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>>1217521
>it's another "I didnt check the catalogue for the dozen other solo travel threads" episode

>>1217521
You're a fucking idiot

>>1217497
is she going to get murdered?
real talk, how likely is a girl traveling solo or local going to hike with someone I assume male she just met?

>>1217500
I guess you bring up a good point. I do it all the time in the US but I guess it's a bit weirder outside the country.

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First of all, don't come after March. Don't go to Gold Coast in the last 2 weeks of November unless you want to get glassed by a schoolie. Don't come to Australia and only visit the Gold Coast; it'd be like me visiting America and only seeing a tacky tourist town like NY, LA, Miami.

>>1218219
>Don't come to Australia and only visit the Gold Coast;

Not everybody is going to be charmed by Alice Springs.....but if that's your cup of tea check out Shell Knob, Missouri next time you're Stateside.

>it'd be like me visiting America and only seeing a tacky tourist town like NY, LA, Miami.

Only one of those places is truly tacky (it's Miami)

>>1217287

wait, you live in 954 and have never been to the fucking Everglades?

holy balls..... go.... go now....

>>1217309
ive been on fieldtrips as a kid, on the typical airboating excursions and shit. But haven't gone since then. Im basically within walking distance of the everglades though, just wondering about camping and other things to do.

This thread about the Everglades is in the archives:

>>1214839

First make sure the airport is open all night; some of the budget airline airports aren't. I once found myself sleeping on the sidewalk in Santander.
Just make sure you have some kind of blanket because airports can be very cold at night.

>>1217182
beware of pickpockets who try to rob u while asleep

whats the problem op?

i sleep anywhere, poor backpacker here. also i really hate long-flights, or the hideous 8-hour layovers i get myself into, and usually just sleep.

don't expect to be allowed to sleep past night time. security wakes you up as soon as the sun goes up.

i tried falling back asleep a couple times. big no-no : (.

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I camped on a lake on the TN/GA border that was amazing. Another neat place near Asheville.
Stay in hostels too.
I'm on the Mississippi coast now and much of it is incredibly dull, especially after Katrina destroyed everything. Ocean Springs is nice.
I found the blue ridge to be a pain to drive. Slow and meandering which I wasn't looking for at the time. Pretty though.
Regardless, stay off the larger highways if you want a more interesting and scenic trip.
Oh yeah, red bluff in west MS is supposed to be cool.

>>1217111
Thanks for the tip about Red Bluff. Looks awesome!

>>1217084
>Nashville TN

when you go to the Opryland Hotel to walk around the massive indoor atriums (obligatory visit for anyone coming to Nashville), bring your swimsuit. You can walk to the pool, change in the locker room and lock your stuff up, and use the pools and hot tub for free, they don't check whether or not you're a guest (if you're discrete or if you go in the evening, I've been stopped once before when it was a busy time of year with a group of friends, but I found a key card on the ground and kept it from the last time and showed the worker, and he left us alone)

for the best view of the city, check out Love Circle by Vanderbilt, only locals or college students know about it for the most part

>restaurants
Pharmacy Burger (East Nashville) for burgers
Five Points Pizza (East Nashville) for pizza, they won some international competition
The Pancake Pantry (Vanderbilt area) for breakfast

12 South is where to find the coolest local eateries as well

>parks

spend time wandering around the riverfront parks, they're massive and quite pleasant

centennial park has a full-scale replica of the Parthenon, a must-see

bicentennial park is really neat too, the farmer's market is right there and worth a visit as well

>night life

2nd avenue and Broadway downtown is lit as fuck all the time, especially in the summer

public transport is shitty though, be prepared to pay for parking. Although if you're exploring downtown and don't mind walking, you can park on the street for free in Germantown, which is directly adjacent to the bicentennial mall

t. grew up in Nashville

SACATE LA MOCHILA

That's very unspecific, anon.
Where do you exactly want to go?

>>1217009
I went to Ushuaia and Buenos Aires. Both were pretty comfy in their own ways.
Buenos Aires:
Cultural place during the day
Partying/going to bars at night
Ushuaia :
Trekking most part of the time
I few guided tours that didn't have any other option unless you want to swim or rent a boat.

