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?
>>2868526>while skipping over important matters like your ability to converse in SpanishGonna be a hard grind in that case then..
>>2867485>i am going to rio>i got dates from tinder set upmacacos and other favelados be eating good soon
>>2869503>Yes, it is common practice for national parks in any country to have entry checkpoints. While infiltrating the park through the native vegetation may be possible, keep in mind that illegal entry is a crime and may carry a hefty penalty, including the threat of imprisonment. There's plenty of places to go exploring solo that are not national parks. Just watch out for village men with machetes. Don't let them get too close to you, or they may attempt a robbery.This was written by chatgpt, yes?I was asking about this whole area that takes up a significant portion of the country, and no doubt lots of people live in it.
>>2869489>the correct timing :(the weather doesn't change too much (or at all) in bogotá throughout the year. you might have certain seasons where it's rainier but in general, you don't have to worry about it being TOO cold, but you should be prepared for rain and it is chilly in general except when the sun is out. lima and cusco are not going to be too cold either in may. i would be more worried about the sunshine. pack the highest SPF they sell, because you're going to need it.
>>2870023thanks thinking about adding Medellin with Bogota (my flight out is from Bogota) but seems like a sketchy place considering i only speak french and english and am white as fuckdidn't think those stories would affect me but reading about anon getting robbed in front of their hostel seems kinda shittymaybe too much gore video from cartel on 4chan too>i would be more worried about the sunshine. pack the highest SPF they sell, because you're going to need it.honestly thatd be a welcome change from the shitty weather in france now
We’re a group of four lads heading to Hanoi and exploring North Vietnam-think Ha Long Bay, Ba Be Lake, Ban Gioc Waterfalls, and beyond. We’ve got the ping pong girls on lock, but what else should we hit up? Looking for the best mix of adrenaline, adventure, and local flavor - any hidden gems or must-do experiences?
>>2867664>>2868165I live here and I have no idea how to answer either of you.
>>2868165Get them green oil
I've finally gotten to the ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS episode in my rewatching. I don't remember this one.
>>2869969Oh fucksakes, wrong tab and I can't delete the post.
>>2869975If you're gonna be a retard, I reckon you might as well be a based retard. DS9 is kino.
what state of india should i visit as an american with a high tolerance for third world conditions that loves nature? so far i'm thinking of himachal pradesh or somewhere in the 7 sisters but i'd love to hear an indian's (or someone who has been there) opinion on the matter.
>>2869859Wow, that IS annoying.>make selection>doesn't give you a selectionUsing Halifax, that always redirects you to the app to confirm so you don't get stuck in an endless loop. I assumed other banks did the same but eh... How common is card payment there?>>2869684You don't get couples doing PDAs all the time and practically making out in public? For some reason I've only seen Indian couples here do that, where I guess they see it in movies and think that its totally normal behaviour.
>>2869859This is why I always bring a lot of cash. It's useless for booking things online, but when my card demands a fucking code for everything, cash can get me somewhere. The most annoying thing is it wasn't always like this. You used to be able to call your company before a trip and tell them where you're going and they'd let any purchases within that country go through. Now it's automated and if you call about it they always fucking say>We've automated it to improve your experience. It's a more accurate system now so you'll experience no problems. :)And it always causes problems. Somehow I was blocked from buying a fucking train ticket for $3 while traveling, but 3 weeks later someone in my home country was able to steal my info and spent $2500 in a single day on fucking sports betting.
