We present below some essential tips to travel without haste, so that you enjoy your vacation without stress, or rush, that end up complicating your life and making those periods of recreation and enjoyment a nightmare that spoils all your plans.
Therefore, the important thing is to keep in your mind the firm intention to enjoy, and for this you must remove any obstacle that leads you to have an unnecessary haste that just limits to enjoy your well-deserved vacation. In this regard, we strongly recommend you to follow these tips that will surely help you:
First of all, we must be aware that life is one, as the popular saying goes, so that every minute is unique and we must make the most of it, especially when we go out to enjoy those vacations desired for months or years; then, if the world is so immense and diverse, it seems that it is normal to come to the conclusion that you have to travel with rush, in order to get to know the maximum possible number of places and tourist destinations.
Well, from our perspective, it should not be like that; we’ll explain why. It turns out that the world is too immense for a person to know it in its entirety; and in this way, you can only enjoy a few moments, take the usual photos, and that’s all, this would not allow you to know that destination, in the broadest sense of the word.
Therefore, the process that implies “the trip” is as important as the arrival to the tourist destinations that you have chosen, and to be able to say “I knew such tourist destinations”, it is indispensable to know a little of its culture, history, traditions, customs and above all of its people, since the places are only a geographical point of a country, it is its flora and fauna, all its natural resources, its landscapes, its architecture, its gastronomy, and the idiosyncrasies of its people.
In order to enjoy without problems, we must stay in one place longer, make tours that allow us to observe, interact and communicate, to be able to say I met India, Egypt, Colombia, and so on. For these reasons, “slow” movements have emerged in the world, a term that in Spanish means “lento”, or what is the same “without haste”; which emerged in the eighties against the speed with which many processes occur in the life of the human being in this modern world, and among these we have “Slow travel”, which means “travel without haste”, and “Slow Food”.
“Slow travel” invites tourists to travel without haste, to escape from stress and conditioning of speed, to connect with themselves, to be free, and to enjoy to the maximum the vacations that we expected so much; however, three fundamental variables must be considered, which are the time and budget that is available and the tourist destinations to which it is hoped to get to.
The idea of traveling without haste is to live a little the life of each place we visit, and for that it is important to talk to people, know their customs and their culture, as well as to enjoy to the maximum of those beautiful places with impressive landscapes that require to remain more time in them, in addition to interacting with people, eating what they eat, doing what they do, and trying to understand where they come from by knowing a bit about their history. To achieve these objectives, you must be willing to:
• Use public transportation instead of taxis or those prepared by tourist agencies, as well as to eat on the street, or in small commercial places frequented by ordinary people, since this is essential to know the idiosyncrasy of the country and its people, and it is part of what it means to travel without haste.
• Search for accommodation in houses, apartments or small hotels instead of large hotels of international chains, which will allow you to save a lot of money and prolong your stay for many more days, so that you will be able to get closer to local life.
• Avoid taking tours as much as possible, as this limits interaction with people, and although you will visit fewer places, the experience will be unique and unforgettable.
• Schedule the itineraries on your own, using public transportation as much as possible, so that your budget is not affected and you can spend more days in your tourist destinations.
• Choose destinations considered “slow”, which are those where between 50 and 100 thousand inhabitants live, avoiding the overcrowding of its streets and public places, as well as giving prominence to small commercial places to facilitate interaction between tourists and the locals.
• Stay several days in each place, so that your trip is richer in significant experiences, where interaction and dealing with people allow you to fully enjoy your stay in the chosen tourist destinations. In this way, you will have more opportunities to chat with people to know their lifestyle, their culture, their history and customs. Besides, those people will probably recommend you the best places and even accompany you and serve as guides.
• Walk as much as possible and get carried away by curiosity; be willing to even change plans according to what you find during the journey, since you can meet people who suggest doing wonderful things, giving a touch of adventure and spontaneity to your trip.
Remember that this decision to travel without haste also depends on the budget that you have, the available days that you have, and the tourist destinations that are chosen, which are variables that condition the decision making.
ALFA