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>>1132253
wear a coat.

>>1132268
Wear many coats

engage your core
control your breath

>>1132185
Get your ass down to Lake Como and the Italian parts of Switzerland.

Or go visit a Romansch-speaking town.

>>1132185
>Go to Schaffhausen and visit the Rheinfall. It has high water atm and you won't get a more spectacular view of it.
>Go to Herisau, from there to mount Säntis. beautiful view all around and great hikes if you're into it
>Lugano or Locarno are top notch as the other anon suggested
>do the Glacier Express from Zermatt to Davos or the other way around

other suggestions depend on where you're atm...

>>1132185
stalk the German National Team, their basecamp is close to the Swiss border

(seriously though, south-eastern France seems to be really beautiful)

>>1132076
Go to a hostel, bruh. In Holešovice (literally on top of the C line), you can find a hostel with a bed for 200CZK (7€) a night. It is close enough to the centre so that you just get on a tram and go get some weed.

Sources? I'm Czech and I'm in Prague tomorrow for uni.

>>1132076
P.S.: I'll look around and if I find some Czech sites, I can translate/link them here.

How much do you want to spend a night? Also, how long are you planning to stay?

>>1132173
Shit, thanks man! Linking should be enough, we'll have google translate help us along the way, no need for you to stress yourself xp

We haven't really decided on a definite amount of money or time how much we'll stay, but we're thinking a week is gonna be more than enough, something between the 8th of aug through to the 14th. I'm supposed to start working soon, and I'm planning to waste at least half of my first pay on this (as the old Serbian saying goes, the first batch always goes down the river), and I think that'll be around 300e or so in total. My friend is gonna rely on the power of his mother's wallet and good will, but I'm pretty sure that he won't go without at least 200e totes, including travel and shit.

(btw, we're from Serbia, in case I haven't said so, and I have heard myths that there are international trains to the Czech republic from here, but probably with a change of train. Do you have a train that goes from/to Budapest? Since that seems the most logical place to switch rides, and I have no idea how to create that query on your train time table websites xd )

Speaking of hostels, my friend is a wee bit paranoid about them, mostly because they go for the 10 bunk bed in one room kind of thing to keep the prices down, and he doesn't want us ending up in a room who's gonna mind us getting high before going back to bed. xd

Speaking of which, I do remember being fully relaxed w/o any need for paranoia of the authorities when I was smoking a spliff (or well, that's what the dealer guy told me to do, anyways), but is the law for smoking/possessing any different from a country that has it illegal, or is the law a bit more loose? I was always confused about that, and I'd like to be sure.

Thanks a bunch for your help, man! Hope you do amazing things at uni today. 8D

Also I'll post one for my friend who was with me on the trip

>get to buenos aires
>keep passport in pocket
>lose it 2 days later
>spend a good $200 getting a new one at the embassy
>frantically rebook all flights

>>1131979
>go to prague
>go to that big ass nightclub thats actually not that good
>come out at fuck in the morning
>try to go to the kebab shop but kebab shop is behind the strip club
>"you want sex yes?"
>kinda yeah
>have no cash
>they have a cashpoint in the strip club
>girl keeps asking for more money
>am an idiot and fall for it
>no idea how much i spent but it was a significant chunk of my budget
>fucking terrible sex
>definitely never fucking a prostitute again

>was a particularly naive 18 year old
>trip through yuroland
>first part of the trip through France and Belgium alone
>breddygud/10
>meet up with friends in Rotterdam to travel in Netherlands and Germany
>this is the point where it goes to shit
>all they ever want to do is smoke weed, play guitar and do nothing in hostel rooms
>have to babysit two fucktards for two weeks
>essentially a waste of a trip
>haven't been on big trip since because poorfag
>been having some kind of travel grudge for 6 years because that's the only big-ish trip I've ever taken and it hurts to remember

Never used but am considering.
Either couchsurfing or some other network.
It looks like couchsurfing.org is requiring members to pay a fee to use the site (not create an account) so I'm looking for alternatives.

