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>>1265763
it's almost 3am you faggot, go to bed

>>1265764
I-I can't sleep

I'll be there in about 12 hours but I won't be joining you lol

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>>1265444
Vang Vieng got some amazing mountains my nigga

>>1265444

What's Muang Ngoi like?

Is it full of backpackers and bars selling drugs and cheap alcohol or is it still very quiet and chill?

>>1265497
right now it's basically dead, maybe 10-15 farang in town (which is quit a lot for the size of it really)

very laid back, fantastic place.
you might get a few innkeepers scrambling over you for accomodation when you stay...but I got a really nice hotel double for only 30.000 kip!
this is the best value accommodation I've found anywhere in laos where prices are purely dictated by "what will people pay"

it's nicer than the town before it, and the town after it on the river- but ferry opperators are total faggots and have got really greedy for the ferry trip north
they were asking 200,000- I got 130,000 but even that is far to much for a boat carrying broken aluminium parts, farmers and tools

I'd strongly consider just going there and back, instead of going all the way north, it's a beautiful route though

the decrease in tourists when one leaves the loop is exponential, luang prabang is over-run with brats, nong khiaw might have 30, muang noi 15
north of that you only have people passing through from vietnam and further north I barely saw a soul

>>1265197
The people there cross the border all the time in both directions.
Shouldnt really be a problem. And according to Moldova its Moldovian territory anyways.

I also heard you dont get a stamp but some registration papers.

>>1265237
Moldova also doesnt really have any border checkpoints there, a Ukrainian girl told me once. You can enter Transnistria from Ukraine and just cross the border to Moldova. Nobody cares.

>>1265237
>>1265197
true. I was there in 2011, so might be different now, but you get an immigration form, which you MUST keep on you at all times, and deliver when leaving the country. If you lose it, you might be into some shitty times as there is no reprenstation from your country that can help you out there. Also, if staying for more than 3 days or a week or something you must go to some soviet office and register there.

i'm not quite sure what you mean by "how the characters translate".

the table in you picture shows one of the japanese syllabaries. those characters only encode sound and not meaning so there's no way to say what they mean, you just have to memorize them.

if you're talking about chinese characters, you would usually learn both their individual meanings and the way they are put together into words, so for kaze, it is written with the character 風 which simply means wind. arigatou is usually not written with kanji but when it is they are 有難う. 有 meaning "exist" and 難 means "difficult" (see explanation below) and う is of course just the ending in hiragana and has not individual meaning.

if your teacher is not telling you the individual meanings of kanji (which i doubt desu) then you can look them up in a kanji dictionary (jisho.org also works) if you know the radical elements of the character (if you don't, use handwriting input on your computer).


if you want a literal translation, kaze really just means wind but "arigatou" is a little more complicated. it means something like "good to have" and therefore "appreciated".

arigatou is actually an adverbial form of the adjective arigatai which in turn is made up of ari (from aru "exist") and gatai (from katai "hard") so arigatai means "hard to exist" -> "rare" -> "good to have; appreciated".

today adverbs in japanese are formed by adding -ku to the adjective stem but in an earlier stage of the language they were formed by adding -u, so you got the form arigatau from arigatai which over time developed into arigatou (in some formal settings it is still spelled arigatau). this form is parallel to ohayou (o-haya-u, cf. hayai/hayaku), omedetou (o-medeta-u, cf. medetai/medetaku). those are the only words where this peculiar form stuck because they are set phrases.

>>1265195
OP here, yeah what i mean by what the character's mean is, each character should be directly translatable into X other language somehow. If we couldn't do that and couldn't figure out how each character correlates to one of our native language, it would make it extremely hard to learn the language.

So if we seperate a Japanese word into it's syllable's like "Su-Mi-Ma-Sen"(think that's how it's separated.) and try to translate it to it's english meaning "Excuse Me" or "I'm Sorry" how does each individual syllable of the Japanese word make it's way into the english word.

By the way, your comment was fairly helpful but i might not have explained properly.

>>1265230
Im pretty sure it works like english, as in there probably aren't "specific parts" that mean certain things, its the entire word that holds the meaning. I know what absolute means without needing to understand what "ab" and "solute" are, or there origins.

Soupa Saiyan restaurant.

