>>2887507
>Can you truly experience Brazil without knowing Portuguese?
Not at all, you could potentially get by in Florianopolis, Curitiba, or some touristy place in the northeast like Natal, but the actual feeling is impossible without portuguese, grind it up while you have time
>Do a lot of people there speak English?
Look for young people, usually will be able to communicate somewhat, mostly in the aforementioned places, never assume someone is an anglophone
>Is it as dangerous as people say?
The less english-speaking the more dangerous, as a rule of thumb try to never appear foreigner if you're able (you wont be able to, but it's worth the attempt). In the beachside of Natal / Recife / Fortaleza / Joao Pessoa and the like you are able to walk safely with a shining watch out at night no worries, but mostly keeping to well lit and tourist-focused parts of town. Don't try that shit in downtown or in your cultural immersion area or you may end up on the news, a simple polo or dress shirt could already mark you down as a target
>Where can I go for the best Bossa nova vibes?
To the past.
But on a serious note, the brazilian concept of boemia (bohemian life) is pretty much gone and so it this cozy non-place you're looking for, there's no sidewalk bar in Rio with that vibe no more. Mostly you'll find it in places that focus on blues or jazz, but most brazilian bars like that go full in on the north american jazz bar aesthetic. Fully gentrified. Your best chance is chatting someone up on your itinerary and asking them, they may enlighten you on the random location in bumfuck, brazilopolis that doesn't even show on google maps where you might be able to find some of that joy, good luck otherwise

>>2887697
If you're in the Serra Gaucha or Santa Catarina you may be able to get by if you reach out to the right someone in the town hall to guide you. you would then have a great time with the native german-speaking elite
t. been there, done that

>>2887998
What are the local white girls like? Are they easy to pick up from bars?

>>2888295
Is this you bud?
https://youtube.com/shorts/7uNz0FtJUFc

>>2887697 here,

>>2887998
>if you reach out to the right someone in the town hall
>native german-speaking elite
I really want this to be true. Maybe use Florianopolis as a base and then move outwards as I get to know people?

>>2887699
>>2887707
Thanks for the reality check, I thought that at least some people had been isolated enough to keep their languages, and/or that foreigners had gotten to Brazil in substantial enough numbers.

>>2888329
>Maybe use Florianopolis as a base and then move outwards as I get to know people?
Florianopolis is nice, but I doubt you'll find any German speakers there, pretty sure it was mostly settled by Portuguese and maybe Italians. Blumenau would be the most accessible place to find German speakers

>>2888252
>>2888315
>malaysia is one of the most corrupt countries in the world
the chinese have an actual oppressed mindset there due to racial government policies making them second class citizens. I'm slightly familiar with the politics there and let's just say the voterbase is demoralized enough there's an actual chance the extremist Islamic party (that vouches malay supremacy) will take power their next general elections.

such a hysterical debate about a pretty milquetoast SEA country, I dont get it

>>2888333
a kaya toast country to be fair

>>2888332
>the chinese have an actual oppressed mindset there due to racial government policies making them second class citizens. I'm slightly familiar with the politics there and let's just say the voterbase is demoralized enough there's an actual chance the extremist Islamic party (that vouches malay supremacy) will take power their next general elections.
This is severely overblown. White Americans had to take a backseat due to affirmative action, and they never turned into anti-social schizophrenics because of it

>>2888371
you appear to be an actual retard anon
>and they never turned into anti-social schizophrenics because of it
have a look around this website anon

>>2885778
i get what this guy's trying to say he's just too retarded to actually say it.
there's simply no motivation to assimilate for the majority of foreigners in japan

low-skill:
>you're basically a slave and you've got no path to PR
>going back home to vietnam or whatever in 5 years
>you're probably living with a bunch of other foreigners who speak your language in some company dorm

high-skill:
>you're on an expat relocation package
>work environment likely 100% english, you were sent here to fill a specific role that doesn't require japanese
>you're working for some multinational with other expats or japs who've also worked abroad
>also going home when your placement ends


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>>2885832
It would be impossible to reach a level of fluency where people would think you’re Japanese just by hearing your voice unless you lived in Japan before the age of 20.