>>1130102
Oh wow, didn't notice that.
I also wonder if they let you use it right away, or if you need to build up a rep or whatever.

Let me know if you find anything better

Anyone else?

voodoo is overhyped shitty grocery store donuts and you have to wait in line for three hours to get them. pass

>>1129964
>that dum sine

PortLand does not even have zebras.

voodoo's hype is based off their gimmicks (i.e. cap'n crunch donuts) and not the actual quality of their donuts. i was disappointed. and the wait was unreasonably long.

>>1127690
What was your method of travel? Did you generally backpack but fly between regions?
How long was the trip?
What was the best part? Worst part?
How was Morelia?

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>>1127697
I flew a few times, but everything from Asunción to Lima i did by bus. I got on two overnight buses in Argentina and Bolivia, and one in Cuba. I hated it. When I arrived in Cochabamba at five am in the pouring rain without having slept I swore to never do it again.

I was gone for a total of 7 months.

I liked Bolivia and the southern Andean departments of Peru the most because of the native people. My favorite destinations were La Paz, Potosí, Iguazú, Cusco and Morelia.

No bad parts, but Cuban touts got on my nerves a few times.

Morelia is one of the most beautiful cities in the world in my opinion. Made a few day trips to other parts of the state too. Lovely. Why do you ask?

>>1127690
What was your budget and how much did you end up spending?

Have you gone on any long trips like this before and how did it compare? Trying to choose between SEA and SA.

salt

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>>1133574
/trv/

a Jew

dead sea salt

>>1133567
Dead sea scrolls?

Salt-encrusted scrolls.

>>1133476
where are you going ?

>>1133501
Taipei

>>1133476
I lived in Taipei for 1.5 years and drank tap water, but usually it either was filtered and/or boiled for tea because I only ever drank from the sink when home. When you're out, it's easier to step into a convenience store and buy a liter of cold water for a buck than hunt down a fountain to fill up. At school we had water dispenser units that spit out hot and cold filtered water.

I do remember my dad telling me to be cautious about drinking too much unfiltered tap water but I never really worried about it.

Not really.

I've got the Greyhound twice, both times in the day time for 3 hour rides. The weirdest thing that happened was the kind black lady sat next to me gave me a Jehovahs Witness pamphlet. It was a bit awkward but she waited till right at the end of the ride so it wasn't too bad.

I hear that if you get it at night in the south then that's a different kind of experience, though.

>>1133379
She was probably used to getting abused. Thank God have have a peephole in my door so I can see them coming.

Jesus christ. I did greydog bus from Providence to Denver back to Providence. 3 days. Worst fucking shit ever. Drivers are shit. Passengers are shit. The only way for me to live through it was I stayed fucked up. Smoke stop?? Smoke a bowl, drink booze, hope no one sat next to me, pass out. Repeat. This was before wifi and smart phones.

You want to go to New York to eat fucking McDonald's
Think about that for a moment

>>1133296
You want to go to Italy to eat Pizza
You want to go to the Netherlands to smoke weed
You want to go to Japan to eat sushi
You want to go to India to shit on the streets
You want to go to France to eat baguette

Think about that for a moment

>>1133290
Both are amazing places in their own ways.
One of them isn't objectively a better place to visit than the other.
Go with your gut instinct and remember that you're gaining a great experience, you're not missing out on one.

Looks awesome, can I come?

>>1133387
On my face or my tits?

>>1133461
both

>>1133173
America isn't great because of our cities. It's everything in between them. Have you no interest in natural locations?

>>1133179
I do, I'm actually a pretty big national parks buff but as it will be winter it makes some places inaccessible or not ideal to visit. I'm also 23 and waiting for when rental car rates drop for me when I'm 25 before I go and see many of them.

>>1133182
If that is the case, with the current car restriction I can't think of a ton of places for you to go unless some city has a big Christmas festival or something.

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Pumping with maymays

>>1133150
Man, there's a restaurant just next to the colosseum, you'll recognize it because it's next to a gay flag. Best pizza.

>>1133151
How high are the restaurant prices in general?