Just quit it: why travelling around the world makes sense?

1. Live many lifes in one: A great part of your preferences were influenced by where you were borned and raised. A Brazilian will most likely like football, beer and be a catholic. Because those are national preferences, just look at the statistics. On the opposite side, someone from Saudi Arabia will most likely be a muslim and will opt not to put a single drop of alcohol is his mouth. Visiting other countries makes you imagine how different your life could have been if your mom and dad were and had you at other countries. If you think and experience that way, you become much more tolerant to other cultures.

2. Acquire new tastes: Don't be surprised if you find yourself listening to Arab songs, eating Indian food and watching Iranian movies after having travelled for a while. When you visit other countries you are exposed, whether you like it or not, to new things. A taxi driver will listen to regional music on the radio, you will turn on the TV and see a local movie or program, and you will sometimes don't have other option but to taste the country's cuisine. You may discover your new favorite thing.

3. Form your own opinion about several subjects: I'm tired of hearing that China will be the next superpower, French are unpolite, Brazil is too dangerous to visit, Russia is the coldest place on earth, Italian pizza is the best, Swedish girls are gorgeous and Islamic countries are not for tourists. Is this all true? Go and find out for yourself.

4. See the big picture, make friends everywhere: You are not alone in the world, there are approximately other 7 billion people out there, living under the most different conditions. Connect and learn with them. Sometimes, there are no right or wrong, but just different points of view. Open your mind.

5. Do things you can only do out of home: See the Taj Mahal in India and the Great Wall of China, admire the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, ride an elefant and feed a tiger in Thailand, bungy jump in New Zealand, eat at a local family house in Myanmar, shoot with an AK-47 and walk through the war tunnels of Vietnam, float on a tube down a river and stop to party at one of the many bars at Vang Vieng, Laos and do many other interesting things you can only experience by travelling! Life is now, so live.

6. Earn frequent flyer miles: what? that's positive too, right?

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