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bhutan bump from my trip there a few years ago.
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god drat bump
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Oct 18, 2020 20:30
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:bhutan bump from my trip there a few years ago. fuckin' HOW though
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Oct 18, 2020 21:08
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I like how
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Oct 18, 2020 21:27
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i don't get it
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Oct 18, 2020 21:35
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Jonny 290 posted:i don't get it you need a bhutanese passpooorrrt
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Oct 18, 2020 22:23
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Jonny 290 posted:fuckin' HOW though they have ridiculous visa fees but everything else is so cheap that a 7 day trip was about $2800/person for the stay (just looked that up as it was 2017) including all hotels, meals, travel inside the country with a government required guide and driver. it’s a lot rougher than visiting wester Europe but the price wasn’t that different from europe trips I have taken. that doesn’t include airfare. also the price goes down a little as you add more people when you can share rooms and have the same guide/driver and we had 4 people (2 couples) in our group. here are some photos from a trip to antarctica.  
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Oct 18, 2020 23:45
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spankmeister posted:you need a bhutanese passpooorrrt nah you just have to pay $200-$250 per day for a visa, depending on the season. we went in September and it was $220/day for the visa and $180 a day for literally everything else.
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Oct 18, 2020 23:47
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super interesting as a person who's gradually settled on the 'spend money on experiences, not possessions' take, this is super interesting to me. ... ... .... Of course that's all loving gone now and Americans are the lepers of the world, but it's good to hear the stories.
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Oct 19, 2020 03:04
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Jonny 290 posted:super interesting if you want to go to Bhutan then you can book directly with the government (they have their hands in everything no matter what) from mybhutan.com. for the long away future when you can travel. it’s really amazing and you should all go see it before china totally invades it like tibet. you can tell the neighbor countries are trying to get the locals on their side for when the chinese invasion comes, too. every new road we drove on had big signs saying “generously donated by your friends in india” or equivalent. the ambulance that came to pick up a guy who took a fall on a hike was donated by japan, iirc. if you want to go into the more remote parts you need at least a week because you will spend all day driving. we drove out to a small city in the countey (punakha) from the largest city (paro) and it was a 4 hour drive to make it 75 miles over dirt roads, but there is no other way to get there.  google is optimistic here. and that’s a tiny part of the country, too. the chinese and indan armies keep having conflicts in the north half where there are no roads on that map too. it’s mostly national parks according to bhutan but china keeps trying to move in.
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Oct 19, 2020 08:04
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and standard undeveloped country travel tips apply. get vaccinated with whatever the cdc and who say you should to travel there the locals are mostly vegetarian and you will mostly eat turnips and turnip greens. i think 95% of the food we ate involved steamed or boiled turnip greens. they do have chicken for the tourists at some places but it’s the most gristly bone filled chicken I have ever eaten, like floor sweepings from a chicken slaughterhouse in india. the whole country has 800,000 people, the capital has 115,000 people. the largest contributor to their GDP is the electricity from a hydroelectric dam that they sell to india. india also built the dam. it’s really an agrarian subsistence farming economy. the GDP is roughly $3,000 USD per capita. tourism is the second largest contributor to their GDP. all in, you’ll pay the about 90% amount you would pay on a trip to Paris with a 3-star hotel and modest daily food budget, but you are going to one of the poorest countries in the world so literally nowhere in the US is comparable in terms of remoteness or industrial development so be prepared to go with the flow and not contact anyone for most of the trip. i was able to buy a local sim card in the city but it was in my tour guide’s name (you could not buy one as a foreigner when i was there) and some tour guides don’t want to have a bunch of sims in their name, so i didn’t ask but he offered so i got one, hopefully he made some good money marking it up to sell to me 🤷🏼♂️ that said, the country is basically untouched Himalayan mountains with some tiered subsistence farms, and rivers full of clear snowmelt. you feel like you are traveling back in time a thousand years. it’s completely worth it. i have the names of the tour company we used pm me if you want it, i never felt anything other than safe in the time we were there, the govt required local guide and driver really nice and very knowledgeable, it’s one of my top 2 amazing trips along with the antarctic peninsula and i have been at least once to 6 of the 7 continents some day I will finally catch em all and go to the marsupial island, but not this year.
