Social media has ruined traveling, chuds are just mad one of their hobbies has been ruined by women (again).

>>2866784
>Likes doing reddit things
>Gets called reddit for liking reddit things
>Post thread on 4chan, complaining about what 4chan likes... because it isn't reddit

Anon you are worse than a bennie stealing immigrant

>>2866784
>Kandra, Jharkand
Miss me with that Stacy shit
Real Travellers™ spend their holidays in Bihar

If someone on /trv/ calls it reddit then you either A) found the spot they thought was neat B) found a perfectly normal to go to place

When you realize something like 75% of this board is NEETS faking social security or welfare benefits and maybe some "vets" who got disability because they stubbed their toe and live abroad, you stop caring so much. Last year I took the plunge and met up with some 4chan people from /trv/ in Asia and Europe... Let me tell you only like 1 or 2 of the dozen I met had anything resembling a well balanced life. Most of them were just along the lines of "yeah I might be living in a turd world shithole but at least I am not back in <major EU/US city> filled now with migrants and nogs!"

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>>2866784
I had just been thinking that the catalog was surprisingly clear of shit threads lately. I guess we're onto the next wave.

>>2866819
I disagree. I think this is a gem of a thread.

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>>2866784
both are low iq in fact

people with an actually high iq travel to do astrophotography

>>2866825
Everyone thinks you should kill yourself.

Most obscure/off the beaten track travel destination suck becuase it's just miles of road and run down shacks alongside them.
If you look at anywhere in Jericho besides the more tourist areas it's just cars.

>>2866784
>So glad I didn't visit the cities and regions with stuff to do... that would be so Reddit
not really
the actual reason
if you're on /trv/ and not a coomer / neet
you likely already traveled a lot or you have some specific niche interest in some region
then of course all the normie destination are boring

like yeah Tokyo, Bangkok or Seoul cool and all, but I don't need to go there for the 7th time in the last 10y

also there's little value in suggesting <most average thing to do>
because you can get the same information from chatgpt or literally any travel blog / site

the only reason why I'm on /trv/ is exactly to get these niche tips
obviously do your own research
but knowing why
>Kandra, Jharkhand
might be interesting, is the reason why this board isn't a shithole

>>2866784
Just admit it. You've always been happiest when you are doing the "in" thing that everybody else is doing. You're a beta; that's your nature. So go enjoy your beta trend-follower life and stop bothering the rest of us with your sniveling.
>>2866799
I browse reddit enough to know when a spot is reddit tier, because the same handful of places are mentioned ad nauseum on any travel-related subreddit. In fact, the whole purpose of reddit travel inquiries can be boiled down to the question of "what places are currently trending?"

>>2867160
You're clearly just passing through. Of course you're only going to see the shacks along the highway.

The /trv/ board operates on a philosophy of aggressive counter-signaling and a pathological obsession with "authentic" suffering. To understand why they post like this, you have to look at how they define themselves against the rest of the internet.

1. The "Reddit" vs. "Autist" Dichotomy

In the /trv/ worldview, there are two types of people: tourists (Redditors) and travelers.

The "Redditor": Someone who visits "curated" experiences—London, Tokyo, or Paris. They want safety, English-speaking guides, and Instagrammable landmarks. To /trv/, this is "plastic" and "soulless."

The "Traveler": Someone who seeks the "raw" reality of a place. On /trv/, "raw" usually translates to "industrial, impoverished, or dangerous."

2. Status Through Obscurity

Status on 4chan is earned by having a higher barrier to entry than the average person. Anyone can buy a flight to Rome, but it takes a specific type of person to spend months in a non-descript industrial town in Jharkhand, India. By praising these places, users signal that they have the "grit" to handle the "real world" that "normies" are too afraid to see.

3. Hyper-Ironic Elitism

A lot of these posts are performative. Users take a valid desire for off-the-beaten-path travel and push it to an absurd extreme to mock others. It’s a form of gatekeeping where the goal is to make common experiences feel shameful. If you enjoyed your trip to a major city, you "failed" the test of being a "real" traveler.