>>2869866I spent 16 minutes on the phone with a Schwab rep trying to get the transaction approved without an OTP, but was unable to do so. My India e-Visa payment also required an OTP. Seems certain web domains like .in and .np are automatically flagged for extra scrutiny.As far as Talkatone's free US phone number, its capabilities are limited. You can use your Talkatone account in Asia, but you can't log into the account from an Asian IP. Also, after you've run up 100 OTP messages, which I definitely have over the course of a few years, Talkatone starts requiring a $4.99/month subscription to receive such messages. Which of course is fucking useless if you can't even log into the app.Thankfully, my shitty backup phone was still logged in to Talkatone, so I could call my bank for free instead of having to run around hunting for a shop that could add 200 rupees recharge to my airtel account for international calling credit, then failing to get the issue resolved.Thankfully, transactions like ATM withdrawals using the physical card + PIN remain exempt from the 2FA rigamorole. And Nepal allows tourists to enter at any port of entry, so traveling overland is gonna be the plan after all. A middle-aged guy passed out and crashed to the floor in the bus station just as I was passing by. Nearby schoolgirls gave me anxious looks, and no other guy had noticed, so I decided to act and started shaking him awake. He barely stirred for a few seconds, but when I slipped his phone back in his pocket he thought he was being pickpocketed and that woke him up. I pulled him by his backpack straps to a sitting position, handed him his hat and then he started messaging somebody on his phone. He never even looked at me or said a word.
>>2869861I've never seen anyone make a POS card transaction here, but I don't go inside luxury mall shops or five star resorts, so IDK if card payment is the norm in such places. Everything on street level is PhonePe, PayTM and all those QR apps. Agoda is the only company I know of which still does email verification. Everyone else switched to phone number a few years back and no longer offers email OTPs.
>>2864965Saaar I am a white woman, I felt safe in the strong arms of Bharat man. So much so I show my bobs and gave vagene. Very sex. NOT like those bloody benchod pakis. As a white womans I felt the complete ick from paki basterds.
This is my initial draft for a 3 week motorcycle tour around the Adriatic in september. I was initially going to take the ferry from Dubrovnik to Bari, but decided to leave from Durre so I can catch the bay of Kotor as well, though I don't know if it's worth passing through Albania or I should just turn around and go back to Dubrovnik.
>>2865638Depends on what you like really. If you like the mountains, definitely do not skip the Dolomites. If you like more of a rodeo, then stay more time in Albania. Albania can have some pretty rough roads here and there.
>>2865638it was 1350 to fly my dr to paris from Montreal in 2022 i had to play a couple hundo in import fees and insurance https://youtu.be/YuVy18FTkU0?si=BjpEaAPHycXRkHMoheres part of the ride from San Marino to Perugia
>>2865897Damn, that's cool, I did not know there was a program to fly your bike, I thought shipping was the only way
>>2866019motorcycle express is pretty sweet
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>Your plans for the coming year>Your dreams for the coming year
>plansBiarritz and the Pyrenees in July, Guadeloupe for my bday+new years at the end of the year. Might do Las Vegas and Death Valley around Thanksgiving.>goalsFind (another) nymphomaniac gf to replace my old one that I lost. Save up $130k in the bank (sitting at $94k currently). Play 100 hours of live poker (sitting at 20 hours currently). Learn to sail (have lessons booked this weekend but the weather might be shit). A few other things but I'm forgetting.
>>2869765Beauty becomes monotonous when it is so uniform, a rumpled blanket of green hills stretching to the horizon. A semi-arid landscape OTOH provides contrasts of green and brown, lush and barren, hill and dale, which provide variety and make for interesting landscapes. The ugliness of so much of the Third World also makes its aesthetically pleasing landscapes stand out all the more, and after enough time you become appreciative of any peaceful public space (like this shaded stone wall on the riverbank behind some old houses). At the moment I'm accepting that the next four months will be spent on the ground in South Asia. Return to America in July is anticipated, but at this point I've no motivation to level up my economic status by being a better goy and paying more taxes to ZOG. Luxury does not make me happy, and in fact manifests feelings of profound boredom/discontentment, so slaving away in the hope of attaining luxury is pure futility. 'Sides, my ticker is often aching and sometimes beats out of sync. Eventually it's just gonna fucking stop. I'm not gonna be the ant who works tirelessly to enrich the colony in the hope of enjoying its rewards, only to get randomly squashed by the foot of Fate. Living free of obligations and embracing esoteric states of mind help me accept the fact that I am one of billions of people destined to pass on without leaving a trace of their existence upon the world.>I don't know why, know why, everybody wanna die rich>Can't take it with you when you go, never saw a hearse with a trailer hitch
>>2869888the hills have different shapes and colors in different parts of appalachialinville gorge is a different beast to savage gulf which is very different from letchworth gorge and red river gorge doesn't look like any of thosethe shapes are always different the twists and curves are unique in each gorge and you will see local clustering where nearby gorges have fractal symmetries but go a couple hundred miles and the shape of the rocks and the hills will change
>>2869888>embracing esoteric states of mind help me accept the fact that I am one of billions of people destined to pass on without leaving a trace of their existence upon the world>Insists on blog posting in half the threads on this board
>>2869947We're all anonymous here. It's like pissing into the sea, but when you gotta go, you gotta go.
