Things I Wish I’d known before I went Travelling at the Adventure Travel Show- Pt 5
Ex overlander Duncan Milligan from the unusual adventure company 'Tour de Force Adventure Logistics', talking at the Adventure Travel Show in 2013
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Transcript of ex overlander Duncan Milligan from unusual adventure company 'Tour de Force Adventure Logistics'
Local guides.
You need to choose your local guides very very carefully. He was known as ‘Achmed the finger’ because he doesn’t speak much English and you sit in your truck and he guides you with the finger, you just have to follow the finger like that, and he has all these different gestures about what’s faster and what’s slower and of this kind of stuff. And he’s an amazing man and he knows the desert like the back of his hand. So I’m going to have to trust him. I don’t know how to drive across the Sahara desert, you know we’ve got GPS’ now, we’ve got all this new technology but your going to have to put your trust in people like this. Use local guides. Local guides I think are absolutely brilliant if you get the right ones. If you don’t get the right guide] you know you’re going to get ripped off, you could get lost, all sorts of other stuff, but really really do…those people live there, its their home, there going to know way more about stuff then you ever will and when I’m working, when I’m doing a job or what ever it is, taking people out there, I always make sure I’ve got that good local guide so when I need to know where can I find the nearest tire fixing place or the mechanics or a welder, this guy already knows it and he can take me to it so local guides are really really important and very very useful.
Will I get ill?
That’s the other one that people think when they’re travelling, eating street food all that kind of stuff. I love street food. This is in Cameroon. My golden rule is watch it being cooked in front of you. That’s the easiest thing. You will get ill. That happens, that’s part of the fun of travelling. Delhi belly, Inca quickstep, there’s all sorts of different names for it. Get used to it, its part of the fun of travelling.
And I think my favourite bit about travelling around this way around the world is there is always a solution. There’s always a way out. Now in the UK or in Europe we’ll end up, especially with officialdom, if a policeman or someone official here in this country says “no”, that normally kind of means no. That’s it that’s the end of the line. In the rest of the world no doesn’t mean no at all. “No” means try another tack. No means ask me a different question, “no” means wait ten minutes and go and ask the other guy over there, or lets talk about an express fee, lets figure out how we can find a solution is a really good phrase to use “how are we going to find a solution to this”, of me not having whatever piece of paper it is that you want me to have”
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Transcript of ex overlander Duncan Milligan from unusual adventure company 'Tour de Force Adventure Logistics'
Local guides.
You need to choose your local guides very very carefully. He was known as ‘Achmed the finger’ because he doesn’t speak much English and you sit in your truck and he guides you with the finger, you just have to follow the finger like that, and he has all these different gestures about what’s faster and what’s slower and of this kind of stuff. And he’s an amazing man and he knows the desert like the back of his hand. So I’m going to have to trust him. I don’t know how to drive across the Sahara desert, you know we’ve got GPS’ now, we’ve got all this new technology but your going to have to put your trust in people like this. Use local guides. Local guides I think are absolutely brilliant if you get the right ones. If you don’t get the right guide] you know you’re going to get ripped off, you could get lost, all sorts of other stuff, but really really do…those people live there, its their home, there going to know way more about stuff then you ever will and when I’m working, when I’m doing a job or what ever it is, taking people out there, I always make sure I’ve got that good local guide so when I need to know where can I find the nearest tire fixing place or the mechanics or a welder, this guy already knows it and he can take me to it so local guides are really really important and very very useful.
Will I get ill?
That’s the other one that people think when they’re travelling, eating street food all that kind of stuff. I love street food. This is in Cameroon. My golden rule is watch it being cooked in front of you. That’s the easiest thing. You will get ill. That happens, that’s part of the fun of travelling. Delhi belly, Inca quickstep, there’s all sorts of different names for it. Get used to it, its part of the fun of travelling.
And I think my favourite bit about travelling around this way around the world is there is always a solution. There’s always a way out. Now in the UK or in Europe we’ll end up, especially with officialdom, if a policeman or someone official here in this country says “no”, that normally kind of means no. That’s it that’s the end of the line. In the rest of the world no doesn’t mean no at all. “No” means try another tack. No means ask me a different question, “no” means wait ten minutes and go and ask the other guy over there, or lets talk about an express fee, lets figure out how we can find a solution is a really good phrase to use “how are we going to find a solution to this”, of me not having whatever piece of paper it is that you want me to have”
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