The Joy of Solo Travel
couples is not always easy. It tests my patience, courage and willingness to adapt situations outside my comfort zone. But despite the challenges, because the solo travel, I met people and had adventures I do not think would have been different. Only travel has taught me many things and opened many doors to large. Some of my favorite memories are:
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Come with me
While from a pool in Aqaba laying, Jordan, I was approached by two women who taught in Amman , One of them had seen me run this morning and informed me that she was also in the Dead Sea Race. She invited me graciously have to do with her in Amman. Although we had less than a five-minute conversation, I contacted them to Amman on my way and five nights with her ended up staying. I might have been cynical and suspicious, but instead decided to take these strangers on their offer and go with my intuition. For this reason I had a great time to make new friends and both know the local and expat community learning. I had a group of three or four have been, this offer could not find my way have come.
Need a ride?
a hotel clerk in Dana had a friend go to Amman, which offered me in Madaba on the way to drop off. It was a bit out of the way, and I was not sure to get a ride from a random guy. But I also knew how serious Jordanians in the hospitality industry value reputation. My hotel workers I would not be with someone he did not trust send. His friend had a small pickup truck, so there was only room for one passenger. I took him on the trip, and he also called later in the day, so that I had found my way to Madaba. It turned out, was the friend of a geologist, and during the trip, he gave me a science lesson about the area and showed me his laboratory, when we stopped settle samples.
Come After making after-dinner
to Namibia, I went to Swakopmund for my birthday skydiving. It was here that I met three people from Ireland, were fascinated that I was a woman traveling alone. They were consultants working for the government back in Windhoek do and invited me to come with them to eat when I got back to Windhoek. They wanted to know everything about my trip. I took her to dinner, and they're Irish, she insisted I too several drinks! I had fun, make new friends, just because I was alone.
The Kindness of Strangers
In many places I traveled, it was not common to see a woman alone, traveling. As a result I often had people looking after me if it the right bus or looking for my pension was contagious. On a bus to Monkey Bay in Malawi, my seat mate was off before me. He gave me his phone number and asked that I please text when I sure got him there, so he would not worry. And no, he was not some creepy guy; he was in his forties, had children, and was really looking for me. In Malaysia, I met an elderly man on a bus, the sightseeing offered me to Penang to take, because he and his wife love to show people. And in Italy, I had so many people give directions merciful to me to see if I had lost, glazed-over on my face. These are all options that have occurred because I was not alone and with a group.
While people have more than willing to help me, even if I have a travel partner, I like to know that as a single traveler, I am obliged to have interesting and unexpected adventures and some really great people as a result of being hit alone. And it is for this reason that I probably alone again going to travel and why I think everyone should travel at a certain point solo, even if only for a little while.
Laura Walker runs the website A Wandering Sole. It has the world by itself backpacked and does not shy away just because she's a girl. You can get more travel advice from their website or check here every second Thursday of the road for more of their stories.
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