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| location | Bondi Beach | |
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Backpacking since Christmas Day, 1989. Hitchhiking since mid 2010.
Currently home working in a backpacker hostel while I pay off the credit card from the last trip and save for the next one.
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Mar 3 |
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How to find a sauna/bathhouse in Korea that allows customers with tattoos? Thanks for the info Lee! So does this mean that the western-looking tattoo and piercing places I saw around Hongdae actually have qualified doctors working in them? |
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Mar 3 |
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Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua Personally I found the more interesting things in Panama to be the native Kuna culture, the Casco Viejo and Old Panama areas in the capital, and the food which was very different to all the other Central American countries. The canal was interesting but it's not easy to visit more than the one touristy spot unless you're passing through on a boat. |
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Mar 3 |
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How to get from DMK Airport to Sathorn Road, Tungmahamek Sathorn, Bangkok? @Ivan: Thai is one of those languages with many many ways to write a word in the English alphabet. It's very possible these are two ways to spell the same road. |
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Mar 3 |
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Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua When you say "what will I be able to find" what do you mean specifically? You surely don't want a list of every geographical, infrastructural, political, historical, and cultural difference. Which aspects of the countries do you wish us to contrast for you? |
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Mar 2 |
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Is it possible to make a decent income from travelling the world? I would say that beside luck, talent and skill are also important factors. You might get by with any one of these three but you'll do better with some of each. |
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Mar 2 |
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Is it possible to make a decent income from travelling the world? In a way you're asking if you could make a good living as a Hollywood actor. Of course some few people with the right skills and talents make many millions of dollars doing that, others never get their break, and many more end up somewhere in between. It's going to be the same following this dream. Is it possible? Yes. Will every person who tries to find a way to live well while traipsing the globe for years? Of course not. So there really is no "one right answer" to this question. If you want to follow your dream then go for it, but dreams are not guaranteed to come true. Life's a gamble. |
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Mar 1 |
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Which countries do you need a visa or permission to visit Antarctica as an Iranian? Don't various countries claim various slices of Antarctica? Don't they count these or at least their various bases as somehow part of their country? I'd prefer some official statement saying that none of the countries requires a visa for visiting "their" bit of Antarctica. |
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Feb 27 |
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On-site photography workshop in Nepal or India By "workshops" you mean a kind of study right? I'm adding a relevant tag under that assumption ... |
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Feb 27 |
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How to buy duty free other than at the airport? Yes I was actually wondering whether tax-free and duty-free are related or totally different ... |
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Feb 27 |
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What first aid material and medicines are absolutely essential when traveling? If you are male and don't usually worry about this stuff but you are travelling with a female, I've found that she is likely to be carrying a bunch of first aid and medicines that you didn't think of (-; |
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Feb 27 |
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Are airport duty-free shops really cheaper? Things to watch out for: • airports charge some of the highest rent for retails space anywhere - this can make the prices of items higher without duty at the airport than with duty at a normal shop • some airports mark prices in a major currency and charge high exchange rates to convert from the local currency (Mexico City airport used to sell in pesos but went to USD and all the prices went up) • products are cheaper in the country they're from than in countries that had to import them - so which airport you buy at can make a big difference • some products are not made where you think! |
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Feb 27 |
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Are airport duty-free shops really cheaper? I've just asked a related question after reading this one: How to buy duty free other than at the airport? |
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Feb 27 |
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Japanese etiquette: Most common (and offensive) mistakes? As far as noisy ramen eating, you will be encouraged to slurp but I'm still trying to find out if it's about ettiquette, habit, or cooling it down as you eat it. See my question on the Culture of Japan proposal: Am I encouraged to slurp my ramen by Japanese because it's the proper way to eat it, because it's more enjoyable, or to help cool it down? |
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Feb 27 |
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Japanese etiquette: Most common (and offensive) mistakes? With shoes there turn out to me more places and more subtle differences from inside to outside. Outside areas of buildings such as verandahs, patios, rooftops, terraces, balconies, garages, and sometimes parts of basements all require something like bathroom slippers that cannot be used in the inside areas. Do not walk in any of these areas in socks or bare feet and then back into the inside either! Think in terms of bringing contaminants from outside ground to inside floor rather than just shoes on / shoes off. |
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Feb 27 |
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Japanese etiquette: Most common (and offensive) mistakes? What's all the fuss about nattō? For me it doesn't even rate among slightly yucky foods common in Western countries. I can understand why many people wouldn't like uni (sea urchin) but I reserve my foreign food aversions to scary stuff like Korean beondegi (silkworm pupae). |
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Feb 27 |
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Japanese etiquette: Most common (and offensive) mistakes? There is a proposal for a Stack Exchange site on just this topic alone, "Culture of Japan". I advise you to follow it, contribute to it, and recommend it to friends. It will be a much better place to ask questions of this nature than Travel Stack Exchange. |
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Feb 24 |
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How can I go from Uyuni (Bolivia) to Puno (Peru) directly? Ah OK. In asking I realized that we tend to use some of the same words when we talk about routes and bus connections, like "direct" that can make it a bit tricky. I guess the OP was asking both about the route and the fewest bus changes. |
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Feb 24 |
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How can I go from Uyuni (Bolivia) to Puno (Peru) directly? I'm a bit confused. I Haven't been there but I'm looking at maps out of curiosity having travelled routes that "don't exist" in other parts of Latin America I thought it might be fun to take a look... It looks like the most direct way is via Potosí to Nuestra Señora de la Paz. What am I missing? |
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Feb 24 |
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Burushaski teacher or course in Hunza Valley, Pakistan Thanks for your efforts Halaba! I want to point out though that sometimes endangered or minority languages have non-academic community run schools where local elders who know the community language try to teach it to community members who ignored it in favour of a dominant national language in their youth and now regret it, and to try to pass it on to the next generation. I have no idea if this is the case with Burushaski. Just pointing out that your line of reasoning certainly doesn't apply in all minority/local language areas. |
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Feb 24 |
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Local cuisine in Peru @Washu: Ah sounds like chorizo then. The same word used for totally different things in Spain, Mexico, and South America. Empanadas can also be utterly different from country to country. |
