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This is something simmillar I am planning. I will explore the tribes in Gambia and Senegal for my masters degree in law. Are locals ok? Public transport safe? I have experience only in Asia. Is it ok to travel alone?

>>1218020
How much did you pay for tuk tuk? (eur/bucks)?

>>1218020
yes everything is safe, stay out of the big hotels in senegambia. in senegal i recomend to only go with bushtaxi (vanbusses)because the private cars are shitty, (old french cars) go to fast and have allot of accidents. in gambia and kasamas trafic is safer again.
>>1218021
the tuk tuk costed €600, but shared it with a friend. also painted it, installed two madrasses and mosquitonet

When I was in Mongolia, hitchhiking with a girlfriend we caught a bus of about fifteen cops going on vacation together. They sang us the national mongolian songs together and I sang them an old polish one.

>>1217607
on the same trip in China we had quite a lot encounters with police. They usually have a single person in a team that speaks some low level english. When they check your passport and it's fine they become very friendly.
Once SWAT came to check us for some reason
Once I was tired of crossing a huge city ahead, so I asked the driver to drop us on the ring. In five minutes polce car appeared and took us all the way across the city
once they took us from the highway, brought to some police station, fed, made photos, explained painstakingly that we cannot be on a highway, bought some more food and left us on some lower road.
All in all chinese cops are cool for tourists and playing dumb is really easy there. The only problem is they film you afterwards (provided they speak fluent english). Filming, they explain what you shouldn't have done and ask if you understand. So cheating this way is somehow one-time action

Some nice police stories from Thailand

-Thai policeman helped me find a hotel, bought me lunch and paid for the hotel after I was dropped off at his station after hitching with some other police, who were also nice since they gave me a ride

-slept in a Thai policeman's house after hitching to some random town, we drank whiskey and he tried to whore his mistress to me

-stayed at a friends house and smoked weed every day for a week with the local police chief, he also showed me around the area a lot and bought me food etc .

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Forgot loose women?
>I want life on EZ MODE: THE THREAD

>>1217531

Basically yes.

By "aren't shitholes" I mean Somalia-tier. I'm fine with Thailand-tier.

>>1217525
Puerto Rico

Parts of it are real shitholes but you can find a gated community.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?country=Switzerland

>>1217259
https://www.priceoftravel.com/82/switzerland/zurich-prices
But it's on the absolute low end, I would say 300 CHF per day and person for a ok tier trip.
ok hotel, sit down meal, attractions and some drinking/going out.
If you plan to hit the meme bernese upperland attractions like Jungfrau from interlaken bring another 100 CHF per day as the mountain trains/cable ways alone will cost you that for a trip.

I'm swiss. These numbers are accurate >>1217269

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>>1216334
Mexicans.

>>1216334
tacos y burritos

>>1216334
Air pollution. The air quality in Mexico City is disgusting, I feel physically ill every time I have a stopover there on the way to see my uncle. Buy a pollution mask and spend a day at most exploring the ruins and head straight for Vallarta or any other coastal tourist destination.

>>1216021
Do you mean you're gay?

If not, go to thailand and fuck some cheap hookers, if you are, still go to thailand and get fucked by some cheap hookers

If you're on the fence go to thailand anyway and embrace bisexuality

>>1216149
Fpbs

>>1216021
stop fapping and backpack through south east asia . be sure to get all needed visas while still in your home country. don'tt spend too much on whores.

Why don't you go to Italy if you want italian food?

Lots of cool museums in NYC, look into one about a topic you and your gf are into. Italian food in Brooklyn is world famous, and the bridge is beautiful to walk across.

>>1215623
dont have a passport.

>>1214880
Why are most Nothern French towns so ugly. I'm talking about Picardie, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Champagne, etc. Only the churches and palaces are nice

>>1214888
Because it's flat, it also have to do with the fact that northern France is """poor""" because it's a worker/farmer region. (Northern France feed Paris)

>>1214888
Because lots of them were destroyed during WWII.
Most cities have a gorgeous old town.

