Looking for a companion / travel companion

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viator000, 06.03.2013 11:05

Dear like-minded people!
I am looking for a companion / traveling companion (maybe two, preferably a bug person!), for a period of 3-5 weeks. Approximate geography: Turkey, Georgia, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan. Other options are possible.
My area of interest is mostly Agrodiaetus (Lycaenidae), Colias (Pieridae).
I consider good old Iran as one of the options. The country is familiar, I've been there 4 times, there are certain developments and routes. There is no special reference to the time – the beginning. May-beginning august. I plan to travel sometimes by hitchhiking, but more often by bus. Accommodation is planned in a tent, occasionally in hostels. In addition to entomology (it is supposed to catch light from a battery), the second goal is photographing nature (mountains, plants, insects), people, villages and sights unknown to a wide range of people. According to the photo – a normal level, as for an amateur. The trip is focused more on visiting natural and landscape places. In Iran, for example, in addition to small six-legged animals, there are plenty of large animals: fennec, bezoar goats, mountain sheep, wolves, a huge number of porcupines, eared hedgehogs and wild boars!!! Wonderful nature: amazing waterfalls and caves, including the largest cave in the world. So there is a lot to see, photograph, and fish in Iran.
PS I take the choice of a companion seriously. A person is also needed for future trips, so that he does not get carried away with mass collections of everything that moves, otherwise conflicts may arise on this basis. I don't do mass collection myself.

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10.03.2013 13:06, viator000

thank you for correcting me about the foxes. My companion ran around photographing them.
"sights unknown to a wide circle" - fortresses (ancient), waterfalls, mountain lakes, etc., which are not described in books about tour. routes. When I was in Lorestan, the locals asked me how I knew about the waterfall and the lake. They checked my LP, and there was really nothing said.
People - portrait photography. Kishlaki - everyday
military.are objects a joke?? Maybe you are interested in them, but you have such thoughts? If you are interested in them, look for other fellow travelers, I have other interests.
You can't get a visa to the United States after that, but you can easily get a visa to Europe.

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12.03.2013 12:07, viator000

judging by some revealed fees, it is not clear WHAT some do in the collections.

And I wrote, meaning myself-that spending a lot of money and taking risks without collecting as an entomologist should, while at the same time thinking about colleagues and replenishing museum collections is a waste of everything.

This is to this - "We need a person for future trips, so as not to get carried away with mass collections of everything..."

Do I understand you correctly?"- You collect for museums abroad officially, which means you have permission to export and import material from the Ministry of Ecology and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? or do you treat not entomologists, but storonikam total destruction of everything, collecting and exporting all cubic meters?

I wrote about a certain category of people who collect everything that moves and grows - this is a kind of mental illness. I (I hope like you), belong to the absolute majority-collecting with meaning.

This post was edited by viator000-12.03.2013 12: 10

12.03.2013 12:31, Tigran Oganesov

judging by some revealed fees, it is not clear WHAT some do in the collections.
And I wrote, meaning myself-that spending a lot of money and taking risks without collecting as an entomologist should, while at the same time thinking about colleagues and replenishing museum collections is a waste of everything.
This is to this - "We need a person for future trips, so as not to get carried away with mass collections of everything..."

Some people don't catch anything at all, and, just imagine, they are even entomologists. Some people are interested not in corpses, but in living insects. And then there are some entomologists who (oh horror!) It's not just insects that are interesting. But we won't let these perverts go on the expedition, no, no.

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