Some travel pronouncements. Agree or disagree?
Jakarta is BKK 15 years ago.
Chiang Mai weather/air is worse than Delhi half the year an is crowded only because Western white men have given up on even a middle-class quality of life in the West.
Da Nang is a glorified Korean resort with shit weather half the year. Hoi An is for overweight cruise ship twats.
Istanbul is hilly Vegas for brown people.
Abu Dhabi is Dubai without Slav hookers.
Paris is just Dakar with expensive apartments.
Lombok is a boring, halal Bali.
There is nothing more depressing than flying from Japan to Korea. (Seoul is the ugliest city in Asia).
Taiwanese food is the most overrated in Asia.
Most people that praise Thai food eat the same five dishes over and over again. I'll let you guess which ones.
The Italy of your imagination no longer exists.
Tallinn is more beautiful than Helsinki.
Vilnius is the best of the three Baltic capitals.
There is no worse city in Africa than Marrakech (and I am including Cairo here).
Black Sea Turkey is incredibly underrated.
The steak in Buenos Aires is chewy cat meat and the cheese on the pizza is vile.
Don't say you have "visited" China unless you've spent the night in a few T3/T4 cities.
The definition of grim is Lodz, Poland on a grey January day.
Don't pretend you are going to the Philippines for the "culture" or the QoL: your hairline started receding in high school. Just be honest.
I can keep going...
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Possibly the most basic b***h takes from an entry level travel enthusiast.
and just an excuse for pol-gays to spout their shit ad naseum
Honestly? Based. Especially these
>jakarta is bkk 15 years ago
*general interest and pecker piqued*
>chiang mai
Frick every dork homosexual there. I tried to stay for a week and didn’t last even 3 days. I just kept walking around that homosexual moat square and loitered at Zoe in yellow before taking a mototaxi back to my hotel and sulking because there were a bunch of western tourists enjoying themselves and I was just some lone sex pest loser trying to sniff girls buttholes and trying to get “lost in the crowd” failed miserably.
>taiwan
Never been but to me it seems like a sterilized, diluted form of Asian culture that’s palatable to Normie homosexuals and therefore I won’t be going
>morocco
I’d end up with a murder charge getting accosted by those little ferret hawkers. Literal rat animals
>Buenos Aires
I feel like I missed the boat on easy white passing butthole and now all the hookers are overpriced, and there’s probably a bunch of homosexual 35 year old tech workers shitting the place up with their paypiggery
>your hairline started receding in high school. Just be honest.
I got a hair transplant so this no longer applies.
>I got a hair transplant so this no longer applies.
That's like a troony saying they are a woman because they got their dick chopped off
I've heard guys say similar things about Jakarta. Tons of hidden bars & clubs, hit the streets late and listen for the music. ID is Muslim but not as strict (or developed) as MY. Cost of living very low. Girls are brown w/ big boobs.
Now that Milei is trying to get Argentina back on track, undoubtedly tourists are the first group expected to contribute their "fair share" or whatever. Shitting on Argie beef because it's grass fed instead of steroid/hormone fed in a feedlot, that's bullshit.
I've got a 30 day trip at least this summer to Indonesia. I will report back my findings for the bros.
Enjoy the durian bro
I'd like to visit Indo as well, though I'm not sure if it's just a cheaper poorer shittier version of Malaysia, with less English spoken. Better beaches and more nightlife from what I've heard. The visa requirement is annoying.
>Girls are brown w/ big boobs.
I find that hard to believe, most girls in (South) East Asia tend to be on the smaller side, no?
>Taiwan
>Never been but seems sterilized diluted Asian culture
Lol where is RealAsia™ to you homosexuals then? Sorry to disappoint that everywhere in East Asia isn't Japan. Taiwan is as chink Asian as it gets except the people aren't ass holes like the mainland Chinese.
I dunno I’m not even worthy of a response. I was just kicking dirt at whatever I could cuz I was trapped in my wage cage
>all the hookers are overpriced
Anon if $20 is too much for you, then you've got other problems
>there’s probably a bunch of homosexual 35 year old tech workers shitting the place up with their paypiggery
It's a big city and they mostly stay in their hipster containment zone
Chang Mai is all pozzed up with digital nomad homosexuals and dorkers so he's 100% correctly despite being a hairtroony.
