By now I already feel the need to share a special remark: the proliferation of a number of key english terms which the local population seem to know by hard. Its a national/regional ephidemia..
Top:
Welcome!!
Where are you from??
Come and visit my shop...i will do you a student discount!
Hotel??Cheap taxi??How much?
Best ones:
How many camels for the lady?
Want a taxi with air-condition? (kids selling donkeys in Petra)
Now, after 1 month travelling in this area, i can easily identifie the different steps that a tourist goes through related to the unstopable approach from the locals:
1) In the beggining its nice, you smile, thank, sometimes go in their talk..
2) After you start to be anoyed and realize that most of them are just trying the best way to rip you off
3) You get tired and rude..
4) You finally aknowledge that most of the times they are even jocking with you and then its when you have 3 ways: you laught of them, you despize them or just enter the third dimension..
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Jalla jalla hvala hvala! ;)
Nice the English blog.
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