Why Travel?
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...to meet new people

Kids in Nepal
Annapurna Trail

Morning Buddhist monk begging ritual
Luang Prabang, Laos

 

 and discover your own spirituality. Learn about other religions, and natural history.

 

Meet fellow seekers on the road of life, like this group of men from India in Nepal on the Annapurna trail.

Ponder many of the world's religions -Major and Minor.
Ayutthaya, Thailand

Walk amongst the oldest living trees / plants. Bristlecone pines.
Some are 4500+ years old. White Mountains of California.

Ponder the oldest (3.5 billion years!) known living organisms in world - Stromatolites.  Rocks that BREATHE! NW Australia

 

...try new food and drink

Trying familiar foods in new packaging is fun. A screw top aluminum Coke can.
On the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan.

Or something new, like Swedish pancakes with new friends in
Cairns, Australia 

An exquisite meal at the Grand Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka

I have my limits though. American Hot Dogs in a can? I'll pass. Nepal

    

Learn new skills

Thai cooking school in Chiang Mai, Thailand.



Trapeze school in the Olympic Park of Sydney, Australia

 

 Study Human History - Past & Future & Present

 

Past

Thousand+ year old Aboriginal rock art in Arnhem Land, Australia

Visit monuments such as massive Borobudur
on the Island of Java in Indonesia.

or the famous Taj Mahal in Agra, India
(More beautiful than my lofty expectations)

 

Future

Dream about the future. (2003 Osaka Motorshow)

Watch this cool video!

 

New concept car from Toyota

or this one from Suzuki

 

Present

[The world is changing fast....to say I understand it would be wrong. To say I have a better grasp, would be true.]

Petronas Towers
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Not long ago, it was farmland. Pudong area. Manufacturing powerhouse.
Shanghai, China

High natural resource prices are pumping enormous sums of
money into certain regions. With money comes luxury - like the
Burj al Arab Hotel in Dubai, UAE

Service outsourcing powerhouse - changing the business landscape
Bangalore, India
 

 

and those are just a few of the reasons to travel.

 


Your turn now

Do you know you're living in a Circus? Check it out for yourself.. Plenty of seats!

While you do that --

 

 

I'll have a cup of tea.  Ehh...not like this though  
(Tea Highlands of Sri Lanka)

 

ahhh....much better.

 

Still haven't gone yet?