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How inexpensive countries are the secret to prolonging the journey [encore]
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Traveling in Africa
Y agreed, the people there seem to be either superexperienced travellers or people that are just going for a to a sapari vacation. So it's a weird place, and a lot of ways, the weird continent. I've interviewed so many people that have done extensive trips there, and they all come back and, you know, africa's jusst not much of a bargain. It's partly because it's so far from point to point. And partly because there's just not as much of a back packer infa structure as you find in southeast asia.
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Speaker 2
I think too, it allows you to take that that money, say ten thousand dollars or whatever, which might last you a month or two in the expensive countries of europe, and then take it and you n just buy yourself more time in these cheaper parts of the world, for
Speaker 1
sure. I mean, if you're, if you're setting out with ten thousand dollars for an around the world trip, you can make that last a whole year if you go to the right place. But if you just go to western europe, or even to africa, because of the distances, you're going to use that up a lot faster. You
Speaker 2
don't have a lot of africa chapters in your book, ah, but it feels almost like africa is the place you go whenyo, when you're salty in other parts of the world. What what's your take on africa?
Speaker 1
Y agreed, the people there seem to be either superexperienced travellers or people that are just going for a to a sapari vacation. There doesn't seem to be much middle ground. It seems like all the middle ground is occupied by n go workers and volunteers and whatever. So it's a weird place, and a lot of ways, the weird continent. I've tried really hard to include more countries, and i've interviewed so many people that have done extensive trips there, and they all come back and, you know, africa's jusst not much of a bargain. It's partly because it's so far from point to point. And partly because there's just not as much of a back packer infa structure as you find in southeast asia, for example, where, you know, there's a hundred cheap hotels to choose from almost everywhere you go.
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