“Travelling – It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a story teller”.
-Ibn Batuta.
Traversing new lands and frontiers. Exploring people and culture has always been of significant importance for mankind. Nowadays travelling has become too mainstream with planned packages, theme parks, resorts which kind of rob the good old ‘free travel’ of its essence. Going solo, which gives you the feeling of being independent, entirely self dependent and the accomplishment of something unique has become some what of a prized adventure.
Even trekking(taken from the Afrikaans word ‘trek’ meaning to hike/travel) which has always been in the conversation of ‘free travel’ has become some what stagnant and less exciting because of it being planned down to the smallest of details. This isn’t entirely a bad thing as it’s done for the safety of travellers, but the charm is diminishing none the less.
Because of this, ‘Road less travel’, has become the ultimate toast of travelling. Going with a small group of friends or family or even alone, on journeys which are spontaneous although reserved for pragmatic changes.
As time goes by, the solo travel, synonymous with the 60s Hippie culture is on a resurgence. Our land, India, is a fertile ground for such adventures! As we see many foreign tourists travelling as if they were a local, and this is what led me to write this blog in the first place.
Hope we all will have plenty of stories to tell.
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