>finally save up enough money to be able to travel>some Middle Eastern war starts, hiking prices all over the world
>>2869710if ur a retard.>>2869730why do you think op wants to get pussy? sure didnt imply it...
>>2869708I'm young, ugly, and travel for tourist attractions. I have decent saving though because I have a job
>>2869731why do you think that other poster wants to get pussy>or ugly 30 years wageslaving sexpats who beg for pussy with their wallet... and uve outted urself as the latter.all he posted was a snarky comment about someone needing to save money to travel and he seemed to strike your nerve kekekdidn't post his age, didn't even post he was traveling, and you got triggered just because he might have moneydid you finally get laid bro and so now you're soulful, handsome, and on an adventure?
>>2869740im asexual. i have zero interest in human beings for reasons i wont go into, done it before. feel nothing on the matter.seems more like i struck a nerve with my silly post prompting a post with as many sentences as your passport has SEA visa stamps.
>>2869755If you don't want to be around people whatsoever, then you should look into overland travel in your van instead of flying to an airport city. Much less human exposure, much more nature time. >>2869701Another poster who doesn't understand the basic arithmetic of managing money. If you have X dollars and save up, say $6000 for your trip, then at the end of your trip, you will have $6000 more than you would have had if you didn't save anything. Is it any wonder some of you go from six figures to broke as a joke and can't for the life of you figure out how it happened.
I was just about to book flights and most of them transit through the middle east.How retarded would it be to book anyway and hope it's resolved before the end of the month?Should I just go somewhere else instead?
>>2867722Uh, not anymore. Iran just bombed Azerbaijan.>>2867981Looks like it'd be best to transit through Riyadh or Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. There really aren't that many other options.
UAE has reopened to flights, and they are awfully cheap to encourage people to start transiting through the country again.
Good. You know it's pathetic that people can't even survive without oil but I hope this continues and forces change. No flights means all the cattle stay the fuck home. No oil means no more cars either. When it's harder to move suddenly nobody is a fucking nuisance everywhere. We just gotta get rid of cell phones, drugs and alcohol. My ideal world is coming.
>>2867629insurance companies will laugh in your face too
>>2869886Yeah it would be awesome if everyone stopped zooming around on cars and motorbikes so much in their headlong race to accumulate as much wealth and possessions as they possibly can. But the counterculture is completely dead. I don't know a single person who has turned their back on prosperity when it was within their reach. They are all constantly striving to be as busy as possible. No choice but to feel like a lost soul drifting aimlessly through the ceaseless hubbub of commerce that has pervaded even the small rural towns in the Third World.
I'm doing my first ever multi-month back packing extravaganza.Is a 40L osprey bag good? I'm just bringing like 4 t shirts, 3-4 shorts, 1 light weight long pants, laptop, phone charger, laptop charger, 3 small backup batteries, basic toiletries, underwear, socks, light rain jacket.
