Why traveling time more than money

If you ask people why they are traveling, all the answers will be about the same: to know new countries, see exotic sights, soak up the thrills. However, if you ask these same people about the preferred mode of travel, the opinions will differ considerably, and their carriers can engage even in a fierce debate.

Someone does not recognize anything other than a comfortable stay at the hotel, others prefer the tent. Someone in one hour transported between continents by plane, others may spend months to travel by bicycle. The differences are many, but, ultimately, they can only be reduced to two. Someone spends money on travel, and who for a while.

So, in this case, is more valuable to us - the money or time?

When you're young, you always have more time than money. That is why young people often prefer hitchhiking, by bus or even on foot. Yes, it can sometimes be uncomfortable, sometimes tedious, but you do not spend a single extra penny. Limited means more cut you a choice of entertainment, food, and lodging places. There is time, there is no money.

A completely different picture emerges when you have become more solid and more secure. You only have a couple weeks of vacation that you barely carved out of his life planned out. You get on a plane and rush to the palms or the pyramids. You have no time to shake two weeks in the back seat of the bus. You selites in clean hotel to all your family had not felt the slightest inconvenience. You might even hire a guide, instead of wandering around the city with a map in hand. There is money, no time.

And whose position is more preferable? Whose way of understanding the world better?

It seems to me that the most important thing - it's time. When you will not hurry, then you sink into and feel, rather than slide on the surface. You can wander around and see what's really going on. You can meet a wide range of people. You can spend a few extra hours of study and contemplation cave monuments. Do you have enough time to learn some new words to learn the real price, to wait out the bad weather. You do not rush, you just live on the road.

The money will help you buy time, but will never be able to buy anything from the fact that I have listed above. With the money you buy impression of the country, cleverly wrapped in a package of advertising booklets, special guided tours and choreographed stories your guides. You are buying a fake.

And many people will feel this deception. Even in the most comfortable tour, where everything is included and paid for, people say: "I would have a little more time." How many times I have seen wealthy tourists who are looking for young people with backpacks and think to himself: "I would like to be in their place."

Time - it is the only resource that has value. Ironically, young people often have it even more than their parents secured and packaged. Time will help you acquire the knowledge, the expertise and experience that can not be bought for any money. Seriously.

Therefore, if you have the time - travel. Do not wait until you will be on the account of the amount to pay for flights, hotels and guides. If you have time, then you are already rich.