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Experiential Richness
There is something romantic about the traveler. Whether it's the bleached blond surfer or the retired couple traveling in France, the traveler belongs, and ebbs and flows with the rhythm of a place. They are enriched by a journey of discovery.

To travel from travail, a journey or a circle.
Tourists stick out like sore thumbs (or a sunburnt nose). They are separate from the people and the places that they visit. Over eager for their annual 2-week dose of happiness, determined to record it on film, and ill at ease with local people they hide behind their cameras.

Travelers on the other hand immerse themselves in places and cultures. Like the first ever travelers – the pilgrims - there is a reason and a purpose for their trip. They make new friends and laugh and argue about life with local people. The traveler broadens his or her mind, sees their lives through others eyes, and gains new perspectives. They return home with experiences that have shaped their values. The tourist reinforces their existing preconceptions, gets a tan, and comes home a little poorer.

So how do we become travelers?
Travelers fully experience places, rather than merely observing them. To do this they must first accept them. 
Stop making comparisons with home comforts or other holidays. Just be. Only then can you truly observe new people and places.Fully accepted a place and genuinely observing will mean we can truly experience it. Get off the beach, roll up your trousers, and explore that rock pool.Watch how people interact, learn some words of the local language and join the older men in the fish market for a glass of wine.
Take every opportunity to experience new things. Be in your world rather than on it and live in the moment.
Avoid the habit of knowing all the answers, and cultivate the habit of asking questions. Recognise that there is often more that we can learn from the poorest people than we can teach them.
Realise that when you have formed a set opinion about a place or a culture you cease to be a real traveler.

 

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