>CTRL+ F: africa >zero resultsjust a few years ago it seemed like africa was becoming cool but that seems to have dissipated. what is the reason for this? the resurgence of jihadism? the chronic eternal poverty? the threat of war doesn't seem to deter you guys from wanting to visit taiwan or SEA. so what happened to africa? i'm planning a world tour and wondering if I should just skip africa altogether.
>>2652071bump for this question, i also wanna know
>>2649052Sub-saharan Africa has few rewards for travellers. The tourist infrastructure is absolutely horrible, designed to rip off rich middle-aged Americans on their first safari, not cater to naive backpackers. There are few historical sights. Large cities are congested crime-ridden shitholes. Public transport is non-existent or extremely unsafe. Nightlife is poor. Nature is nice, but there are no marked trails and wildlife and criminals pose a serious threat. The food is bland and will give you the trots. The people are stupid, unfriendly and live in abject poverty, and because of that see you as a walking money bag.Generally speaking of course. The continent is 3x the size of Europe, and it's not like literally every inch of it is shit. But in the end, you go to places like Madagascar just to say you've been to Madagascar. Everything Africa has to offer, can be found cheaper, safer and in better quality elsewhere.
if you wanna see what the problem is, look up coastal resort pricing in places like kenya and tanzanianobody is going to pay 2x as much as thailand for that
>>2659295If nothing else, the people in Africa are 900% cooler and kinder than you find among other tropical shitholes. I don't disagree with any of your points in particular, and yet I enjoy visiting Africa very much and I return there often. I think what you are lacking is an appreciation of what Africa is by itself. Instead you ask only what it can offer you, and how it compares to other places.
>>2659369>ask only what it can offer you, and how it compares to other places.yeah...because my time is valuable, my resources limited, and safety paramount. is africa on the list? sure but its at the fucking bottom. maybe after i've exhausted all of asia, europe, latin america, and antartica it'll be worth my time.
I have travelled a bit here and there and experienced some really cool stuff. But now I want to do something really special and exciting. Something I will talk about until I die, remembering the experience, but I have no idea what could give me that feel. I want something unique that most people will never dare to experience. Not something like swimming with sharks, go parachuting, bungie jumping or other stuff like that.Any ideas?Pic related it's forsen
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>>2655524>But now I want to do something really special and exciting. Something I will talk about until I die, remembering the experienceget a good job doing something you are passionate aboutmeet a partnerhave a loving relationshipset up home togetherhave childrenbring them up to be creative individuals, nurture their talents, set them on a good path to live their own livesgrow old togetherdie knowing you have lived a good lifethere ya go anon hope that helps
>>2655524Visit Afghanistan and be bros with the Taliban like lord miles
>>2655524Fly to Romania, hike or hitch a ride through Moldavia to Odesa
ride a motorbike from europe to asia or vice versabonus: don't avoid war torn countries
Going to Detroit, Michigan for a weekend next month. What's good? I come from Florida.I like cars/motorsports so I will try to hit up car museums. I like museums in general, anime stuff and outdoors stuff as well. Gonna be with a first timer from Europe so if there's any good typical american food joints to check out that's welcome. Gonna rent a car probably so getting around isn't a hassle.Also, where do I avoid to prevent getting shot? Thanks.
>>2657608Just don’t leave the downtown area. It’s gentrified and safe so long as you don’t venture out of it. There are plenty of things to do there in walking distance or you can take a scooter around. Hit up Buddy’s pizza. The original is on Conant street which is now a sketch area but they have a downtown location too. It’s the GOAT of pizza. Go to a Tigers game even though they suck. Hit up the DIA if you want but you should really drive to nearby Dearborn to see the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. There are some casinos. It’s easy get to Canada but there is nothing really of note there. The best amusement park in the world is two hours south and east in Sandusky Ohio.
I went to Detroit last year and it was kino.>inb4 I heard six gorillion people get shot every year there!Are you a nigger living on 8 mile? There is literally zero reason to leave downtown Detroit, which is totally safe, as a tourist.
