Nature is pleased with simplicity.
#lake #kullu #explore #explore #alpinism #travel #beauty #nature #ManaliMagic #IndianHimalayas #AdventureSeekers #NatureLovers #mountains #hike #learning #backpackers #climbers #mountainschool #traveller #muntaineering #training #pirpanjal #trainers #experience #lanscape #discover #manali #himalayas
https://ascentdescentadventures.com/blog/6-best-treks-for-2024/
#UBI
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-08/daniel-walking-australia-for-basic-income/103880424
Food - Public #Library #CookingClasses
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-10/melbourne-library-cooking-class/103952948
Also “#HarvestTrail “ #Backpackers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-11/harvest-trail-services-axed-after-26-years/103952646
2018 #StolenWages / #WageTheft
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-06-27/workplace-watchdog-investigation-into-labour-exploitation/9911710
Photographed in a backpackers hostel in Te Wai Pounamu. The text reads;
"The truth about using HostelWorld and booking.com
- they take 15% of your payment -
Try always to book directly with the hostel or hotel
Owners of booking sites live in luxury and don't do any work"
The #TouristHotspot popular with #backpackers has become an unlikely second home for thousands of Chinese people seeking alternative lifestyles.
In recent years, an #EconomicDownturn and lingering trauma from the isolation of #China’s draconian #ZeroCovid regime has pushed people who would otherwise be seen as the country’s success stories to emigrate.
The Chinese émigrés leaving the pressures of home for laid back #ChiangMai | #Thailand
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/13/the-chinese-emigres-leaving-the-pressures-of-home-for-laid-back-chiang-mai
Building site just down the street. Builder is advising labourers to "be careful" handling steel frames as they are extremely heavy and have "very sharp edges".
On a 30c extreme (max) UV day the young labourers (backpackers?) have:
- No hats
- No shirts
- No sunnies
- No gloves
- and I'll bet $50 they had no boots, either.
On a day like today, they're risking 3rd degree burns. This is the state of #PPE on a building site, #Australia, 2023.
(I felt like saying something, but didn't want to come across as a busybody; but perhaps I should have.)
Challenges everywhere due to the lack of housing. Governments (and Airbnb) have a lot to answer for.
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Backpackers flock back, but rental crisis hampers efforts to recruit them https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/backpackers-flock-back-but-rental-crisis-hampers-efforts-to-recruit-them-20221212-p5c5nh.html
Last night, at the invitation of Jaeyeon Choe O' Regan, PhD I presented to some tourism smart cookies at Glasgow Caledonian University on the whole backpackers vs quality tourists thang. Was lots of fun and great to speak to a class who were actually in a lecture wall rather than on their lounges! My apologies to Butler for butchering his chart—I’m a writer not a chartist! Also, Glasgow, you look damned cold. Thanks for having me 
#sustainabletourism #responsibletravel #backpackers
