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>>1074973
Also I'm considering driving around the island, starting and ending in either Kingston or Montego Bay; what's the best way to go about doing this?

Also, as a fit, athletic, white American, how dangerous is Jamaica? I've heard widely varying accounts.

mobay and ocho rios are godawful cruise port tourist traps where you'll spend the entire time being harassed to buy garbage trinkets and get called a racist if you don't to try to guilt you into it. negril was chill with beautiful beach and diving when i was there a few years ago, but i hear it's moving in the direction of the northern ports. south coast doesn't have shit for beaches, but it's nice to visit because people don't rely on tourists there so you don't get harassed. drivers are fucking maniacs, but if you're in a rural area it's not too bad. i spent a day driving, just had to remember to swerve to the left (drive on the wrong side of the road there). just told a taxi driver i was looking for a car, $50 and no questions later we were good to go. as far as safety, jamaica's astronomical murder rate is almost exclusively due to gang war blood feuds, and it doesn't sound like you look like a jamaican gangster. when we took the bus from mobay to kingston (crazy trip over the blue mountains) my tiny blond wife and i were literally dropped off in a burned out building in trenchtown, and no one gave us a second look.

I just got back from Jamaica, it is beautiful but you need to be careful. Outside of resorts it is very very ghetto. I would not personally drive around the island myself. It is not uncommon to see thugs with machetes.

Most places take USD, we did not have to exchange our money.

I officially summon jews to this thread

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Are you funny-looking, as in

>black/african/
>Irano-arabic

You'll have a tough time. Israel is very xenophobic with regards to that.

>>1074794
Single file, boys.

>>1074799
Fortunately, i just have a big nose that helps me get into society unnoticed and look quite similar to a common jew

>>1074480
Whats your plan there op?
Rent a car and drive around? Use the ferry? take flights? use the long distance buses?
Any plans for the 3 weeks beside BsAs and probably MVD like going to Iguazu or Bariloche?
3 weeks are pretty long for 1 and a half city.

>>1074480
i would recomen walking 8 hours a day with 2 hours of pause, sit down and rest in a bar; the drinks are cheap; also dont go out with a huge bypack , you look ridicoulos adn very easy to rob.
avoid the donw and souther districts; too much crime.
walk around every where,the same block or just a srting of blocks.
all the houses and buildings in buenos aires are differetn from one another in architectural style

Hi,

I lived in Medoza (near the Chilean border) for 6 months and I had the chance to make a 1 week trip in BB.AA.
As said above, 3 weeks are quite long for a city, even for a big one as Buenos Aires so you'd better consider going to other places during your stay.
I'd be you I'll stay few days after my arrival in Buenos Aires and then head up to Iguazu because it is something worth to see according to every people I met who's been there (I did not).
I heard Bariloche is a nice place for siteseeing but it's apart from Argentinia in the way that there are a lot of tourists and rich people over there. Personally, I'd rather go to Patagonia or visit cities such as Salta and Cordoba before going to Bariloche.
If you're rich eough you could do a trip BB.AA-Cordoba-Salta-Mendoza-Bariloche-BB.AA. You might even have time for one more stop-over in Chile for example, or in the south of Argentina.

Argentinians mainly use long distance buses since they don't have trains over there. Buses are cheap and confortable, the only "problem" is the lengh of the trip but as you're there for 3 weeks that should be okay. If I remember well it took me 12 hours to travel to BB.AA and 12 hours to come back to Mendoza.

I totally agree with >>1075250 regarding the precautions for not being targeted as a tourist.
I remember going to the Bombonera in the district of La Boca...if you walk few streets away from the most frequented area you quickly enter "dangerous" places where the atmosphere is a bit gloomy: There, you can be easily spotted. That is the reason why people offered them to guide me to the bus stop on my way back because it was getting dark. North of the city tends to be safer, plus it is nice: there are places and local markets.
Don't miss Argentinian meats and ice creams, taste their wine as well!!! Would definitelly go there again!

and how hard is it to get a entry level job there?

never been to wichita but i have been to chi abot 5 times. Chicago has an awesome down town you can spend days within the loop area, miracle mile, river front/navy peir (u will prob freeze) All types of stuff to do in downtonw area.

I like to visit the neighborhoods try taking the public transit to wicker park its an awesome neighborhood cool bars and stuff to do all day, prob a good chance of finding people to smoke with or a hook up. Check out the Revolution Brewery they also have a tap house/resturant but i liked all rev brewery beers.

>>1074458
i can tell you right away wichita kansas is not somewhere a human should live.

