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>>1075777
If you're willing to stay in a hostel dormitory, accommodations in both countries can be had starting at around $5, although most are a bit more than that. Private rooms start around $15 but will likely be grim. Basic but decent 2-3 star places can be had for as low as $25 or so. Street food is in my experience slightly cheaper in Thailand than in Cambodia unless you speak Khmer and can access the local places (and even then you're going to be charged more than a local would be). Sticking to street stalls and night markets, you can eat for $1-$3 per meal in Thailand, $3-$4 meal in Cambodia.
>tldr--somewhere between $8 and $34 per day, depending on a lot of factors.

>>1075777
Both countries are listed here with prices in USD http://projectinspo.com/2015/03/10-of-the-cheapest-countries-to-travel-to/

>>1075867
Pretty much this. I mean, there is some variation - in bkk and some smaller cambodian villages you can get a private room for $5 but good luck finding a dorm under $20 on koh phi phi, generallly though this guy's prices are on the ball.

Always a good idea, and probbably an amazing experience regardless also nice to have on your CV. concidering you have enough money that is.

i have been studying abroad for about a year now, from Norway to New Zealand. its been an amazing experience and it feels really nice to be in a new place with little or no ties to Norway for me. mostly because of the +12 hours difference.

Not sure what the prosess is where you are from but check the requirements ASAP. i had to begin preperation 1 year in advance.

I studied in Thailand, 1 semester abroad covered 3 levels of language, or 9 credits and I forget if it was another 6 or 9 credits of sociology and other credits.
Don't go to a place that speaks your language, branch out.

>>1075759
conveniently i'm english and gonna be studying abroad in america next year
our universities are a bit more self directed learning oriented from what i can tell, you don't normally get homework apart from one or two essays and an exam, and you don't get that many contact hours, you're expected to do most of your studying in your own time.

i'd reccomend brighton, bournemouth, cardiff, edinburgh or manchester, don't go to london its expensive and shit

>>1075615
ask the bouncer

>>1075615
Have you ever been to a rave? You'll have many people ask you if you want molly.

>>1075615
The eastern edge of Golden Gate park and the contiguous Haight Ashbury district. I cannot speak for quality aside from pot.

>>1075306
I am sorry, but it is not clear what you are asking.

What does "luggage room pricing and places" mean? Explain using enough words that we can figure out what you mean.

>>1075324
As in: do X % of luggage rooms just belong to the hostel/hotel? How much they usually charge. Is this clear now?

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Bumperino bumperino

Flying on an airplane.

Beyond that, I am not sure what you are asking.

>>1075287
flights tend to vary largely in cost depending from here and to where you are flying.

>>1075265
Check ctrip for flights, see what you can find.

If you're already established in China, consider booking your flights through wechat.

I wouldn't think so.

Also, how much weight in coins would you carry to pay for your trip? Excess baggage fees might eat up whatever exchange rate benefit you are after.

>>1075291
Very true, I hadn't considered that

This thread. Top kek.

I don't take pictures at all, fuck these people who don't believe you unless you have some pictures of you being somewhere, everything i want to remember i have in my brain.

I like to take pictures of things, but don't like people in them. First time I realized that it may be odd was when my mom saw some pictures I took during a trip in high school, and she said "Looking at these no one would know you were there". I responded with I would know. But that's what made me realize that people pose in pics mail to show other people they were someplace, not to actually a picture of the place for themselves

>>1078141
Nah ur wrong tho.

I would much rather look at a picture of myself and/or friends/family in front of some shit 5, 10, 20 years down the line than to look at the same picture i could look at on google with no one in it. Its fun to see what you looked like and how you were acting back in the day. Most of my pictures hardly anyone is even going to see other than myself.

Thats not too say you cant take dope pictures without anyone you know or yourself in them. But those are usually odd photos that captured something unusual or something typical yet interesting about the culture that you wouldnt see anywhere else, rather than some boring monument.

Maybe its vain to want to see myself in photos, or maybe youre just ugly.

Ofc you are gonna remember important shit, but you arent gonna remember every detail and those can be fun to look back on.

I usually just take phone pictures tho, bc why am i gonna lug a fat ass camera around when a phone pic is just as good unless you work for nat geo

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just sack up and do it.

my wife and i have been taking our 1 year old son to yosemite and all over the sierra since he was 3 months old, and we're going to japan with him next year just before he turns 2.

>>1078111
you guys are like role models.

ima total noob to all this, landed a good job enough to travel. how do into hiking?

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>>1078113
3's gonna be hard because she's too big to ride in a backpack and is going to want to walk out on her own, but will probably need to be carried back to the car.

where do you live? any place scenic you can start to take her to just cruise around trails?

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Pho for breakfast at Cai Rang floating market

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by the time the meal is ready, i can't think of taking photos anymore... this is the closest probably, it's only the rice and the marinated meat missing, the sides are almost all set. busan, the restaurant where we saw most locals go in. no fish there.

the best food pics on my phone are wechat uploads from random nanning kids in china. they upload all these chickens beheaded in dusty backyards all the time, gotta love them.

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This is a photo of a Torta Guacamaya.

Tortas are just sandwiches made in Mexico. I had them all over the place. I've seen a few different versions but the one with roasted pork meat was probably most common. They were all awesome. Until I made it to Guanajuato and tried this one. This one wasn't just awesome, it was one of the best things I've ever eaten.