7-11 everywhere

>>1214671
intresting

>>1214682
other than that, you could rent a scooter from a western guy, he doesn't require any driving license but a deposit at 2-3k NT$. just look up the intenet, he has his own site with contacts, called something "bikefarm" shit like that
Take your stroll through YangMingShan National park north of Taipei, its much easier to enter from Shilin Area.
Take a day and get your ass to Hualien where you have to take a rental scooter again costing 400-600 NT$ a day. Drive up the coast to Taroko National Park and enjoy your 3600 metres above the sea level lift.
Any questions to add?

Having 20k in pounds as a 21-year old (like myself) is pretty good. I can't help you, but good luck

>>1214064
i work 48-hours a week, live with my parents and dont have a social life, nothing about my life is pretty good

>>1214065
No, I mean money-wise it sounds pretty good. At least you have the discipline to work that much, I should be doing the same thing...

So what I meant is that with 20k as a 21-year old is not a bad place to be coming from if you want to "run away".

You could basically go anywhere dude, depending on how long you're thinking that you're going to stay

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>>1212956
Turkey -> Syria -> Israel

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>>1212957
close up

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>>1212959
>Aint no thang homeboys, I'll just cross 4-8 front lines in a live civil war
If this is your plan for crossing the Middle East, I would strongly reconsider your entire fucking trip. It shows you have no clue about any political realities.

>>1210399
Its like a job but you dont get paid

>>1210409
but you get free housing and food and you get to live somewhere halfway across the world.

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>>1210399
It's a pretty cool deal with the right country, Japan is not that country

If I were you, I'd go to a country like Switzerland, in Japan your work will be fucking brutal, humid, hot and nobody speaks English

Switzerland, great weather, mostly fucking with hay and cows, and dat heavenly scenery

Pic related

>>1202865
well, messed up the bold text but...

Created this thread to ask about jobs in China, ESLfag moving from cozy Japan to Urumqi for some adventure, but worried about company hiring me.

1) Is it common for Chinese schools to have semi-shit English over email?

2) Is it normal for companies to have you wait in country on a L (tourist visa) while the Z visa is processed? I'd rather go straight there than go back home.

3) Anyone have experience Urumqi? I used to work in Kyrgyzstan, so figured it'd be somewhat similar.

I want to go to Urumqi too, but heard it's polluted as fuck

>>1202865
glad someone made a new one
shame the old one didn't get archived

>>1202868
I believe asking anyone to come in on a L visa is symptomatic of a scam

I don't think you can go from an L to a Z visa while still in china, and I hear companies doing this are just trying to get illegal labour

if they have a job for you, they should just give you a letter of invitation and tell you to apply for a Z visa

what was kyrgistan like, by the way?

Just get a damn passport, you could literally have it on this friday if you go tomorrow and pay express fees

old info, you need a passport 99% of the time

other than some lake in montana/alberta and a few buildings on the actual border in maine/new brunswick you need a passport

>>1218778
Judging from what I've read it could take awhile, but I found some information about a "PASS card" which I can get cheaper and easier, so hopefully I can get that beforehand. I'll see what I can do.

I was just curious on how the hell the US could not allow me in even though I am a citizen, Id have to go to canadian officials and get them to deport me or something if that were the case.

>>1218537
desu, thry are interchangeable. Ypir best valuw will be a Western Carribean cruise. Carnvial will likely be cheapest. Hitting Cozumel, Roatoan (Honduras), and Belize, in that order, will hit all of that. Also, Cayman Islands, if you do a 7 day, but they mostly have turtles, and Tortuga Rum and Cakes, which are all good, but not what you asked.

>>1218547
>desu

what does that mean?

Thanks for the info though, this seems more like what we were looking for.

We don't really care that much for nightlife/party life and seeing plantations from a few hundred years ago, you've kind of seen them all once you've been to the east coast.

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>>1218537
>We mainly want to see wildlife, both marine and terrestrial, but no scuba diving

Marine life without scuba diving limits you to picrelated or going to an aquarium. Unless your whole family use googles/snorkels ...?

As far as terrestrial wildlife, the Caribbeans isn't known for that. Most of the animals are very common (horses, pigs, dogs, chickens, etc...)
There are obviously more exotic animals out there, but those will be seen through organized tours (ie: visiting a turtle farm, visiting a monkey place), and literally 100% of Caribbean islands will offer such activities

What's your budget like? How old is your family, which country are you from and where have you been in the Caribbeans so far ? When would you wanna go ?