12 lessons, which teach us to travel
Travels / / December 19, 2019
I became interested in travel not so long ago, about six years ago. Travel in the literal sense of the word, that is, when you take a minimum of things and go on their own journey. Honestly, this is an entirely different matter than an organized tourism, where you carry groups of buses from the hotel to the monument and back. Such ekskursionn0-Stay leisure little different from lying down in front of the house teleyaschika and provides only visual impressions. Independent travel is, besides enjoying the beauty of the new knowledge and enable a unique experience of a different kind. This special life lessons that can be learned only on their own and only in certain circumstances.
1. The hardest thing in travel - is out of the house
No, I'm serious. At home you feel that you are on the road will be waiting for a million dangers, you will have to decide every day where you sleep and what you will eat. You will slow ignorance of the language, or financial problems. But in fact, most of these fears are completely devoid of soil, and all problems are not worth the experience. So, the most important thing - it is to gather the courage to still go on the road.
2. Most people in the world is quite friendly
For people visiting the "civilized" countries, there is no opening. But once you visit, so to speak, the "problem" regions of the state with a bad reputation, you immediately realize that this is indeed the case. Ordinary people in any country of concern to travelers with maximum courtesy, politeness and willingness to help. They will show you the way, giving the night, talking about the best places of the country, sincerely interested in your adventures. Especially if you show proper respect for them, their customs and language (enough to learn at least a couple of the most common words).
3. It is not as dangerous as it seems your mother
The vast majority of places are no more dangerous than your hometown. Yes, some countries are notorious, but as a rule, it is greatly exaggerated and untrue. The same applies to wildlife. basic safety rules are respected and simple common sense, to completely avoid any hassles. After all, if you live in a big city, then you are much more likely to get hit by a car than die from the fangs of wild beasts, even in the wildest Africa.
4. Traveling does not cost a lot of money
Well, of course, if you are not fixated only on the yacht cruise on a tropical palm island. Basically, all of your expenses in self-journey consist only of the three categories: food, lodging, transportation. And here you are free to choose, on what can be saved, and what you have in any case can not leave. Someone chooses a hike with backpacks in which you do not have to spend a lot of money, someone travels on buses and stops in hostels, and others prefer to rent cars and hotels. In any case, you have ample opportunity to meet precisely those financial framework, which are preferred for you.
5. Every extra kilo makes your journey worse
Collecting a backpack or suitcase on the road, you just can not decide which shirt you take, and put both? Then you have to carry it with me all the way, cursing his "prudence." Excess weight in the road turns into a burden, making you heavy, clumsy and tired. And from this it follows the next lesson, much more important.
6. Necessities of life is not so much
Just when things pakuesh on the road with the intention to meet in the allotted number of kilograms, one begins to comprehend the highest Zen. It turns out that a person of normal life does not need so much. A pair of comfortable shoes, some clothes, rain and sun protection, hygiene products, documents, money - the list is of course not full, and everyone can expand it a bit, but, in any case, you expect some soul around you of things. Wait, what is packed with all my house?
7. Travel - it's not a vacation
Actually, not quite the holiday, which is understood by most people. Well, actually, you climb into the mountains with a heavy backpack, sweating in the tropics or in the freezing tundra - what a vacation. Moreover, some travel so heavy that they cause tiredness, exhaustion, nervous breakdowns, quarrel. Why is all this necessary and why people are engaged in - a separate big issue, but it is important to understand that the physical plane is not a vacation, but rather hard work.
8. Travelers and tourists - they are different people
I mentioned it a little bit in the introduction, but here I want to emphasize once again. Travelers live, eat and interact with the locals and tourists puzzled glances at them from the windows of air-conditioned buses. With travelers sharing bread, and tourists are bred for money. Travelers live in historic places and tourists chased after them like a flock under the guidance of a shepherd guide. This is a completely different roles, and only depends on you what you want to be.
9. Do not be afraid to travel alone
It is not always possible to find travel companions for the big trip. And even if you could find any, then we must also agree on the graphs of all team members to solve the problems, the number of which is increasing in accordance with the number of participants. Therefore, many are forced to choose consciously or independent travel.
This is not extremely dangerous or bad. You will not be alone, because everywhere will be surrounded by people, and even, perhaps, will find a new love. In addition, it is a unique spiritual experience, which will help you to know yourself, learn to believe in themselves and to solve problems independently. In more detail, we wrote about the solitary journey in this article.
10. Prepare to frustrations (pleasing and unexpected discoveries)
Preparing for the next trip, you are sure to look at a large number of brochures, photos of landmarks and relics descriptions. However, arriving at the site, you may be faced with the reality, which can be different from the expected. Giant waterfall with pictures would be sparse trickle, ancient ruins look like a pile of construction debris, and the paradise beach of a tropical island completely unsuitable for life. It should be prepared in advance and calmly accept this side of reality. On the other hand you can always hit the sunset somewhere in the bare field, fragrant cup of tea at a local eatery, or other unplanned change. The world is beautiful not only in specially publicized and prepared the ground for tourists.
11. We do not really such a big planet
When you sit at home and see other countries on TV, it seems that this is happening somewhere infinitely far away, somewhere in another galaxy. But it is necessary to fly back and forth, and you realize that the Earth really is like a ball of Google Earth, and we are all, in general, neighbors. Even more this feeling is enhanced when suddenly you meet who you somewhere far away.
12. The most pleasant thing - the return
No matter how interesting and well on the road, but always comes back time. And this is really the climax of the trip. You see your city, house, job, relationships, already a little in a new way, looking at the world through different eyes. Because your environment remains the same, but you had already changed. So the main lesson is that travel changes people, and always for the better. What have you learned over the world from his wanderings?