Based department line 1.
And they’re probably the skinny fat sickly pale kind of zucckerberg homosexual who’s peak style is a pair of orange acetate Oakley sunglasses
“Yea I’m the man around here”
Frick dorkers. This remote work thing needs to get the plug pulled ASAP
sorry not sorry. you should be thankful that I'm willing to grace your dump of a country with my presence and boost your economy with my big burger bucks.
yeah there's lots of rich looking white dorkers and hip cafes/bars/weedshops/restaurants in CM, but gentrification hasn't destroyed the city. it's a lot more fun than the untouristy parts of Thailand, that's for sure. higher English proficiency means CM is Thailand on easy mode. the airport is close to the city, I liked flying out of it. also, the AQI is nowhere near as bad as Delhi, which sees 300+ levels every winter. CM typically maxes out around 150.
Wooowweewoowee, you must be really rich travelling to all those places! You are really a real traveler!
The bait is working it seems.
>Paris is just Dakar with expensive apartments.
If only it was just that, it would be a happy place. I'm ok with black africans, the worst is the nefarious maghrebis.
>There is nothing more depressing than flying from Japan to Korea. (Seoul is the ugliest city in Asia).
probably
>Taiwanese food is the most overrated in Asia.
Most people in the west can't even place Taiwan on a map, let alone think something about their food.
>The Italy of your imagination no longer exists.
Italy never disappointed me, you can find the masterpieces you look for, you can find the mood, you can find the gritiest places if you want to. I found everything i wanted in Italy, i've had museums to me alone like the Bargello in Firenze, well known museum with masterpieces, yet i doubt that it's ever packed.
As for paki vendors and whatnot, it's not on Paris level and you must be a real b***h if you don't know how to tell them to frick off.
>nefarious maghrebis
* "nefarious nafris" would have worked better
I never heard of Taiwanese food being rated or talked about in the first place, so how can it be overrated. IMO it's all right. Prices not too high, but def not as cheap as SEA. Keelung has a kickass night market and tons of eateries, food stalls, bakeries, snack shops, etc. Challenging to order tho, with the menus in Chinese and little English spoken.
newbie
Taiwan is Asian normie conformie, yes...but it's not at all westernized or even visited much by western tourists. Nor do people here really care about attracting western tourists or giving them special attention, which is why NPCs seethe about Taiwan being dull and mundane instead of praising it for its Chinese authenticity. In my book, it's the visa-free China.
>The Italy of your imagination no longer exists.
Are you fricking moronic or something? You know that things exist outside cities and towns, right? There are "real" pieces of every country left for fricks sake.
>Tallinn is more beautiful than Helsinki
No one in history has ever thought the opposite.
This. Of course when it comes to the surrounding areas with Tallinn having plenty of soviet psychosis-blocks, it might be a different story, but with city centers it's no contest.
>Abu Dhabi is Dubai without Slav hookers
Not true. Plenty of Slav hookers in Abu Dhabi as well.
I hated practically everything about shithole Thailand. Will I like Indonesia?
>There is no worse city in Africa than Marrakech (and I am including Cairo here).
Huh. I quite liked it. What did I do wrong?
This made me kek more than it should have. Thanks.
There's something amusing about imagining SighSee traveling the world and whinging and hating everything and being disppointed that they actually enjoyed somehting.
OP had a lot of good points but that's a head scratcher for me too. Sure, it's not the best city on the continent but I've seen far worse shitholes and not just in Africa.
>Istanbul is hilly Vegas for brown people.
I’m not sure I get this take at all. It is hilly, no question, but I don’t think the Vegas analogy holds. Vegas is barely over a century old and was built from nothing in a desert just for entertainment. What is now Istanbul has been occupied for close to two thousand years, it’s a strategic port city, and, among other things, there’s no gambling.
Do you just mean it’s a place Muslims go to drink beer? They do that all over Europe, too, among lots of other places.
