-first world travelling post... ?!?
south america is the shit, & my favourite place to travel as of yet. i spent some time in peru about a year & 1/2 ago, & had a fucking blast. i was pleased to not see a single cell-phone, few bill-boards or tv's, and to be greeted eye-to-eye by unafraid, grounded locals who aren't wrapped up in electronic worlds of media bullshit, but rather walk to the marketplace to get their food, and raise chickens and guinnea pigs for those special occasion feasts. the vast majority of people you meet won't look you up & down with scaredy disdain, judging you by your uncommon appearance; generally, they meet you with here-uncommon presence, as a human, & are quite cool.
your american dollar triples+ once you get there as far as what you can do with it (for now at least), getting you a massive plate of food for a dollar about anywhere, and there are ample places to camp/squat. in peru, at least, i encounted very little in the way of threatening situations/people that i couldn't very easily deal with.
it does help to know some spanish. if you learn or know even a little before you go, you'll pick it up at a rate that'll amaze you. it also helps to build up your immune system as much as possible before going (i.e. limited to no smoking/drinking, eating good), so as to avoid the traveller's sicknesses that are common down there.
among my favourite experiences in south american, (along with everything else) was the LACK of alot of mental hang-ups and wierd social pretenses that abound in the states. surely, they have their own problems, but they generally arise some much simpler circumstances; not so much the tangled mess of endless echoing bullshit that arises from some of the anxious, overthinking of endlessly complicated and abundant vanity. life is simpler there, and one begins to remember that alot of stuff that was always there in the states isn't even real, and that life is indeed simple and sweet.
the cities are crazy, busting, wild. the mountains are vast, enormous & endlessly hikable. (bring a hammock for mountain/jungle camping) the jungles will blow your mind, with their trillion species of everything, monkeys & anacondas, wild parrots, giant otters, 300 species of hummingbird, pink freshwater dolphins of the amazon, ayahausca shamen.
you can get a round-trip plane ticket out of miami for like $400 without much advance time, but probably less if you can plan ahead. save another $600 and, if you're crafty, you're good for a few months, or more.
do that shit; s. america is fucking awesome.
south america is the shit, & my favourite place to travel as of yet. i spent some time in peru about a year & 1/2 ago, & had a fucking blast. i was pleased to not see a single cell-phone, few bill-boards or tv's, and to be greeted eye-to-eye by unafraid, grounded locals who aren't wrapped up in electronic worlds of media bullshit, but rather walk to the marketplace to get their food, and raise chickens and guinnea pigs for those special occasion feasts. the vast majority of people you meet won't look you up & down with scaredy disdain, judging you by your uncommon appearance; generally, they meet you with here-uncommon presence, as a human, & are quite cool.
your american dollar triples+ once you get there as far as what you can do with it (for now at least), getting you a massive plate of food for a dollar about anywhere, and there are ample places to camp/squat. in peru, at least, i encounted very little in the way of threatening situations/people that i couldn't very easily deal with.
it does help to know some spanish. if you learn or know even a little before you go, you'll pick it up at a rate that'll amaze you. it also helps to build up your immune system as much as possible before going (i.e. limited to no smoking/drinking, eating good), so as to avoid the traveller's sicknesses that are common down there.
among my favourite experiences in south american, (along with everything else) was the LACK of alot of mental hang-ups and wierd social pretenses that abound in the states. surely, they have their own problems, but they generally arise some much simpler circumstances; not so much the tangled mess of endless echoing bullshit that arises from some of the anxious, overthinking of endlessly complicated and abundant vanity. life is simpler there, and one begins to remember that alot of stuff that was always there in the states isn't even real, and that life is indeed simple and sweet.
the cities are crazy, busting, wild. the mountains are vast, enormous & endlessly hikable. (bring a hammock for mountain/jungle camping) the jungles will blow your mind, with their trillion species of everything, monkeys & anacondas, wild parrots, giant otters, 300 species of hummingbird, pink freshwater dolphins of the amazon, ayahausca shamen.
you can get a round-trip plane ticket out of miami for like $400 without much advance time, but probably less if you can plan ahead. save another $600 and, if you're crafty, you're good for a few months, or more.
do that shit; s. america is fucking awesome.
