I find China and South Korea more interesting than Japan i like the cities and languages better and the women are just as beautiful as Japanese women unlike the Japanese the Chinese and Koreans have a less closed minded society they are friendlier i dont understand why anyone would choose Japan as a tourist destination i understand if you like anime but i prefer to travel to China or South Korea besides there are fewer annoying tourists and i feel its a more interesting experience
>>2873501Mogged no, Koreans are about as bad as Chinese tourists in terms of complete lack of civic order outside of Korea, but it’s worse to me because they’ve had far more decades to eliminate their bad peasant traits.
>>2873433when i was in Japan it felt like everyone was using every Jewish trick in the book to drain your wallet dry, when i came to Korea i felt like people still had morals and were actually concerned about your well being. don't know about China since I haven't been there yet. Also depending where you go korea is way cleaner than Japan. Maybe cause it isn't being flooded with gross tourists all the time.
>>2873602That has been my impression of Japan from afar. The whole country seems like a ripoff, where the locals hate you but lust after your money anyway.>cue weeaboo screeching>>2873594>complete lack of civic orderAnd why does this bother you? Let people live as they please, and likewise you can live as you please. >>2873586Chinese love nothing more than saving money on ingredients in order to maximize profit. If you eat cheap in China, you're not going to get quality food. Don't let any chinkboo tell you otherwise. I bet some of the places even pour the leftover broth from the customers' bowls back into the soup kettle, because the tummy always goes gurgly after you eat some of that cheap Chinese crap.
>>2873602I got ripped off in Seoul by a taxi driver. In Japan, that was just what taxis cost (i.e. a ripoff). But there's trains everywhere so it doesn't matter.For food: SK, the local restaurants especially barbecue was great. The beer tasted like ass, but in a kind of funny way. We mixed it with soju per the Korean custom and it tasted better. The fast food chains and conbini food was awful, so was any attempt at non-Korean food.In Japan, I would eat conbini onigiri, kara-age, and microwavable dinners a lot. The Japanese fastfood and chains were also great, the gyudon, conveyor belt sushi, and J-Italian was all reasonably priced. If I wanted to splurge I could go up a notch. At each tier, I never really felt I was being ripped off. There was a noticeable jump in quality. Was Japan more expensive, I guess. Was it also better, yes.Are the Japanese more xenophobic than Koreans, yes.Do Koreans hate their country and want to move away ASAP, the ones I encountered sure seemed to.Do Japanese feel like that, not really.A Korean hipped me to the geographic deterministic theory behind culture. The S.K. are peninsular and thus are the Italians (or Balkans) of Asia. They zip around on Vespas, smoking and spitting everywhere, and bumping into everyone. The Japanese island cutlure makes them more like the stiff-upper lipped Brits with the same penchant for cross dressing. China is more like the continental French, politically retarded and eating everything with 4 legs.>>2873613Yeah a lot JP-hate has to be from afar because it owns. The worst cope/seethe seems to come from expats in China. SK expats just move to SE Asia.
>>2873655>uses a taxi when there are trains and buses everywhere it costs like $2 USD for a one way ride even if its 2 hours away in Korea to use the public transportation system. In japan it costs twice as that or way more. I don't know why anyone would use a taxi in Korea or Japan though when theres the bus or train, unless you think you're royalty or something and need an expensive taxi to get to places. I've never used a single taxi in either countries. The only time I would use a taxi is when there are just no other alternatives which is pretty common in western countries because they are so shit.
planning a 1-week trip to London for tourism (an by tourism i mean hanging out at Cafes, Bars, and Brothels)>what's the cost range? >what areas are fun? I'm a walker and train rider, i hate taxis>how much would a 1-month stay cost in a reasonably priced Airbnb?this will probably my one and only visit to the UK, since as turd-worlder the visa cost me an arm and a legpicrel for your troubles
>>2873468>third worlder>going to one of the most expensive cities just to drink Why not go somewhere like Budapest or Tbilisi? Or even SEA? It'll be a lot cheaper and you'll probably have more fun
>>2873487because someone from place A might want to see something that does not look like place A at allyou literal mentally retarded autistiggers are incapable of seeing perspectives other than your own
>>2873491OP literally said he only cares about cafe, bars, and brothels. London and England in general has plenty to see, but if those are OPs priorities I don't see the point.He also never said where he's from. How do you know what his place looks like?