>Paris is just Dakar with expensive apartments.
Mouth-breather /misc/ take. Boring and lazy. And I doubt you have been to Dakar.
>Lombok is a boring, halal Bali.
This one’s not too far off. Lombok is quite a lot more redneck/agricultural, too.
>Abu Dhabi is Dubai without Slav hookers.
I’m sure you can find Slav hookers someplace in Abu Dhabi, although having said that, I think all the hookers I saw in Dubai were Asians, apart from one girl from Djibouti. I think of Abu Dhabi as Dubai’s square older brother, personally. And they’re both boring.
>Most people that praise Thai food eat the same five dishes over and over again.
This could easily be true. But I also praise Thai food and have eaten nearly everything, including but not limited to a lot of insect and raw meat dishes. I don’t praise all of it.
>The Italy of your imagination no longer exists.
Imaginary places never existed. I dig Italy, personally, although I may have been helped by first arriving as a kid, without a lot of preconceptions.
>Tallinn is more beautiful than Helsinki.
Surely nobody disputes this? But I would argue that the ugly bits of Tallinn are slightly uglier than the ugly bits of Helsingfors.
Factually correct, based and true people will call you a poltard to deflect what you have to say. That board has become the sites boogeyman for morons.
Thailand is a less superior Malaysia
Every American went to Puerto Vallarta this spring
Travel doesn't make you special
Florence is gay and boring
The problem of migrants into Europe isn't just a /misc/ larp, it's very much real
Taiwan #1 as far as east Asia goes
The problem with Romania is Romanians
Every Polish city basically looks the same
Kingston Jamaica is the worst city in the western hemisphere besides Port Au Prince
You're almost ten years too late to have gone to Colombia
Kuwait is the most country on the planet
If it wasn't for all of the prostitutes and the Arabs and pajeets who go there to frick them, Baku would be a fantastic city
LGBT Russians fleeing the draft ruined Georgia and Armenia
Sweden is far too expensive for what it is
Poo janis ruined SighSee
>LGBT Russians fleeing the draft ruined Georgia and Armenia
Russians fleeing the draft ruined Georgia and Armenia in general. 99% are IT workers. I can't blame them, but yeah, they need to go back
True, I guess I should have said LGBTech Russians.
>Florence is gay and boring
>Every Polish city basically looks the same
???????
>Thailand is a less superior Malaysia
Gonna have to elaborate
Thailand is overcrowded with babies first backpacking trip roasties. Kao Song is basically shut down. Malaysia has better mountains. Langkawi and the Malaysian island just below the Thai isles are just as good if not better because not as crowded with instagram thots. Food is better in Malaysia because the country is split ethnically 1/3 Indian, 1/3 Chinese, 1/3 Malay. Penang is objectively the best food location in Asia. Only downside to Malaysia is Muslims and alcohol prices (but Langkawi is duty free so cheap booze). Even the Muslims there mind their own business though so it's not that big of a deal.
Thanks for the response bucko
any time playboy. make a post if you end up going
I spent two months in both countries this past winter. Malaysia has less sovl and unique character to it, though the country is more well-off than Thailand, and is a great place to raise a family if you're Muslim. You get much more and better for your money in Thailand than in Malaysia.
>Florence is gay and boring
I would agree with this one, I got tired of Florence within 2 days
everything was overpriced and felt the same. oh another classical art gallery? another church? another convent? by the third day I was wishing one of the giant marble statues would topple over and turn me into a pizza
(seeing David was quite good however, it's really big and you can walk all around the statue. You can't really appreciate it from looking at photos)
also I'm vegetarian and everything there was steak, ugh
I think it attracts an older kind of tourist than me (probably 40s, whereas I am 20)
Rome on the other hand was super fun and I could have stayed there for my entire time in Italy
Klaipeda for nature, the city is fun and just across the water is the curonian spit which I doubt you could find an equally beautiful coast all along the baltic
Jurmala in Latvia definitely didn't compare
I know this is going to sound borderline reddit but did you really go to florence and only do the things every online "guide" suggests? The steak part is giving me that especially clearly, along with everything being overpriced.