>>2657608If you like museums Detroit has a few good ones. The Ford museum and the associated village are pretty cool. The museum is car centric but also focuses heavily on turn of the century tech/mechanics. The Detroit Institute of the Arts is probably the second best art museum I have been to and I have been to all of the big European ones. It can take more than a day and it has one of the best collections in North America. If you like music you can also tour Motown Records, ok tour good way to blow some time. Other than that, downtown is cleaned up but since covid dead like most big cities. Stay out in Royal Oak for nightlife.
I'm also going to Michigan in July and going to be staying in Detroit for a couple of days. Bumping this thread>>2657637I was actually going to rent a car and drive to Windsor, Canada. Anything there to see for a daytrip?
>>2657753Detroit anon here.Michigan's not so bad if you get a car.Royal Oak IS nice at the evening, what are your smoking?Downtown Detroit has excellent restaurants.Campus Martius is nice during the day and early evening. Avoid eye contact with the niggers and don't invite problems. Don't get drunk on the streets. The niggers are not as bad as Chicago where they are less predictable, but they are still rabid.Some of the churches are absolutely beautiful in Detroit (Sweetest Heart of Mary, St. Joseph's, Old St. Mary's, St. Anne's.Riverwalk is alright.Get a car and drive to the west coast of the state. See Grand Haven. Check out the Sand Dunes. Swim in Lake Michigan.You can also drive to the roller coaster capital of the world, Cedar Point (in Sandusky, OH).you can do a few day trip to Niagara Falls and Toronto.You can drive to the northern part of the lower peninsula to Mackinac or Traverse City, or go to the UP.Birmingham has nice expensive but nice restaurants (get a cigar and a drink and a steak from Churchills).Lake St. Clair is nice off of St. Clair Shores.This is all I have for now. Fuck the haters.
is this a thing? I was thinking asia would be where its at, lots of rice and soup and vegetables.also I've read a few times american food is so toxic that people feel different/better after eating somewhere else for a while. could this be legit or they just feel good because they're on vacation? sorry if this thread is better suited to /fit/
>>2659267>Japanese boomers>Leave inheritance for their children, and use their pensions to support their offspring after death>White boomers>Ruin their society, sabotage their children and give everything to niggersJapanese victory.
>>2659352Thanks glowie for confirming that US life expectancy is in fact even lower than statistically represented because of all the jews, blacks, and democrats lying about who died.
>>2657615Still better than crypto ads, I guess
Cuba.You will loose a lot of weight and fast.
>>2657601After several trips to Europe and Asia, I’ve concluded that walkable cities unironically keep you from getting fat. Just 1 mile walked is about 100kcals. You do three miles a day, every single day, and that’s like 30lbs in a year. Over the course of a lifetime, and it makes a big fucking difference.Not a coincidence that Bongistan, the most car dependent country in (or not in lol) Europe is also the fattest.
I plan to go back to Thailand next month for my fourth time but I’d like to buy a one way ticket into either Cambodia or the Philippines first for a week before Thailand. Which country would you choose? I like the girls of the Philippines and I’d like to chill somewhere with a beach but the grittiness and sleaziness of Cambodia definitely attracts me as well.
>>2657731>Thailand>fourth time>like the girls of the PhilippinesIt sounds like you are really looking for some Christian fellowship and perhaps gathering with some sisters in the Lord for some bible study. Personally I would choose Cambodia, if you want beaches yo can always go down to Sihanoukville but I would stay around Phnom Penn where there are a lot of church ladies looking for a position as a missionary.
>>2657731>either Cambodia or the PhilippinesI wouldn't make this assumption about you if you posted about wanting to visit just one of these countries, but the fact that you're bringing up both of them at once sets of major child sex tourist alarms. I don't know anything about that and I wouldn't help you if I did you degenerate faggot.
What US cities should I visit, and what should I do in each?
>>2658080Portland, MEBurlington, VTManchester, Portsmouth, NHBoston, Salem, Cambridge MAProvidence, RIHartford, New Haven, CTThis is the real United States. Don't bother with the rest.
