We’ve all been in that situation: the knotted ball in your stomach, the panic injections, and the extra malaria pills you buy at the last minute just in case. Everybody lets you know how courageous you are, voyaging without anyone else. What’s more, this makes you alarmed. Well not any longer, people, and here’s the reason:
1. You won’t ever truly be distant from everyone else
Every other person is solo voyaging as well, and you’ll find an entire apartment of individuals seizing the opportunity to book a visit together, to go for a beverage, to play Uno. Finding time for yourself will be the real challenge.
2. You’ll learn more When you go for walks in a new town and find a cheap local restaurant with the best pho in town or a secret staircase up a mountainside just before sunset, you’ll be glad a hangover friend or a distracting conversation didn’t stop you.
3. You’ll have more opportunity
You need to expand your visit in a space you love and abbreviate your visit in the following objective? You can do whatever the hell you want because nothing will stop you.
4. You will never argue while traveling alone, unless you are particularly unsure of your decision. There won’t be anyone to get in your way or push you off a cliff so that you fall first (ugh!). When you just want to get messy with 12 other people in one room, no one will ask for a pricey private room with an en suite. You have complete freedom to make any and all choices.
5. There is a false perception that traveling alone is extremely risky, and that solo backpackers should prepare their wills, settle their accounts, and say their goodbyes prior to boarding the plane. However, the truth is that being alone makes you more aware. You pack things like a clinical unit and lights, you try not to walk alone around evening time, and you don’t face dumb challenges. Travelers on their own are shrewd survivalists.
