Benefits and experiences we learn from travel

"Travel kills bias, blind fanaticism, and narrow-mindedness, and for these considerations, many of those we know need it badly." - Mark Twain.

Mark Twain was only one of many writers and thinkers in history who consider travel an essential part of life's best journey. But what makes traveling around the world so important?
To find out why, we went to the Qura website for questions and answers on the Internet and asked users: "Why do people advise me to travel when I ask them for life advice?"
In response to this question, the participants wrote on the site how the experience gained from their travels contributed to shaping their lives and their outlook better, and explained why they advised others to travel. Here are a few of the ideas they've come up with:
Better understanding of yourself
Sometimes travel forces people to experience unusual experiences. Doria Ortega Michel, of Mexico, passed this situation on her first night in Denmark; on a very different continent, in a country that did not know how to speak his language.
She periodically lost her luggage at the airport, lost hotel reservations, and needed to go on a tour of the new campus to learn about the classrooms she would be attending. But that experience made her more attainable and allowed her to meet new people to realize that "the world is not as scary as some people imagine."

"I've had challenges to do things I've never been able to do before, or never needed to do at home," she says. "I learned from different people different types of living, different cultures, and learned about charity, wisdom, courage and respect, which I would not have learned if I had not gone away from my comfortable environment and decided to travel alone."
"You'll learn who you are, how much you can walk without taking a break, how you save on your financial expenses, and discover things that can really interest you," said Fernando Ortega, a student at Venice, who describes his travel experience.
Venice is one of Ortega's favorite places, although some have heard it as "water-smelly", "very many tourists" and "very high."
Instead of believing what people are saying, Ortega went there and fell in love with that historic place, where "a lot of events occurred."
The user Andrew Athena almost echoed the same view when he said that travel "is your best chance to receive an unbiased, unbiased look at the world around you."
But he explained that travel is not an end in itself. "If you do not change your experience, you have lost it, so you have to set a goal for your travel, so travel is not just for travel."
Broader horizon
As Mark Twain points out, travel can expand people's minds and allow them to see things from a new perspective 

When you travel, you face alternative cultures that have different ways of doing things, thinking and believing," says Simon Higgins.

"When you return to your home and home, you return to your culture but with different eyes, and your mind is more questionable."

For Higgins, he began his trip to Mumbai (India) with his eyes on how life differs from what it is in his hometown of Banbury, England.

From the miserable neighborhoods bordering Mumbai, to the state of madness of transportation and incredible dampness, Higgins felt that these things were sufficiently engrossed to keep these feelings with him for ever.

Years later, he still remembers these details accurately - much more than his memory of visiting the Taj Mahal, which he described as "just another building," compared to his experience that opened his eyes to another culture 

"Travel allows people to see beyond their immediate needs and needs," says Lawrence Le.

Perhaps the monotony of daily life makes some people wonder why they do not own a luxury home or a BMW, explaining that the traveler sees things differently, for he meditates.

"I just saw a family of eight people who gathered near each other to warm up in a straw hut backed by cowhogs," he said, "the family took me inside and they asked me if I wanted to eat anything. To thank God who is in the highest. "

What's more, it does not take a fantastic trip to get a wider horizon. He recommends that you "make at least one real trip to a poor, different place, without an internet or a television, travel makes you realize how small that monochromatic point you live on in a huge multicolor fabric."

Memories that last long

In experiencing the successes and failures of travel, the memories that people generate in that way are things they cherish for a lifetime.

"I am 44 years old now," says Chris Van de Pfeiffer of Antwerp in Belgium. "The longer I travel, the longer I spend and spend a bit of time on these trips, the more my memories and experiences are among the best things I have. Those memories are better in your mind for a very long time, do not miss that opportunity. "

Mauret Rojas of Monterrey, Mexico, agrees with this view: "Travel makes you engage in exciting adventures and experiences, and you'll laugh every time you go through those memories with your own"