>>2658080New Orleans is the most soulful city in the US. I go at least once a year. Great food, legal street drinking, live music, gambling, festivals, history, river cruises and the bayou
>>2659327Euroids can't handle open expansive nature, it short circuits their brains. They need the concrete comfort of the city
Don't skip Washington D.C., it's honestly pretty great. Expensive and obviously home of the glowie, but the buildings are wonderful for an American city and the nightlife is really worth checking out. There's some good food to be had too, although everything is desperately overpriced like most of the American cities that are actually worth spending time in which are quite few. Like other anons suggested here, the nature is really where it's at and you should try to avoid spending too much time in cities, particularly outside the east coast, unless you have money to rent a car in order to get even basic shit done.If you're rich, I'd say go to LA because you'll probably have fun. If you don't have money, just avoid it because you won't really be able to enjoy anything except the weather. LA is honestly the shittiest city I've ever visited and I've been to Phnom Penh. Garbage everywhere, garbage human beings, ridiculously expensive and for what? So you can LARP as someone important while hurdling over bums to get to some shitty, overpriced club?
>>2658087I moved to Ridgeland, MS from Kansas City, MO when i contracted for Cspire for a year.this made me kekthe locals call the city “Jafrica” for good reason.
I'm in a hostel right now. I'll be traveling until the 6th. my mom just called me to tell me that my grandma had died.no fucking clue why she thought I needed to know right now. fucking silently crying like a bitch in my little cubbie hole. how am I supposed to enjoy shit tomorrow?
>>2646969Literally this, I'm turbo autistic and it was really hard for me to comfort my mom when that happened. I still regret not doing it, so OP don't be a faggot and take care of your mom, it's not about you, it's about her, I bet you would feel like shit if she passed away and you had no one to comfort you
>>2646892People call others because it's an important event. Knowing the date someone died makes them feel the closest they will ever been from then on.They think it's necessary to make a prayer, or they want to be comforted. It's of course not easy, and I couldn't imagine what it's like to be far from a loved one when that happens. I guess I sorta know, my dad died in the hospital during the pandemic and the fuckers never let us have access to him, even when I needed to bring him some medicine they omitted.You can only become accustomed to that with time.
I am not human so it wouldn't affect me much, if one of my parents died it would ruin me though
>>2654033same. when my grandma died I didn't really talk to my dad about it at all and he said that really hurt him. it just didn't effect me to much and i didn't really want to talk about it anyways. but he definitely cared that his mom died.
I create another utter shit attention whore thread on /trv/ as usual.
I have my first flight in my life soon and I am very afraid there will be some kind of problem.
>>2658643>doesnt know what a tailstrike ispilots are responsible for the majority if airframe failures.
>>2659955It's absolutely Boeing and blaming minorities instead of the venture capitalists who cut costs against the recommendation of the engineers is exactly what's wrong with this country.
>>2659964lol you are either a liar or uninformed. the two whistleblowers both disclosed this was 100% a DEI issue. The contractors were forced to hire lazy and incompetent employees, and then were unable to reprimand or fire them, due to DEI initiatives. and people have died. but that doesnt fucking matter because George Floyd is a civil rights icon against police veutality instead of a drug addict who had a fentanyl fueled cardiac arrest (the truth)
>>2659964they cut costs by filling positions with cheap diversity hires instead of expensive qualified peoplethen they murdered everyone who spoke out...zero consequences for that btwlmao
>>2659986same reason Elon refuses to hire them at SpaceX. they are barely welcome at Tesla. but DEI is absolutely no-go at mission critical SpaceX.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with settling down in a cheap hotel, ordering grab/foodpanda (mostly Western), and occasionally venturing out to eat local meals.>b-but that's not authentic travel!tough shit. Good food, women, and entertainment is all you need.
>>2659494>Any questions?Don’t you get bored? Do you suffer from anhedonia?
>>2659494>Any questions?no
>>2659491>>2659494what a faggot. dont you want to experience the thrill of weaving through traffic on a 125cc scooter in the hot, filthy air of Manila or Bangkok?
>>2659491You do you ig. No one cares either way.
