Wanderlust Analysis

Backpacking is well known all over the world. The idea that every moment is unbearably precious and every outing an extraordinary life lesson is attracting the travellers. However, this has become shun by the backpackers who travel to smoke dope, sleep around and gather in well-established travellers’ ghettos.

The strong and surprising view on the backpacker industry that is being expressed by Sarah Hall, claims: “today’s backpackers are more concerned with smoking dope, sleeping around and congregating in well-established travellers’ ghettos” (T2, L. 6-7), who amplifies that the backpacker culture has turned into a commercial setting. The “tourist bubble” has sprung and now the backpackers “shun local cuisine for a diet of pizza, pancakes

26-28) contradicts Don George in ‘Wanderlust’ who writes about the new people, new culture, tastes and textures and a whole new world he encountered on his wander. He talks about the epiphany he had in Paris where he had gone to work for the summer and how he realized that the world is ‘the classroom’ on his travel. George does not fit the widely held group of people who backpack to experience the, as mentioned before, “tourist bubble” that Sarah Hall talks about with rectifying her claim by including Dr. Aziz, a lecturer in tourism. Text 2, ‘Backpackers hit the tourist trail’ by Sarah Hall and text 4, ‘Video Night in Kathmandu’ by Pico Iyer, shares the same point of view on backpacker tourism and thinks it is a burgeoning industry which is affected by the travellers themselves. Comparing these two texts to text 1, ‘Wanderlust’ by Don George and text 3 ‘Why I Travel’ by Mark Moxon, these two texts has a shared point of view that backpacker travelling is something spiritual filled with new encounters, new smells and textures, experiences and seeing a whole new culture besides your