That one way.

Working at a shitty department store while going to uni and living in a makeshift bedroom in some old chinese guys condo.

>>1074243
Travel agents hate this anon

>>1073679
your gf is fucking someone else
>tfw, no indian chicks are hot enough and easy.. ;-(

In NC, just home from a trip to BVI, getting ready for Mexico and maybe Curacao, if shit hangs together.

>>1073686
How was the BVI for you? I'm going to be renting a boat with 8 other people and I was planning to enjoy the full moon ritual and was wondering if you know any of the good spots to do it. RIght now I'm in florida preparing.

Just do it m8

>>1073482
Anyone that wears headwear is going to be confusing as WTF are they. This is a known problem with Sikh's everywhere they go. I would think they are most understood and accepted in the UK, for the locals education and understanding far outweighs the rest of europe.

Leave him at home, or get him to clean up his appearance in order to enjoy the once in a lifetime trip. Understandably, he may have religious reasons not to do that, and so you'll deal with the trouble if it arises. What else could you do? I'd stay out of Turkey, however.

>>1073482
Bulgaria here. He's fine, just leave the sword at home.

Adams Morgan

>>1072503
Espionage Museum, Museum of Air and Space, National Postal Museum and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Pretty cool stuff, but the espionage museum gets kinda childish regardless of the weapons on display.

>>1072775
>>1072519
Thank you!
Anyone else have more suggestions?, I don't necessarily mean just downtown, but around the entire area.

>>1072459
Kathmandu as a city with how shitty its infrastructure and how many unfinished buildings that are around the place, you'd never know there was earthquake there if someone didn't tell you.

That said, in Kathmandu Durbur square there is fairly significant Earthquake Damage on the Heritage Buildings some dating back a fucking long time.

I never got around to Bhatkapor but I hear it's still fairly nice to see. Another good place is Pokhora, probably nicer than Khatmandu by a fair margin. Would recommend 3 nights there and 2 in Khatmandu if you were doing 6 days in nepal.

As for what else? Do you plan on doing day trekking? Multi-day trekking? Annurpurna? Everest? etc? What are you plans?

If anything, THE major issue you'll find when traveling there will be the ongoing fuel crisis. In my trip I was supposed to get a plane from Jomson down to Pokhora after trekking the Annurpurna. But none of the flight companies could source fuel for flights so we had to get a private 4WD Vehicle operator instead. This cost us twice as much as what the plane would have cost. Lel.

The country is really beautiful and worth a trip for sure but take the Earthquake damage on the whole isn't that bad its more the shitty fuel situation more than anything.

>>1072483
I was planning to fly into kathmandu and see sites there, at patan and bhaktapur, and still considering pokhara, nagarkot and annapurna.

I'm more into history, culture and architecture than natural scenery, but for the himalayas i'd made an exception to get a good view of them, such as nagarkot i've heard is good. But i'm not going to climb it or even go to base camp which i heard takes like 16 days of hiking. Not into treking, even if you take out the time and cost of it.

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What should I add to the Nepal section of this article. I'm mostly looking for mountain hiking places and old temples to see.
Thanks in advance

>>1068875

Hey anon, I've been in Ethiopia for 2 months now so I'm willing to answer any questions you have.

Personally, I found Addis to be an overcrowded and dirty shithole - can't recommend much to do out there that can be done elsewhere in the country. Got the fuck outta there after 2 days. With that said, the cheapest form of transport in Addis is minibus. You can ask your hotel about where to catch them towards the mountain.

Most tourists stay in Piazza. You can expect to pay around 200-250 birr for the cheapest/best price ratio accommodation.

If you're new to international travel I wouldn't recommend Ethiopia desu senpai. The sad part about the country is that wealthy people have come along and showed the people here large amounts of money for very little. I'm half habesha and can speak some Amharic so I get treated with a bit more respect, but I've heard tourists complain that they were getting fleeced everywhere they went.

One week is definitely too much time in Addis and not enough time to properly explore the country. The tourists who found the country difficult were on a tight schedule and constantly planning things ahead of time and desu that's really not how things work here. I personally wouldn't make a trip out here for less than a month.

Anyways, feel free to ask about anything.

Only spent time at the airport. Ethiopian Airlines is actually somewhat decent.

Those stewardesses are wicked hot with their semi-dreads! Just my 2 cents.

>>1068908

Personally, I found Addis to be an overcrowded and dirty shithole - can't recommend much to do out there that can't be done elsewhere in the country for cheaper**

Also seconding what >>1068909 said. The women here are really fit. Disregard anything you might hear about it being a conservative culture. Even with my slight autism I find it easy to score.

