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r/travel

7.1m members

r/travel is a community about exploring the world. Your pictures, questions, stories, or any good content is welcome. Clickbait, spam, memes, ads, brochures, classifieds, surveys or self-promotion will be removed.

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r/solotravel

2.5m members

A place for all of those interested in solo travel to share their experiences and stories!

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r/TravelHacks

848k members

Cheap traveling, ways to get around, tips & tricks, etc.

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r/backpacking

3.4m members

A subreddit for traveling backpacking and wilderness backpacking, not restricted to one or the other. All posts must be flaired "Travel" or "Wilderness"

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r/travelpartners

100k members

Share your itinerary and meet new friends along the way, or search and join other travel buddies.

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r/digitalnomad

1.9m members

Digital Nomads are individuals that leverage technology in order to work remotely and live an independent and nomadic lifestyle.

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r/TravelNoPics

22.7k members

Somewhere to discuss travel. Not to dump your vacation photos. Pose a question. Share a trip report. Recount a funny/unique travel related story. Offer advice or ask for it. **Note that images are 100% welcome as part of a longer, thought-out text post. Photos are a great way to augment your story. Simply embed them within your text post.**

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r/Shoestring

1.7m members

A community to discuss frugal travelling, last-minute travel deals, cheap destinations, and cheap means of travel. Whether couchsurfing, camping, or staying in hostels, whether hitchhiking or staying on Airbnb, let's discuss and share the best budget travel ideas and deals!

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r/onebag

506k members

This is a minimalist urban travel community devoted to the idea of lugging around less crap; onebag travel. Fewer items, packed into a single bag for ease of transport to make travelling simpler with more focus on the experience than the logistics.

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r/europe

3.9m members

Europe: 50 (+6) countries, 230 languages, 746M people… 1 subreddit.

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r/Travel_HD

21.3k members

Travel_HD - Explore the world in HD. Find the little heavens across the globe. Choose the best destination for your next holiday or simply enjoy breathtaking pics and videos. The world is vast and its all yours to explore. Join us in our adventures as we venture across the amazing corners of our planet

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r/tipofmytongue

2.1m members

Can't remember the name of that movie you saw when you were a kid? Or the name of that video game you had for Game Gear? Your Google-fu let you down? This is the place to get help. Read the rules and suggestions of this subreddit for tips on how to get the most out of TOMT. (Located right side on desktop, varies on mobile.)

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r/timetravel

69.5k members

Time travel reddit will exist yesterday

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r/TravelNursing

21.7k members

Welcome to r/TravelNursing

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r/worldbuilding

1.0m members

For artists, writers, gamemasters, musicians, programmers, philosophers and scientists alike! The creation of new worlds and new universes has long been a key element of speculative fiction, from the fantasy works of Tolkien and Le Guin, to the science-fiction universes of Delany and Asimov, to the tabletop realm of Gygax and Barker, and beyond. This subreddit is about sharing your worlds, discovering the creations of others, and discussing the many aspects of creating new universes.

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r/todayilearned

29.7m members

You learn something new every day; what did you learn today? Submit interesting and specific facts about something that you just found out here.

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r/AskReddit

38.5m members

r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.

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r/Showerthoughts

26.1m members

A subreddit for sharing those miniature epiphanies you have that highlight the oddities within the familiar.

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r/india

1.3m members

The Official Subreddit for India

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r/politics

8.3m members

/r/Politics is for news and discussion about U.S. politics.

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r/WritingPrompts

16.4m members

Writing Prompts. You're a writer and you just want to flex those muscles? You've come to the right place! If you see a prompt you like, simply write a short story based on it. Get comments from others, and leave commentary for other people's works. Let's help each other.

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r/worldnews

30.4m members

A place for major news from around the world, excluding US-internal news.

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r/Coronavirus

2.3m members

In December 2019, a novel coronavirus strain (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in the city of Wuhan, China. This subreddit seeks to monitor the spread of the disease COVID-19, declared a pandemic by the WHO. This subreddit is for high-quality posts and discussion. Please be civil and empathetic.

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r/HPfanfiction

89.4k members

A place for Harry Potter Fanfiction

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r/pics

29.6m members

A place for pictures and photographs.

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r/askscience

23.4m members

Ask a science question, get a science answer.

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r/memes

22.5m members

Memes! A way of describing cultural information being shared. An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.

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r/canada

1.5m members

Welcome to Canada’s official subreddit! This is the place to engage on all things Canada. Nous parlons en anglais et en français. Please be respectful of each other when posting, and note that users new to the subreddit might experience posting limitations until they become more active and longer members of the community. Do not hesitate to message the mods if you experience any issues!

