Writing Africa Guidebooks
Andy HoboTraveler.com
Writing Africa
Guidebooks
Ouidah Benin
Tuesday, September 12,
2006
Bleeding hearts, silly, well-intended people are killing the
planet.
Eco-tourism causes ten times more ecological problems than it
helps, it is the major joke of the planet, a totally misguide and abused part of
tourism.
Eco-tourism is supposed to be an alternative provide to the
locals, which will allow them to make money, as an alternative to doing
ecologically harmful farming, killing of animal, or what not.
Example:
Slash and burn farming technique, a farm stops this, however helps show tourist
the bush, or jungle.
Example: Stop eating the Crocodiles or Monkeys and
show tourist, then they have money to buy Chicken mass-produced.
None of
this works even close to the way it is thought about or maybe hoped to work.
None of the locals make the money, there is not enough jobs generated, only in
big camera safari, stopping the guns is maybe a real dent made.
I want to
go into small villages and live, or visit, browse around and look at Africa. I
am presently donating large sums of money to the rich get richer fund of Africa
as I pay too much money to live in Hotel in Africa owned by people that are
getting rich off the poor.
Home Stay
Living with a Host
Family
Most of this about living with a well to do family that has an
extra room, it is barely going down to grassroots to the clueless, and I need
money group.
Camping for some reason seems big in West Africa, makes me
nervous, but must be safe enough or there would not be signs all around, I
suppose this is the overflow, if no rooms, then camping.
I have poncho to
use as tent, mosquito net, etc, but I do not want to camp, I like a roof, or
hammock under a roof.
A good guidebook written would or could guide
people into how to help Africa and stop destroying Africa. The guidebooks
presently written are sparse, not enough to really understand how to travel.
One-country orientated on a Continent where you need at least three to four
countries to even make a small tour. The cost of flying into Africa is severe,
harsh and will stop only the most willing to pay for the experience person.
Anywhere but here is cheaper for a backpacker, except for Europe and America,
Australia, New Zealand, the rich countries, the opposite of the 80 percent of
the planet.
Safe, is Africa safe enough for the young
backpackers?
Killing, being killed? Hmm, not much knowledge on how to be
killed, most of the Tourist deaths I know of happen by motorcycle accidents or
car accidents. Many Rapes in Mexico and Central America.
The bottom line
is this, if a country stays safe enough for long enough, about three year’s
tourism increases. They are going to come, a guidebook written with only
safe-Africa, help-Africa mentality could really change Africa.
LP is
doing well, but the writers are still just Volunteers or hanger ons, many good
people, however not die-hard will not make a beggar; do anything to stay in
budget backpacker traveler. They lean more towards the rich tourist, go on
Safari, look at animal’s bunch, and stay away from people bunch.
Tourists
are a very selfish bunch, they must see the sites, they must have their bars,
and they must have the party. They do not sacrifice to travel; they pay whatever
is needed to see the sites. Say they were there, have S E X with the locals and
leave, volunteer to say to themselves, I am good person.
I think I have
seen some guides about responsible travel, however I do not remember where, or
who wrote. The LP always is thinking along this path, but too many guides and
too many writers and all of them have a different idea, the focus is filtered
through the tourist lens. The selfish we are writing about how to go and take
the cream off the top, live as nice as possible, no pain, and
travel.
Writing Africa Guidebooks
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HoboTraveler.Com Travel Blog at 9/14/2006 06:24:00 AM