>>2866960this is good information, as someone gearing up for a backpack trip around Europe (and later Asia too) I am curious eurobros, what airlines are super annoying about your backpacks? Ryanair looks like dirt cheap flights, would they fuck with me for having a farpoint 40?In the US, I took a massive bag on Allegiant and they never messed with me, but Frontier fucks with people all the time from what I've seen.
>>2869412Staff at the gate do check on Ryanair, Wizzair and Easyjet.Afaik they get commission per bag 'caught', like 1 or 2gbp a time. However, the word on the street is that they fucking HATE the stress which comes with it. Someone I know who does this job has told me they mainly look for hard suitcases, as they can't actually fit under a seat if they're not the right size.I've been asked 2 or 3 times to have my bag checked. Each time I:>took my laptop out>slightly bent the back strap diagonally in the container>put it inby the time i've said "look it fits" (it doesn't technically) the gate guy has already been dealing with other shit.I'd say you've got a 5% chance of 'getting caught' if you've got a proper Nazi on the gate who's checking every dimension properly (difficult if you've got the volume of EU budget airlines in cramped gate areas and quick turnaround times). When you price that in, you come out ahead.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2869412I've flown in China a fair bit, and never had problems with the aforementioned backpack and a hardback suitcase in the cabin. I've never even been checked.However, I've never flown ultra budget shit. I've heard that they actually weigh bags at the gate.I've flown with China Eastern/Southern, Airchina, Hainan Air, and HK Airlines.I've heard there's airlines like HK Express which can jew you in any way posssible. Btw, trip.com is your friend traveling/flying in China.Can't speak for rest of Asia.
I traveled using a 45L bag and it was good enough. I carried about a week and a half worth of clothes, climate was temperate, so I had 2 pairs of long pants, no shorts, shirts(some nicer button ups too), raincoat, and a light jacket. Just one pair of boots that I wore daily that I nikwax'd and a pair of flip flops for hostel showers. I used compressing packing cubes here and it really helped.For tech: thinkpad, power bank, gopro and spare batteries, and then my laptop can charge via USB-C so I got a single GAN charger for my laptop, gopro, and phone. Little heavy but it fit in every coin locker I found and in all the overheads on any train or plane.
>>2869512I see, that makes sense and kind of what I expected with the human aspect of it. The majority of people don't want to fuck someone over/really piss someone off for an extra euro or two. But there's always that chance you get that one person who is just a cunt Lol. I think I'll be good though. thanks for the info>>2869513I'll keep an eye out for Express. I think I did hear that about trip.com for them, I know they have a few apps that are basically a necessity now there. But this is more later in the year so I do have some time to figure that out.but thanks again you two for the information
It sucks that the era of easily being able to make money online (in the 2010s). Any low skill retard from the west could do some pleb thing like transcription or data entry and survive abroad. With slightly more effort and skill you could do something like bookeeping, translation, or tutoring. But now sites like Fiverr and Upwork are shells of what they used to be. The zone is flooded with jeets and AI, the competition is simply too high. To be a digital nomad you have to grind for 10+ years as a cubicle slave or be an actual talented hustler.
>>2869061>sucks that the era of easily being able to make money online (in the 2010s).*is basically over
>>2869061Transcription was a lot more difficult than it seems. People think desk work is easy because you don't use muscles, but that's precisely what makes it more stressful and less endorphin-inducing than labor jobs. No, I don't envy dorkers their slavery, regardless of how much they try to convince themselves that everyone wishes they could be a dorker with wire-rimmed glasses and furrowed brow, hunching over his macbook trying to figure out what the boss really wants.
>>2869061Truth, you have to throw away at least 5 years of your life in some grey wagie cube in order to get into a remote job with a corpo. It is basically impossible to get a remote job.
>>2869308I did it after 2 years and never went back.
>>2869856Two years in what field?