>>2873487That's every Third Worlder. They only care about the cities with the most worldwide name recognition. You think Ranjesh's social media followers will care about his trip to Tbilisi? None of them have even heard of it. >>2873468>spend a bunch of money for the privilege of spending a whole lot more money "hanging out"And you're going to do this alone or what? Sounds pretty lame. Unless you're really good looking, it's likely that you will remain alone and ignored by everyone. Don't forget, your "dream once-in-a-lifetime trip" is their daily slog. They don't share your enthusiasm about London whatsoever.
>>2873619alone yes.i'm not going there to meet people or play silly social games anon, I'm going there to cope and contemplate existence for a bit before going back to my detestable shit hole.
Sup /trv/,Was informed that USA citizens can stay like 144hr-240hr visa free in China and want to explore it this summer with some time off I have. Can anyone give me the breakdown because I constantly have conflicting info with new/old documents or websites that speak to EU citizens. AFAIK I have to do this:>Fly in from country Taiwan>clock begins ticking at midnight on day I land>in this case 5ish days>Have hotel prebooked and exit flight booked>Register hotel after checking in>Fly out to another country(this case Hong Kong)Is that it? I just have to make sure I leave within 240 hours? Seems fairly straight forward unless I am missing something heard a lot of people complaining about flights and such, but I always have all that shit prepaid and booked before hand. I've only "been" to china precovid which was largely me going through long transit overlays and not leaving the airport/airporthotel
This is a faggot thread, I don't know how you anons are using it. Op please go back to Redit.Someone make another one
Do women even exist in china? According to reddit experts they were wiped out cause of le heckin partriarchy and not the one child policy and they just make these fags in cloning factories now
>>2866022Vat's ze petrol price today, Klausenshtein?
>>2872587>prostitution is impossible for non-Chinese speakers to useI had success with those card they slide underneath your hotel room door. Just have a translation app ready to go and call them
Any tips for Lijiang that aren't extra obvious?
I have the fortune of working a remote job that while it pays about the average American wage, it's enough to barely scrape a lower middle class existence here in America. It also is not a W2 position, which gives me flexibility about traveling since they don't care where I'm working from. The only downside is that I work a continuous 6 hour shift during normal American work hours, 5 days a week.The thought occurred to me, however: "if someone offered you a job that pays 4 times the money, but its a night shift, would you take it?" And my response to myself was "hell yeah." So why wouldn't I move to a country where my money is worth 4 times more, even if it means I work a weird shift? Only thing keeping me back is my current GF. But if that doesn't work out, I'm gone.I had a couple of questions, some might be weird. I am tall (6'4"), average face, square head, blonde haired, blue eyed, chunky but not "look at that fat guy" fat. How can I expect my SMV to change in different areas? What markets would be good for me? I am also bisexual, so my first instinct was Thailand, but you guys know better than me. Let's say I have a budget of $3000 a month. What level of lifestyle can I expect to live?
>>2872747plus I really love Thai food
>>2872815then SEAyour night shift would be noon therealso they're cheap so your 3k per month goes a long way
>>2872778>living a higher standard of life than I can do here in the StatesIf a place is very poor, the standard of living is usually lower. You can have a bigger house but actual goods would be harder to come by. It's cheaper to fly to rural Nevada for overpriced sex than it is to move your entire life.
>>2872747digital nomad visa
>>2873190Depends a whole lot on how much you actually have. If you are willing to downsize to no more than you can carry, the whole world opens to you for a very minimal opportunity cost. >>2872778>he fell for the "higher QOL in poor country" memeLower effort for lower cost does not equal higher quality of life. The food I cook in America for $10 per day mogs the fuck out of the food I eat in Asia for $6-9 per day in ingredient quality. But I have to carry groceries for 3 km and then spend 30 minutes cooking in my apartment back in America. Here, I just wander into a restaurant and get served. >>2872815Yeah, but do you love eating Thai food breakfast lunch and dinner for the foreseeable future? How long until your asshole is BTFO by soft burning shits and you wish you had some blandly filling Amerimutt food instead?>>2872771Whores are lazy bitches who fuck for money because it's minimum effort and maximum reward. Can we stop pretending they are poor and desperate and somehow stroogling? They're not.
