Another thing that never ceases to amaze me is the variety of cultures and way of life in other countries, so different from Western Europe. I hope later this year I will be able to return to Northern Thailand and Laos where I used to live, I have friends there that have been there so long they are almost part of the scenery.
One question that I am often asked is that I must have spent a lot of money to be able to do this, but that is not the case. Just ask a student on gap year or a pensioner how they get on, a different story. What has been lacking is a comprehensive service on how to obtain travel cheaply and information products on other benefits relating to your travel plans. Travel Agents only seem to be interested in your wallet and not willing to provide a complete service. More information on cheap travel and other products can be found via the website.
When I was younger and traveling a lot of the places I visited especially third world countries just were not geared up to an influx of foreigners or the tourist trade as a whole. It was only when they realized that the tourist brings with him much needed revenue that things started to change. Sometimes when you visit these places and see how the locals live and how they survive it makes you realize just how lucky we are in a 'civilized society' and how, maybe, we take a lot of things for granted in our modern worlds.
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