In Richmond Town you can have a 19th century party
NORTH SENTINEL ISLAND
Mystery surrounds this island in the territory of India, whose inhabitants seem to be very unfriendly. Not surprisingly, the fact that they have had no contact with "civilization" is largely to blame for, every time a stranger gets close, he ends up dead (the last two illegal fishermen who landed on their land in 2006).
In a famous photo taken after the 2004 tsunami, which is said to have killed many natives, you can see how indigenous people shoot arrows at a helicopter , giving an idea of the desire they have for someone change your hunter-gatherer tradition , and even being taught how to use fire (as far as anyone knows, they don't know about it) .
The sentinelenses deciding if the helicopter should live or die
HISTORIC RICHMOND TOWN
The inhabitants of Richmond Town work, eat and play... as if they were in the 19th century. Make butter at home, decorate the Christmas tree with candles , touch instruments you've only seen in western movies and their jobs always have to do with using their hands, working with wood, earth or metal. The only thing they don't do is sleep in their houses, because ** Richmond Town ** (in Staten Island, New York), despite being a huge (and beautiful) town... is actually a living museum whose inhabitants are actors and volunteers.
Nevertheless, the experience is so well done , with historical artifacts, craftsmen who really work with ancient tools and authentic period decoration, that strolling through its streets is the closest you will ever get to travel to the past without a modified Delorean. Also, the houses are open to the public , so you can unleash your most voyeuristic side and enter any one to see what its inhabitants are doing: Cooking with natural ingredients a cake made with apples from your own farm? Baking bread without chemical yeast? Or maybe you find a feast in the garden, with the doctor who sells his ointments-for-everything and the tavern brass band, playing songs that you dance to with your feet up high.
THE AMISH EXPERIENCE
Evidently, the Amish moment could not be missed on our list: if there is any exponent of life without technology in this century (although some groups are more isolated than others), it is them. In Lancaster (United States), you have the possibility of learn about their customs and traditions, some directly inherited from the 17th century. Ask about the **Amish Experience.**
However, if that little theater doesn't convince you too much, because the families in the area are more than used to show their life , you may be more attracted to a trip To Holmes County, in Ohio, where he lives the largest Amish community in the US and of the world. Installed in this landscape of soft green hills, these societies they live from their farms and their crafts , without cars, or technology, like when their ancestors came from Europe at the beginning of the 19th century. or almost the same
Forbidden to be in a hurry
MOUNT ATHOS
Only men and male animals can enter Mount Athos, a sacred place where monasteries began to be founded in 963 . Since then, life hasn't changed much for its Orthodox monks, whose contact with society is basically reduced to the 120 tourists who visit the territory per day (and only ten of them can be foreigners ) .
the same ones, that they must be christians, not long hair and allege compelling reasons to get your safe-conduct approved they sleep in cells in the style of those inhabited by monks, and they can only stay one night in each of the monasteries. Of course these they do not have television, radio , nor any other modernity (sometimes, not even with light) ; On Athos, the monks only interrupt their continuous prayers to perform agricultural work or engage in the most basic tasks , such as cooking or cleaning.
NORTH KOREA
This, more than traveling to a century ago, is make it to a communist dystopia , to a parallel past/future almost closer to steampunk than in previous centuries. Even so, the truth is that the Internet is not a good for common use, in the libraries they have radio cassettes (the tapes are STILL used) and only 4% of the population He has a mobile... Fashion, moreover, stayed in some point in the 50's.
TANNA ISLAND
Unlike the Sentinelese, the Yakel are friendly people who welcome with open arms those who visit your island. This has made them an easy target for audiovisual contacts such as Lost in the Tribe or ** Tanna , a film shot on their land **. However, they just know and, without a doubt, do not make use of the benefits of modern life , and maintain the same day to day their great-great-grandparents and their great-great-grandparents (and so) .
Not on their land the school exists, the clothes do not exist and of course, there is nothing that has cables ; the routine is quite a bit more hippie than that, and you don't get much out of eating, hunting, gathering and wearing full of kava, a hallucinogenic plant which, it seems, gives more joy than consumerism. It is usual.
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