>>2659963Thanks Dylan
The green states are the one's I've visited or lived in. They have have no culture. Their towns are dead, their businesses are all corporate or they're just boarded up. Their universities have no social life. Their people are cold and unfriendly on the inside. Living in these places will make you horribly lonely and depressed, no matter how much outdoor activities there are to do. Post your culturally dead stateshttps://www.fla-shop.com/visited-states/?st=CO%2CKS%2CNM%2CWA&vc=1ca032&uc=90cfea&hc=40bfa6&bc=ffffff&sl=on
>>2659641Hey low IQ anon. Yes these are >>2657963 >>2657962. Low your tone kid>>2659657>t. Vapid consumer
>>2656957I stayed in eastern WA for six months recently, and it was the most culturally dead place I have ever encountered in the world.No history. No culture. Boring people. Boring lives. No/bad events. Bad/boring art. Zero inspiration, zero creativity. Not even mid, just bad. Nothing.
>>2659805That's Washington in general, those characteristics are not reserved to the Eastern part of the state. The only thing this state has going for it culturally is Seattle's music scene. Beyond that, the whole state is a cultural wasteland and a provincial backwater.
>>2659782>oh no is that a small strip of amenities in my vast area of natural beauty?you're a fucking retard.
>>2657029>colorful>I am Canadiannice larp burger
anybody here actually made the trip to Antarctica? what was it like?
>>2659889yeah I'm just filling you in on the sitch, thought you might be interested to hear. field camp life is great even today but I don't know where people expect to go? if somebody was starting MCM this year with the goal of getting a field interview after 2 or 3 years grinding in town, where are they gonna go? siple? herc dome? HST? none will be the bustling hive of activity WAIS was.I feel sorry for them too. it sucks. its just over and its not really coming back.
>>2659899Lines up with everything I've heard from 20 years vets. Glad I got to do all the good field camp shit years ago. I don't even know if PIG still exists physically on this Earth anymore. Byrd will always be the best to me.
>>2659744Step 1: Be CanadianStep 2: Work for KBR>>2659775Wasn't talking about the real world, I was responding to the nigga who asked about Antarctica obviously. Also, a 'secret' clearance means fucking nothing and I stand by that.>>2659848Amen brother>>2659876Yeah I didn't want to go to WAIS anyway so consider it already forgotten about. The national programs will never truly collapse because there will always be the endless supply of faggy tiktokers and instagram influencers with 10k followers living on trust funds for mUh AdVeNtUrE applying to every position to try and go down each season.
>>2659744>helosvery hard. guys get these jobs and don't let go. twin otters are superior to helicopters in basically every way in antarctica, there aren't many use cases for helicopters so jobs are scarce. still, there are some things you simply need a helicopter and that is not going to change.>airplanesif you're canadian you can go kenn borek air (KBA)if you're american you can try and get into the 109th air wing of the NY air national guardif you're from anywhere, but preferably europe, you can fly for BASKBA is pretty achievable, but very low paying and features very slow career progression. the 109th and BAS will be very difficult to get into, each for different reasons.there are other jobs down there, for instance white desert has baslers, but those jobs are spoken for within a network of people. they fall into the "if you have to ask..." category.
>>2659914>>2659917Woops meant KBA, it's been years.
Happy Sunday Catchan,I thought I might tap into the collective travel knowledge here since we are all a bit of a diverse bunch from varying backgrounds. So I just booked a flight to Japan next month May 3 to Jun 1 and I'd like to hear any tips or reccomendations from those who have visited there or anywhere in the Orient really. This seems like one of the best months to travel there. Golden Week is just ending so less crowds and just before the wet season and before summer vacation for much of the world. I got a large backpack and plan to buy a second hand piece of luggage to load up with goodies before I head back. I know there might be a bit of a culture shock when I get there so I am doing my best to be prepared as this country is probably the most "different" country I have been to. So please share any thoughts or your experience in the matter. I am a well off male around 40 and I am planning on staying at a variety of different properties including ryokans, capsule hotels, hostels and Marriott properties as I am a Ambassador Elite with them. Also, I love hot springs and considering walking the Nakasendo Trail. A good primer or must knows would be very helpful for my trip. Thanks!
