Pretty sure these days about 99% of it is for selfie opportunities, pulling faces and poses as monks look on disdainfully.uziq wrote:
he travelled to peru presumably to explore the ruins of an ancient civilisation.Dilbert_X wrote:
He travelled to Peru to go for a walk.
tourism as an industry ruins lots of things and packages things so that genuine cultural ‘encounters’ are nigh-on impossible - granted.
but there’s nothing wrong with wanting to explore the world we’re all born into with its rich and varied treasures.
your priggishness and incuriosity about this sort of thing just makes you seem provincial and a bore, frankly.
it’s okay for you to fly repeatedly to and fro in the great human endeavour of engineering widgets or whatever the fuck but hiking in the andes is somehow contemptible? lol get a grip you nerd.
Record 274 climbers scale Everest via Nepal in one day
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g07vng8z1o
Pure ego.
Everything is great
