Is that really travel?
Do not get me wrong - I am in traveling people happy. proverbially Whether the tour, cruise, car or on foot, to make the first step is an achievement in itself. The fact that someone bothered is amazing. Not enough people do it.
However, it is disconcerting to see so many young travelers stick to the same places. Popular locations are popular for a reason, and there is nothing to go wrong with them. I go to them. But if you have nothing but time, you do not really have to skip the lesser-known destinations an apology.
The majority of break travelers always seem to want, in the big, popular places to stay. You do not even try to see or experience something else. Although I prod and try to convince them, the trail to step out, they seem uninterested. They just want to follow any other, because "that's where everyone else is."
Take Western Australia, for example. Not many backpacker travel there. Almost all travelers I speak to say that they do not have enough time there to fit in, even if they spend months in Australia. Many have just no real answer to the question why they did not go.
But Western Australia is one of the most beautiful parts of the entire country. Even Aussies will tell you that, when you see the "real" Australia, in the west. It is much less developed than the east and incredibly beautiful. However, I have most travelers do not even speak consider. You just stick to the very touristy and overrated Sydney-to-Cairns route.
I see this pattern a lot of other places also. In New Zealand Travelers backpacker buses and almost never follow the head of the main tourist centers. In Fiji, they just go to the Yasawa Islands. In Laos, go tubing Travelers drunk in Vang Vieng, and then declare that they have seen Laos.
There has always been travelers who the beaten track just stick. Some people just do not bother to find something new - they just want other people go to meet, have a good time, and get drunk. But if you came to get away in another country to get drunk, what is the point of going away? Stay and get drunk cheaper.
And based on the conversations I have had with people in tourism, this trend appears to be growing steadily in the trip.
Backpacking seems "to have become industry" one in this part of the world. Everything seems to do everything to be aligned for the traveler. There are special backpacker buses. Hostels you will pick up from anywhere. There are special activities, special dinners and tours. Hostels even have their own bars you have to keep in one place. Overall, there always seems to be to take the work out of the long-term trip and it like a long vacation. It's cheap packaged tourism.
Backpacking has about independently has always been. I love how you have to figure it all for yourself. Find your way and in the process, you find out for yourself. You need to find out, to move trains, languages and from point A to B, it is involved in a trip.
In Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, everything is done for you. I feel like it's more like a guided tour to be that you have to stay in hostels instead of hotels. It is anything but easy. You just need to show up and your hand is kept for you.
But travel is more than just going somewhere. , Is to my world travel go to destinations, new things to experience the people and places. It is about an insight into new cultures to win to try local specialties, and, yes, getting drunk at the local watering hole, while locals teach you. Slang and swear words in their native language
Traveling is not just about the always wind ~~ POS = TRUNC, is deposited in a hostel, and then to be reshuffled on a backpacker tour and then a backpacker bar. The aim is not to always stay on the beaten path. It's have not always kept on your hand. But the more I see these young travelers to simply accept this kind of travel, the more I get discouraged. Is that really what traveling is?
Then again, maybe I'm an old fuddy duddy complaining of an idea about traveling that existed only in my head.
Editor's note: My goal here was not the man to disparage a particular way traveling. How do I say here, all travelers are the same. It does not matter how you are traveling. However, that does not mean that I saw people otherwise do not want, or the fact complain that backpacking has become more of an industry than an adventure in solo travel. Everyone has their own opinion. Remember that popular targets are large, but they are not the only things that exist. Most people on an extended trip have the time to see a mixture of places.
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