What are the best American cities to live in? Long story short, I bought a comfy little cottage on a plot of land to live the chud dream a few years back and I have a nice life here but one of the things that’s really worn on me is the total lack of a professional or social life. I’m young, and I want to buy a second home somewhere I can date, socialize, where there’s entertainment convenience, etc. to get away to for a few months a year at least. Problem is, I’m just not into anywhere anymore. Nowhere seems appealing. So I want to know where you guys like. Where should I look?
>>286972880% of population losing its mind over .8 percent of the population...
>>2869732mass castration of homosexuals under false pretenses is socially harmfultrannies hate gays and enforce male slavery by women
>>2869733waow...basedbasedbasedbasedbasedbased
>>2866337Liberals and foreigners are fucking up our cities. NYC put a MUSLIM over it.
>>2866718Spoken like someone who knows none of these cities
I want to go to Kyoto when it looks like peak autumn. I'm currently planning for the day after Thanksgiving through the first two weeks of December. Would that be about right?
>>2869543>Still a lot of green in that piclmao it's just a bunch of red trees in front of the templedid you think that literally every tree turns red at some point or something
>>2869582Is that taken during the Sep-Oct period? How common was a blue sky day like that in the photo? I heard they can get quite rainy in Autumn
>>2869647the date is literally in the filenameit's all green in september
>>2869582the kawaii Japanese schoolgirls clapping for me after I lifted the iron rod is one of my core memories
I took this photo on December 10th 2025. As you can see it's a bit late as the trees are pretty "dead"
I had a dream that I was in the Nunavut province of Canada and it felt strange. I haven't been to Canada in like 18 years so I have no connection to it, nor have I been to Alaska
>>2869636if you really want to go Canada for some reason you can drive to Yukon and go see Dawson City but apart from that there isn't much to see
>>2869624theres a basic no frills ferry that goes from washington to alaska. i wanna take that some day. no internet, seems chill.
There’s a Canadian train that goes to Hudson Bay that I’ve always wanted to ride.
Baffin Island is so ridiculously huge. Most of it looks like impassable tundra swamp, but if you fly into Iqaluit you can take a few hikes. Overall the Far North is so inaccessible and hyper expensive that only the wealthiest people visit it as a tourist destination. I've heard Yellowknife is an okay kind of place to spend the summer if you like endless daylight and mild temperatures.>>2869670The Alaska Panhandle is not geographically part of the Far North. It is heavily forested and sees surprisingly mild winters.
>>2869712What made you go there?
Planning on doing a week-long vacation on my gap year. I've wanted to travel to Europe for a long time and I've pinpointed two locations I most want to go to. I've picked either The Netherlands or Britain for my vacation. I've been interested in both countries for a while now and I can't decide on which one to go to.Britain is a very tempting choice. I have a lot of British ancestry so I've got a connection to the land and it has a lot of places I'd like to visit, like the Tower of London, the Natural History Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the London Eye but I'm also curious about visiting Nottingham, as I've heard it's got good nightlife and has a bunch of interesting pubs like the "Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem" which I hear is one of the oldest pubs in the UK. A British pub is the number one thing I want to experience the most.The Netherlands also struck me as a good travel destination as it's very similar to the UK but just on a budget. The Netherlands also has some good destinations such as the Rijksmuseum, the Ton Smits Huis and the Anne Frank house but with that said, Amsterdam has a pretty bad reputation with drugs and prostitution so if I did visit, I'd probably stay in Rotterdam or Eindhoven.Any thoughts?
