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Over the past few years I've spent a total of five months travelling through or living in various remote corners of Africa. My advice would be to forget the Int
by chris_overseas 12y ago
Over the past few years I've spent a total of five months travelling through or living in various remote corners of Africa. My advice would be to forget the Internet and all that is on it. Take a decent camera, learn photography. Take a local dictionary, learn the language. Take some art supplies, learn to paint. Take a guidebook and learn about the animals and plants. Get up for sunrise. Immerse yourself in the culture and the environment. You'll get far more out of your trip that way than if you're glued to a computer screen the whole time.
- grownseed 12y ago"Forget the Internet and all that is on it" > I think this is very good advice. I found writing was a very nice activity when you're not connected. When I was travelling, I always carried a small notebook and a pen. It just started as random scribbles, notes and doodles about various things I was experiencing, but after a while my writing started having more substance. I realized it helped me understand cultures, people, languages etc. a lot better. For example, I'd see/hear a word I couldn't understand, write it down in the original language and phonetically, then would ask various people how they'd explain the word (or expression). Translations are very rarely 1:1, so people have different ways of explaining the same thing, which I find very insightful. Writing these things down was a good way to organize and etch those things in my mind.