Try to make contact with Belgium people and ask them about their country. Make new friends and learn about Belgium. Visit the Waterloo monument to learn more about the Low Countries.

>>1216945
>belgium
>>>/x/

>>1216945
theres a museum card thing you can get that includes the basilica, belfry, hospital museum, dali exhibit, picasso exhibit, and a bunch of other shit. chocolate museum was somewhat interesting, beer museum wasnt all that great and wasnt included on the museum card, your better off spending your money at a bar trying out all the different beer

>>1216918
OK.

>>1216918
I want to do the same but I'm not sure how to get a job I can do remotely. I'm about to graduate with PhD in ECE so i have options

For the chinese visa, you need to book all you hostels and hotel ahead of time. So you wont be very flexible while in china. Same goes for russia, but you said something about visa free, so that shouldn't be a problem

However, trans siberian rail to mosow, you need to book ahead of time, so again not much flexibility.

Id say songapore to hanoi, you can pretty much book a day ahead, and from helsinki to denmark. The russia china mongolia thing needs to be booked ahead because of visas, transport and visa

Good trip though, looks very fun

For the chinese visa, you need to book all you hostels and hotel ahead of time. So you wont be very flexible while in china. Same goes for russia, but you said something about visa free, so that shouldn't be a problem

However, trans siberian rail to mosow, you need to book ahead of time, so again not much flexibility.

Id say songapore to hanoi, you can pretty much book a day ahead, and from helsinki to denmark. The russia china mongolia thing needs to be booked ahead because of visas, transport and visa

Good trip though, looks very fun!

>>1216873
>Beijing to Xian to Shanghai to Yunan to Guangzhou to Vietnam

WTF?!?
China has a very extensive High Speed Rail network.
Beijing to Xian is 6 hours.
Beijing to Shanghai is 5.5 hours.
Beijing to Guangzhou is 8 hours.
Shanghai to Chengdu has 3 fast trains 11 hours each.

The rest are mostly slow sleeper trains.

Yunnan is fucking awesome.
I personally recommend you see the far north. Go to a town call Feilaisi then hike into Yubeng. (you won't regret this)

Guangzhou is honestly boring.
Naning has a sleeper train to Hanoi, kinda annoying since you cross the border at 2am in the morning. But it works. Hanoi is honest kinda boring. You can ride the unification express all the way south. It is slow as snails. Haivan pass is rediculously beautiful. I wished I had stopped by there.

Chaodoc to Pheno Penn has a ferry service, the Veitnam side is super scenic as you get to see the locals doing their water things in the mekong delta.

Cambodia suck balls.
Thailand is cool.
Thailand to Singapore is another long journey.

Cheers, and bon voyage.

About the campaing and sleeping.

You can sleep in your car without problem, what you can't do is camping. So if you put something out of the car like a chair or a towel the police can punish you, so, as long as you dont do that it's ok.

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>>1216656
Go to Santander if you want Spain, not Bilbao.
No problem with camping unless you make a fire to cook something. Make sure you aske the people in the nearest town which camping zones are liable to have BBQs, since it's ILLEGAL to do so openly during June and August in non-designated zones because of MAJOR fire hazard. Don't be that Brit that gives your countrymen a bad name by causing a million-€-worth fire that we get EVERY year.
there's also no problem with sleeping in a your car, but If I were you, I'd stay in a hotel.
>what should I see
It depends on what you want to see. Do you want something more akin to the waether in the British Isles? then stay in the North: Cantabria, Asturias, Galicia.
Bare in mind this regions are very old, quite and small, which may feel like the medieval times for someone who expects Madrid levels of infracstructure.
If you want the purest Medieval Spain, then head into the plateau, particularly, the Northern part, following into Aragón, to see the stunning city of Zaragoza and head into France.
If you want something more "typical" for a British vacation, then go to the South; Andalucía, Murcia, and the follow the cost Mediterranean to the north to get to France.
I would recommend the first option, since the second one is, quite literally, Little Britain during the summer and it won't have any kind of Spanish feeling to it.