What are the best high-end hotels you've stayed at? What good features did they have?
>>2873126>have heard good thing about Aqua Domeyeah it's really good especially the views>but the hospital resort that houses it is very run downthat's sadly a common thingoutside the few major destinations in Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria & England and maybe Italyfor more health oriented stuff you could also check out>lanserhof>palazzo fiuggiwhich both have properties outside or are outside the alpsI already mentioned it but you should really check out>blue lagoonComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2873092>I personally like Cosmopolitan but these are entirely theming choicesI completely respect your opinion and probably just had a bad first impression of it since I was wandering around just trying to find a burger down there and it was ridiculous. But I'm an old fag who's married, if you're young I could see how Cosmo could be great.
>>2873048Entirely depends on what you actually want. If you just want luxury spas it's different list from actual thermal baths and if you want to some special treatments it's another list ...General getting pampered locations with good spas:The Dolder Grand (Zurich, CH)Panorama Resort & Spa (Feusisberg near Zurich, CH)Schlosshotel Fiss (Fiss, AT)Althoff Seehotel Überfahrt (Rottach-Egern, DE)Miramonti Boutique Hotel (Halfing, near Meran, IT)Ermitage Wellness & Spa Hotel (Gstaad, CH)Wellness & Spa Resort Quellenhof (near Meran, IT)More of a sea side resortPizzomunno Vieste Palace Hotel (Vieste, near Bari, IT)I could come up with some other stuff.
>>2873209And if you have a family check outMärchenhotel Braunwald(Braunwald, CH)
>>2873209>>2873210I am a solo traveler. > luxury spas it's different list from actual thermal bathsEither is fine for me. I like to stay in resorts/hotels which are by themselves worth a trip. Bonus if they are near a city so I can explore nearby areas. Examples are Hoshinoya Tokyo and Castelfalfi
>read Google reviews of a place>"fantastic experience! Enjoyed it, and can’t complain. Lovely staff!">3 stars
Only informative reviews are worth anything, for the information they provide. Random opinions or AI generated "Here's a warm and positive review you can share" drivel are utterly meaningless, as are star ratings.
I actually get a lot of specific info from Google Maps reviews. I will say the way their photos and videos are embedded is retarded and makes it super hard to view them clearly, easily in large sizes.
>>2873579If a review is beyond about 5 sentences, I don't read it. Asia is absolutely full of whitoids writing reviews that start with >(shitty tourist-oriented restaurant) offers the most exquisite flavors, and the sensei master chef has devoted decades of his life to mastering the ikigai of the luxurious cuisine of tamagoyaki (review continues on for 20 more paragraphs)When I see a review like that, I know it's shit.
>>2873587Wrote a review yesterday.
What's the creepiest place you've ever been to?
>>2858384I've been on a few prison tours. The best was the prison in New Mexico which had that riot. I work for law enforcement so I got a special tour that the public doesn't usually get.
>>2873169>EdinburghThe creepiest thing about this place is all the dead-souled Londoners that come up for Fringe season.
>>2873192Don't forget that Edinburgh is literally built on top of a bunch of corpses.
Not a travel story but when I was 14 my mom kicked me out for the night because she thought I drank some soda we had in the garage. The garage soda was only for guests/special occasions. It was actually construction workers who drank it but whatever.I didn't have friends and had nowhere to go. I tried riding the subway and pretend to miss the last stop and sleep on the train but I chickened out. At some point I was wandering through a dodgy area that was very dimly lit because the flat I was walking under was going to be demolished. I figured I could find a dark corner to sleep there. In the dark I could hear all kinds of noises, people walking about, probably some drug using, whispering. It was the scariest moment of my life. In the end I just walked around all night. A year later my mom kicked me out again for a night and I ended up getting picked up by police walking around a train station at 4 am.
