The key difference is the word “motorcycle”.
RememberThe Beach? Not the place where you first learned to mix rum and Coke in the respective bottles before sleeping the result off face down in the dunes. I meanThe Beach, the Leonardo DiCaprio film which was set on a beach. Not just any beach, either, but Maya Bay on the island of Phi Phi Leh in southern Thailand. Released in 2000, the film led to an ever-growing avalanche of visitors to this tiny strip of sand.
到2017年，每天有3520人在数百艘船上访问海滩。珊瑚礁被粉碎，动物被赶走，污染使土地和海景疤痕。泰国政府的全部痕迹，尽管旅游业的ans吟着，但泰国政府关闭了海滩并建立了300米外的排除线。现在，珊瑚正在再生，沙子很干净，黑色的鲨鱼正在返回，而船只在海上出来，在玛雅湾的自拍照中出现了远处的海滩。
A quiet, out-of-season coffee in the sun on the Cote d’ Azure. No celebrities around.
可惜的是，在亚洲，欧洲或世界其他地区的其他地方，其他流行的旅游胜地都没有类似的事情。
No, this is not a diatribe against tourists. I’m not smart enough to tell the difference between travellers and tourists like G. K. Chesterton who though that “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” I can understand the argument, but doesn’t it just discourage you from doing a little research before you go? Usually, it’s better if I check out a place online or in a guide book before I get on the bike, or the plane and then on the bike. For one thing it tends to ensure that I don’t ride right past the best pub in the entire country.
An ideal place to visit in the off season is the Cinque Terre in Italy. Wonderful roads, helpful cops on bikes.
近年来，我开始做的一件事是在我到达新城市时停车并乘坐观光巴士。优势包括不必处理陌生城市自行车上的交通；不必找到合法的停车位；不用担心盗窃。同样，这为我提供了一张城市的心理地图，并概述了值得回到我自行车的地方。但是 - 这是否会让我成为游客，即使在公共汽车的陪同期间坦白说，亲爱的，我不该死。
I suspect that the main objection people who think of themselves as travellers have to people whom they think of as tourists is that there are so many of them. That’s something that I do agree with, although I would find myself just as annoyed by a crowd of travellers as one of tourists if they were blocking my view of the sunset or the Taj Mahal or both.
This is where motorcycles come in. They give you options that are not available to mass travellers.
Looking for the location of the final scene in “Easy Rider”. Don’t ask the locals; they’re over it.
曾几何时，我会说摩托车提供的最重要的优势是有机会在季节外参观受欢迎的旅游目的地。不幸的是，尽管有时候暗恋少了一点，但实际上不再有任何这样的事情了。
但是，自行车仍然可以让您在大世界中做一些您已经在家中做的事情，但是大多数旅游类型的人都发现几乎是不可能的：它们可以换取时间。您不会遇到有限的访问，既定的时间表和旅行社的路线，尤其是一年中的时间。
It is worth remembering that out of season implies a cause; this may be the weather or, quite often, school holiday times. Best check this in advance. Rainy seasons are often quite predictable and worth paying attention to. Mind you, with the way the climate is changing in so many places, you’re probably on your own with the seasons. Until recently I would have encouraged motorcyclists to visit my home town, Sydney, in summer. I’m not so sure now, not with the 40 degree plus days we’ve been having.
Rovinj, in Istria. In the season you couldn’t move here; in late autumn you can park on the footpath.
Riding a motorcycle, you can go pretty much where you like (up one-way streets the wrong way in Rome, for instance) and along mountain tracks or down to tiny beaches that could never see tourist coaches. On a motorcycle you will find it easy to change travel plans, which means that you can pick up on suggestions by other travellers. Rumi, that bottomless fount of advice on travel, said ‘When you’re traveling, ask the traveler for advice, not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.’ Cruel but fair.
When you’re on a bike you can also ask locals for advice. That can lead to near-disasters – yes, I have personal experience here, filed under ‘don’t ask directions in rural India’ – but it can also lead you to the most wonderful and surprising places. If you’re on an organised motorcycle tour (does that make you a pro tem tourist?) you can expect your guide to know those places.
Tourist or traveller? Who cares? It’s the motorcycle that makes the difference.