well, we had 2 days, and my gf planned our itinerary (I had a large hand in planning Rome and changed it a lot from her initial plan which was just copied from a social media post)
did not actually eat steak or go to a steak restaurant but the majority of stuff on the street is all that
I must say in Rome almost every restaurant I went into felt great, even a small British-style pub/restaurant that had some really good pasta (other than some pizzeria my gf picked right next to the colosseum)
so maybe
>my gf planned our itinerary
Well there's your problem. Next time go to Oltrarno and the gardens on both sides of piazzale michelangelo(not the piazzale itself, it's a hellhole). San Miniato al Monte while you're at it too. And the less a restaurant advertises their bistecca, the better it usually is. Osteria dell'Oca is one of my favorites in the city, and despite being so central is reasonably priced and favored by locals too.
>David was quit good however
Truth. That is the only redeeming factor.
>Another classical art gallery? another church?
Florence was where I finally broke down and said if I see one more fricking painting of Jesus in a museum I am going to burn this country to the ground.
> Kuwait is the most country on the planet
The most what Black person?
The most country. In other words, Kuwait has the least less.
boring, my bad
but also this
>The problem with Romania is Romanians
Wait, what's wrong with Romania?
Romania is in Europe but the way they behave you'd think you're in Mumbai.
>you'd think you're in Mumbai.
So the women are easy?
>Vilnius is the best of the three Baltic capitals
No. Riga and Tallinn both mog Vilnius.
Also with Lithuania, Kaunas is where the real shit is at.
I agree, but it's still fricking boring compared to Riga or Tallinn.
I guess it depends on what you're looking for. For a history autist it's a great place to spend a few days at, and far less crowded than most other historic cities of the Baltics or Poland.
>Paris is just Dakar with expensive apartments.
while there are lots of Africans, yes, you can get away from them in the museums and haute culture areas
only in the parts frequented by Americans and moronic tourists (Eiffel tower etc) are they prominent
anyway here's my own hot travel take:
the UK is the most convenient country to be a tourist in. free museums for the most part, little need to prebook things, train network is extensive and needs only one app to use. I think most museums/cultural sites being free alone is one of the biggest advantages, one which few other countries have
You should have made this list go from bottom to top. Strong "had us in the first half" energy.
>Jakarta is BKK 15 years ago.
Was BKK really that grim 15 years ago?
>Chiang Mai weather/air is worse than Delhi half the year an is crowded only because Western white men have given up on even a middle-class quality of life in the West.
Yes re: white me looking for a middle class life for peanuts. No re: everything else, the place has a lot to offer and the air quality is fine most of the year. It’s better than BKK, Pattaya, Hua Hin, Hat Yai and Phuket. Best place in Thailand I’ve been.
>Istanbul is hilly Vegas for brown people.
Yeah it’s hilly, trash comment otherwise.
>There is no worse city in Africa than Marrakech (and I am including Cairo here).
I’ve never been to the sub-Saharan shitholes but surely they are worse than fricking Marrakech
>Black Sea Turkey is incredibly underrated.
100% on point. I’d extend that to much of the Turkish riviera, excluding the already saturated places like Antalya.
5 dishes.
1. Tom yum goong
2. Som tum Thai
3. Pad Thai
4. Pad krapow
5. Ladyboy semen
6. Thai fried rice.
I live in Chang Mai 20 years ago as I full timed studied there.
It was paradise but very rural.
Taiwan does excellent stinky tofu, and is far safer quality than PRC. Fact!
Also some of the teas are god tier.
Philippines has some decent monsoonal surf. Mindanao has some breaks that rival Indonesia.
Jakarta is a shithole, always has been. It wasn’t Bangkok 15 years ago- I know I was living in both at that time.
Indonesia is a whole different thing from Thailand. Even on the level of women, Thai women are naturally happy and caring even if a little superficial, Indonesian women are total b***hes, especially if you cross one or they get jealous. Also Indonesian food for anons who haven’t tried it smells and tastes like vomit.
