I know this is subjective and everyone feels differently. But I have traveled solo over 20 countries now, and beside natural beauty what enriched me most is the interaction with ordinary people, by chatting with people in bar, restaurant, market etc, but those last few minutes to a couple hours mostly. But I want more. My question is during my next travel how do I get more immersive experience? How do I interact with people and like hang out and stuff? Can I tag along local people when they are going about their days? That would be too annoying for them right? Culture of a region will matter of course but in next couple of years I will mostly travel central-south America and south-east Asia. So any advice from anyone with experience in these regions would be greatly appreciated. The paid volunteer programs are just scams in my opinion, not interested.