>>2884190
I hope he gets to stay.
They should however dump A Fraud in Japan.

>>2887578
fat chris is too connected and useful to the tourism boards

>>2885605
>>2885608
A. sounds like switzerland if you're non-EU, the visa is tied to the employer. expats there have to be career/corporate people, there isn't much work/life balance for them.

>>2887369
>Southwest of Chattanooga is Paradise Garden, a mindblowing assemblage by outsider artist Howard Finster
That's interesting, never heard of that

>>2886121
>>2886056
you guys have any recommendations for hiking outside of north Georgia? I live a bit south of Atlanta and looking up directions I'm dreading a 2.5-3 hour drive one way with directions going right on 75/85 through that shit city traffic. Or should I just leave hella early? I've been to Chattahoochee Bend and it was kinda nice, Sweet water Creek is like a 30 min drive but idk how busy it gets given how close it is to Atlanta.

>>2888186
no, it's worth driving to north georgia, stay in a dinky motel if you must

>>2888089
I am talking about the hills, where food options are mostly pre-made goyslop. Most restaurants don't cook the food they sell on premises.

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>>2887718
It gets bad after a weekend
i would also add that walking around uptown is very nice and if you want good food leave the french quarter
jacques-imos (picrel) is the best restaurant in new orleans
t. lived there for a few years

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>>2881567
>Just don't stay in Athens if you can avoid it
Why not?
>>2876421
>>2875789
>>2875595
>>2875562
Where do you go to get good quality replicas of Greek statuary?
I'd like a bust of Aristophanes or some other writer

>>2881467
>What are the best island with a toddler?
naxos or syros

>>2875554
gyros and souvlaki

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>>2875554
I'm in Syvota. All I've done so far is
>tan
>get burnt as fuck and no longer be able yo enjoy tanning
>eat
>sleep
>repeat

Perhaps coming to a place filled with normalfags was a mistake, but what the fuck is there to do in a place like this as a sunburnt white man?

Any anons have experience with Crete during autumn? Mostly interested in hiking, nature, and history. I don't care about beaches. Thinking about saving the more spread out mainland for another trip. I also don't have a driving license but have heard it's mangeable if you stay in Chania and Heraklion.

>>2866799
>nooo anything without billboards and shopping malls littering the landscape is THIRD WORLD

>>2867384
I know this is an AI post, but it was trained on good data because it accurately captures the weird "obscure elitism" that pervades many boards on 4chan.
On /trv/ you're a phony tourist unless you got chlamydia and ringworm from a hooker on the dirt floor of a shack in rural Cambodia.
On /v/ you're a phony fake gamer unless you beat Bloodsouls 5 on GigaNigga difficulty with no armor and a wooden club
On /out/ you're a phony fake outdoorsman unless you hike 50 miles from any marked trail or road and sleep in a plastic garbage bag
On /pol/ you're a fence sitting cuck goy unless you advocate for the total extermination of at least one ethnic group
On /x/ you're a phony hylic looshcow unless you've achieved gnosis by masturbating onto a sigil of your favorite anime girl
On every board you're a wagecuck if you have a job and a normie if you've ever had any contact with the opposite sex.
The list goes on, but those are some of the more prominent examples I have seen on the many boards I've been to over the years.

>>2888179
>gets skill issued off of 109 different boards
>oy vey i dindunuffin
>agrees with le magic word rearranger that's trained on reddit posts
You're a paypig, a shitter, an IG hiker, a hylic, and a jew. You didn't beat the game, you're not white, and you will never EVER be a woman.

