19 Tips for Taking the Trip of a Lifetime
| October 12, 2016
Embrace culture shock
Don’t be one of those tourists who complains about how different everything is. You will never truly enjoy yourself, truly have that trip of a lifetime, unless you are able to not only accept but embrace the fact that you are far from home, in a place with different customs, smells, languages, foods, standards, expectations, traditions, people, and so on and so on.
It may seem overwhelming and disorienting at first, but take it as an opportunity to learn, adapt and grow. Allow yourself to be carried along by the cultural current. Fighting it will only exhaust and frustrate you—and everyone around you.
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