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Honey Hunter of Nepal.
High in Himalayan foothills, fearless Gurung men risk their lives to harvest the massive nests of the world’s largest honeybee.
Photos by Eric Valli.
I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.
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| — | Henry Rollins (via ultrapearl) |
Travel, like writing, is a way to dream yourself into the Other and in fact, to put all your values and beliefs into play, so that it becomes harder to settle too complacently into any dogma or presupposition.
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| — | Pico Iyer (via mgstclai) |
If you see this backpack say: “Hi!”
Yes, that’s a wine in the side pocket. Standard travel equipment ^^
Travel posters are great and all, but why go to a far off land when you can be lazy!? Caldwell Tanner’s group of such posters caters to us online junkies.
Blasting around on the internet, video games, at home and watching television is paradise!
Travel Posters for Lazy People by Caldwell Tanner (Tumblr) (Twitter)
Via: College Humor
