10 Reasons why you should travel alone?

There are many advantages of travelling solo compared with group travel.

In addition to freedom of choice, there are other key benefits you can gain from travelling solo. These benefits are:

1. Flexibility on safari

Travelling solo offers you the best chance to do what you feel like doing when you want.

You can change your tour plan by extending or reducing the duration.

Imagine you are in the Serengeti in Tanzania and on a six-day migration safari.

You might find yourself exhausted after three days of game drives.

As a solo traveller, you can switch plans and travel to Lake Victoria. Or take a flight to Zanzibar Island or even visit Rwanda.

2. Leadership development

Leaders constantly find new paths for others to follow. Deciding to travel solo takes courage and self-responsibility.

For whatever action needs to be taken on time, you will be responsible.

Either paying for flights, taking care of your luggage, or finding hotels.

Finding travel companies and budgeting for your safari.

Many solo travellers attract attention from others. Whether big co-operation or businesses.

So travelling solo doesn’t have to be for fun only.

3. You will learn how to take calculated risks

Risk is everywhere in life. There are predictable and unpredictable risks in our daily lives.

Risk while travelling can be either beneficial or detrimental for a solo traveller in a foreign country.

The good thing about travelling solo is that you learn to take calculated risks. And safety precautions should be your priority.

4. Simplicity

Travelling solo can teach you many things. You should learn to travel with a few essentials.

Most of the time, you will carry your bag. Can be simple bags, such as a duffel or backpack.

Travelling solo can teach you essential packing skills by learning to pack as little as possible.

This will require you to live with some limitations for a few days or weeks during your vacation.

This will simplify your life. You don’t need the whole world to travel. It’s as simple as that! Make it simple

5. Psychological Benefits

Travelling in groups sometimes needs supervision. A trip leader always becomes the mastermind of the trip.

And when any problem arises during the trip. The trip leaders always take a course to control the situation.

But now you’re travelling alone, so youwill need to calm your mind and assess the situation.

The ability to solve problems alone or control situations alone. Strengthen your psychology and boost your courage.

6. Create awareness of the world

As you travel solo, you encounter many things. You meet with other people in foreign destinations.

You live, talk and eat with them, and you exchange social and cultural tokens.

You will learn about others’ political views, religion, and economics.

You can also observe challenges people face or opportunities available.

While on trips to other countries or destinations.

You return home with new ideas: languages and even skills from other communities around the world.

There is no limit to absorbing knowledge while travelling solo.

7. Problem-solving skills

Sometimes, when we’re in our comfort zone, we rely on our people or our daily routines to solve issues.

But when in a foreign destination, we no longer have access to our comfort zone or familiar services.

Imagine you are in a foreign country and get an injury.

You should learn to use your skills to address the wound before getting to the hospital.

Or your phone is out of charge, or you don’t have internet access, and you need to get connected.

You will need to learn to connect with others, especially locals, to get help.

As you travel solo, this ability grows very rapidly.  And you learn to use what you know and what is available to create solutions.

8. Compassion

You might be lucky to be born in a developed country with a good family. Travelling to another side of life could challenge your spirit.

Visiting third-world countries or countries affected by civil wars. Like Somalia, the Middle East. Congo, and many other countries with political instability and chronic epidemic diseases.

You will feel the difference; you might see women and children struggling to survive.

Visiting refugee camps in foreign countries. It will help you develop a passion for humanity and contribute to global change.

9. Trust your intuition

As you travel solo anywhere in this world. It can be Kenya’s Maasai Mara or Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

Or Tanzania for climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. You take all actions based on your thinking.

Any better move you make as a result of trusting your gut.

Doing it repeatedly makes you rely so much on your intuitions and gut feelings.

10. Self-esteem

Travelling solo boosts your self-esteem.  Relying on your thinking to make clear decisions.

It will help you grow in confidence and self-reliance. Saving and budgeting for your trip adds layers to your life.

You will feel better after a successful trip back home. You no longer rely so much on others to decide how to go about your life. Even family members begin to acknowledge your maturity in decision-making.

Bonus for travelling solo includes.

• Gaining confidence
• Self-reliance
• Learn new languages and cultures,
• Add  to your palate,
• Seems different to your friends and  family,
• Sense of adventure
• Living your dream
• Grow patience and destroy your fear
• Grow your communication skills

Travelling solo is a unique gift you could give to yourself.  You become a more interesting person.

A self-acclaimed icon who others find interesting. How can you not be after all the experience you have as a solo traveller?

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