4. The "Path of Most Resistance"

There is a belief on the board that misery equals merit. If you didn't get food poisoning, sleep on a concrete floor, or find yourself in a situation where nobody speaks your language, you didn't actually "experience" the culture—you just watched it through a window.

Answer

The /trv/ board uses hyper-ironic elitism and counter-signaling to reject mainstream tourism, valuing obscure, uncomfortable experiences as a way to distinguish themselves from "normie" travelers.

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>>2867384
There's nothing absurd about it, numbnuts. We simply enjoy unique exploratory experiences in a world where you can find 1,000,000 Instagram shots of the goddamn Eiffel Tower. The fuck is the point of wasting a bunch of your hard-earned money to raise the total to 1,000,001? People who say travel is nothing more than frivolous consumerism are talking about this kind of travel.
>a situation where nobody speaks your language
Is this really a novelty for you reddit faggots? Jeezus Christ, your kind really don't get around much, do you?
>muh obscurity
There you go again ranking every place not by what experiences it offers the visitor, but by how much it is currently trending on English-language media. Fucking hiveminds. You'll happily go to any shithole as long as other angloids are talking about it, but you'll never go to an amazing place that has zero English vlogs. And to cope, you'll insist that all these amazing "obscure" places are actually shitholes with nothing worth seeing.

>>2866784
I don't go travelling to visit McDonalds. I like checking out lesser known places.

>>2867384
>valuing obscure, uncomfortable experiences as a way to distinguish themselves from "normie" travelers
if not wanting to spend thousands of dollars to visit third world shitholes makes me a normalfag, then so be it.
I'll be enjoying my ramen and strong zero in Tokyo while other people on this board smear themselves in shit while believing they are ascended.

>>2867392
>>2867400
You're replying to chatgpt btw

>>2866784
Because this place is full of bitter losers who will desperate clutch at any opportunity to feel superior to normies. The truth is that 99% of places are famous for a good reason. Sure overtourisn exists but almost everything worth seeing is famous. Almost everyone enjoys those places. Mostly because they don't just do sightseeing, they also meet people, party, make friends, hook up, etc. When you're a disillusioned autist without anything going for you of course you'll think being well travelled is some kind of incredible humblebrag. Meanwhile everyone and their mother has travelled and travelling hasn't impressed anyone for at least the past fifteen years. I've met idiots like that IRL, name dropping some obscure shitholes to women and expecting people to give a shit only to be politely ignored. Just look at most generals it's just desperate losers talking about hookers in SEA mostly, that alone should tell everything about the average poster. Its probably also a millennial thing because you love being contrarian and hipster.

>>2867424
>everyone and their mother has travelled
Not to the places I go. They see virtually zero foreign travelers. One thing you got right is that western tourist normalfags don't give a shit about places that aren't trending. Doesn't matter how interesting the places are; if there is no name recognition, they couldn't care less. And thus they get stuck in places where traveling is nothing special, because tourists are a dime a dozen.
>famous for a good reason
They're hyped, that's all. You only think they are worth seeing because they are hyped. If they weren't hyped, like 90% of interesting places around the world, they wouldn't be worth seeing in your opinion. You are a marketer's perfect mark.

>>2869556
I've hitchhiked across Europe and I've been to plenty obscure places and my opinion still stands. Camped out and slept in places where no normal person would ever dare. Places are hyped for a reason, it's not like you can manifest long term tourism to a place that isn't worth seeing. You type out your thoughts like one of those fedora autists from early 2010s.

>in this moment I am euphoric...

>>2869894
Once investors have decided to turn a place into a tourism destination and market it as such, it becomes "worth visiting". Most people follow crowd trends and enjoy a touristy environment, so old buildings surrounded by gawking tourists will always be more "worth visiting" than the same buildings lacking the visitor hordes and the tourist-oriented businesses. Plenty of places that will be trending in 2040 lie undiscovered by foreign visitors today. No, the crowd is not an infallible judge of destination quality, and your suggestion that it is such is laughable, as anyone who has been to a shitty, overcrowded resort area can attest.

