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However, a prime example of eco-travel gone haywire is Tibet, a place where every hippy reject started going after The Beatles made it fashionable. Every year a million+ chumps travel up the mountainside to trip on exotic drugs and fermented yak milk while some bald git serves up watered-out philosophy and nuggets like "The Crane flies in the moonlight, while duckballs sponge impossible!" Please donate at the door. Yank and German tourists spend fortunes travelling up north here to see "real native Same/Lapp culture" and are treated to snowscooter safaris and dinners of sauteed reindeer. With garlic and French wine.
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Absolutely hilarious!!
I know several people who consider themselves to be as hippie as today's society gets, and they've been talking about a trip to Nepal just the last coupla weeks! If you don't mind, I'll memorize some of your phrases, throw 'em at 'em, & see what they say. LOL! I just read it again, and it's just as funny second time around... I'm a sucker for well-phrased comedy...
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Regarding genuine cultures, worry even less I'd say. No companies ever go to the places where there is a genuine culture to destroy. Media, western influences etc, reaches remote places long before tourism.
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Very sad, and very true. Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Michael Jordan and Hollywood has done more for spreading US influence (imperialism?
)than any country's army has been capable of in the history of civilization...