What is the experience of traveling alone?

At the end of 20 15, I resigned from an advertising company and traveled to southeast Asia for three months. It was my first time abroad. I went to Vie

What is the experience of traveling alone?

At the end of 20 15, I resigned from an advertising company and traveled to southeast Asia for three months. It was my first time abroad. I went to Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. It has been a whole year since I came back. Looking back on this trip, it was not all as beautiful as others thought, and even some small "accidents" occurred during it.

But all people who have traveled alone will understand that the real meaning on the road is not words, but the world in front of them, the experience of every moment, the real life and experience, and those beautiful moments are the biggest attraction of the next trip.

On the way, the first person I met was actually myself.

It's quite accidental to quit your job and travel. To tell the truth, it has some elements of escapism. Modern people who are not firm enough sit in office buildings day after day, and it is probably inevitable to fantasize about the distance. The popularity of "The world is so big, I want to see it" is the best example.

But traveling is actually a kind of life. Wherever you run, you can't escape from life itself.

When I was in Hanoi, Vietnam, I met an Italian. He has a beard and has been on the road for more than two years. Many foreigners like this kind of long-distance travel, which is very different from China people.

The Italian did a back flip with his hands on the edge of the bed in the youth hostel. He is at least 1.9 meters tall, as flexible and energetic as a monkey. Every time he goes to a local sofa party, I admire his laughter and laughter at the party.

At that time, I had just set foot in a foreign land, and I was upset by the roar of motorcycles everywhere in Vietnam. I was very dissatisfied with everything and had the idea of homesickness. Because the planned travel time is three months, the accommodation conditions are very poor. The hotel with breakfast for five yuan a night is in poor condition, and more than a dozen people live in one room.

After all, I am curious about everything during the day, but at night, when everything is quiet, I lie in bed crying silently and homesick.

(Shopkeeper selling lanterns in Hui 'an Ancient Town)

It's a little embarrassing to say. That's what I was like. It's very negative to complain about all kinds of things with your family. Finally, my sister told me that if it really didn't work, I could buy a plane ticket. But when I heard her say this, I was puzzled that I had finally embarked on a journey, and I felt unwilling to give up easily.

This state lasted for a week, and when I arrived in Nha Trang, a coastal city in central Vietnam, I began to have a boiling passion and actively face the journey.

In fact, people's emotions will fluctuate, even during the journey. Travel will enlarge some things and shrink some things. The first person I meet on the road is actually my true self.

I don't remember who said that the most important thing in life is to learn to get along with yourself, so only by knowing yourself better can we get along with ourselves better.

Wandering in a foreign land and feeling the warmth of strangers.

Ningping, Vietnam

When I was in Ningping, Vietnam, I walked alone on a misty and rainy road. A local man passed by on a bicycle and stopped to ask me: Do you want a ride? I thought I heard it wrong. After reconfirming, I was really invited to sit in the back seat of his bike.

At that time, I was surprised and a little wary, but I thought that riding a bicycle in broad daylight was not fast and there would be no great danger, so I sat in the back carefully.

So we started chatting. He is a tour guide and can speak simple Chinese. He also told me that many grasses in Vietnam are edible. Then he stopped and picked a leaf from a tree on the side of the road and told me that it was edible.

Look, I'm unmoved. He ate it himself! After riding for a while, he arrived at his destination, and we parted and said goodbye.

(Penang, Malaysia)

When I arrived at Bangkok airport, it was already dark. I was stranded on the side of the road with the address of the sofa owner's house on it. My aunt who rode with me came to help me find my way. She looked at the labyrinthine road map for a long time, took me to the nearest place she knew, and then asked my sofa owner to play golf. Finally, the sofa owner drove to pick me up.

While waiting for golf, we talked about our respective journeys and heard that I was going to Indonesia. She recommended interesting places in Indonesia to me. Although I didn't go to the place she said in the end, I will always remember that night when she accompanied me on the side of the road and waited for the sofa owner to pick me up.

Although you shouldn't rely on other people's help, I believe there are always kind people in this world who will help you and make people feel that the world is not so cold.

Maybe the world is not always so beautiful, but it still deserves our heartbreak. Warmth and kindness are one of the best things in the world.

The world is wider than you think.

Travel can make people temporarily jump out of the circle of daily life. You will find that the world is wider than you think, many trivial things are blurred and many details are magnified. People will be more acute and find more beauty in a foreign land.

Golf, the owner of Bangkok sofa, lives with his parents and brother. There is a room in their big house where a sofa can be put. The couch surfers brought in by golf left many things, such as maps, phone cards, travel tips and many strange things, including a thick book with words written by couch surfers from many countries in their own languages.

I found many diaries left by a girl in China. Golf told me that this girl lived in his house for more than a month and they also traveled to other cities in Thailand together. Finally, this girl is like their family.

Although I have never seen this girl, and I may never see her, such a story is really touching. Crossing the differences of nationality, language and culture, the relationship between people can be so simple and beautiful. If I had stayed at home, I would never have known such a story existed, let alone written it and let more people know it.