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>>1264854
Thanks

>>1264855
I just want different opinion rather from the search web

>>1264167
maybe your face differs a lot to your passport photo, maybe you share a name with a suspected person, maybe they just don't like you

do you have your esta granted? pretty sure you need that in order for the machine not to put an X over your face and send you to an immigration officer.

other than that it's pot luck i think. i get through 90% of the time as an irish guy, and when they work they definitely do save time. miami used to be a nightmare in immigration, these machines have taken 30 minutes off that experience at least

I've got the X over mine every time. And I'm just an ordinary guy with a EU passport. No idea what criteria they use or if there is luck involved as well.

>>1264155
pack anti-diarrhea pills in hand luggage if flying, take them if you need them or not, pack other medicines, take pepto bismol, eat plenty of fresh fruit, don't eat anything too heavy, carry water

>>1264156

Ok I will. I'm starting to feel pretty concerned about my flight tomorrow, I really don't want to be sick the whole flight and then when I first get to Europe and have to find my way to the hostel.

>>1264155
I got sick a a few days before my overseas trip. I went straight to the doctor and he gave me antibiotics.

It didnt cure me instantly, but I feel like it did help.

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>>1264131
Where are you from? I live and work in Alberta. The economic situation here is getting worse and worse, Canada has no long term economic foundation, half our GDP growth in the past few years has been from Housing/Real Estate, that isn't a viable economic foundation. Intelligent people here are either getting their education or grinding out in the oil field so they can permanently leave the country. This is also a country to flee unfortunately, we're still in the " good times " right now and times really aren't that great.

I wouldn't recommend Canada for longer term/permanent settlement. The Canadian government doesn't really care about Canadians. If you're the type of retard who cares more about racial diversity and trans rights over economics then sure, this is your shithole. Otherwise look elsewhere, I'll be out of this shithole in 12-14 months at this rate of work, and I was born here ( thank god I have EU citizenship too though, going to move to Eastern Europe, weaker economy now but better prospects for the future and a way better place to raise a family. Only positive thing I can say is that the quality of our cannabis is great. But cannabis quality isn't a metric that an adult uses to choose a place to settle down.

>>1264141

i'm from Eastern Europe. Here's a great advice when moving to Eastern Europe : Don't move to Eastern Europe. Unless you choose to go for Poland or Hungary, you should just avoid the area altogether.
Unless working for 300 euros/month and getting mugged in the streets is your thing. And if you have a special fondness for gypsies and getting spit at in the streets.

Some really helpful fellows from /adv/ suggested that Vancouver and Ontario areas are the best. Small towns in that area. Not the actual cities.

>>1264143
> unless you choose to go for Poland or Hungary

I am though, Poland. The economy is on the rise and the country has a bright social future, unlike here. Ontario is a shithole and the Vancouver area is prohibitively expensive for Canadians who didn't buy property there 20+ years ago before the Chinese came and destroyed the local economy.

I know I'll be taking a pay cut to live in Poland but quality of life isn't measured by gross income. I'd rather make 1/3 of what I make here and live almost the same in terms of housing/food/entertainment and be in a non degenerate country, among my people and contributing to their rise, not the rise of Chang and Pajeet families here in Canada.

>>1263789
>cheap booze
>more sluts
>whisky bars

Just give it up and accept craft beers and dive bars as your home. Both come equipped with sassy girls who cuss like sailors.

>>1263789
If you like hipster women just take the L to bedford but for everything else you gotta get creative. Also smalls jazz is cool but very packed and expensive

>>1263908
Bushwick is the hipster capital of NYC now

I lived in the Florida Keys
>warm
>expensive
>far as shit from EVERYTHING

>>1263552
how about drive the van to taxes or florida maybe Nevada.

i vote mexico

>>1263509
Lake Sevan is beautiful and has some nice monasteries.

One thing I'd suggest if your willing to go into other countries than the three is maybe going to Ani which was the former Armenian capital, was abandoned centuries ago and is now in Eastern Turkey.

>>1263539
>Ani
Looks really remote

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>>1263509
>all three of the Caucasus countries
neat; I plan on visiting both countries in Europe this summer.

Were you the guy that I told to skip Peru and go via the Amazon to Brazil?

That's still what I recommend. Get to Iquitos, put your motorbike on the boat to Manaus, and enjoy a real awesome culture. You can get pretty far (maybe to the east coast of Brazil?) by boat with enough time.

>Do people saying Peru is worth a visit just go to Machu Pichu and straight home, or are there other nice parts to it I haven't seen yet?