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r/fo76

363k members

Welcome to the Fallout Network subreddit for Fallout 76

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r/AskScienceFiction

775k members

**It's like Ask Science, but all questions and answers are written with answers gleaned from the universe itself.** Use in-universe knowledge, rules, and common sense to answer the questions. Or as **fanlore.org** calls it [Watsonian, not a Doylist point of view](http://fanlore.org/wiki/Watsonian_vs._Doylist)

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•Posted by2 days ago

Boycotting a Country for Travel?

So, I've seen a lot of subs that have had extensive debates about the ethics of going to Qatar for the World Cup. I never did consider going but it was mainly because I'm not a die-hard soccer fan and the location didn't seem overly appealing for tourism.

Anyway, there has been a lot of talk mentioning that people shouldn't go because of how the country has treated the migrant workers from neighboring poorer countries that built these stadiums and infrastructure. There has also been recent posts about the conditions of the "Fan Camp" that Qatar set up for soccer fans.

So, it led me to this question. Has anyone refused to go or will refuse to go to a country because of its policies, government, human rights conditions, environmental practices, or anything like that? Or, are you someone that believes that not many countries have their hands clean?

Take safety out of the equation for this and pretend it was safe to go anywhere that had morally questionable beliefs/practices.

I personally have a mixed stance on this. I am someone that believes a lot of countries have blood on their hands. However, certain policies would make me avoid said country until they were to change.

Some examples would be Saudi Arabia having a complete ban on alcohol. I think I would need alcohol access to truly enjoy a destination. Others may say their history in foreign affairs should be reason enough alone not to go.

Another one I'd point out is North Korea. Again, this may be one people would boycott because of the current regime. Me, I think I'd avoid it mainly because you can't travel within the country without a guide and the laws seem to be more authoritarian than most parts of the world. Just don't think I'd feel comfortable there.

Then, there are places that I just don't think would make a good visit at this time. Two of these examples would include Ukraine because of the war and Haiti because of the instability and kidnappings happening in the country. But again, these are more safety conditions and lack of desirability than a boycott.

What do you guys think?

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•Posted by28 days ago

You have just been made the Dictator of Travel Related Social Media. What cliches/trends do you ban?

Asking for basic advice on the most well covered destinations in the world.

The use of "take me back!".

Posting the same boring photo that everyone takes.

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Obviously you can't really be the dictator, that job is taken by our own dear leader /u/Oax_Mike .

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•Posted by7 days ago

Who was your travel angel? Someone random who helped you out when you were in a scary/sticky situation?

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There are scary people in the world, but there are also helpful people out there.

Edit: I’m loving reading these wholesome stories of people helping each other out! ❤️

Edit: I removed my own story since the post blew up and I’m paranoid about anonymity!

But TLDR; I got drugged in Budapest*, probably by some new guy I met during a bar crawl. 2 random girls got me home to safety.

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•Posted by2 days ago

Solo Travel is a psychedelic experience.

So I’m not sure what the general opinion is here on psychedelics, I assume a handful have done them and most haven’t but that doesn’t matter. Psychedelics have been shown to incur a feeling of an expansion of consciousness or the mind, which I think is a perfectly apt metaphor for solo travel.

In my experiences, when I travel solo, I’m usually thrown into experiences I would never otherwise imagine myself being in. Similar to a ‘trip’, if I resist and keep trying to make things ‘perfect’, I have a miserable time.

But if I go with the flow, however, I’m usually rewarded with a wonderful memory, a feeling of pure bliss and freedom. I’ve learned that in most situations, things turn out fine in the end as long as I trust in the universe and in my self.

Also, travel has definitely made me expand my mind in more ways than one. One of my favourite ‘side effects’ of solo travel is that it actually strengthened my relationships with people back at home. Even when I was travelling a bunch and I didn’t see them often, I had a newfound appreciation of them.

Before I ventured on journeys, my whole world was limited to my immediate circle. We are all quite alike but I chose instead to focus on our differences, leading me to be annoyed by the choices some of my friends and family make.

However, when I travelled I met people from all over the world, who come from such vastly different backgrounds, who may not even speak the same language - and yet I managed to find common ground, and to relate to them with our shared humanity.

This perspective shift from ‘we are different’ with my group of friends to ‘we are all more alike than we believe’ helped me to be a more empathic and understanding human being.

Anyway just thought of this on the bus ride home and wanted to share. In 4 days I’m going on a short 2 and a half week trip, my first in almost 3 years, and I can’t wait! Much love everyone :)

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•Posted by6 days ago

How useful do you find travel blogs?