(looking out of the window of golf)

See all kinds of scenery and eat local food.

Of course, it is very important to see all kinds of scenery and eat local food on the road, so I won't take pictures here. Just send a simple picture of the sea in Bali, which is the bluest sea I have ever seen.

Under the scorching sun, the sea is like blue ink, and the coastline has no end, which makes people feel too small and too small, and they feel deep awe in their hearts. Compared with the magic of nature, everything is nothing. Walking through thousands of waters in Qian Shan, you can beat the enemy forever at a glance.

In Yogyakarta, I climbed the top of the volcano in the rain all night and saw the sea of clouds surging under my feet. The red sun emerged from the distant mountain bit by bit, and the color of the world changed bit by bit, which shocked me to speak.

From complaining about depression when I first went out, to learning to handle everything, learning to adapt and enjoy, traveling has made me grow a lot. I also love daily life, and think that living poetically is the real heroism, but I will have a completely different experience on the road.

And our life is only once, and it is not too much to experience it. Isn't it a waste of this life? So many touching moments and beautiful scenery are already the best reason to travel. Stories and wine are on the road, and home is always there. You can always turn back, so young man, why not go out for a walk?

(The picture in this article is provided by the author)

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One of my colleagues is a little girl who travels alone every summer vacation. She said that she had been cheated at the railway station, penniless, and her belongings were looted. Fortunately, the train ticket was still there. She returned to the train station in her city in a panic and informed her family to take her home. But she is not afraid and still likes to travel alone. Tomb-Sweeping Day went to Wuhan University to enjoy cherry blossoms alone.

She said that when you travel alone, your heart is free. You can enjoy your favorite scenery, think about your favorite problems, conceive the words you want to write, and recall the beauty you have gone through. If you are in a good mood, you can hum a minor and recite a poem. She said that many successful ideas are on the seemingly lonely road, many words are picked up in the kind of travel that others think is lonely, and many ideas are extended in that kind of travel. Although he is only one person, his thoughts can travel through ancient and modern times, up and down for thousands of years, roaming Wan Li and overseas. Why not?

In fact, life is a journey. In the end, everyone is walking alone, maybe in the dark, maybe lonely as a wolf, so what!

Traveling alone can just taste and enjoy loneliness, thus realizing life!

A person's travel is more like a kind of "practice" of life. A person's travel needs courage and faith besides experience, because there will be many unexpected challenges and tests besides poetry and distance! At the moment, I am traveling alone (playing the second season in Xinjiang-northern Xinjiang), watching the spring moon hanging in the night sky, and inadvertently flying back to my familiar hometown, I told my family my thoughts. However, a person's trip is also a rewarding trip. The real meaning of travel lies in the scenery and experiences along the way, not in reaching the scenic spots where people come and go. This is the initial intention and truth of embarking on a journey alone.

A person's travel is sometimes the inner voice, but sometimes it is also a helpless move. People often say: it is good to be at home every day, but it is always difficult to go out. For onlookers, a person's travel is a kind of enjoyment and chic, and it is also a symbol of strong economic strength. In fact, people only see the enjoyment and satisfaction of travelers from photos, but it is difficult to see the real situation they are facing. Many times a person's journey, it is impossible to predict whether the road ahead is rugged or bumpy; Tomorrow will be tempered by prosperity or adversity, or the enjoyment of sunshine and wind; Or struggling to move from one place to another. For example, in my previous trip to southern Xinjiang, in addition to the impermanence of the weather, road conditions, car conditions and many unexpected experiences will test one's endurance and optimism. This is the real comprehensive view of traveling alone.

Compared with people who are immersed in the reinforced concrete forest on weekdays, shouldering heavy and boring work tasks, or staying at home all day playing with mobile phones and computers, traveling is a choice and process of returning to the true nature, especially when traveling alone. Say goodbye to WIFI and all kinds of electronic devices. Traveling will make people say goodbye to the desire to get drunk and eat and drink. It will be easier to be satisfied during the trip, and you will find that laughter will run through your whole journey. When you encounter setbacks and hardships, you will become extremely strong and choose to bear them silently; At the moment when patience reaches the limit, you can also choose to sigh helplessly or cry bitterly without hesitation. In the end, you will learn to face everything calmly throughout the journey, and at the same time be able to think independently and objectively about what you are experiencing.

I've traveled many times by myself, the last time was1March 28th, 9, and I didn't intend to go out. Just because I suddenly saw the ticket from Tianjin to Sanya the day before, it was about 100, which was very cheap. I decisively booked a plane ticket and spent three days in Sanya. The advantage of playing alone is that you can stop and go at will, no one is bound, and you don't have to worry about others waiting. You don't need to plan ahead, you can relax yourself completely. Because the air ticket is very expensive, you can borrow the train to return. On the way back, you pass by Haikou, get off for a long time, pass by Guilin for one day, see Guilin's landscape, pass by Zunyi, stay for one day, see college roommates, pass by Chongqing, stop for one day, see Chongqing's night scene, and fly from Chongqing to Tianjin at the right time. The scenery on the journey will only be different if you have experienced it.

