Why travel ??

It is rare that the first trip is the only one. Once given the kick, the risk of becoming addicted is very real. When you have the chance to realize that life has other colors as we knew it, we can not see the world the same way.

Out of the ordinary

Have you ever regretted not being able to live another life than your own? Do you sometimes feel that, first, time flies too fast and, secondly, your days are a desperate monotony? If it happens to you is that it is time to "put a little journey" in your life.

Even when we like the life we ​​lead, there always comes a time when the ordinary becomes really too ... ordinary. While there has so many beautiful places to discover, so many exciting routes to go, so many ways to live fascinating to explore and wonderful people to meet, why be content to stay quietly at home?

Why deprive yourself of the pleasure of waking up one morning in a strange hotel room and say, "Today I will visit New York," or "I'll go down Li jiang boat," or "I'm going climb Machu Picchu "? Why not offer the extraordinary and unique? When the weight of repetitive days we glue the feet to the floor, a journey gives us wings.

We all deserve better than life we ​​have. And as we can hardly live another life than ours, we all have the right to cheat a bit with our limits. Go elsewhere for some time been much larger cross borders geographical boundaries.

Defy time

Going on a trip is to play a good lap time passing. By agreeing an interlude in his own life, we live the time in a different way. It feels good!

In perpetual motion and continual innovation, we live the present with such intensity we lose the sense of time. It's a bit like time ceased to exist. This extraordinary feeling of fullness and satisfaction is extremely intertwined liberating. And strangely, losing the sense of time, it seems to win. The number of things you can do in a day trip will never cease to amaze.

The notion of time is not the same everywhere. When traveling, we quickly realize that some companies maintain different relationships with time.

The pleasure of learning

When you start planning a trip, one is often surprised to learn as little about the chosen destination. Although a few images we have in mind, geopolitical vague notions and one can, of course, place the country on the world map, but it is never enough to conceal our relative ignorance. So we often much to learn. You have to arrange, of course, not entirely powerless but from the biggest of our new knowledge you acquire on-site by total immersion. The journey is a remarkable school whose teaching always ends up leaving traces.

Did you know that the cities of Memphis and Philadelphia have not always been American cities? Do you know the difference between the Mongols and the Mughals? Can you name the highest capital in the world? You doubted sure the Inca people never existed? It does not matter: we can still sleep soundly without knowing that Memphis was a city in ancient Egypt; that Philadelphia was the Roman name of Amman, capital of Jordan; the Mongols are a people living in northern China while the Mughals were a dynasty that once ruled India; La Paz, Bolivia, with three to four thousand meters, holds the title of the highest capital in the world; the Inca word means Minister in Aymara and it is by mistake that the Spaniards assigned to the entire population of the Andes.

Ignore all this is hardly disturbing. Yet there is a real pleasure to learn these unnecessary things. These bubbles are popping know life like good champagne. We can somehow afford a story surplus with the history of others, a culture of surplus thanks to the culture of others, beauty surplus thanks to the beauty of others. It is a priceless luxury ... 

The pleasure of acting

We do not travel like going to the movies. Both director and actor, instead of the traveler is rather on the screen in the room. It's much more fun that way. Voyager is a different challenge from that of everyday life. This is what makes it interesting. To meet this challenge, we must develop skills that do not always have the chance to use every day of the initiative, independence, resourcefulness and self-confidence. Traveling is stretch morale. Not only is the immediate gratification, but the long term benefits are often not negligible.

Profit or loss

When you travel a lot, sometimes you think what we could afford if we did not spend much money on travel. Yet, few travelers come to regret it. On the contrary!

Whoever has traveled feels freer than the average person. Royalty cross borders and come and go as he pleases around the world, of course, but there is more. Such as freedom can be defined as the ability to make choices, few human activities are likely to offer much. Our choices define us and end up traveling brings us to clarify our values, our priorities and our motivations. How much it's worth all this?

After a few trips, you learn to pass easily things that were thought necessary, it easily supports sprains his foibles and his notion of success is changing in depth. One can even discover the qualities of the company that is his and appreciate more the chance that one has to be part of. Does all this has a price?


And traveling, we develop the certainty of having a future. By trading from time to time its cozy slippers against a solid pair of walking shoes, one can easily feel like pushing the limits of his own aging! Then travel: gain or loss?

The window on the world
If you doubt that the trip can make life more interesting, why a traveler returning from Egypt would remain glued to his TV screen a whole hour watching a documentary on the murals of the Nubian houses? Above all, do not laugh ... The Nubian houses become fascinating when we attended their inhabitants!

All real travelers will tell you that when we went somewhere, it becomes a bit somewhere at home. What happens there's more interest and what happens to the people who live there personally.


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