There are certainly some good blogs out there which are a fantastic source of ideas and information, but only really at a more regional level, and only if you dig past the first pages of results which seem to have more effort put into the search engine optimization than content.

The vast majority that try to cover multiple countries seem to be either ‘Stock images and generic text which makes you wonder if the writer has ever been to the same continent’ or ‘My 3 day visit to country-X where I went to the same spots and took the same photos as every other blogger’, with both cases featuring as many affiliate links as they can stuff in.

On a more positive note are there any that you recommend? Anywhere in the world if you think it is interesting to someone.

There was a similar post on here - but that was 4 years ago, so maybe something changed (unlikely to be honest) or there are some new opinions.

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•Posted by6 days ago

Travel more or settle down? Early 30s, feeling lost.

Hello,

I'm 32/M from Canada who just came back from 8 months of solo travelling and I quite enjoyed what felt like a trip of a lifetime (I went to 10 countries!). I loved adventures I had, the people I met, the cultures I embraced. I honestly adored the person I was while travelling - just so open and receptive to everyone and everything. I'm struggling now with this strong desire to return abroad long-term (possibly doing a working holiday or immigrating somewhere in Europe, New Zealand, etc) or start settling down where I'm at. While I have a well-paying job and a great support system, life in Canada just seems ever increasingly like a losing rat-race. All of my friends are starting to get high paying jobs, homes, getting married, etc. All of them seem to have no desire to go anywhere else. And I just feel like I am on the opposite end - where I am not satisfied with my life here, and just want to go abroad and reinvent myself. However, this desire to leave is not always so clear. I do on other days see the appeal of settling down and having a comfortable place to call my own, pets, a partner, and a stable job to fund a settled life with the occasional vacation. But I just can't seem to figure out a way forward that doesn't feel utterly daunting.

I'm scared of quitting my stable job with a possible global recession looming. I'm afraid if I leave, a future self might really regret not having invested into a settled life here. Starting off completely anew (both professionally and socially) in a new country is both simultaneously exciting and scary.

I'm not really sure what my question is exactly, it's just that I'm feeling really lost unsure how to proceed. I was just wondering if anyone else has gone through this same dilemma?

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•Posted by13 days ago

Travel advice not often found online

What's some lesser known travel advice you have that doesn't come up often in these subs or online? I'll add in my own 2 pennies, if you know any others feel free to add on in the comments.

. pack Sim card keys - especially useful when travelling abroad and you need data - even if you have a Sim card key I recommend putting in your new sim in front of the person that sold it to you, I've had an instance that my new sim card didn't work despite the clerk insisting that i had a locked phone. Albeit my phone was not locked and after half an hour of trying they tried a different sim card that worked on the spot.

**Edit to add e-sims have come up a lot in the comments which is something I had no prior knowledge about but seem like a good alternative to normal sim cards

.Don't be afraid to ignore people/ tell someone to go away - in some places you might stand out as a tourist, you'll probably notice an usually high amount of locals approaching you; most of the time it's better to ignore anyone that approaches you, they're either trying to sell you something or rob you - I may be being pessimistic but better safe than sorry. My general rule is that if someone says something to me on the street I ignore them unless something is on fire and people are running away screaming.

.Plastic zip lock bags - they come in useful in many instances, I've had my shampoo bottle explode one too many times; they're like mini portable containers.

.elastic bands, safety pins and a sewing kit has always come in useful so i recommend those.

. Bank cards - usually a topic that's brought up a lot but I like Starling and Monzo, both without international fees, for Americans Charles Schwab seems your best bet. . Be wary of atm fees - research the best atms/ banks to use in the countries you're going to however atm fees are sometimes unavoidable. Always pick the foreign currency when it comes to withdrawal/payment

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•Posted by20 days ago

messaging people on reddit solo travel forums

Stop. it’s not cool. it’s not going to get you a girlfriend or a sugar baby travel companion. it is creepy and there are websites for this. just don’t do it unless you’ve previously mentioned that you’ll be messaging them or asked if it’s okay to.

it’s so creepy, and for goodness sake stop messaging if you’ve been ignored initially. what makes you think you’ll be picked as a random person on the internet when i don’t even want to travel with my real life friends? what makes you think you’re 54 and going to get a 20 year old girlfriend off reddit?

makes me not want to post for ask for advice because i know creepy men will be all up in the dms. can anyone else relate? lol

edit: thanks for all the wonderful support guys, this is why i made the post! to be clear, i am not referring to nice, helpful, non creepy dms! those are fine lol!

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