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Oct 19, 2020 08:46
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bump
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Oct 19, 2020 22:57
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yet another incident. it's time to bump
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Oct 25, 2020 09:45
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I'm on call this weekend/week and I got a call while I was asleep this morning (well, technically, yesterday, but didn't think to post it now) because a dude forgot his loving admin password to log into his firewall it's now 3am on Sunday morning and I am BLASTED off strong ale between this and my personal identity issues I'm really just praying for a nuclear bomb to land on me so I don't have to deal with any more of reality kthx
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Oct 25, 2020 11:01
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havin a real wander-off-into-the-woods-never-to-be-seen-again kinda day today
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Oct 27, 2020 23:27
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:nah you just have to pay $200-$250 per day for a visa, depending on the season. how soon we forget the memes of old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xALZs5mxPdU
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Oct 28, 2020 00:33
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SO DEMANDING posted:how soon we forget the memes of old Thank you.
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Oct 28, 2020 00:39
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SO DEMANDING posted:how soon we forget the memes of old i love this so much. it's another always-watch like tlo roll call i want to make "dzeng" into my notification sound
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Oct 28, 2020 05:37
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bumping. boss said i should take a half day this week so maybe i'll do it tomorrow and gently caress off into forest
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Oct 28, 2020 05:47
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SO DEMANDING posted:how soon we forget the memes of old lmao
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Oct 28, 2020 06:43
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i had never seen that video so thank you for making me aware of it
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Oct 28, 2020 07:08
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:i had never seen that video so thank you for making me aware of it Have you seen cyeramic noives?
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Oct 28, 2020 07:25
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what a gued knaoife!
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Oct 28, 2020 07:27
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Have you seen cyeramic noives? lol yes i do remember that one - some non native english speaker doing it phonetically or something. is this what it sounds like to italians when the rest of the world sings opera phonetically??
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Oct 28, 2020 07:30
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:lol yes i do remember that one - some non native english speaker doing it phonetically or something. No because nobody in the world can actually hear the words being sung in opera, not even the Italians.
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Oct 28, 2020 07:39
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I think the funnier thing is the actual script. Sometimes you have to cut fruit for a salad. Why yes! That's true! I can relate to these noives!
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Oct 28, 2020 07:45
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:and standard undeveloped country travel tips apply. ok cool now tell us about the dicks https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3945787
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Oct 28, 2020 23:18
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SO DEMANDING posted:ok cool now tell us about the dicks https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3945787 oh yeah its “good luck” so they draw dicks on EVERYTHING like, zoom in on the photos of the houses and the shops and they’re all “junior high school bathroom” level of dick-covered 
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Oct 29, 2020 00:56
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Ok you've convinced me
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Oct 29, 2020 01:11
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everything from the grandest palace to a subsistence farmer must have a dick drawn on their house. most have more than 1. way more.  zoom, enhance  dick with a bow around it like a present 🎁
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Oct 29, 2020 03:27
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you ever hear about the tech industry
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Oct 29, 2020 13:11
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SO DEMANDING posted:how soon we forget the memes of old holy hell 
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Oct 29, 2020 15:20
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 Oh, India... I miss it.
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Oct 29, 2020 22:30
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fortunately for you, it still exists
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Oct 29, 2020 22:39
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syntaxrigger posted:holy hell the current audio sounds like rear end 
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Nov 2, 2020 06:34
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i took the train from seattle to glacier NP in montana and it was, well    it was cold and wet and gray almost the entire time but when the sun poked out it was incredible. spent a few nights camping on BLM land and didn't see other people for days
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Nov 4, 2020 17:39
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America is such a gorgeous country. I have experienced parts of it and would like to see more. I recommend anyone to experience it if you can, it might not be possible in the future.
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Nov 4, 2020 17:41
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:i took the train from seattle to glacier NP in montana and it was, well tbh now is probably the best time to visit. i went to glacier in july, and they had half the park closed off because the reservation to the east cut access. there were so many people, it felt like i was in disneyland
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Nov 4, 2020 17:45
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spankmeister posted:America is such a gorgeous country. I have experienced parts of it and would like to see more. i can't recommend paradise valley enough 
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:i took the train from seattle to glacier NP in montana and it was, well I've been wanting to go there soon but the train never occured to me, looks awesome
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