who speaks Portuguese, broken Spanish, can communicate with someone, not English, who is fluent in English as a second language, so can understand at least some Spanish. That's right at the thin end, but it illustrates the value of bridging language barriers. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2853580I learn:Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, excuse me, sorry & toilet.Sorry is useful for when I break cultural norms without realizing like a retard.
>>2854412As someone who speaks zero Spanish, I actually relied on Chinese a LOT in Central America, because every general store and asian restaurant are chinese-owned.
>decide to go carry on+backpack only after years of checking a bag>suddenly realize I can't bring booze from cheap places to expensive places(fuck you norway)>have to spend extra time constantly rolling and rubber banding my shit into my suitcase>the quality shampoo I use post workout and sticks of deodorant can't be brough on (fuck you asia 'deodorant')>instead of having about 30% of space left over for trinkets and souvenirs I basically have none>half the time on Air Asia they have to check my bag because they ran out of room>nothing to separate bag from the ground so it's always picking up whatever is on the floor/bench/etc>8 more months of this>At least I saved 15 minutes at the airport waiting for my bag! But seriously what the fuck, do people who do this shit only stick to one climate year-round or something? That's the only way I can see you having enough space to pack easily and meet size limitations for carry-on/personal items. I don't feel like I overpack either, just 8 day's worth of clothing+ some khacki's+jeans and a coat for colder climates. Am I doing something wrong or are all these /one bag/ or carry on only fags simply just not spending much time traveling.
>>2848705I travel 8-9 months at a time>laptop + USBc screen + HDMI(nice to hook up to TV's)>tablet for backup device if laptop shits itself>2 cellphones primary w/ banking and work data and phone number/secondary for out and about shit>2 usb c chargers>external battery(20kmah) w/ 65w output>3 pairs of pants>4 pairs of shorts>5 t shirts>3 long sleeves>5 pairs of boxers>2 pairs of workout clothes w/ spare shoes>electric razor/trimmer>ice tray and sporkComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2848461>one carry one>one checked>backpack inside checked for shopping and hikesHonestly this is perfect for me, plenty of room to bring shit back and I can get two bags to and from the hotel easy enough.
>>2848944>checkednow, checkem.
>>2848692>Now you're stuck taking a hired car to go even 2 km because your shit's too heavy to carryNo I just leave my stuff at the airbnb/hotel. If I want to take a 1-2 night trip somewhere I just take my backpack and leave the rest of the stuff at my main base.The clothes that are dirty for 3 weeks are only the clothes that were worn at the beginning. The average is like 1.5 weeks
>>2848461What about using a sling pack with some compacted small items? Shampoo, cond I just buy it at the area, not worth the hassle. Deodorant I use a cream one that I jam pack into 1 to 3x 50ml bottles (they count 100ml max per bottle, but you can still pass with 10x 90ml ones no problem. Go figure.)Having those thermal suits help out on cloths reduction. I wear my sweater or tie it around my waist. You can be crafty and put 2 inside each other to look like one and tie them around your waist.I've always wondered about those backpacks that have a suction function to compress it all, but you'd need a small portable one to make it work. If you're going to a cold place then you can layer during the flight. Hot places it's thinner clothes.
>be Digital Nomad>shoot the shit with some others at the bar about it>DUDE YOU SHOULD GET A COWORK PASS>180/mo for Regus with 10/day shared desk(280 for unlimited) or 280 for WeWork>WeWork places drying up leaving Regus the only real player> sub 300 plans only allow you to work at a shared desk or cubical at most>private office is ~500/mo for global access on most sites>could throw down 180/mo to just get a better airbnb or hotel to work inCan someone explain to me this meme? I've seen people talk about coworking here before and the math isn't mathing. How the fuck does this save money or improve anything? Are these people recommending these places staying in the 2x4 futon bedding places to try and cheese on 'savings'? Am I doing something wrong by looking at Regus? For context I am going to be moving around HK, Taiwan, and PH next year for about 6 months and understand the living situations in those places are smaller. If I just add the cost per month to my airbnb I come out ahead or break even 9 out of 10 times...
>>2846921I was just about to make a coworking space hostel hybrid before Covid hit. We did a full rekit of a property, and then got rekt.We wanted to make a '30 year old hostel for the Revolut crowd' in effect.
>>2846224were they pretty? i don't imagine office women are that attractive
>>2852854>in a high-trust societythere is no such thing
wtf does a digital nomad even do? i'm guessing not anything worthwhile
>>2854536yeah they're not even proper nomads. most of them don't even own any camels
Someone said in another thread that people used to organise meetups in /trv/. Anybody around and about in the world willing to kickstart things in 2026?To get the ball rolling. If anybody's ever in Krakow, and I'm free, I'm always willing to meetup and show you the ropes (got lots of couchsurfer debt from my 20s to pay off).
