Travellers
The original travellers in the regions were mostly young European, Australian, Canadian, and American travellers on trips that could last several months, and who travelled cheaply using guides like Lonely Planet. Some of them were gap year students, taking time off to travel. As the stops on the Trail have become well known, and as long distance flights have become more accessible, combined with the increased purchasing power of Asian tourists, an increasingly diverse variety of travellers can be found on the trail, sometimes for just a short time rather than the months' long trips of the original backpackers.
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Famous quotes containing the word travellers:
“There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,—why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,—that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“Rosalind. Well, this is the forest of Arden.
Touchstone. Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I.
When I was at home, I was in a better place, but travellers must be content.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)