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Originally Posted by kacir
Once I went for a trip with a very specialized travel agency. We went by bus around half of Europe (including countries like Romania, Bulgaria) plus Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel. During 30 day trip I only spent two nights under the roof. One night we slept under the aqueduct. We usually slept next to the bus in sleeping bags somewhere near the road. The bus had a trailer with a field kitchen and we had a cook.
Once we slept in cemetery next to Palmyra oasis in Syria. We woke up and we were surrounded by curious Bedouin children, goats, camels, ... They couldn't believe their eyes when our cook started preparing breakfast ;-)
Once, while in Syria we trier to make camp in a forest next to the road far from the nearest town. In five minutes we were surrounded by soldiers wielding automatic rifles. It turned out our camp was next to a secret military establishment. We were escorted to the nearest little town and were told to make camp on the main square. We spent half the night talking to local people. It was a very nice experience (talking to local people, not being escorted by an officer speaking in interesting combination of Engrish, Russian and German).
This is what *I* call "roughing it":
- 10000km in a bus (and 3 times on a ferry), in 30 days through exotic countries
- sleeping next to the bus in the ditch
- eating (most of the meals) from a field kitchen - similar affair the army has, just more Spartan
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I like that. Asides from the bus that sounds like the wagon trains of the first american settlers. Waking up surrounded by Indians.
Seriously it reminds me of scouting, some of my best memories.