Trabzon is amazing.
pad see ew was my favorite
Austronesian people are distinct from continental Asians. Brown skin, wide eyes, and the women are more curvy.
>and the women are more curvy.
They look like orangutans. Always funny seeing them work the streets in hooker clothes while their belly sticks out. What's pathetic is seeing the men actually pay to frick these things.
Lad Na
Beef noodle soup
Baminam
Laab
Mango and sticky rice
>Istanbul is hilly Vegas for brown people
What?
Are you just talking about the clubs for rich Arabs along the Bosphorus? ntgj
Of the ones I went to
>Istanbul is hilly Vegas for brown people.
Kinda. Cool history but wayyyy too tourist trappy. If it was Orthodox I would love it but under Turk control it’s shit.
>Paris is just Dakar with expensive apartments.
Paris is a more global city. Feels like a euro nyc to me.
>There is nothing more depressing than flying from Japan to Korea. (Seoul is the ugliest city in Asia).
Yeah. Seoul is just soulless Japan.
>Taiwanese food is the most overrated in Asia.
I never hear anyone talk it up. It is the most mid and seems to have held that status.
> Most people that praise Thai food eat the same five dishes over and over again. I'll let you guess which ones.
Red curry, drunken noodles, pad thai. Those are the three off the top of my head but I love thai food and tried a lot.
>The Italy of your imagination no longer exists.
Yes. Globalist, tourist country with depressing rural areas.
>Vilnius is the best of the three Baltic capitals.
100% Lithuania is the only baltic country where their native people are a majority. Also the city has so much soul.
>Black Sea Turkey is incredibly underrated.
Eh. It is not near as good as the Baikal area of Russia to me. Or even the mountains of Georgia. It is underrated but not a top tier destination.
>The definition of grim is Łodz, Poland on a grey January day.
I disagree. I lived in Łodz. It had its problems but I enjoyed it. The parks are nice and Piotrkowska Street is great. In the winter, Manufaktura is a good spot with friends. Also the urban ex in Łodz is really fun. You just need friends.
>Don't pretend you are going to the Philippines for the "culture" or the QoL: your hairline started receding in high school. Just be honest.
Never went but true. Their culture is shit. The women are ugly as well but easy.
>Lithuania is the only baltic country where their native people are a majority.
Latvians and Estonians both make up around 70% of their respective countries. Yes, Lithuania is a bit higher at low 80s. But still, not a huge difference.
Idk I've heard from others that the Russian population in Latvia is enough that it shits up the place.
I dunno about Latvia but at least in Estonia a huge chunk of the ruskies are leftovers from when the Soviet Union collapsed and there was population shifting back and forth. And as much as I hate saying this, maybe all ruskis truly aren't created equal, because a ton of them have been renouncing their russian citizenship in the past two years to seek estonian citizesnhip instead.
Im not as internationally cultured as you guys. not yet at least. Im learning spanish and will be traveling along mexico ,LatAm, and Spain for the second half of this year. With that being said here are my U.S travel announcements
The northeast is the worst region in the US, People sit on the south but outside of New York why the hell would I want to live there? OIts cold and the people are even colder. Not to mention they have the most rabid blacks (I say this as one)
Vegas sucks. I mean I know it's called sin city but it felt fake and gross.
Philly and LA are competing for the worst major cities in the U.S. Worst people by far
California is underappreciated because most the people suck.
The Midwest is probably the comfiest region. I get why people never leave their hometowns there.
Feel free to add your own. Its late and that all I could think of
The mountain west is the most beautiful place in the world and it isn't even close. It's the midwest but with gorgeous geography instead of wind and farms. The best way to travel throughout America is a roadtrip through them, something like Denver > Billings > Bozeman Salt Lake City > St George > Grand Canyon > fly out of Phoenix or something.
LA is worse than philly though both are ass.
> Denver to Billings to Bozeman
Fricking what lol, imagine driving all the way through eastern Wyoming to get to Billings and thinking "Wow!" What an L take.
>western white men have given up
Stopped reading right there. This isn't /misc/. Speak for yourself. Just because YOU are a loser doesn't mean we all are.