Post 35 Travel as much as you can
My late mother used to tell us to travel as widely as we could afford. She strongly believed that travelling not only widens one’s horizons, it also makes one more tolerant of people with diverse cultural backgrounds. The profound insight one gains through travelling will allow one to think out of the box and be more broad-minded.
Marco Polo was an icon in travelling and his writing on the journey to the East via the Silk Road was a gem to the travelogue. He had helped to unveil the mystery of the East to the West. With the ease of travelling in this globalised world, people ought to regard travelling as a way to learn from and to foster better understanding with others outside of their own boundary.
While backpacking is the word used to describe the lifestyle of the modern traveller who travels light and on budget, flashpacking refers to the affluent backpacker who has the extra money to travel in comfort.
No matter how one travels, the joy and the experience gained are the intrinsic values which cannot be measured in the monetary term.
8 March 2010 (This article was to have been posted on 2 March)
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