>>2869896
Yeah yeah bro we get it you're more enlightened and more intelligent than the normies, you've cracked the reality and shit.

>>2869899
Logic-based intuition. You should try it sometimes. Often the most logical choice runs contrary to the most popular choice, and so many people are not strong-minded enough to run counter to prevailing influences. Not with "I hate society" misanthropy, but with the calm determination that comes when you trust your brain to make the right choice for the circumstances every time. Even though others are always second-guessing you or trying to convince you that they know better. 99% of the time, they don't.

>>2869907
I tip my fedora to you my good sir. This was most eloquent of you to declare so.

>>2867189
Did you just wake up from a 10 year coma? The /trv/ you're talking about is long gone. I'm only here to check if a question I couldn't find an answer to on the web has got an answer yet, and sure enough I just got a few responses from retards (I think one was actually written by chatgpt).

>>2867384
>but it takes a specific type of person to spend months in a non-descript industrial town in Jharkhand, India
An autist with nothing better to do?

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>>2869944
It's all about the hotel. Some rooms & beds make you want to lay around 22 hours a day for the foreseeable future. Others, you're eager to move on at the crack of dawn. I've fallen into a comfy trap for the past six days, though tonight an obnoxiously loud and horny cricket has been chirping without a second's pause for the past hour. He was so annoying that I got out of bed and went downstairs to find him. Fat and sassy next to his burrow entrance under a potted plant. Spotting me, he scurried underneath. Perfect. I jammed up his burrow entrance with some pebbles, and it was like pushing the mute button on his ass. If I'm not getting laid tonight, then you're not gonna get any either, cricketbro.

>>2867392
I, too prefer generic dusty alleys and grand vistas of dry deforested scrublands over Paris

>>2870004
Everyone treats me like a VIP here. Can't get that in Paris for $20 per day.

>>2870164
Are you getting girls without paying though? Anything else is cope

>>2867392
bro is responding to chatgpt and yet still falling into the very thing it describes.

>>2870284
B-but she said I'm handsome! Women back home dont want be because of feminism.

>>2870328
Remarkable how many tards on this board clearly regurgitate ideas and perspectives they've seen posted online instead of speaking from their own real-life experience.
>>2870284
If I wanted to fornicate so badly, I'd have gone to Latin America. Average Marias will salsa dance with their legs gyrating against the crotch of a random guy while he grips her back, no hesitation at all. Asian women are much more restrained and have much lower libidos as a whole.
>>2870328
This constantly parroted meme of the Asian continent being a paradise of women who are BWC-loving sluts while simultaneously being demure 18 year old virgins is a coomer fantasy.
>you must be ugly, you must be bald, blah blah
Yeah yeah, your kind always hate it when I dash your fantasies into the reality of the Asian streets and the people you encounter along them. It's about as sexless an environment as you could possibly think of.

>>2871511
Asian women are as much of whores as any other women and they're incredibly materialistic. It's actually comical how much they hate their own men when given any freedom in choosing mates. I don't think anyone but overweight retards who think anime is real life think that the women over there are traditional or chaste. With that said they're also fucking ugly, its comical how much worse they look than white women, and from what I've seen 9/10 when someone goes for Asian women its usually an unattractive white guy, so its easy to see why people will assume someone is a loser when they're going to Asia for pussy.

>>2867397
>I don't go travelling to visit McDonalds
But the McDonald's menu can vary greatly depending on the country

>>2869896
yes marketing and real estste investors are the reason people want to visit the great works of architecture across europe, god you cant be fucking serious

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>>2871981
Yes, there is a lot of variation. Here in India the McDonalds advertises a McAloo burger. Basically a slice of breaded potato instead of a beef burger. You can't get such an awful McDonald's burger anywhere else but India.
>>2871522
The only Asian women who hate their own men are the ones who hate their own culture and family as well. They reject everything they have to go be a ho in the big city or else migrate to the West for the career opportunities. There are a billion traditional Asian women, but they are found in the countryside mostly, and they are much uglier than the ambitious greedy hoes desu.

