Solo traveling has become quite popular. Isn’t it? Many people, especially youngsters and female travelers, have taken up solo travel.
I always prefer to go solo. I love solo travel, and this is the only form of traveling I know. I don’t think the benefits of solo traveling can be experienced in other forms of travel, too.
Solo travel does some magic to you, and once you experience that magic, there’s no looking back.
This doesn’t mean that solo travel is better than other forms of travel. Every form of travel has its own pros and cons.
Anyway, I don’t care what form of travel you like. I just want you to travel. Just travel often and far. Travel the world and experience the benefits of (solo) traveling. One life, live it to the fullest.
So my dear fellow voyagers, with no further adieu let’s talk about what sorts of magic solo travel does to you.
Benefits of solo travel to entice you to take up solo traveling
1. You’ll learn more about yourself
Do you know about yourself?
No, I am not asking about your job and all those resume things. I am asking “who are you?”
For e.g. – What you like mountains or beaches?
To answer this, you need to first travel and experience both the places, right?
But why solo?
Because real self introspection only happens when you travel solo, my friend.
I don’t want to elaborate much on this, rather I would like to quote this “Travel far enough and you meet yourself.”
2. You’ll become more creative
“Creativity-the skill of the future.”
Traveling is undoubtedly one of the best ways to boost your creativity.
Because when you travel you experience tons of new things, new colors, patterns, sounds, taste, people, culture, and this leads to the creation of synapse in your brain which makes you creative.
And when you travel alone, you observe and absorb things much more.
Just let the new experiences sink in and draw inspiration from them to create something astounding.
3. You’ll connect with new people
Most of the time, people hesitate to take their baby steps to do solo travel because traveling alone seems lonely or unsafe.
It revolves around the word “ALONE.” But actually you’re never alone. The world is out there; you’ll be easily able to make new friends and connections.
From my experience, I feel solo travelers are more approachable and this lets you to connect with people with various backgrounds and experiences.
When you’re traveling as a group, you’re confined to your group only. Connecting with new people seems a little tricky in that case.
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4. You’ll have the freedom to change your plans
It’s common to plan things out before we go on a trip, but while traveling, rarely things happen according to the plan.
You may hear about a new place and want to visit out of the itinerary, or you visit a place because everybody says you should go there once and realize it’s overrated so you want to leave or you want to stay a little longer at a place that you only finds attractive, anything might come up.
This is possible only during solo travel. You need not convince anyone as you are your own boss here. And that’s why solo traveling is best.
5. It reduces your travel expense
Cost plays a major part in travel. You surely need a travel fund before you go on a trip.
For solo travel, it’s often considered more expensive than traveling with friends. But I’m telling you solo travel is very cost effective when you spend wisely.
Choose hostels over hotels, public buses over private cabs.
While traveling solo, you have the flexibility to plan out your itinerary as per your budget.
Keep it simple and minimal. To experience the benefits of traveling, you need to travel in style.
Eat local and stay local; in that sense, you’re saving your money, and more than that, you’re a responsible traveler.
6. You’ll be more grateful to your life
We all know the importance of gratitude in our life, but most of us cannot practice it until we realize the value of it.
First, travel makes you grateful that you can travel. It’s a luxury and not affordable to everyone.
Travel makes you grateful for f**king everything in your life.
To put things into perspective, imagine seeing a kid literally starving to death in Jamaica or not a single woman on the streets of Jordan.
When you’ll experience these things on your own, it’ll hit you at a different level altogether.
You’ll be grateful to your family, health, friends, childhood, and much more. You’ll pause at the moment and reflect on the good things of your life.
7. You’ll gain a new perspective
When you travel, you meet new people, people from various backgrounds, you experience a new culture, different traditions, different ways of living life and that compels you to look at your life from a whole another perspective.
You might even redefine your meaning of life.
Solo travel gives you the opportunity to soak up these experiences at a deeper level.
8. You’ll walk at your own pace
Solo traveling allows you to travel according to your own pace. You can stop and rest whenever, wherever you want. You need not fit in anybody’s schedule or timings. Here, you’re your own boss.
One thing I would like to tell you from my experience is that when you travel solo, travel slow.
Don’t be in a hurry to tick things up from your itinerary. Slow travel is where you’ll experience the magic of traveling much sooner and in a better way.
9. You’ll be more confident and independent
On your solo trip, you’ll encounter many unfortunate situations that will check you and your confidence level.
You may miss your flight, or you may get lost since nobody is there to lend you a hand, you’ll definitely figure it on your own; eventually, that’ll increase your confidence.
You’ll be more independent because you have only YOU to rely on. You’ll be taking all your decisions on your own.
You’ll learn how to handle yourself, and this makes you confident and independent at the same time.
10. You’ll be always proud of yourself
Yay!! You did it all on your own.
After your first solo journey, you’ll be insanely proud of yourself. Later, if you look back on time, you’ll be proud of your journey, how you handled each roadblock on your way, the friends you made, the memories you created, and everything on your trip.
There is not a single person but you to take all these credits.
11. It’ll enlarge your network
“Network is net worth.”
Being in this era, we all should know the importance of networking. We should connect with the right people because networking will create many opportunities for your career life.
Also, for your personal life, you’ll get a lot of love and support if needed.
Even though we’ve got the technology to connect with people from home, the actual connection definitely beats the virtual connection.
Traveling helps you to create a network all across the world.
Learn the art of networking without expectation. It will reward you.
12. You’ll learn to let go of people’s opinion
Traveling alone teaches you how to let go of others’ opinions. We, as human beings, are always afraid of other people’s opinions. But on your solo trip, you have no one to think of you; no one is there to judge.
You’ll have the liberty to be true yourself.
You’ll meet new people, but they hardly know about you, and they won’t make any snap opinion or judgment about you, and even if they did, DON’T CARE!!! And let go. (You’ll learn this.)
Can you take responsibility for other people’s thoughts? Then why bother.
13. You can find your passion on the Go.
Nowadays, not everyone has found their passion and working happily on it. There are many people today who don’t know what works best for them, and they keep juggling between things.
If you’re struggling to find your passion, I can say one word to you, Try solo traveling. It helps you to find your passion; if not, it teaches you how to find your passion.
During solo traveling, your routine changes, you’ll be experimenting, you’ll get new ideas, you’ll learn new skills, you’ll find out what excites you, you’ll meet new people, and in the process, you’ll definitely find out what you enjoy doing.
About passion I would like to say, just try out a lot of different things whatever sounds exciting to you.
Passion is found by doing, not thinking about it in your head.
I should say traveling itself is a passion if traveling pleasures you and Wanna do it for a living??
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Conclusion
These are the benefits I experience during my solo trips and travel. I’m not saying you’re going to love solo traveling on your first time by itself.
After a while, you’ll find out what I am talking about, and you’ll find more benefits of solo traveling on your journey.
I hope you found some insights from this article about the benefits of solo traveling and start your solo traveling journey ASAP.
“I wish I had never gone traveling,”- said no one ever.
Happy Traveling!