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Great Travelling

Many of us dream to travel to different foreign places to immerse in different cultures and experience the different sights and smells. But in all our travels,not all can we term as memorable. Some you would like to forget but the after-effect credit card bills is not easy to do away. Over the years, I have come to realize what elements that make my travels memorable.

1. travelling with your close buddies - i find this the cardinal rule to a great travel. Situation can sometimes be bad during travel. But if you have a great positive friends to flip the bad patches to the light side of thlngs, things turn out to be the best.These travel buddies usually have similar wave lenght, in terms what they seek out travel, their spirit of adventure and exploration. It is always a bummer when you travel with a person who is overly cautious or is off hook that they will do things that will put people in harms way.

2. Keep off the guided tours - I see guided tours as all you can buffets. You can eat too much to the point that you don't enjoy the food anymore. You go on this marathon tour places till you become weary and not remember the places you have been till you see the picture that you have taken. Even worse, the guide might recommend and over promote somethings but you find it just mundane. Its like buying a set meal at burger king and only the curly fries is worth eating.

3. First hand experience - To truly appreciate a place with all its splendour, is to interact and have physical contact with the place and its people. Without doing this you'd only be having a "post card experience" of the place. Probably just admiring how the place look which could be done at home looking at a postcard. For instance if you travel to a beautiful coral island, the least you should do is go for a swim in the ocean or take a cannoe ride around the island.

Enjoy the local cuisine - After traveling to distant locations, some people are still looking for their local food,which is quite unfortunate. The way local cuisine is prepared is a reflection of the culture. Certain spices are predominantly used in certain countries as opposed to others. This gives a wide variety of tastes from one continent to the other.

posted by edii @ 9:36 AM