>>2872065
Is it like a hashbrown or more similar to a potato croquete? Honestly I'd be keen to try because I like potatoes a lot.

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>trv tells me some place is shit
>it's fine(taiwan), Norway, NZ
>trv tells me some place is GOAT'd
>it's shit (Malaysia), Cambodia, Chang Mai(bangkok was okay I guess)
I always forget to keep in mind that this board is full of "rich" people who make 35k/yr on NEETbux or cryptobro's slowly spiraling their bank accounts down

>>2872193
Everyone told me Paris is a shithole and I'm basically putting my life in danger but I ended up having an absolute blast and walking everywhere at night with no issues.
This board is full of gay retards.

>>2872193
You were just doing it wrong

>>2872200
Not sure how I am supposed to do it right then. What eat 2 dollar 711 or some street slop, sleep in some <300/mo place, and push all my remaining money to cheap whores? Then try to flex on trv about it? No thanks. I can just live abroad and travel while I enjoy my life living comfortable.

>>2872201
And that's your problem. You lack the willingness to learn how to live well while traveling in developing countries. There's no substitute for spending lots of time and learning from your mistakes.

>>2872196
Same but i think it was everyone shitting on paris so my expectations were rock bottom.

>>2872905
It's the same as anywhere. You either learn to endure the shittiness, or pay enough money so you don't have to deal with it - and then pretend like it doesn't exist. If you were a poorfag staying in a migrant hostel in that famous no-go zone neighborhood, Ste Denis or whatever, your perception of the city would be very different.

>>2872647
>You lack the willingness to learn how to live well while traveling in developing countries.
"living well" is eating 711 meals? yeah this place is cooked

>>2874559
You're the only one who keeps mentioning 711. No, dumbass. You go find the good restaurants, and you patronize them. Eating a whole bunch of cheap food is going to cost you just as much as one proper filling meal, so you might as well go for the latter option because it digests so much better and gives you more nutrition.

>>2874580
Bro is going to restaurants abroad you're basically modern day Magellan I do wish I had your travel skills

>>2874585
You sound awfully jealous of my RealTraveler diarrhea sharts

>>2866784
Its one thing to visit lesser traveled areas due to curiosity or wanting something new but if you go to complete shithole in the middle of nowhere in a shithole country everybody knows what you are really there for.

>>2877824
>if you go to complete shithole in the middle of nowhere in a shithole country everybody knows what you are really there for.
What? Smug projecting faggit

There is NO other reason to desire constant exposure to indian men, unless you are gay for them.
He probably got raped by an indian as a kid and is fucked up from it, so his whole life revolves around servicing his gay rapist (random pot bellied indian with smell).

Adventure tourism is one thing. Scurrying around slums and shitholes with zero redeeming qualities is another. Its ALWAYS a sex thing in the second case.

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>>2877834
>>2877836
>puritanfag has complete mental breakdown
>doesnt even know what indians actually look like
pic related is the type of dirty smelly pajeet I'm a gay prison bottom for :3

>>2877824
There's several reasons foreigners stay in shitty parts of Third World cities.
1) It's their first time in the country, and they barely made it 5 km from the airport before they felt an overwhelming urge to stop and familiarize themselves with their alien surroundings.
2) They are on a long journey and breaking it up with a night or two near the bus or train station, which is convenient but bound to be shitty.
3) There are many tourist hotspots or beautiful places in the vicinity of a shithole with cheap and easy food, lodging and transport.
4) They love the heckin hustle and bustle of the streets and can't stand the sleepy rural villages.
5) They start bedrotting in the first cheap hotel they find and give up on further travel because it's too much effort.
>>2877836
You're clueless. India does have a gender imbalance, but most of those surplus males gravitate to industrial slums to slave away at various jobs. Rural India is full of women. In fact, there are often more women than men selling items at the bazaar, riding the bus, staffing the shops, etc.