>>1216662
>stunning city of Zaragoza
Zaragoza is pretty meh.I would rather visit Cuenca,Toledo,Segovia,León,Avila,Aranjuez or Burgos than Zaragoza

>>1216530
You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.

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My thought?

Just study for your stupid math class and come back to this site in 5 years

>>1216530
Yeah that's right you can probably live on about $1 a year in Eygpt make sure you wrap up warm though it gets cold during the day.

>>1216242
Typically, I call it a night, but when you arrive that late you need to tell them the actual arrival time so they don't give your room away. Also, I might sleep in that first morning, and enjoy that hotel's pool to remove jet lag, laze about. But, the thing I would not want to do arriving that late is not get showered and well rested for my trip.

Err, I guess you could stay at a generic close-to-airport hotel the first night, I suppose. The airport is in Kenner, which is pretty far outside of the historic district, So, this might be a little savings, some express hotel versus something nicer in the French Quarter or other districts, or maybe you get a nicer quiet hotel where you know you'll swim in the AM.

The only dilemma I have is when you do a redeye flight, and you get in at 7am-9am, and hotels won't let you check in til noon. That is where it doesn't seem worth the money for that partial day that is a full day rate. Almost always in those cases, they'll let you park your bags in the manager or concierge office behind the desk..some might even suggest using the spa, pool, restaurant, and will signal you when a room is ready at noon (though they always get you into one by 10:30 to be nice..they simply won't promise it. Sometimes I park the bags and go walk around and find somewhere to eat, because I'm too groggy to do anything meaningful.

hotels are pretty fucked with this for check in times

air bnb can be good, some hosts allow a check in at 10 am, good chance they'd be out during the day too

if you were renting a car to keep your bags could try to do an all nighter at some 24 hour places, but don't know if it's a good idea for someone not familiar with NO to be driving around at 3 am

also if you have a car, casinos tend to have huge monitored parking lots, if you say you're passing through many will allow you to park on site for 6-8 hours

>>1216251
I'll just pay for that extra night. I'm planning to be very tired by that hour so I just want a place to lay down in.

The airline hotel thing is an idea.. it'd be convenient but it's just that much more expensive than the cheapo airbnb room I'm planning to book.

That's a great response, thanks

As long as you stay away from areas like Kuta where the drunk aussies congregate, you'll be fine. There's quite a lot of nice things to see around the island. Hire a driver to take you around, there's stuff like temples, rice fields, and in general just nice things to see. The drunk aussies just stay in their little containment area around the beach.

>>1216222
Thanks dude. But I already booked an aparments in Seminyak, which close to Kuta. But I'll try my best to stay away from drunk aussies, even tho I wont mind banging aussie qt. But yeah, I'd go to see the temples and basically everything.

I just got back from Bali. I can't compare it to other islands in Indonesia, but some comments I would make are:
-People are genuinely nice, aside from the unavoidable hustlers in tourist areas
-The food was disappointing. I mean it was great, but doesn't compare to 'Nam or Thailand.
-The snorkeling was kickass. You can park your motorbike, rent a snorkel on the beach for $5, and be swimming with clownfish around a Japanese shipwreck in the space of three minutes.
-It's just a shame the reefs have been destroyed in so many places
-It's too hot to appreciate the nature. I got in a couple cool jungle hikes, but I abandoned most of my /out/ plans.
-It's more expensive than comparable options in SEA.
-There's nowhere on earth where I've felt more strongly this feel: "I wish I'd seen this place 20 years ago".

>>1216198
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbjVrm6XS_A
another video i found

Yes you'll likely have trouble if you want to visit the US in the near future.

>Am I gonna get nuked?
It's a dangerous country, yes.

>Will I be banned from entering USA/Israel/Any other country?
USA have recently banned people with Iranian citizenship as well as people who have been to Iran in the last 5 years from entering the country. Israel would never allow you to enter if you've been to Iran.

I strongly suggest you don't go. There is nothing to see there and from an ethical standpoint it would be very wrong to support the terrorist regime by visiting the country and thus supporting their economy.