>>2867523>>2868667Went to Podgorica to transfer to Albania and milled around for some hours. Its easily the most boring city I've visited, there's quite literally nothing to do there AT ALL. But it can be used as a base to the more scenic parts of the country, to what I gather. I saw some of the generic coastal cities in Croatia (Dubrovnik, Split, Trogir) but aside from the communist museum in the former, there's not much to say about Yugoslav ruins. Of my brother's travels the coolest thing I saw was the Mostar bridge which was destroyed during the wars and rebuilt, though I'm not sure if you'd find it interesting. I believe Kosovo is meant to be really cheap from what he said but this was years ago and such may not be the case... I'm also not sure if it would be Podgorica 2.0. I would recommend Germany, note the north-south divide. The south is more catholic which tends to lead to more aesthetics and prettier stuff, the area near Austria is max. comfy. Austrian Tyrol and Switzerland have imo the best landscapes in Europe, though I haven't been to Zakopane or most of Spain. I do find the architecture in the north of Germany to be a bit more restrained and similar to the UK and low countries (with more glimpses of flashiness so to speak). Again, Germany is no more expensive than the UK/ Low Countries. What I will warn is the the train network is confusing as fuck for someone who doesn't live there and you absolutely want to use the Deutsche Bahn (DB) app to use them. Since some trains are regional (regional bahn RB or something like that), for the whole country (iirc?) and intercontinental (ICE) you get different sorts of tickets for different ranges and its a fucking hassle when you've lived on an island and know of no such thing.
>>2867523>Baltics>super cheapNot anymore. They are highly developed First World countries with First World prices for everything except booze. Tourist services like lodging are very limited outside the larger towns, so your wanderings will be quite limited. Topography is generally dull. Summer temps are cool to balmy. Most tourists stay in the biggest cities, which have plenty of street life. Polish girls are prettier than Baltic girls. Poland is also cheaper, but less friendly to English/Russian speakers than their Eurozone neighbors.
Lithuania was basically a zero service country.>self check in hotels>self check out supermarkets>app purchased railway ticketsI spent more money per day than any other country I've been to, but felt like I was getting less than anywhere else as well. The mix of soulless modern construction and dilapidated Soviet era infrastructure was the main interesting thing about the country. Everyone is moving to the prosperous cities; the countryside is quaint but lifeless.
>>2867092>I'd like to visit, like the Tower of London, the Natural History Museum, the National Portrait Gallery Nothing can replace them. Amazing. You can easily add another 20 iconic things to do in London.>and the London Eyewell, this is new, might enjoy a dinner cruise on the Thames for the same hassle of waiting and lines.>spring breakVisit gardens, nothing like them!
>>2868665>Eindhoven... whyI'm going to a festival in Ysselsteyn in June and that's the nearest city. The village looks nice as well so I will explore that a bit if I can.
Would you travel this route?
>>2863117nah, too easy
>>2863117>>2863787i met some guy in mexico that claimed to have done it all by bicycle
>>2863117It's safe and nice until Lima
>>2869621bro wtf my post is almost a month old
>>2869784There's no shame in that on a slow board
Name a place in Sub-Saharan Africa where you could spend rest of your life:>Must be in continental Sub-Saharan Africa (none of that ocean island tropical paradise like Mauritius)>You are allowed to spend any money you got on your new house/apartment/shack, car etc.>You are subject to local laws just like everyone else>You can leave the country for few weeks per year to meet family, for vacation etc, like usually people do>You expect to spend rest of your life in there, living through whatever local economy/politics/society brings in incoming decadesWhat countries/regions/cities/towns goes to your mind?Easy mode: you have annual passive income of 100k (inflation adjusted).
>>2869326>Brazilyou truly cant suffer in that shithole huh
>>2869326...so Angola?
>>2869611any major subsaharan african city will have these kind of girls in clubs and bars, but be careful because they are gold diggers and will probably scam you
>>2869277Coastal Kenya, down to Tanzania (zanzibar).Thats a mixed race African but you can find lots of women with that body type on the coast around tourist areas.
Also above is correct. Any African woman on a dating app or in a club is a gold digger/scammer. I spent several months in the region and im not exaggerating, every other woman I met tried to scam me somehow, eventually. Even the woman I spent most of my time with eventually tried to cash out, when she got the feeling I was leaving soon.Remember this: if she's not employed and not living with her family doing chores and taking care of kids, she's sustaining her lifestyle by being paid by men.