>>2866784
I've been to that place. It's in bengal

>>2888179
>On /trv/ you're a phony tourist unless you got chlamydia and ringworm from a hooker on the dirt floor of a shack in rural Cambodia.
Okay I'll have you know that, 1) it was a dirt floor in the Gran Chaco region of Paraguay and, 2) I didn't get ringworm anyone who says I got ringworm there is lying.

>>2888261
nigga it's obviously shot on film

>>2888262
must be the scanning then?
lol I haven't used film since like 2001

>>2887993
Yeah this duck is upside down as well >>2888258

>>2886549
That's a Sad Ass if I've ever seen one

>>2886553
With a telephoto lens like this on a phone, who needs to carry a camera everywhere?

>>2878197
this but actually unironically, I wish they had easy long term visas because I'd never leave

>>2878253
>stop being a degenerate
>don't get locked up
hard innit

It's a geek's paradise!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO2IYOaRiD8

>>2887826
Half is an underestimate

>>2888242
Usually, there are more female participants at Bon Odori festivals, but since this one is for anime otaku, there are mostly sweaty otaku guys.

>>2887827
Her friends were planning it already and she asked to tag along. I haven't outright asked but I think she doesn't want to bother them, when it wasn't her thing to begin with, if that makes sense?

>>2887827
The bull planned it and I don't want to bother him, does that make sense? *vocal fry uptalk*

my white gf doesnt mind me fucking trannies in the philipinnes

>>2888098
>Her friends were planning it already and she asked to tag along
after or before getting into a relationship with you?

>I haven't outright asked but I think she doesn't want to bother them
most people in relationships actually like their partner...
and WANT to spend time with them
so asking something this simple should not be a nuisance

>when it wasn't her thing to begin with, if that makes sense?
no.
either they're renting out an apartment, in which case she shouldn't go
or they all have their own (hotel) room, in which case you coming with them would be super easy

last (optimistic) interpretation is that her friend group just doesn't like you and doesn't want you there

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>>2888237
>just talk to her
>tell that you'd like to join the trip to spend more time with her
>if she agrees, great
>if not, only then tell her that you're not comfortable with her going on a trip with guys
>>>/r9k/

I was in a similar situation when I was 18, but I was too scared to go alone, and only went to Japan and Korea with a friend for 3 weeks.

I kind of regret it, because after my gap year of mostly sitting at home on the puter I went to school, and after that internships. Now i'm 26 and working and have other responsibilities. It doesn't matter how much money I have, I can only take my 3 week PTO.

Take a world tour, 60k will be more than enough (desu i think you can do it on 30k, I've seen some travel youtubers do a world tour for 50k for 2 people)

If you are a coward like me and scared to go places alone, go on some intrepid travel under 35 groups, I went on one last year and it was fantastic, made lots of friends.

I would recommend (assuming you are from the USA)

- Iceland, fantastic scenic drive
- London ( cheap flight from Iceland)
Cotswolds are nice, and theres some cool stuff in the countryside.
- Train to Paris, ( skip paris it's horrible) I really liked the Alsace region and the black forrest on the German Border. Feels magical. 2 weeks easy
- Can easily get to Spain from there, honestly can spend a good month there alone.

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Euro trip. Ride the trains. Spain is awesome. You can ride the trains from Madrid down through Andalusia and then hang out on the beach. Toledo, Granada, Cordoba, Seville, Malaga. Then fly over to Italy and do the same thing from Rome up to Venice. Prague, Vienna and Budapest is a fun route.

>>2887250
60k I would invest, but if you are going to blow it, I would be doing massive overlands in Central Asia.

>>2887250
u can go to tons of shit for like 2k dollars at any agw, put 50k of that into bitcoin and do whatwver you want with the rest.

>>2888116
>Now i'm 26 and working and have other responsibilities. It doesn't matter how much money I have, I can only take my 3 week PTO.
>I would recommend
Your recommendations aint worth shit nigga. Sit down and take notes

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these are some of the players we've been using over the last few years.
I lack creativity, but i can do stupid low quality stuff, any new idea is welcomed

Shall we add Appalachians as a player?