>>2873196your mom sounds like a massive cunt
Why is there a campaign on internet and 4chan telling people that Japan being overrun by Indians and Africans? Share your experience here.
Japan sucks. Where the jap women at?
I am a lifelong 33 year old weeb who is finally going to Japan at the end of April to the middle of May. I understand that this is Golden Week and one of the peak tourism seasons. I regret not going before the tourism hype permeated the mainstream but I am glad to be going now. I had booked flight and hotel with my ex who spoke Japanese but COVID canceled our plans and we have since broken up. I want to collect some NPB Pokemon souvenirs, does anyone know where I can buy those? I have a ticket to a Yomiuri Giants game as well.
>>2873507Majority of them are chinese, koreans and south east asians. Not a horde of niggers or pajeets like shills and gritters try to trick people into believe.
I was told that Japanese women are probably the hottest Asians there are, and I don’t think I have been more underwhelmed in my entire life.The vast majority are not pretty at all. They look like caricatures from the 40s with weird teeth and round chubby faces. And that excludes those who wear face mask so you can’t really tell how they look.Sure there are some hot ones, but the majority is not attractive. They’re also very very short. I actually expected them to be above 5’6, on average but a significant chunk of them are like goblins.Wtf bros, this whole website lied to me>b-but the models and prostitutes are hot!Yeah and that’s the fucking point.
>>2873540Well I guess you can have fun realizing that they just wanted your money, you stupid gaijin
I had a french grandmother. Is there any chance I can milk citizenship out of this?
>>2872940Unless your mother/father got citizenship, I don't really think so. But maybe. If it were possible, I'm pretty sure you need to be near fluent with the language if you're white. Talk to your local consulate maybe? But chances are slim. Easiest way is to marry a european
>>2872951>>2872950No on the parents with french citizenship :(
how about you stay in your country and fix it instead
>>2872940These laws can be finicky, and sometimes aren't even applied according to the text of the law. Research their citizenship by descent and then look on reddit/facebook for people who were in your position. If there's no straightforward path you can find, there are plenty of attorneys who can do a free consultation with you.
>>2872940My Dad's family is all Volga Germans from Russia that came to the US in 1912. Apparently, Russia allows you to apply that far out. Hey if it is my right to claim a second passport, I don't care if it is Russia, I want it. Germany pretty much told me to fuck off.
Would you travel this route?
>>2863787>communists insurgentsfucking vibe with them then, & make the trip more authentic. Also everyone interested in this should see the 2004 movie, its great.
>>2863117Yes, barring the Venezuela leg.
>bro just vibe with the terrorists bro, tell them you're a commie too and you support the strugglePlease do this
>>2872505with ferry/boat you can probably get a bike around the gap. a car would be trickier
>>2872562normally if you come down from panama you would come down on the caribbean side, not the pacific side. you're right about the pacific side, though, the coastal area is very dangerous. but they do have whales and stuff
Be honest /trv/, when was the last time you had a true adventure?
>>2870834The advantage of summer is that you won't need to carry cool-weather clothing, right? That means a much lighter pack. 33 C sunshine and a little sweating doesn't bother me. Bring water and electrolytes, of course. As a long-term traveler, I carry a fair amount of stuff that I wouldn't want to hump on a long trek. Always wondered where I'd leave most of it in the meantime. Do cities have public rental lockers where you can leave your crap for a few weeks? >a group that's normally completely invisibleMore like completely nonexistent in most of Asia. Most foreigners here are sightseers on a fixed itinerary or expats with a fixed residence. So yeah, it would be interesting to live this life and also feel like part of a group.
>>2873267>33 C sunshine and a little sweating doesn't bother mekek you say that now, have you ever backpacked?
>>2864371>I walked part of the way of St. JamesThis is a thread about adventures, sir.
>2024 Went on a 4 week study trip to Nepal for University and spent time at campuses with groups of local students commencing study together. Doesn't sound like an adventure but I had a great time learning about the culture.
>>2873301Don’t knock it till you try it
Does this mean the unwashed masses will be priced out of traveling?
