What is it that inspires people to drop everything, hop on to an airplane, and visit a place where you do not know the language, the people, the culture or even the roads.
It is surprising however, to see how easily one adapts to new surroundings. Perhaps out of the hope that one will return back home or there is no choice but to adapt.
The sense of adventure is heightened, to boldly go where one hasn’t gone before. To experience the kindness of strangers, the thievery of swindlers, waiting to take advantage of tourists, the different tastes, smells, colours, sights, sounds and the experience of a clime different from that which you are used to, on your skin.
To see how people live, their daily lives different from one’s own and to be a scopophiliac into the lives of strangers as they pass by you on a street or sit in a bistro and watch life go by. To navigate through the myriad of languages and dialects, the Babel presented by the melting pot these lands are.
Technology old and new intertwined to make lives easy. Infrastructure designed to facilitate the march towards progress. Architecture which has captured history and propelling cities into the future.
He who has not traveled has not lived.
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