So, I'm currently traveling solo here in Kyrgyzstan. I joined a number of other travelers in trekking one area.
Most were friendly and warm but these two travelers are sort of snobs. Let's just say, they chose who they speak with. I don't know if it's a race thing or whatever, or it's just their personality. Good thing the trek's over and I no longer have to see them.
So have you met one?
Reply to this Do you mean 'snobby' as it the type who want to brag about where they have been and always have one-up on whatever story you tell? We've met plenty of those.
Or 'snobby' as in, don't want to speak to you or socialise?
Group tours are weird because everyone is thrown together. You meet some interesting and great people but you often meet someone you would never, ever, in any circumstance, want to see again.
Reply to this When I travel it is usually around like minded people and centers around motorcycle events and or travel. So luckly I have never had to deal with those types of people. However in my professional life I seem to run into them all the time and yes they can be annoying!
Reply to this Unfortunately, in my sparse travels, I've run into or seen people like that in almost every Hostel I've stayed in.
On the upside, there have been plenty of others not like that, and it's easy to ignore them.
Always remember, you are traveling for you, and for your love of what and where you're at. Even if you're not clicking with anyone, you just do and enjoy what you want, how you want.
While it seems that your snobs were talking to others, remember, some like to trek/hike in silence and become lost in thought. That'd probably be me.
Reply to this Kris and Kate, snobby as in only choosing the people they speak with. Oh well, not my loss then. And it's probably better than pretending we like each other when it's actually the opposite. 😊) Live and let live.
Alec and Mark, yeah, we don't have to click with everyone, right? It's a good thing though that after them, almost all people I've met have been just plain wonderful and inspiring.
Reply to this I have met so many people on my travels who complain and winge about everything, I try to avoid them and their negative energy but I can't help but wonder why travel if it makes you so damn miserable, stay at home in your comfort zone. As for snobs yes I have come across people who would rather keep themselves to themselves, one word answers disapproving looks ect and as I am very outgoing I would talk to my shadow, again I pretty much leave these people alone.
Reply to this We've been quite lucky, never really met anyone like that.
I (Chris) am a really easy going person but if I encounter rude/snobby/inconsiderate people I have absolutely no problem with telling people exactly what I think of them, which usually results in Nikki walking away from me in embarassement lol.
Reply to this I've had the misfortune of meeting a lot of travel snobs along the way. I guess it also depends on the definition, but I wouldn't say a snob is somebody who chooses who to speak with. To me it's somebody who thinks to have seen everything and brags about it incessantly, usually casually mentioning in a subordinate clause things like they did a 31-week trek through Nepal, crossing illegally into Bhutan, since it's too expensive officially, and staying with remote hill tribes that have never seen white people before.
Maybe by some people's definition I'm a snob, as I choose to ignore people I don't like or take the piss out of them, especially if they are rude/inconsiderate/sexist/generic German business students.
Reply to this During my visit to Bolivia, my neighbors were food and coffee snobs. Meals have to be 100% organic and very posh. Coffee has to be the finest beans grown from a special plantation in Ecuador (kind of), tea has to be herbal etc.
Most of the times when they come to my place, they just twiddle their thumbs cos I can't cook for them (budget doesn't stretch to organic, 'finest' stuff) and I don't have a proper coffee machine and loads of coffee beans!
Sill I enjoy spending time with them though and the upside is everything's very fancy round theirs 😉
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I would like to suggest taking a step back and not viewing them as snobs. I guess I dislike the labels. They may have been "snobs" but is it possible they were a bit introverted. Not all of the people you meet traveling around the world are as out going as you are.
As suggested by others I think it is unrealistic to think that you will click with everyone in any given group.
Reply to this Very wise words by Dave and Merry Jo Binkley. I've always encountered a wide range of peoples during my travels, some gregarious while others more personal and introverted. I also met people who wanted to keep in touch, while others I haven't seen or talked to since. But it's true that in all aspects of life in general not everyone is going to be friends with you or are you going to feel comfortable with therefore I think the word snob is inaccurate as is more of an emotional, personal barrier reference concerning an individual you deem to fit this definition. Once again, the word "snob" will be defined differently but disparate individuals for a variety of of countless reasons that's very hard to predict unless you really get to "know" that person. Once again, that's another complicated issues that has a lot of ratios, but this is off topic. However, I still hold firm to my earlier conclusion it refers more to emotional and personal boundary preferences and i would also add your "comfort zone" level.
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