>>2853807Every other post is about the whores in X country. It would be certainly interesting to study the ugly freaks that post here, but I assume I wouldn't be getting a research stipend.
>>2853842Give me contact I live here
>>2853893or a compliment from a woman
>>2853897Sure, you can write to me at trvzug@nym.hush.com.Also, if anyone is ever around Zurich, feel free to contact me as well, we can go out for drinks or food.
>>2853795I have a model train set and a significant supply of imitation crab meat
American here - I take two three week trips to France every year. In the winter it's usually a week of skiing, a week in Alsace and a week somewhere inland. In the summer, I try to fill in empty spots along the coasts. From my Google timeline here, what areas am I really missing out on? Obviously into local cuisine, wine, culture, etc.
>>2854254Bordeaux.>>2854255>99.999%t.00.001%
>>2854269>bordeauxAyyy.>>2854255>99.999%Fix your Math.
La Bresse is really nice, a lot of great nature if youre into that. I’d reccomed staying at some campsite as well
>>2854289Is that the Romani village in the Vosges? My wife's family is from one valley over. I'm there all the time. Love hiking in Alsace and checking out the Auberges
>>2854442Not entirely sure, but it is in the VosgesAnd yeah the hiking is really good
Are you an actual traveler if your not going to places like Somalia , Congo and Afghanistan?You'll actually experience a side of world you'll never see and come across stuff that will leave a lasting impression. Why be another normie that traveled to Japan or Thailand.>theyll kill me cause im white No they dont just show them you're actually a beast who shouldn't be messed with. There are Russian truck drivers in Congo , Ukrainian helicopter drivers in Somalia and Chinese shop owners in Afghanistan. Where's your ambition and passion for life to seek out danger and adventure anon
>>2849749I already live in the Philippines. I vacation in first world countries for a change lol.
>>2853087>b-but migrantsThat's exactly why you should also embrace the rootlessness of modern globalism, instead of staying put wherever your parents plopped you out, being a good paypig for your country's elite, pining after a gf you will never get and seething endlessly about the great replacement agenda. The new globohomo normal is to reject your roots and pick a map dot that best serves your interests, whatever they are. If you are unable to adapt to a changing environment, you are evolutionarily unfit for survival.
This is a great travel blogger who wrote about his trip to afghanistan recentlyhttps://mattlakeman.org/2026/01/05/notes-on-afghanistan/(warning, long)
I've been to many places, but it was the ones which were different that really stuck with me. The cultural value is sort of a commodity, a rarity.If everyone has been to France, the idea of children drinking alcohol, dining in the street, French culture isn't "new" to anyone. So i really went to some Congo tier places, in search of new ideas, new cultures, new food, new commodities. That's what makes an explorer, and the world evolves so quickly that a place which hasn't been explored by many people recently is still degrees away from untouched civilisation. Sure you can pick up the phone to anywhere in the world, but who has? And of what value would that be? If cortes had just sat-phoned the Aztecs they wouldn't have understood him, the aztecs might have just denied having gold, the subject of human sacrafice might have just not come up in conversation because they didn't think it was relevant. It took cortes actually going there in person to really work out what techloteclan was all about. So these Congo tier places, sure there's connection, but they might just not feel like connecting, you might need to low key invade them. They might hide their treasure, or you, as a traveller, might be particularly astute and pick up things the UN hasn't. Some of us might even be diplomatic advisors who help write county reports or aid fact finding. And security here is often an issue, but what constitutes security often isn't easy to understand.
>>2854230I feel like travellers who go to regions looking for something tend to both warp their own experiences, and get given a tailored experience. That's not a criticism, if you want war, want Taliban, want post-collinial clerical rule Afghanistan has you covered, but recognise so many tourists go to Afghanistan for those reasons, that the roller-coaster factor emerges, especially in written guides, you can see that very clearly. If you went to Afghanistan with a cook book, you'd find yourself in a lot of restaurants, and write a lot about flatbread, which is equally abundant in Afghanistan.
Is it actually possible to go to japan with someone from 4chan who can speak the language without getting scammed? I just want someone to retard wrangle me for money. I just need someone to kinda act like a friend with me if that requires pay so be it
>>2846722It happens to locals too thoughbeit
>>2851921this cute nigga straight up CRUSHING on kyoji
>>2846133you think we are memeing but most 4chan users actually are autistic. Most of us functional, yes, but still.
>>2846357if you're still here, anyone who said interpals is a fucking retard.Download hello talk, spruce up your profile and don't sound desperate and find a japanese bro or girl willing to help you learn the language and say you're planning to visit there etc.
>>2846358>interpalsholy based I'm going to catfish some jeets and we can go take selfies in front of bullet trains