>>2650780Ryokans as a solo traveller can be a bit of a pain but even then there are places that accommodate solo travellers
I did the same thing with the suitcases and yeah definitely do that. It turned out that buying a suitcase full price in Tokyo was cheaper than bringing one with me on the plane there. So I stuffed my carry-on full of clothes and nothing else, enough to last me 2 weeks. In the second-to-last day I went to a suitcase shop in Shinjuku and bought a pretty nice one for full price, but that price was still like $45. I also impressed the kind elderly man working there by saying a few phrases. I like to think I made all gaijin proud. For your case you can probably find a cheaper one at don quixote.
TELL ME WHAT THERE IS TO DO IN NAGOYA RIGHT FUCKING NOW
>>2659871The Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology. Maybe you're thinking>I don't care about cars! They're boring!I don't give a fuck about cars either. But the museum isn't about cars, despite the pictures you'll find in English info online. It's about a history of Japanese machinery and manufacturing with actual, moving machines from the 1900s and onward. The machines are fucking huge and seeing and hearing them in action is incredible. I've lived in Japan for a decade, seen a lot of museums, and this one sticks with me more than any other.
>>2653812The funny thing is for years, white people blamed all the bad tourist issues on Chinese people. Now there are very few Chinese tourists and whites vastly outnumber them, and this is when every tourist is so fucking stupid that it's ruining the country. Really gets the noggin joggin.
Where can I find the creepy murals? I want to get a photo of the NWO soldier and the blue horse.
>>2659846Just fucking google it idiot, you would have found the answer in 15 seconds. Did this really need to have a WHOLE THREAD?I fucking hate zoomers so much jesus christ.
A thread died for this.
>muh fred dieded Don’t care faggot. Eat shit millennial.
>>2659846>>2653914
the giga rape horse is quite something
gm!What are some pages / services to book relatively cheap stays in Berlin?I'm looking to go to there between 17th and 26th MayHave been looking at Airbnbs but they have gotten ridiculously expensive, especially closer to the city center.I was googling for some hotels, actually found some that would be slightly cheaper but nothing that would be way cheaper.I looked through "Revolut stays" because that gives me 10% instant cashback, but even with that the stuff that just comes up while googling for stays is around 100 bucks cheaper lolAny places to book stays in Berlin that /trv/ can recommend me? Looking for something for 3 people between 17th and 26th May
>>2656915What dates are you staying? I didn't quite get it.
>>2657124Bruh.I mentioned it twice because depending on the dates and length of the stay, the available spots and pricing differs massively. Especially without knowing any good pages to book through.
>>2657157When? I didn't quite get it and can't be bothered to read again.
I recommend going to Scheißaufmeinenschwanzhausmeister to see the world’s most obese cheeto dusted “person”
>>2656915When in May will you go? I'm honestly surprised how many people come to Berlin for tourism in Germany when si many better places exist.
Can some anons share?
>>2643885>>2643884>>2643868These anons changed my life. Thank you.
>>2647780Some people come back from streetshitter land with multiple strains of salmonella and some nasty parasites. You're a fucking idiot if you didn't follow up on this properly.
>>2644170>first two weeks the food tastes amazing until you realize it's the only flavorTwo weeks? I was bored with the food after 5 days. It all tastes and smells the same and has the same texture.
I drove a motorcycle from Delhi to tawang, a place in northeast India. Probably one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. Second biggest Tibetan monastery with nice Himalayan background. It's a pain in the ass to get there though but no foreigners at all. Overall I would say India is around 20% horribly polluted and abject poverty, 70% just really boring with nothing to do in most places, and 10% of some of the most amazing sights and cultural diversity I've seen in my life. It's a travel that is really got super big highs and great lows. Right now I'm in guwahati which is a boring city, but places like nagaland and arunachal pradesh are mind boggling cool, with tons of local tribes, weird food, amazing landscapes and kind people. I really hated North India though.
>>2643837Dysentery is a spice now apparently.
