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Anonymous
Why do people travel, /trv/?
Is there really so much to see in buildings, mountains or history that you can't just look up online?
>> Anonymous
The main appeal is experiencing the native's own culture and their fruity way of doing things.
Talking to the people that live there and shit. Even places like Germany are dramaticly different from the USA, and its not easy to convey from typing up "Germany" in the wikipedia search.
>> Anonymous
>>49803
Plus, it's different.
Like walking from a forest into a city.
Cept its countries.
>> Anonymous
its all about gaining a different perspective. Different countries have different cultural views about just about anything. And it doesn't matter how many pictures you see of a place, you still can't fully appreciate the beauty of it until you see it in person.
>> Anonymous
you've got to get outside, buddy. Live your own life, not through other peoples pictures. Go and see what's out there, and create your own story.
>> Anonymous
>>49803
>that picture
WHAT THE FUCK
>> Anonymous
>>49806
So, you go visit clubs or something? Where do you have a chance to talk to people?
>> Anonymous
Oh god no. Pictures?

I'm the type of person who has to really experience these things. I need to touch it and smell it, see it up close with my own eyes. The world is so vast and different. It has always been my dream to visit every single country on this planet at least once.. yes even the warzones, yes even the shitholes. I haved lived in 3 countries and visited 17. If I was told from now on I could only look at pictures online than that would be a fate worse than death... you're just letting me see and read about something that I will never ever get to experience.

/trv/, I like to travel.
>> Anonymous
OP, if you never traveled abroad, I really pity you. COME THE FUCK ON BUDDY, go visit another country, you only appreciate traveling once you've done it yourself. Plus, there's MANY things a picture can't capture,
>> Anonymous
Not the OP, but I've never traveled abroad because I could never afford it. (Amerifags gotta travel a long ways to get anywhere.)

Still really can't afford it, but now I can't think of anywhere that I would actually WANT to go if I could.
>> Anonymous
>>49868
And where do you get the chance to speak to people in your own city? this is the same, only abroad. Only this is better, because you get to know other cultures. I find it very interesting to communicate with someone from a very different culture; you really learn a lot, and it helps you better understand the world. People who discriminate most likely never took the time to get to know the culture/religion/whatever they discriminate against.
>> Anonymous
>>49869

What countries have you been to? Which ones did you like and hate?
>> Anonymous
>>49890
>And where do you get the chance to speak to people in your own city?
... Nowhere?
>> Anonymous
>>49887
Everywhere.

Hit the UK and spread into the whole of Europe.

Hit Algeria and experience Africa.

And so forth.
>> Anonymous
>>49895
Originally I am from America but I now live in Germany. So that's 2 right there. In addition I have set foot in:
France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Finland, Iceland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Turkmenistan, India, China, South Korea, Thailand, Australia and Tunisia.

I didn't hate any of them. I honestly don't "hate" any country on this planet. It always blows me away when people say they hate a country... I mean, it's not a living creature. It's a block of land with imaginary lines in the dirt. And that's every country on this planet.

But if I had to choose a best and a worst trip, I'd have to go with South Korea being the best (SO much of everything, the nightlife is so amazing and Seoul is such a busy city!), and the worst being Australia but only because it is basically the same as my home country so it wasn't really...exciting, fresh or new, you know?

In the future I would like to visit less busy countries and more peaceful ones. Turkmenistan was really nice because of how grey and gloomy it was... the Faroe Islands look promising, and I -must- see North Korea before I die.

And just for the record, I do a lot of my travelling alone. I take my partner with me sometimes.
>> Anonymous
>>49803
Yes, there are certain things you have to see in person to the get the full experience. For me, the three most emotionally evoking places I have been are: the Anne Frank House, the Valley of the Fallen and the Louvre. Also, Morocco was a real eye-opener; it's only country I've been to that is largely Muslim.
>> Anonymous
>>49911
The only thing I don't like about largely Muslim countries is being woken up at 5 (or 6, I forget) by some guy yelling, "AWAAAAAAAAA ALLAAAAAAAKBAAAAAR"

I mean, I have nothing against Muslims or Islam as a religion, I just want my fucking sleep.
>> Anonymous
Thankfully I never slept there. I was staying in Costa del Sol, Spain and the group I was with travelled to Morocco for about half a day. The worst part was visiting a tannery, I have never smelled something so bad in my life.
>> Anonymous
>>49906
The problem with the UK and Europe is that traveling to any of them is way too damn expensive.

Also, Africa: Do. Not. Want.
>> Anonymous
>>49918
what, you dont enjoy amoniak?
>> Anonymous
>>49868
One you start approaching people, you will learn people skills if you have just a quiver of self-insight.
>> Anonymous
Fuck being an Amerifag.

Shit is so expensive.
>> Anonymous
"Why do people travel, /trv/?
Is there really so much to see in buildings, mountains or history that you can't just look up online?"

SAGE
>> Anonymous
I used to want to see the world, now I just want to destroy things. What the fuck do I do join the fucking military or something? I really want to fuck some shit up, and maybe see different countries.
>> Anonymous
>>49803

There's an entirely different experience seeing something in person than reading about it online or in a book. If you can't understand that there's no helping you.

A picture conveys information to just one sense (sight) and limited information at that. Being somewhere in person conveys information to all available senses and in a way not limited by the angle the photographer decided to shoot from.