>>2866833
I hate light pollution so much. I wish we had a national stargazing holiday where we turned the lights off everywhere and all looked at the stars but you just know niggers would loot and steal if we did.

>>2867384
fuck AI slop is good now. nailed it.

>>2866784
Being a contrarian is meant to be for the lulz. It's the younger fags who took being a contrarian and/or responding to a contrarian seriously.

>>2867424
Being well travelled is very cool and something to be proud of though. You don't need to brag or gloat but there are still a lot of people that don't get the privilege of world travel especially in more obscure locations. I think you can brag a little bit since so many people respect travel and it shows some ambition in life. You should be thankful you've had the ability to travel and not hate on people that simply really enjoy it. But the people OP is talking about are obviously retarded.

>>2883486
You don't need ambition to wander the world. You just need to get off your ass, pack your bags and get moving on a regular basis.

The biggest travel braggers are not those who have wandered to the ends of the world, but those who have splurged on expensive Conde Nast tier getaways and now want to flex their high status on everyone.

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>>2866784
It's the same shit where everyone wants to be the hipster contrarian elitist by being into the DEEP UNDERGROUND REAL thing you YOU never heard of before.

It's the same shit as being into a fandom, but the "Elite Fans" want to talk some shit because you did not read that ultra rare 1st edition print that was only available in Singapore in 1989?!!? Fake ass non-fan faggot! Fuck off LARPer!!!!!
It's the same shit in every interest everywhere, you have nerds that desperately want to be superior to someone else and this is how they think they get there. They somehow convinced themselves they are gate-keeping something.
>I only watch underground anime that YOU have never herd of before!
>I only play the ultra rare edition of this game that only came out in a single neighborhood of Tokyo, had to spend $4K to import it,
>I only go to farmers markets, I haven't been in a corpo grocery store in 13 years!
>I only go to independent theaters that refuse to play any movie that any MPAA association, you've never heard of them!
>I only go to super exclusive underground clubs and see even MORE exclusive MORE underground bands, you never heard of any of them!

This is just the /trv/ version of that wannabe elitist faggot. People seem to love to namedrop the super rare exclusive thing they have done, watched, or been to and think they are impressing everyone else. Their ego is tied to the rare exclusive thing. So around here they go to small fishing villages and try to pretend they are a thousand times better than you for not going to small fishing villages on Tonga you fake ass non-trv larper, kill yourself!

>>2867424
That is how I see it. the big well known hot spots are big well known hot spots because lots and lots of people actually like them and they are genuinely fun places to go. It's not a grand scaled psyop that convinced people that theme parks are fun, or Greece is cool to look at. People want to go to these well known places since other people before them went there and had a great time, and told people about it. Tourism has been a thing since the Romans, we can see their graffiti on Egyptian monuments.

I think it's because I grew up in a tiny rural town, I do not see the point in going to them. They're just random little places with nothing going on. Just people working and living there, with a local restaurant and that's about it. Passing time is just...walking around town and seeing the locals just sort of living there. I cannot see what's amazing about seeing that in person, just people living their lives in a unimportant nothing place.

I want to travel to places that have something there, like a real destination that makes it worth my while to get up, go out, and spend the money to make it there. I don't believe I will ever get that in some rural little nothing town with nothing going on other than homes, a pub, and a restaurant of some kind being the only local existence.

>>2883774
To a degree this as well. I have seen this type of mindset in music a few times before where the hipster douche has that same thought process of
>You only like that band because the corporations told you to like them!
Like their whole persona is so tied to being underground and different that they cannot wrap their heads around a popular singer being popular because they actually are good at what they do and attract fans. They really want to believe it's some kind of forced trend and corporate programming that forced people to believe X person is a good singer...and that they are brainwashed.