First of all, they person just made a regular sandwich with some roasted pork head meat. Lots of fatty bits in there. Then they started putting in pieces of chicharron in there. They just kept stuffing it and stuffing it to the point where it was no longer possible to bite it without pulling out some of the pieces of fried pork skin. Everything was covered in the best salsa I've ever had in my life and one I will likely never eat again. The person who made it said it was made with 7 different chilies some of which were local. It's pictured in the back. Avocado was in there as well somewhere but seriously, it's all about the chicharron and salsa in this one.

Everything Michael Palin has ever done. Not many great clips on YouTube though.

https://youtu.be/Ij8YuHIpOjw

Map Full of Saturdays

Thinking about documenting my adventures in videos. What would you guys like to see?

>>1076871
It's still Canada, bro. Not some angry Uighur village in farflung China. Yes, there will be plenty of events. Only the buttmaddest of Quebec nationalists will stay away, and we're all the better for that!

Yes there are restaurants and 'places' to check out. As it seems like you've done zero research and expressed no interestes, I'm gonna skip replying to that until you give us more to work with.

Yes, there are trains (Via Rail), and busses too. Quebec city is a "day or two" kind of place, Toronto you'll need at least 3-4 days.
>inb4 buttmadd bitchfest about Toronto vs Montreal

>>1076871
>Quebec has a questionable relationship with the rest of Canada

Easy far over-stated. Actual hostility to Canada is very rare; it's a matter of competing allegiances. More analogous to, say, Texas than Turkistan or whatever you have in mind.

But Ottawa is really the place to be for Canada Day, and it's close to Montreal. Also IIRC Canada Day is "moving day" in Montreal so a lot of people are occupied with that (leases run out / start then for whatever reason).

>>1076898
*Turkistan = Kurdistan

Catalan here. I support it. We should extend the same kind of measures to all kinds of tourism. Generally speaking the mediterranean coast of Spain is an example on how you should not develop tourism. Barcelona is still ok but is going the wrong direction. I'm glad we are tackling this problem now.

>>1076371
What are the major complains from Barcelona residents?

>>1076372
you name it. Drunk chavs everywhere 7 days a week, real estate prices ever on the rise, all the bad side of gentrification, people walking around the city as if it was a caribbean resort, traditional shops closing, prostitutes everywhere tourists are, not being able to enjoy some parts of the city without the crowds, and I could go on and on

>>1076169
>biggest country in Africa
>little

>How will a 18 year old girl like me do there ? Is it safe? What can I do?
Ficki ficki ficki

are you travelling alone? ill go with you

My dad is from there. He got the fuck out when he got the chance and never looked back. It's a sad country.

>>1075094
I'll believe it

>be in kampala, uganda
>was doing a local girl in a seedy neighbourhood
>leave her places at about 1 in the morning, i have to walk along dirt paths through a slummy area for a few minutes to reach the main road
>couple of dudes come up behind me demanding money
>don't even turn around to look, just leg it down a random alley
>dead end
>climb wall, jump into somebody's yard
>guard dog shits itself
>i try to calmly walk across the yard while making "steady on" hand gestures to the dog as it stands up
>it gets it courage up and barks and races after me
>i sprint to the next wall and clamber up as it snaps at my heels
>hear a security guard shouting questions as i walk off towards the road
>wave down a boda (moto taxi thing) and go to hostel

>be me
>manlet (165cm)
>walking down the street
>Sarejevo, BiH
>5PM or so
>just going back to my hostel, minding my own business
>not even in a sketchy area
>suddenly there's a kid on either side of me
>didn't even see them sneaking up on me
>one brown kid
>one blonde, blue-eyed kid
>13 yo or so
>gypsy-bosniak duo for maximum robbery
>try talk to me in Bosnian
>shake my head
>pick up my pace
>start asking me for money in broken English
>tell them I haven't got any
>both start casually patting my pockets
>tell them to fuck off
>they get more aggressive
>you not give money we stab you
>half sure they wouldn't do that
>half
>mfw I remember my hostel is a minute's walk away
>mfw hostel's owner is a chunk of muscle like you wouldn't believe
>tell them I don't have money but I'm close to home anyway
>kids look like they won the lottery
>walking up the stairs (hostel's on 1st floor) the gypsy kid has a face-wide grin
>Stairway to Heaven
>ex-commie bastard probably wouldn't know Led Z if it hit him in the face
>take out key
>go inside
>Bosniak kid stays outside, don't know why
>fine by me, I don't give a shit
>gypsy kid enters with me
>walk down the hallway
>common room's empty
>hostel's owner sits behind his desk
>"Hey Radko (don't remember his name), this kid tried to rob me on the streets"
>Radko storms up to us with a piece of wood as long as his arm
>this guy could easily be two meters
>gypsy kid bolts for it
>not before he gets two vicious whacks
>one on his neck
>one on his waist
>yelps out in pain
>Radko storms out of the hostel
>yells after them in furious Bosnian while they skitter down the stairs
>mfw

>>1074137
get prepared for explosive diarrhea

>>1074142

My ass is ready, ill embrace the delhi belly

>>1074137
The Delhi Belly meme is really exaggerated. Don't eat off the street if it wasn't cooked right before your eyes, and don't eat at really dingy looking restaurants. Guts need time to acclimatize it's true, but having some fucking standards of hygiene goes a long way.

Anyway, I'd not visit more than one city in Rajasthan/Gujarat. They're all the same ... desert scrub scenery, camels, skinny Indians with turbans.

Consider adding Amritsar (Golden Temple is cool, Sikhs are based, Punjabi food is fattening and delicious) and Aurangabad (Ajantha and Elora are amazing).

Don't spend any longer in Agra than you need to see the Taj Mahal. If you can, plan it so that you arrive early in the day, hustle over to the Taj Mahal, spend a few hours as necessary, and then get the fuck out.