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    know now. I'd ioveto come to the meeting Where isi? REPRESENTATIVE ['l give you the addvess, Have you gota pen? {ite The independent traveller ‘Well thank you forsaking me along tonight. hope yeu! enjoy looking at my slides ofthe Andes I've also been asked siveyou some advice about independent travel and howta bea goad tourist, so ‘har what Pd lke to do frst. I've been travelling now for about twenty years. When Its younger used 10 regularly take off with my backpack and my ‘emera and head for some remote place, ‘maybe working, maybe just hanging out 1 spenta whole vear in indiain my early ‘ents, 've bckpacked all ound Europe and the Middle East, spent some time in (Chins, ard I've also been tekking is Nepal ‘and South America So 've picked up a bit ofexperience along the way In he early days always used o take exch day asit came and not relly plan very ‘uch. Noveadays plan bitmore,and L {end to go.on more orgenized trips, using tour operators and trevel agents, although ! stil like to be independent when I get toa place, Believe tor not, you can find responsible tour opecators who care about theenvironmen: and the places they'e taking you to~but you do have to look ‘carefully and ask slot of questions "earn aot in my estytravelssbout how {0 takecare and be repemsible~o be what some peoplecall green tourist stil ty ‘o putit into practie.| think the most important shingistoaskyoursel, "Why am | going f you just eed to relax or iyou're onlyeountry-counting then maybe thats not good enough reason to visita place = ‘specialy «developing county. Ifyoutre _genuinely interes in country then thats diferent mater Before you go, lean as mucha you can about the plac, {oto the library, reed up about leern 2 biofthe language — even fis ju ‘please? jane ‘you go, think carefully about Yurpickingand what youte ping toa Thing lke shampoo letions suns andioon shouldbe kept ioe minimern “Make sue you reine cheandyouie Noting mich there topos

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