>>2871368No he isn't
Goyim dont deserve to travel.
>priced out of travelingNot quite...but my choices as a budget traveler have become very limited. Just locked down my return ticket to America, which will put me at roughly $1200 USD spent for a complete circumnavigation of the world via six flights. Last two overseas travel seasons I spent $1800 on flights, so even with soaring flight prices I've honed my ability to pounce on a good deal just before the window of opportunity closes. But instead of adventuring around Kyrgyzstan or Hokkaido, I will be smoking weed and eating pad see ew in Thailand for the nth time. It's lame to keep visiting a country over again when so much adventure awaits in new places, but I'm not throwing away my hard-earned money on fucking airline tickets. India - Central Asia - Europe - Colorado would easily run me $2000 with the way fares are currently priced.
Yes, I wanted to book a multi-city ticket and visit Taiwan again for a week, but the airfare would've gone up over 50% to roughly $800. It's infuriating, but that's the New Normal.
>>2871334They already were, something like 60% of people have never been on an airplane.
Do you guys think making mood videos for each city would be a good idea? I went ahead and filmed a ton of various cities and was thinking of syncing each up with a fitting instrumental song, just to have some nostalgic piece dedicated to every place I've enjoyed. I was also thinking to pair each video with field notes for the city, but idk if anyone would care for it. I already keep personal journals mapping out best things to do, times of the year to visit, hiking spots, restaurants, sunset paths, overrated spots etc from everywhere I go
>>2872957Only if it's VRhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK2GUZFlNc4
>>2873096Interesting, but the slice of life shit is kind of lame. Never seen Tokyo look so boring
I can watch the scenery go by outside a train or bus window for hours on end, but I can't watch a fucking YouTube travel video for more than five minutes before getting bored and switching it off. It's just pixels on a screen. It's not even real.
>>2872957So like a youtube video with some lowfi beat with the shots in time to it, like a Casey Neistat video?
>>2873257it would just be five min max.>>2873399something like that, but his videos are mainly NYC and vlogging
How do you deal with boomer parents being annoying about you travelling? I am unemployed but currently have over 6 figures of savings from waging and living at home for the past several years. I want to spend my summer this year abroad after I have completely failed to find a rotational job that would allow me to travel. I know they will gnash at the teeth if I decide to do this. I am late 20s and I know it will just lead to a giant argument.
>>2873219Time to cut them out of your life.
>>2873227truth nuke
>>2873227Sounds to me like they want to keep you on the treadmill at all costs. they HATE when someone saves up money and it allows them to buy freedom for a while
>>2873227A few months off for travel isn't a "giant gap", just tell prospective employers you got laid off and the economy made it hard to find a new job. Or tell them that you had to leave the country until the heat died down from your last bank robbery, w/e.
>>2873299>Travelling is a good enough explanationthinking you need something better is peak boomer mindset>muh you must be working at all timesliterally every second zoomer has a gap travel year nowadaysa good chunk of applicants tell me they traveled and skipped a few semesters Uni while still officially being enroll (I'm EU based so Uni is almost free)and every goddamn time I have to tell HR that i don't care about that when they join my teambecause most >40yo HR persons think that this is a """problem"""just be mindful who's interviewing you
What do backpackers even have in their massive backpacks?
Something else I've noticed is that traveler packs tend to fill to capacity when you travel for a long time. Then they stay at capacity, because you obviously refuse to buy anything when your pack is already stuffed full. Traveling in hot climates, it's usually wise to carry at least one liter of water, if not two. Sometimes you don't have time to buy a bottle along the way. But water adds a lot of weight to your pack.
>>2873261I went to India with 5 pairs of pants and 10 shirts and I still fit it all inside a normal backpack. There's no way it's just clothes.
>>2873261Smelly basterd
>>2873270Some people don't want to be a travelslob wearing basketball shorts and a sleeveless shirt every day just because they pack small. Others want to be comfy at night and wear pyjamas. Cool or wet climates necessitate jackets and rain gear. Yeah, you can buy items along the way, but if you already have it, why not bring it along? There's a degree of comfort in having a heavy pack when you own very little else.
>>2873218Other backpackers