>>2886371
A lot of times it's a dead mouse in the wall that is making the whole room smell like rot.

>>2886371
No dead bodies but plenty of moldy old furniture. It was a 4star hotel maybe 60 years ago, now it's a dump. I remember having to go in the basement where the generator for the AC was, and using portable fans to cool it because it would overheat and block. It was dusty as fuck and full of dead roaches

>>2886852
>>2886820
there was that one hotel where the asian girl mysteriously disappeared and they found her months later in the water tank on top of the roof. so everybody all that time was bathing in the fluids of her corpse. that's the kind of hotel i like to avoid.

>>2887045
I remember that

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>>2882509
No, but this church in Hampshire has a weathervane bedbug that was supposedly a command from King John after he slept in a nearby inn and had to suffer them all night.

>>2886020
It's always like this. Bunch of young American wehrboos seething on behalf of the people who knew better than to hold pointless grudges.
My family was originally from what is now Western Ukraine, so they got the whole Stalin's package tour deal (exile to Siberia -> permitted to move to Kazakhstan -> resettled in Western Poland). My great-grandfather took over a remote farmstead near the Neisse. One day an old German couple rolled up in a car and said it used to be their home and they were curious to see what it looks like today. So he took them on a tour of the place, opened a bottle of vodka and invited them to dinner. They visited him a couple times afterwards and mailed each other occasional letters until they all eventually died.
People understood it was a war and all the misfortune that had happened to them was largely out of control of anyone who didn't end up in history books.

>>2881452
>>2881615
Warsaw is like Tokyo
Krakow is Kyoto
Gdansk is idk, maybe Hiroshima

>>2886043
Pretty sure all the cities in Poland and the Baltics were German. I was in Tallinn and some Germoid was seething that they stole Germans coats of arms, I was like no dumbass they were German . Funny that Americans know European history better than the locals

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>>2852705
whatever your plans are, don't ever visit Hel, it takes 564 hours to get there because it's so overcrowded

>>2853725
>No fancy restaurants or tourist traps
Nah nigga fuck that! The Wieliczka Salt Mine is nice.

>>2887619
> traveling to NK from 2025 onward is a lot different than it was 10y ago
so that's not really the case anymore
How has it changed? Are you allowed to leave the hotels and wander around on your own without a minder now?

Only North Korea can murder Jews and get away with it.
Why did they do it, bros?
rip otto warmbier

>>2887731
Better to kill a dude so he can't speak of the unspeakable conditions in jail than let him blab all on 60 minutes

>>2887726
>How has it changed?
North Korea has gotten a lot richer in recent years (still poor, but relatively speaking like plenty cars and congestion instead of empty streets)
i think they got more confident
or desperate for the money, who knows
>Are you allowed to leave the hotels and wander around on your own without a minder now?
no
but kinda
you still will have a guide with you at all times
but you aren't confined to the standard route and group tours anymore

you can have a 1:1 guide
so only you and the guide
which is what I did
if you don't tell them before what you want to do, they might have to ask first, but generally you're "free" on where to go

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>>2887593
I did the fly in from Shenyang in China. I stayed in a NoKo hotel and made the arrangements with some buddies. We flew into Pyongyang on an organized tour. The Mass Games were still on at that time. Did most of the usual tourist shit they take you to, but ended up hanging out a bunch with one of the guides who was this young dude just out of his military service. He showed us his apartment in central Pyongyang on Kim Il Sung Square. A bunch of his military buddies met us up at the hotel and we paid ping pong and drank heavily all night. I hope that guy is still alive.

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I was in Colombia and had threesome with 21 and 31 year old girls

They start as whores young.

Drove a car from Santiago Chile to Buenos Aires. Crossing the Andes was cool

>>2887755
>having sex counts as an adventure
the absolute state of this board

>>2876940
mumbaimax

>>2887958
in Jakarta it is