>>2883727
You do need some ambition anon. And it's not just "wandering the world", travel means a lot of different things to a lot of people. Stop generalizing everything just to be edgy.

>>2867424
>they also meet people, party, make friends, hook up, etc.
Yeah I regularly attend orgies at the Louvre and hook up with chicks at the pyramids like everyone else.
>being well travelled is some kind of incredible humblebrag
You can brag especially to people that haven't travelled or haven't done a lot of travelling. What are people allowed to brag about besides the mandatory things like kids, work, house, etc.? (not that anyone cares about that shit anymore) is there nothing to brag about in your life cause you're just too cool?
>everyone and their mother has travelled
Wrong. Have you never interacted with someone that hasn't travelled much? You need to travel more kiddo.
>travelling hasn't impressed anyone for at least the past fifteen years
So is this why all social media is travel posts brags and travel is the biggest thing people humble brag about more than any other topic?
>name dropping some obscure shitholes to women.
Anecdotal but also the women weren't interested in the guy that's why they didn't care. You don't need to downplay things just to make your point more clear anon.

>>2883777
Cities collect tax, have a budget, and spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on "outreach" and "perception management" (propaganda)
Travel trends are as inorganic as any other trend that involves large amounts of money.

>>2883792
People do things because they see that everybody else is doing them, not because they have made an independent evaluation and determined that doing this thing would be a good fit for their personality and preferences. But they all like to pretend like they are stronk independent thinkers who freely make their own choices. Bah.

Go to a crowded tourist mecca and look at the people. Most faces look stressed rather than having the time of their lives. Much like cattle in a herd. It's only afterwards that they post some carefully cropped & filtered pictures in order to reminisce-brag about how they had the most amazing time. Compared to sitting at their wagecuck desk, I guess anything is amazing.
>>2883779
If you only travel two weeks a year, you are going to splurge on a riot of luxury spending and then basedface about how "X is simply wonderful, one of the best experiences I have had in my life". Your opinion is so subjective and centered on your own pampered pleasure that it is worthless as a useful evaluation of the place for anyone who doesn't have a Conde Nast tier travel budget.

>>2883828
Bro what are you even talking about? This two week luxury spending fantasy of yours has nothing to do with what I said. And you are obsessed with conde nast lol relax guy.
I travel as much as I can throughout the year and I don't spend much. I don't know what your example has to do with anything. Are you okay anon?

>>2883846
>I travel as much as I can throughout the year and I don't spend much.
2 weeks a year, $1k a day

>>2883860
Nah that's more your style you stereotypical dull miserable white male

Seen one Eiffel tower, seen all Eiffel tower. Fucked one eurotrash roastie, fucked all eurotrash roastie.

Very quickly you start hating mass tourism more then you enjoy whatever Eiffel tower you're visiting that day. Increasingly you want a personal experience, something, anything authentic. To actually discover something.

I must have spent months in rural India, including jharkand. Was it worth it? Well it was better then anything I had to do at home.

>>2884538
Fuck more roasties, chud.

What can I tell you about jhartakhand? It's far better then bihar. Everyone in India hates bihar, fuck bihar.
Jharakhand actually one of the more interesting regions of India. Go to the waterfall, chetrapunji or whatever it's called, military operations against the maoist insurgents are on and off so it's fairly unsafe to go anywhere as a foreign tourist because of the kidnapping risk and serious drug issues.

But there are a number of folk festivals in the province, the kind of organic, more tribal Hinduism that's really nothing like in the cities. There's a hill station, a few ancient ruins. The national parks, idk the region is so poor that the parks are in an awful state. The museums suck.

There's not much in khandra but it's on the bihar express line

The picture from the OP is Khandra in neibouring west Bengal. Didn't visit there myself, but I suppose someone landed at the new airport and was headed by land to gantok, or it was a biker who hated main roads.

What do you want me to tell you OP, if you spent years, decades travelling, you spend months in middle of nowhere Indian towns. Because of the gantok pass a lot of people trying to cross the world by motorbike end up going through there.

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