Too easy

Exploring India without a smartphone was an adventure. Never knowing exactly where you are, getting directions by word of mouth. Having to learn to count in the local language. A smartphone takes the fun out of it, especially with cheap mobile data. The maps tell you where you are, where to go and when your bus has arrived at its destination. Its impossible to be truly lost with GPS. You can Google questions and necessary words in the local language. It's too easy now, there isn't any challenge, but even worse, is impossible to go back. I think I have found the solution though, go where the maps fail. Where there is no mobile signal. Where barely any speaker of a European language has described on the internet. Google maps doesn't record the islands of Ang Nam ngum, and one blog and an old tourist guide record visits. Curiously all this can be found barely 50km as the crow flies from a busy tourist spot. The law of pessimism dictates I will find another backpacker there when I arrive.