>>1066828
an esl thread already exists on /tv/:
>>1063204

That's a pretty shitty salary senpai.

How did you get a job in Seoul as a young and new teacher? Usually it's pretty competitive to land a job there. Then again I guess no one else wanted to accept that low salary, lol

>>1066834
All of us have salaries like that, it's actually pretty standard for the first year. Also, his apartment is included. Everything is cheaper in SEA. I make less than him and live a very comfortable life.

>>1071614
Try Queens. Scout for neighborhoods near subways and els. Some places are sketchy but if you want to save some money,its worth a try.

Sounds like you shouldn't move to New York.

>Which neighborhoods / ZIP codes would be best to look for apartments where I won't have to worry about being shot or stabbed or robbed, without paying $3000 a month for rent

Move to North Jersey or Eastern PA and commute to the city.

Good idea.

Can anyone, please, write me something about Switzerland, Geneva?

I got a job offer (5000 CHF per month - is it enough?) but I've been told that it's pretty boring city/country. Can anyone expand on this?

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Good idea, i'd like to move to the NL, so if anyone can give some input it would be great.

I'm from malta
pros
>great food
>nice beaches
>although small there are many places to go and enjoy yourself
>alot of festivities if you're into that kind of stuff
>gozo is very peaceful if you want to escape fore a weekend
>great weather, except for the hot summers
>can easily grab a ryan air flight for cheap and travel to most of europe.
>great free healthcare and free medicines
>great free education and good university. government even pays students 80e per month
>most people speak english, Maltese and Italian well, and sometimes even french

Cons:
>pay:cost of living is generally low
>super over crowded
>nonexistent natural scenery
>infrastructure is bad, however it's steadily improving
>traffic/parking is a bloody nightmare and public transport is shit
>people can be ignorant and bigoted however that can be said to any country

monitoring tread, if you ahve any questions please ask

>>1069349
And I would HONESTLY ask everyone to post the minimum amount of money you need to live in your country.

It will make everyone's life so much easier.

Personally I would move to a nice city like Bath or somewhere on the coast such as Bournemouth. It depends what your skill is, perhaps you need to be in a bustling city.

>>1064242

My situation is:

I'm 20, turning 21 soon and I'm dropping out of university. I'm not exactly sure what I want to study, I like a lot of things but there's nothing I feel very sure about yet. So my plan is to just live and work in the UK (because it's good money and I like the UK) until I get an idea of what I want to do (or saving up enough money to start up my own business, something I'd like to do eventually). I might end up staying in the UK and just living there permanently.

I'd like it to be a city that has a lot of stuff going on and is quite cosmopolitan. London seems cool, but it seems like a tough city to live in without much experience and a proper job. I've worked construction, in a restaurant and a call center but it's just basic stuff.

>>1064243

You have boring cities in the interior like Swindon, Reading, Basingstoke etc etc which are large commuter towns.

Then there's pleasant historical cathedral cities like Bath, Salisbury, York and so on.

Then on the south coast there's livelier places like Brighton & Bournemouth which may be more to your liking.

Personally I wouldn't go north of London due to the money and weather. Also in the south you're always close to London and transport options.

>>1076018

I also have a follow-up question. Thanks for bearing with me. This will be my first time traveling out of country alone. (Excluding Mexico, I guess, but I feel more clueless with Peru.)

It looks like the tap water isn't safe. Am I supposed to just buy bottled water everywhere?


Not sure how I'd access all the clean water I'd need while going on day-long excursions. I have a CamelBak. Just not sure where I'd be able to fill it up.

Sorry if these are dumb questions, and thank you for the help.

>So, I'm wondering if I"ll be OK going without getting vaccanations.
...yes. People don't usually vaccinate before a trip.

>Is it insane to just risk it and go?
Its not a risk. The worse it will probably happen is you getting food poisoning and shitting in your pants for a few days. Other than that, its really rare to contract anything else

>It looks like the tap water isn't safe. Am I supposed to just buy bottled water everywhere?
Depends on the location. If you are really woried, buy water
>CamelBak
Just buy a couple of 1L bottles, its not rocket science

>>1076045
Yeah, thanks. IDK, it just seems like one CamelBak's worht of water isn't going to always be enough. If I were to hike the Inca trail, how am I going to get more?

I suppose in that case, you just have to load up with a couple day's worth. I'd just love to hear from someone who's trotted around the jungle and cities of Peru (or elsewhere in South America) to see how they managed.