I’ve backpacked through Southpark Asia for years… now i feel quietly pushed out

[madone]

3 hours ago, steven100 said:

 

so your one of those people from Khaosan road who have dreadlocks in your hair, don't bath very often and some have no shoes, you stay in 250 baht hostel rooms when you splurge the spending. 

 

sorry,  your not welcome here,  they want quality tourists that spend money ... not backpackers.

 

maybe south Sudan or Burundi in Africa will be more suited. 

 

Listen to you, you pathetic caricature of a human being. tell us more about booze and hookers

[Caldera]

On 4/14/2025 at 11:57 PM, altayvan said:

Just wondering if anyone else feels this shift? Or is it just me, feeling a bit left behind?

 

I think it's just your perception.

 

Thailand has been chasing a higher tourist spend for years, so there's been no shift.

 

It just doesn't materialize, no matter what they try. The result is always the same: they open the flood gates and make do with whoever they can attract. Only to whinge about low quality tourists later.

[pomchop]

As a long ago round the world backpacker in the days of "europe on $5 a day book" pre lonely planet, no phones no atms no tiny camera,  go to post offices if u needed to call home etc these days when i see the younger backpackers wandering around I actually sort of feel sorry for them.  Many of them seem so busy sending or posting videos and pics that they hardly even seem to notice all that is going on around them.  When everything is in your hands like maps and online info and hotel bookings etc it certainly does make it so easy that you really don't much need to try and interact with people to figure it out.

 

I also get a kick out of the amount of whining about oh my god my bathroom drain was no good or my room had a few skeeters in it , or i had to walk an extra km because google maps was wrong.  Yeah right, i think you should have tried it 50 years ago.  My back pack started big and got very very small as I figured out that I was going to be the one to have to lug it all around the world often walking miles trying to find a cheap hostel etc.  I once spent  days on old beat up buses with wooden seats little to no heat in dead of winter going from Iran to Greece...give that a try sometime.

 

Now i see lot of backpackers who have both a giant backpack on their back and another one on their front...all i can think is "DUH"....especially in Thailand where it is generally hot and shorts and tee shirts work fine where there are laundries everywhere where if u should get into some cold weather up north there are all sorts of second hand coat/sweater places so why haul all that sfuff around for months to use for a few days...buy it use it donate it.

 

Anyway...from what i see Thailand and overall southeast asia are still likely among the easiest places in the world to be a backpacker as you can still find cheap hotels/hostel in most any town or village u can always find some cheap food you can nearly always get internet, there is nearly always some local sort of transport to haul you most anywhere for not much $$ the weather is generally warm and yes overall the people will help you and treat you nicely even if you don't spend a fortune as long as you are not a total dxxkhead.

 

Enjoy it while you can.

[Maxbkkcm]

17 hours ago, Kinok Farang said:

Even the kids refuse to stay in the 200 baht a night places now.Backpackers have been replaced by flashpackers.I went 15 years travelling like that until covid came and i found i could get a 1500 baht room for 500.That spoilt me forever.Shame really.

Why do you think they refuse the 200bath as oppose as before? The world have high prices and inflation. They should seize the cheaper prices. 

[cmsally]

2 hours ago, Maxbkkcm said:

Why do you think they refuse the 200bath as oppose as before? The world have high prices and inflation. They should seize the cheaper prices. 

 

Maybe they are spending their parents' money.

[Nick Carter icp]

18 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Saw a newspaper article on this dude. Worked in 190 countries. Did the entire world over like 40 years.

 

   Are you sure ?

So that works out that he spent about 3 months working in each Country ?

[Kinok Farang]

9 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Are you sure ?

So that works out that he spent about 3 months working in each Country ?

Lazy bastard,couldn't hold a job down.

[Harrisfan]

9 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Are you sure ?

So that works out that he spent about 3 months working in each Country ?

In newspaper some years back. Forget details. But he went everywhere.

[Nick Carter icp]

1 minute ago, Harrisfan said:

In newspaper some years back. Forget details. But he went everywhere.

 

   I expect that the reality is quite different to how you remember it . 

[Harrisfan]

9 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   I expect that the reality is quite different to how you remember it . 

Not really. He went all over. 

[Nick Carter icp]

Just now, Harrisfan said:

Not really. He went all over. 

 

   I doubt very much that he worked in every Country , although he may have visited every Country as quite a few people have done so 

[Harrisfan]

3 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   I doubt very much that he worked in every Country , although he may have visited every Country as quite a few people have done so 

He worked in many. Pedantic whiner

[Suetape]

I remember when hippies were NOT allowed in...

[Nick Carter icp]

31 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

He worked in many. Pedantic whiner

 

   Well yes, that's what thought .

There's a huge difference between working in every Country and NOT working in every Country .

   I doubted you claim that he worked in every Country in the World  , seems I was correct about that