I have traveled alone twice. Once I went to Beijing to watch a concert on May Day, and once I graduated from college. I have been wandering outside for 20 days, starting from Shanghai to Xiamen, and then moving to Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

A person's travel, the most worrying may be safety, after all, a person is weak. Secondly, a person's travel cost performance is not the highest. For example, if a person wants to live in a better place, it will cost a lot of money. If a person travels with friends, he can share with each other. For example, when eating, he wants to taste everything when he sees the food, but how much does it cost if everyone tastes it? It's different when a few people are together. Everyone buys the same thing and then tastes each other. You can taste several delicious foods at the price of one food.

The benefits of traveling alone are also obvious. You can do whatever you want along the way. Don't give in to anyone, just make yourself happy. Go wherever you want, eat whatever you want, get up whenever you want, and sleep whenever you want, completely free from the harassment and constraints of others. And a person can disguise himself better. Go to a strange place, no one knows your past, no one knows who you are, and there is no label. Just be yourself.

Traveling alone can make more friends. If you travel with friends, you may not talk to anyone except your friends during the trip, but when you are alone, you may take the initiative to communicate with people you meet during the trip, and you can travel together if you are like-minded. During my graduation trip, I met four friends in Xiamen and two friends in Hong Kong, and I still have contact with them.

If you haven't traveled alone, I suggest you try it, but it's best not to go to that lonely place. You can go to a relatively prosperous city, buy a local map, study the route in hotels or guest houses, then measure the city with your feet with your mobile phone and feel the life in that city with your eyes.

A person's travel is full of loneliness and anxiety, as well as unspeakable helplessness. I remember once, my parents and I took a bus from Zhengzhou Railway Station to Shanghai to play with the pocket money we usually saved in anger, but I always felt a pair of strange eyes staring at me along the way. Looking at the faces of strangers everywhere, I was scared and thought of my parents. I hesitated: should I turn around and go back to Zhengzhou? Or stubbornly go to Shanghai? I chose the latter at that time.

I spent two days in Shanghai. On the third day, when I was wandering on Nanjing Road, I was followed by a stranger. I was so scared that I hurried to the police box and was protected by the police. With the help of police, I drove back to Zhengzhou that night. In the car, I had little money left in my hand and went back to Zhengzhou hungry. Stay in the waiting room of Zhengzhou Railway Station until dawn before you dare to go home by bus.

After that, I never dared to travel alone again.

What is a person's trip like? I went to Shanghai to play alone around May Day last year. No one accompanied me and no one asked!

I wanted to find a friend, but he had something to do. All right, I'll play by myself. The one-day tour of Shanghai Chenghuang Temple was very crowded and good. I ate the famous crab yellow steamed stuffed bun myself. Although I can't feel the taste, it is delicious, but at least I have tasted it myself, and I have eaten the smoky ice cream that was particularly popular at that time. It was expensive, but I stopped smoking for a while. I had a good time alone, but I still felt lonely! After going to the Chenghuang Temple, go to the Bund. In fact, it's nothing, just a kind of persistence. A person's travel should also become more formal and meaningful!

In fact, it's really, really lonely. Look at the way others are in high spirits. Four or five friends took photos together, ate crab roe buns together, and then tasted them alone. In fact, it is also a kind of practice. At least, they won't depend on anyone. Originally, they wanted to stay in Shanghai at night, but it was too lonely. It is meaningless to stay in the hotel alone and return to Suzhou by bus at twelve o'clock in the evening. When they came back, it was still raining heavily. God has no face. Suzhou is really a rainy city! I am also an extra one!

April 20 15, go to Sichuan, go out alone, and give yourself a free personal trip!

Speaking of going to Tibet, I had this idea many years ago. When I was in the army for the first time in more than 90 years, I heard that Zheng Jun had returned to Lhasa and had a mysterious expectation and yearning for Tibet. As I grew older, I got married and had children, and my dream of going to Tibet was extinguished several times. On 20 14, the children went to boarding school, their parents were in good health and their work was well arranged. At first, my family and I discussed going to Tibet. Besides, can Le Chi finish this trip? After patiently and meticulously explaining the problem, I did ideological work, because I was a driver in the army and I have been doing this work since I was demobilized. In addition, I have been to many places in the country in this line of work. This time, I don't need to bring my boss, but I will serve myself once, which has fulfilled my dream for many years!

I once spent a month walking alone through Dongguan, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Suzhou. It should be 2008, a person, a suitcase, take off your watch, turn off your cell phone, no goal, no route. Buy a city map or look at the bus stop sign. If you are curious about which name, go directly by car. When you are hungry, find a small restaurant nearby, find a hotel nearby at night to settle your luggage and come out to feel the night in the model city.

When a city is tired of transferring, go to the station, look at the train schedule, and pick a city at will before transferring.

In short, I think it is most comfortable to travel alone, not to see the scenery or take pictures. No cell phone, no watch, it's a spiritual journey.