>>2859662
Japan can be really spooky outside bigger cities/towns. Especially those areas where only oldies live and it's stick in 90s with abandon buildings, no street lights, etc. Worst if you can't see shit and walk straight into a banana spider. Fuckers are not always in the greens but sometimes they just hang right over sidewalks in 180cm height waiting for my face to kiss them. And then you sleep in an 80 years old motel that just waits to crush you when the next mega quake appears. And while you poop in that tiny toilet a giant huntsman is chilling right next to you. I love that country but for me its the modern cities.

>>2864253
are those the ones where it's just a bunch of little girls dancing on a stage being oggled by middle aged men? I saw that in and around Fukuoka a few years ago and it made me deeply uncomfortable.
>>2858384
Speaking of Japan, Nagasaki in the nightime had an eerie vibe, the place was like a ghost town, and there were peculiar vagrant/criminal locals hanging around looking pretty shifty for 3am. Still a good place to visit, and it'll probably clean up a bit once the shinkansen gets there. Will probably make it into more of a tourist shithole though, which is a shame.

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>>2858384
Been to Oradour-sur-Glane, a village massacred during WWII
More recently been to a (temporarily) abandoned hospital ward, probably would of felt a lot more eerie if it wasn't a break from the overcrowded wards.

>>2869391
i stayed at the biltmore just before xmas. i have no idea what you're talking about. DTLA is a proper dump though.

>>2870562
Idk man I'm more sensitive to the paranormal I guess

>DTLA is a proper dump though.
Yeah it was so much more empty than I expected. A lot of streetwalkers too

>>2867316
the most lazy and absolutely soulless form of tourism ever ever ever

Why tf are people answering with AI written responses

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>>2869022
dumb quesion

I took a 2 day ferry from Denmark to the Faroe Islands, was kind of weird. I booked the "dorm" rooms expecting it to be busy af and so I could have some boat conversations to back packers but I was literally the only person on this level of the boat with hostel type rooms. It was kind of creepy and felt like a ps1 game of liminal spaces. It was also a giant ship, above deck was okay with the drinks and food.

It was a good experience if you like long travel

>>2867316
they were very fun when you are drunk with your friends once a year, you actually meet people there, play games or sleep if its a night ferry
they are NOT fun if you work on a place where you have to use them on the winter with big waves and wind (makes you feel sick or just straight up cancels the trip, which means food shortages etc)
t. Greek school teacher

first time i went to thailand i got so drunk and went to strip club, on it's own it's fine but after that i posted some super cringe story about going to strip clubs on my instagram. i delete instagram now whenever i travel cuz im too cringe otherwise

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>last night in Japan with the boys
>I fly out tomorrow morning, lads still spending a few days after me
>go to bar/club for a few drinks to celebrate my last night
>have a bit more than a few
>take uber back to hotel
>pass out in the shower
>lads unlock the door and wake me up
>they shake me awake
>”anon we thought you did a 13 reasons why in the shower”
>realise my flight leaves in like 2 hours
>get dressed, book uber to airport
>gook driver isn’t doing Tokyo drift but whatever
>run to check in counter
>oh so you must be Anon
>”yeah… can I still board?”

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>>2870938
Fucking phone ruined image gg - let’s see if this one is fucked too

>>2853175
>How has alcohol enhanced your /trv/ days? Any stories? Any major fuck ups?
Stand up comedy is always better with a little predrink. Plan ahead in Vegas or similar.

I mostly travel to visit wineries and go to wine related shit when I travel. My first real solo trip was to Spain and even though I was alone in a place where I didn't know anything outside of basic words that a baby could say I had a blast although I want to go out more at night the next time I'm there but I worried about getting drunk outside of the hostel or hotel room and getting into trouble so I just used the day to visit wineries and go hiking. I was in France recently with friends but want to go back solo, especially to the Pyrenees areas once I can dedicate time to actually learn French. The wine there from smaller producers was stupidly good for like 8-10 euros. Even the pricier shit was almost always worth it although Spain had slightly better pricing for the quality especially in the Canary Islands. Japan or Greece will probably be my next wine trip, the former because I've had a lot of cool shit from Hokkaido and Nagano lately and want to learn more and actually visit Japan finally.

>>2870721
>seems like a barren frozen shithole.
Yes, and on top of it it's full of Anglos, yikes.

