How to enjoy your trip

Travel more. Consult the internet less. Delete this post. You will do well.

>>1204715
>What are the main mistakes one can make while traveling?

Not planning prior to properly. Most main issues can be avoided with proper pre-planning.

>>What is the best way to have the best experience where you are going and to have an ~~authentic~~ experience?

See statement about and research where you are going, most tourist traps can be spotted easily because Tripadvisor or some travel agency is the first hit.

>I see a lot of people complaining that backpackers just stay at hostels or such, I really want to know what is the best way to do the travelling thing.

See all of the above. The best way to travel is the way that you get all your interests done. Backpacking is just a term commonly misused for people who just stay in a hostel on a trip while doing the most normal things that every other tourist does; that's why it is annoying to hear on /trv/.

>>1204715
>backpackers

This term is so useless it hurts

>>1204715
>What are the main mistakes one can make while traveling?
Traveling with other people

>>1204715
>>1204722
Don't forget you make a planning so you have something to ignore when something beter is found. It's basically the excuse to leave your hostel, afterwards you'll find some other (probably better) things.
Also enjoy the mundane shit, like a lunch in the park. Walking through one of the neighborhoods just out of the city center.

>What are the main mistakes one can make while traveling?
forcing yourself through stuff when you are exhausted. In general, rushing things too much.

Like, arriving at 5am to Paris and going to Louvre when it opens. You are not gonna enjoy it. When you arrive somewhere you are supposed to enjoy and you are already exhausted, a generalized feeling of unhappiness and "what am I doing here" starts to settle in.

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don't look at your pictures while you're there. don't bring your laptop if you have a smart-phone.
don't edit or post pictures. let them sit until you get home. the only thing you should do with your pictures, if you must do something, is back them up. they'll be just fine, and they'll have far more impact when you see them a week after taking them.
don't be on your phone. you're already fucking with that piece of shit all day in your home country - don't do it elsewhere.
don't look at the world through a lens or a screen. look with your eyes first. take the picture as quickly as possible, then put the camera away. don't miss the world for yourself just so your camera can see it first.
don't bring books on a trip that lasts less than a month. don't bring books at all if you can help it. being bored is good for you, and being bored in exotic and distant places is a memorable experience that can lead to interesting ventures to cure boredom. you can read books at home.
always have an extra towel and a bottle of water if you can help it. trust me.

>>1206221
>don't look at the world through a lens or a screen. look with your eyes first. take the picture as quickly as possible, then put the camera away. don't miss the world for yourself just so your camera can see it first.

To each his own -- if I am using my camera,I am actively looking for details, interesting points of view, little things I might not otherwise notice. I use the camera as a tool to enhance my awareness of what I am seeing.

>>1206221
>Illinois plates
how am I not surprised?