The paper aims to explore Slovak villagers' attitudes towards travelling and tourism during the period of the late socialism. Travelling and tourism might have been perceived as expressions of urban life style, the way of spending free time, or the recreational activities connected with travelling. The author considers his personal experience during the 1970s and 1980s. As a young tourist he was confronted with the attitudes of the Slovak official representatives towards a life style that was rather strange for them. When the conservative inhabitants of Slovak country-side were confronted with the young people from the urban families brought up on the Seton's principles of living in natural environment, the similar clash of two systems of values or two different life perspectives occurred. The author completes his observations by two ethnographic descriptions of the episodes that took place during his long-term field research of Slovak highlanders in the second half of the 1980s.
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