>oil boomtown
>we need to keep our oil workers
>our oil industry is the only thing growing our city and allowing us to thrive in this wasteland
>I know, lets ban worker dormitories and spend excessive amounts of money running prostitution stings
Idk where we are headed, but at some point a threshold will be crossed and a lot of people who went out of their way to annoy and fuck with others, are going to get murdered.

Went there last year visiting Canada from AU
The only good thing was the zoo. Fuck Calgary, and especially FUCK EDMONTON.

Ended up in Calgary bc couldn’t go to Jasper after it burnt down. Should’ve just kept going and spent more time in Toronto or saw somewhere different.

this is gonna be the next state to join the union btw

Prince's Island Park is chill and has some cool wildlife even during winter. Tons of magpies and less crowded than the summer where it was 75% jeets.
Kensington is the hipster area but there are some nice restaurants and shops around.
Most of downtown Calgary is office buildings, much like Edmonton, except I don't feel like I'd get shanked in Calgary like I would most of downtown Edmonton. You can take tunnels between buildings to get out of the cold. Go to Co-op Liquor if you want well priced private picks of scotch and bourbon which are actually well priced thanks to the low taxes on booze. Last Best Brewery was nice and not too expensive for interesting beers and decent food by Calgary standards. Nim's by Mount Royal has insanely good fried chicken.
To be honest though I think B.C. just mogs the shit out of Calgary even though their drug addict population is way higher and more annoying but I'd still suggest do Kelowna and the Okanagan instead if you aren't going to Calgary for work or family shit. Or better yet just drive to Canmore/Banff/Lake Louise if you aren't megapoor.

>>2870961
if you get a tan are you no longer white tho?

>>2870961
homo summer soon

>>2867147
Depends where. In Rome it's super hot and also a lot of italians take their holidays as well, so tons of interesting restaurants and shops are closed for the whole month. It's like the city empties of locals and overfills with annoying american travelers (hope you're not one of them). I guess the further north you go the milder the climate will be. Sicily could be nice if you plan on going to the beach.

>>2867151
The whole month? Damn
I was thinking about checking out Rome and then heading north
>hope you're not one of them
uh...
I try not to be annoying

>>2867156
They work the whole year to be able to take one month off and get the fuck out of Rome for a while. It's not their fault that's exactly when you want to visit. Most touristic spots will still be open, but a lot of the more local shops do close for a while.

>>2866424
I had some success using Booking. Found some wonderful apartments on my trip.

>>2864742
Did you mostly watch curling?

>>2867409
I just received the same free room offer that I used to go this time, with one higher tier hotel now available as comp but only for 1 night

>>2860427
Yes. I was skeptical about the ticket price but it’s amazing. Unique and amazing experience.

>>2850453
I laughed at the first part. The only females on Fremont Street are super rachet. Definitely agree about the strip clubs.

>>2850805
Evel Pie, NY Pizza and Pasta, Pizza Rock.

>>2851878
>thoughts on Trump hotel?
Flight crews like this property. No smoke anywhere, no casino in lobby. Good security to/from the rooms, and extremely good valet. They might offer a free (tip the driver) ride vs ever needing an uber. I am loyal.

OP, Canyon Ranch has their largest spa in Vegas, and it's worth a great half day of one service, a massage or facial, and then hit all the facilities rest of afternoon, and then roll into a show later all refreshed.

As far as the great restaurants go, some of the best food I ate were through a walking food tour giving VIP access to several greats. None of these properties had reservations available for months.

>>2868350
Why do you put a space before your punctuation ESL?

>>2868350
how many times are you going to spam this random Instafaggot all over 4chan, you stinking queer?
>>2868315
Most people get grumpier in their 30s, less tolerant of the shenanigans of youth, less likely to get wasted and stay out til 2 am every day. I've swung hard in the direction of healthy & peaceful living since turning 30. Escapism is not my travel goal anymore, so nightlife with its shouting faggots and false cameraderie seems ridiculous and clownish, not to mention a waste of money that could be spent on a proper hotel room.
>>2868311
The older the hostel denizens are, the grumpier and quieter it is. Because old hostellers are all jaded lonely poorfags.

>go to yaosobi heaven
>find top rated soapland with most gaijin reviews
>camp outside entrance
>offer each customer a cigarette
>????
>profit!?

>>2868439
>participating in modern culture
What's that exactly?