Pretty much. The places worth seeing:
> Machu Pichu / Cusco / Sacred valley (genuinely not over-hyped IMO)
> Iquitos (if you're into Ayahuasca or want to get to Brazil cheap, otherwise no reason to go)
> Arequipa (kinda cool old colonial center with some cool stuff to see, but not worth the trip)
> Huaraz (good hiking)
> Lima (one of the easiest places to get laid in the world if you're white, though the girls are pretty much 6's at best and very unsexy in person)

I looked into a boat to Manaus, but that's still cut off from anywhere by road*: you'd need to take boats across the whole width of South America to get to the Brazilian road network! Massively more practical entering from the south (either from southern Peru or Bolivia or Paraguay).

*its technically possible to drive from Manaus, but that'd mean going through Venezuela which isn't on for obvious reasons.

>>1262591
Have you reached Trujillo yet?

Personally I found the coastal areas of Peru to be a total let down, especially compared to inland Peru. There's so much to see in the mountains.

Also you can drive from Manaus to Porto Velho in the southwest and on to Mato Grosso from there.

>>1261366
I see you go through the Massif Central, good call it's à beautiful place unknown to most foreigners
I'm on my phone right now but will make a proper post later

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>>1261366
If you want to check out some interesting nature there is the Chaine des Puys and its regional park, a mountain range made up of ancient volcanoes a bit south-west of Clermont-Ferrand
And while you go to Nîmes from Le Puy you should definitely check out the Gorges du Tarn, a river canyon located in the Cévennes national park in the Lozère departement.
I recommend the whole Lozère departement by the way, it's just a bit south of your road and it's a pretty interesting and unknown place to foreigners. It's very mountainous, least densily populated place of the country, many river gorges and scenic places, as well as pretty small towns/villages such as Mende (biggest one), Saint-Chély-du-Tarn, La Garde-Guérin, Nasbinals.
The Aubrac plateau is pretty nice too, I think it looks a lot like some places in northern England.

Then on your way up to Lyon go see Avignon and its Palace of the Popes, and Orange with its Roman amphitheatre. Also the fortified town of Les-Beaux-de-Provence is real close to Arles. It's right on your way so maybe it was already in your mind
The way up from Arles to Lyon isn't very interesting in my opinion, it's the "furrow of the Rhône" as its called, a line of flat land squeezed between the Alps in the east and the Cévennes/Ardèche mountains in the west so it's pretty crowded and industrialized in some places. My point being that by just taking the highway won't make you see much since it just follows the easiest way and not the most interesting, so straying east or west you might find interesting places along the highway, there are also a fuck ton of medieval towns in Ardèche if you are interested.

I didn't comment about the road from Normandie to Clermont because I'm much more familiar with the southern half

And out of curiosity, where are you from ?

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>>1261701
Dumping a few pics of the places I mentionned

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>google alice's
>closed 2013
>mfw
fuuuck. i ate breakfast there every day for a week. banana pancakes were fucking phenomenal.

>>1266005
>tfw no qt jamiacan gf to make me yummy foood

>>1266005
>Noko
Jesus Christ grandpa, what the hell are you doing?

A lot of disabled travelers go to India and Sri Lanka because you can hire a private guide with a vehicle for cheap.
Sorry about your bum knees; I think you'll be able to fulfill your dreams still, you'll just have to get a little creative.

>>1266001
My brother suffered a fairly severe work injury (fell a few stories flat on his feet) and his mobility suffered as a result. He walks with a cane and needs frequent rest, but he doesn't let it stop him from traveling or normal activities. It's a matter of doing your research beforehand, calling ahead to hotels or wherever and letting them know you need certain accomodations -- be sure to explain that you are handicapped/have a disability. I know it sucks to use that language, but people are usually very quick to be helpful when they know.

Good luck, I hope you don't let your injury limit your life.

>>1266001
I'm not disabled but I played professional sports during my teen/tween years so I'm used to walk on crutches or had to use the "special needs" services of airlines as I almost always had something fucked up...
There's nothing to worry about, you can do almost everything. You might not climb the Mount Everest or do the Inca Trail but anything else, easy. It might take you a extra day to see the stuff or call/send a mail a day ahead and they can arrange everything. Book a hotel with a elevator and you're good. Hostels, no problem you will always find some lads that will help you up/down or even take you around a city no fucks given if you sit in a wheelchair.

As long as you aren't a r9k autist you will get around.