Corliss Group Travel: Best Places to Party Around the World

8/13/2019 Corliss Group Travel: Best Places to Party Around the World

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Corliss Group Travel Best Places to Party Around the World

Vacation is the time to kick back, relaxand have one hell of a party. A new book rounds up thebest places to experience a new culture by getting down with the locals.

Researching a book entitled 101 Places to Get F*cked Up Before You Die: The Ultimate Travel

Guide to Partying Around the World may seem like the most fun job ever. But editor David S.Miller stresses theres more to it than one might think. He describes th e compilation of wild,first-person adventure stories pulled from the community of travel writers that comprise theMatador Network as a Trojan Horse: the sensationally -dubbed cover opens to reveal realcultural experiences.

The books crazy title gave Miller pause when he was first approached about the project, but hesoon realized there was a lot missing in the current travel literature. Most features flaunt thebest beaches and sunsets, but they lack details on how visitors can have authentic culturalexperiences. People are just trying to sell the destination, he says. But he wanted this book toprovide readers with culture and stories you wouldnt find in every travel book.

The whole ethos behind the book is: it doesnt really matter where you goeven in Antarcticaor the middle of the Bolivian salt flatsif youre the kind of person who isnt much of risk -taker,this is a time to get out and mix it up, says Miller.
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Tokyo, Japan

You dont just bring your karaoke A -game to Tokyo, but your willingness to dwell in a futuristicworld where the referents include horse sashimi, ninja-themed bars, and maid outfits.

Whistler, Canada

The most epic party experiences should be visceral; the terrain itself should play a big role inthe story. With the right snow conditions, Whistler is all-time during the day, and then at nightturns into a fucking hot mess of beautiful people with goggle tans and Volcom V-necks.

Raglan, New Zealand

Few places in the world allow the level of same-day access to snow and surf as found in theregion of Waikato i n the North Island. Its just three hours on state highways from Whakapapaand Turoa, the largest ski area in New Zealand, to Raglan, with its world-class surf breaks.Raglan itself is just a small pastoral town with, as writer Evan Timpy says, musicians, photographers, environmentalists, and free- thinking itinerants to get wasted with.

Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Louisiana

People may just associate Mardi Gras with titty flashing for beads, but there are all kinds ofcultural layers, such as the Mardi Gras Indians. Stretching back to at least the mid 1800s, theIndians of Mardi Gras pay tribute to Native Americans who helpe d African Slaves escape thebayou to freedom. If you cant make if for Mardi Gras, just make it down to New Orleanswhenever.

Berlin, Germany

Writer Josh Heller explains, Everyone has their own version of where to go totally fuckingbonkers in Berlin, and each one of these prescriptions is 100 percent right. No matter how earlyyou arrive in town, youll hear the thumping bassline of a familiar track. Youll soon realize thatits 8:00 a.m. and theyre playing an extended remix of the theme song from Fer ris Bueller. Thisis Berlin.


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Phuket, Thailand

The place where 10-million backpackers have lost their self-respect (hopefully just temporarily).Make the most of Phuket, but after your logic reaches a point where youre like, If I just rent abeach chai r, someone will bring me a coconut to wash down my Vicodin, its time to leave.

San Francisco, California

San Francisco is where everything goes off on a quietly atomic scale: the waves at Ocean Beach,tech startups, next-generation electronic music, and a party culture (ever seen Bay toBreakers?) born of a tolerance decades ahead of the rest of the country. It seems like you canonly understand how much its like a treasure chest at the bottom of the sea if you really spendtime there.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires (and most of Argentina in general) has a culture where socializing comes first.Parties are de la familia, meaning if theres a big celebration, kids are part of it, and bedtimesare out the window. Thus, kids grow up with a partying stamina, and youre liable to hurtyourself if you try to keep up. Ease into it.

Halifax, Nova Scotia

I love places that completely subvert peoples expectations. Halifax is actually an insane surftown; you can fly in and be surfing within two hours, and during certain times of year there aretidal bores to paddle and surf. The city has a population of only 400,000, but with more than 5major universities, the population skews young and boisterous.

Barcelona, Spain

As writer Sarah Briggs puts it, Th roughout the year, multi-generational party-seekers travel toBarcelona or BCN as cool people abbreviate it, many remaining to embrace the Mediterraneanand the opportunity to nap on a daily basis without tan lines or scorn. Nuff said.


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New York City

To me partying in New York always feels like walking in and out of an endless series of doors,

each leading to a completely separate, often incongruent universe, and each with limitedbathrooms. Every time Im there I feel simultaneously happy I dont live there and envious ofpeople who do.

Dub lin, Ireland, St. Patricks Day

Writer Pietro Buzzanca wrote, If there were a school to learn how to get f cked up, theheadmaster would be Irish. The average Irishman can drink up to two six-packs of Dutch Goldon a quiet Tuesday night while staying in watching a movie, just for the exercise. Dont try tokeep up with anyone here.

Munich, Germany, Oktoberfest

Journalist Jessica Peter puts it this way: Guys in little leather shorts and girls with healthy rackssqueezed into corseted dresses. Start practicing now: Ein Ma bitte.

Ibiza, Spain

As Larissa Coleman writes, In the 1950s, hippies were drawn to Ibizas postcard beaches. Therich and famous followed suit. Now, every flip-flop clad backpacker can be spotted shuffling tohouse music in Space. Forget you have (or ever had) a boyfriend or girlfriend.

Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada

This is already on most peoples radars, but it just has to be part of this list. As Josh Johnsonwrites, This is the type of scene you could parachute into stark naked and singing the StarSpangled Banner, and upon landing you would be absorbed by the great 50,000-personorganism clothed, fed, and imbibed before your chute touched the desert ground.

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