>>2868315
He never socialized in his twenties and now he's trying to jump into the ring, that's why he's so scared

>>2866678
It's a boring place, usually people pass through to go home. I'm from Europe and they do a cheap flight to Athens. From there I could connect home.
Everything is expensive. Malaysia has all the food and does it better for fraction of the price. If you want to party and drink Thailand is a short flight away, so is Bali and Vietnam. It's safe and clean but pretty much all of SEA is safe. So ill give it being a clean place.

Singapore its not a real country, its a big bank with an Army

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>>2866678
Anon fell for the Singapore meme

You made your own mess kek

>>2866678
If you're looking for something fun, unironically go to Malaysia. It might seem drab there since it's "a Muslim-majority country", and it probably is quite drab now since it's currently Ramadan, but the rest of the year people actually party, eat good food, etc. It's not as perfectly rich or safe as Singapore, but not outrageously poor or dangerous. Many Singaporeans line up on the bridge to get to Johor Bahru just to eat Malaysian food.

Something else that ought to be said about Malaysia is that it's a multi-ethnic country. Malaysian = the whole country, Malay = just the Malay ethnic group. There are also a ton of Chinese, a minority of Indians, a handful of indigenous mountain people, and a few expats. The Western side of the Malay peninsula (where Kuala Lumpur and most of the cities and attractions are) is quite chill regarding religion, but the Eastern side is more ethnically Malay and Sharia-ish (though in an orderly and stately rather than radical or hazardous way). The Borneo part, remarkably, is heavily Chinese.

>>2867401
Honestly, even China itself is more exciting at this point, as long as you control yourself, don't act like an absolute idiot, and don't treat the place like Thailand. More things to see and do. Main thing that makes it better is that they're bigger than one small city on an island. There is nightlife etc., this is China we're describing, not some Gulf state. And since you're Bulgarian and not a burger like me, you get to travel there visa-free.

>>2867395
No. Anything but Kolkata.

>>2866683
>My country is so good I left it
Do niggas really?

>>2870653
Anon has a shitty phone camera and took a photo at midday. If he had a telephoto lens and captured only the rugged flanks of the mountain towering over the big red tree under the golden rays of the evening/morning sun, then you would get a sense of what it's like to actually be there looking at the view.

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I hate having power lines in my vista shots tho. They ruin the perspective with their ugly straight lines.

Stroked this big boi as he entered his burrow on the riverbank in Shirwal. He quickened up the pace a bit and shortly disappeared underground.

>>2870806
The shitty phone camera adds an extra level of Indianness

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>>2870815
Most Indian phone addicts have $200+ phones, which they likely buy on credit. I like my $65 motorola phone, but two hours of screen time runs the battery down to 40%. Indians are always shocked when I tell them how little I paid for my phone.

Virtually 100% of my positive interactions here are with men. Same with past travels to Poland and the Philippines. Women are rude and obnoxious, men are friendly and polite. It's always women shoving their way onto the bus to grab the best seats. I can be standing right next to the door waiting to board and ten women will push in front of me. One time the women were crowding so close that people could hardly get off the bus. I put my elbows at my sides and plowed right through them. Bitches love to push men aside, but they sure hate to be pushed back, kek

Met a 40yo blonde woman today, here for some spiritual retreat at the local ashram. She landed in Chennai then took a private taxi straight to her place then didn't go more than 500m away since she arrived 12 days ago because she didn't feel safe.
Took her for a 5 hours walk around the city and some nature, she enjoyed it but less than me I think even if it's my daily routine.
She got so much attention, especially from women, and it was a bit stressful for me after sunset, glad I don't have to deal with this daily.

>>2870818
The worst I've seen is Vietnam where girls must have the latest 1000$ iPhone. Heard about family businesses lasting generations who went bankrupt because they had to finance one for their daughter.

>>2870373
>one Sistine Chapel.
having to do deal with a million tourists ruins it and makes it pointless. if you want to see the sistine chapel you can do it better with pictures and video and not have to deal with the tourists. same thing with things like the mona lisa. there's just no point in going where all the hordes of tourists are going.

>>2870626
Well it's like going to a random commuter town near Berlin and seeing 90% Germans and some immigrants. These places aren't exactly interesting to visit, so what's your point?

