Travelling alone is a common escape from the bustles of the urban jungle, stress from a person’s current job, and over-all, life’s problems. Travelling solo is one way to relax and avoid common people out for a while and explore new things, travel and wanderlust can offer.
New-found independence
From saving up from your own income, planning and researching on that place you will visit, and walking alone in a stranger’s town, travelling solo offers a fresh new you. New in the sense that you will be independent in asking the local’s a few questions for your own benefit from riding a bus from their place, to learning to speak their native language for a while.
These challenges in a foreign land will somehow make you courageous to face your fears of the unknown. The more you challenge yourself, the more knowledge and realizations you will gather. Moreover, you can learn to navigate on your own, rent a traveler’s inn or even build a campsite.
You see the world in your eyes
In your own eyes, you see a much better perspective when you are travelling on a foreign land. No one to bother you and the place’s atmosphere is more focused on you. Your perspective is fixed.
Travelling alone, makes your focus undivided and more engaging. Your attentiveness will be sharper alone. Therefore, visiting the place makes it more fulfilling because you visited it on your own. It is a nice feeling upon arriving at a foreign place where nobody knows you and the welcoming scent of a new-found freedom arouses.
You travel on your own pace
No one is there to compromise and change the itinerary unless you say so. When you travel alone, you can be unplanned without having the need for anyone else’s feelings. Wake up in your own time in the campsite, eat at the local tourist restaurant downtown, or explore the local spice market, you command your own destiny and activities.
Social
Travelling alone can make you even more social because you had no choice but to seek people to help you navigate your way throughout the trip. Meeting people is much more easier alone because the attention is undivided and one can see the human experience in which, travelling solo helps you see more of the people in that place- whether it is their culture, life-upbringing, delicacies, and livelihood.
New knowledge and discoveries
You are teaching yourself how to live in that foreign place for a while. Engaging in their culture, language, and lifestyle, you will learn so much by doing it solo because of the undying focus and unfiltered experience it gives. Aside from that, learning on your own from trying to speak in their native tongue is an additional valuable experience.
Your soul will feel even more alive
New discoveries, confidence, and environment are bundled together in one experience of a lifetime. Travelling alone gives you these things. Mixing it with foreign people’s different perspective, it gives a wholesome and diverse experience.