The Zero Foot Print Traveler 
How should one travel in a foreign country? What attitude should one take if one wishes to visit a foreign land?
I think the expression is: "Don't change even a thing not even a leaf." This is the best attitude and approach when traveling.
Back in the early day people traveled for a lot longer and cheaper than they do today. If fact simpler.
Backpackers stayed in family homes and interacted with locals because that's all there was. Asia is still like this but it is changing fast. Soon it may be lost forever
When people come with big money and demanding bigger and better things this creates a separation between the farang and the local. Soon the divide grows with stratification. The solution is stay with local families and remember not to corrupt with money even though we may think we are helping locals.
DIYS Travel
DIYS Travel means Do It Your Self! Experience the country and the people on a REAL one to one level, not some fake preplanned tour. Tour operators are destroying the traveler's environment.
DIYS Travel means doing research and also enjoying the adventure of learning. Traveling gives someone a tremendous opportunity to LEARN. This is stifled by the fake tour operators that offer short unfulfilling tours around a popular area of India.
DIYS Traveling means finding rooms, restaurants and bus schedules all by your self! Come on now, i know you can do it!
Are you scared to learn a new language? Are you scared to try and communicate with someone from a different religion, culture or believe? Don't be. Traveling gives you a chance to prove yourself, don't waste it with grubby backpackers tour.
Environmental
Avoid plastic: use refillable 5 litter jugs for
drinking water or a filler system if the source is clean.
Avoid putting toilet paper down the bog, or it will bung it up!
Teaching: Learn their language and culture, instead of teaching your (English.)
Religion: don’t push your religion or cultural beliefs on others when abroad.
Food: eat local food, produced locally not demand tourist food or import items (beer.)
Transportation: Utilize local transport as much as possible, a great way to interact with others. A private car and driver are not acceptable.
Accommodations: Stay in family guest houses avoid expensive luxuries that isolates yourself for the locality. Expensive resorts cause huge disruption to local communities, often changing them forever. With wealth brings crime problems. Resorts do damage to the natural coastal lines and the environment.
Remember: leave a country the way you found it: clean, green and still smiling.
Beggars: avoid giving to beggars who target foreign travelers. Give to local organizations instead.
Volunteer work. Are you volunteering to help or are you asking for help?
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