>>2870630
>I've noticed this too. Single male travelers are lazy as shit and rarely go to places where they feel like they don't have a chance of getting laid. They increasingly travel overseas for comfort and leisure; they are picky and querulous and easily annoyed. Some of them LARP as Mr. John Conquest online, but IRL with their alcoholic hangdog faces wilting under the fierce sun on the rare occasions they venture outside in midday, they sure don't look like they're "living like a king".
You summed up this board very well

>>2870631
Thailand, Bali, Maldives, Vietnam, Malaysia.

>>2870275
Any city looks like ass from street level when it's cloudy outside

>>2869870
He didn't change his attitude. He chased views. Before he chased indian views by simping for their shitty country and stupid culture. Later he chased viewed by shitting on it, as the internet became aware of the "indian situation" as a whole.

>>2870876
>my only value is my hair
We know, zoomer.

>>2868867
The replacement is hunting and publicly shaming/beating/harassing pickpocket and scammers in big tourist cities.

Basically like an mmo and youre going after the people already pvp flagged.

Increasingly cohorts of young men and content creators are discovering that the police do nothing to stop then from harassing the thieves, and the pickpocket certainly wont run to the police.

Its really kicking off in some places.

>>2870876
>Being bald and doing anything except going to work and coming home should be a crime
This is so goddamn true.

>>2870930
that's a public service that the police are disallowed from providing, but I get why they look the other way. The courts just aren't able to effectively address some things

>>2869628
Nice, how many days was your horse trek? I'd definitely want to see as much wilderness as possible and I'd be willing to spend it on horseback. Any tips or anything more specific about what I should look for in a trekking company?

>>2831055
The Kazakh words for crab and lobster are crab and lobster?

>>2831045
>Even fine dining I had to ask for salt and pepper
You probably looked like a bydlo.

>>2869628
How cold is the weather this time of year? Was it very variable or mostly the same every day? Air quality looks great in your photos.

My bank card is requiring OTP verification sent to a US phone number in order to purchase airline tickets, so I'm putting my Central Asia trip on hold for now, because I don't have access to a US phone number while overseas on an extended trip.
>>2869628
Are there even any hotels and restaurants outside a handful of large towns? This country seems extremely primitive and requiring either self-sufficiency or an all-inclusive package tour.

Even getting from the bus station to your hotel in that part of Africa is hard, if you’re asking then you must love suffering.
Getting there will be painful, take 3 weeks minimum, and very very expensive.

>>2870747
Maybe 30, just time consuming and boring and annoying to get visas, a local guide, then wait for a caravan to fachi. There are tourist caravans you can join. I think its like $2000 for the canal caravan or $3000 for a 4x4 convoy.
I rank it 30 because you dont require any personal expertise and just pay money to do everything and get taken there.

Solo without guides/security/own 4x4/permits maybe a 90-95 since youre looking at camel trip 450 miles through desert and needing to bring all your water and food with you.

>>2870809
Whatever you say bro but reality is there is still alot of people that would to anything to live in the USA.
Especially in Eastern Europe.

>>2870811
I've met a lot of Americans through tourism and no, they're kind of like Brits. Not mogger height on average like Germans but definitely taller than Meds. Slavs and Germanic Europe are the tallest people on the planet.

>>2870824
Places like Poland are rapidly developing. Many of them are leaving UK and other countries they've emigrated to when the times were hard and going back. They're catching up to European standards and will soon overtake some countries like UK which have been economically stagnant for a very long time. The idea that Eastern Europe is poor is quite outdated. Unless you count actual Eastern European countries like Belarus, Ukraine and Russia as those are completely different stories and two of them are at war with each other.
The fact is that even though USA makes more than every European country not make Europeans want to live there. It's not as homogeneous, the culture is very different and more work intensive and you don't get the same benefits you get from the government over here. It’s appalling to imagine working shitloads of unpaid overtime and barely having any time off for Euros, but it's the norm in USA. Plus it's much more violent and degenerate overall. There might be some really bad areas full of migrants in Europe but its nothing like what a proper ghetto you get in US.

>>2870837
It doesn't make Europeans want to live there*

>>2870837
I've been to both places and know Poland well. Overall USA is still a better place to live and offers much more economic mobility.
Poland is ok if you are fine with never getting to any kind of wealth, value "muh homogenous white country", like cold weather and cold people.
Even though the USA is currently doing everything it can to destroy itself, I'm still very cautious about a good future for Poland solely because of geopolitics.
Mutts are lucky to live far away from the old continent and all the shenanigans they cause.