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Postcard from a pretty small planet

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opisska Poland8852 Posts May 06 2015 13:29 GMT #1 A couple of weeks ago my wife made this image from photos we took during the last year, showing the great contrast of places we have visited in that time - from the frozen Arctic through the deserts of Jordan and jungles of Thailand to the high mountain landscape of the Pamirs. It is amazing how many places you can now visit with such an ease - all you need to do is buy a plane ticket and go. Well, for all of the places, there is a story of some obstacles on the way, but the general availability of the whole planet to a traveler is absolutely amazing. I thought of this yesterday when we sat with some friends contemplating where do we go next for a trip. The five of us sat together sharing our thoughts about what we want and after discussing places where any of us do NOT want to go right now for various reasons (mainly not the right season, been there, too expensive and safety concerns), we ended up with a rather short lists of target areas (essentially Peru/Bolivia/Ecuador, Indian Himalayas and Mongolia). 15 years ago where I started exploring the world, the list of options seemed endless with a lifetime not enough to see it all. Now suddenly, the Earth is getting pretty small. Sure, there are still wonderful places to go and there always will be, but those combining novelty, safety and availability are much rarer than I would ever have thought. Also consider this my postcard from faraway places. While I will probably never be brave enough to breakaway ultimately from my live in the society, a part of me is always out there.

iSometric 2221 Posts May 06 2015 15:12 GMT #2 Great pictures!

Endymion United States3701 Posts May 06 2015 15:28 GMT #3 mongolia is great but be aware that if you're in the steppes there is VERY limited access to any kind of medical facility: you're REALLY on your own.. i had a friend break an arm out there and nearly die from it because she couldn't get back to a chinese facility fast enough.

TheBloodyDwarf Finland7524 Posts May 06 2015 17:13 GMT #4 So you have visited mountains and jungle

opisska Poland8852 Posts May 06 2015 18:10 GMT #5 On May 07 2015 02:13 TheBloodyDwarf wrote: So you have visited mountains and jungle Actually, the photo from the jungle is probably higher above the sea level than the two from the arctic and the desert, so you could as well say that I have just visited mountains It's not my fault that most of the really low-lying ground is either an impassable swamp or full of people ... Anyway the point of the image is that you can easily go to extremely varied landscapes in a short timeframe and these panoramas show pretty much the largest variety of natural surroundings we can think of. If I wanted to just brag about all the places I have visited, it would be much bigger ) I am really crazy about travelling and put a lot of time and money into it.

Dizmaul United States831 Posts May 08 2015 00:01 GMT #6 So awesome and makes me wish I could travel more.

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