Rajeev Rai Learning some skills can make your travels more fun, adventurous, and memorable. In this blog, I will discuss 4 important skills to learn for a solo traveller that can make your travels smoother and more enjoyable.
If you put in some time and effort to earn them, you will explore more places, meet more people, and have a lot more fun.
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Here are detailed guidelines on 4 Important skills to learn for Solo travellers
If you want to accomplish something, it makes a lot of sense to pick skills that can help you accomplish those goals that can make your journey smoother and more fun.
There are some simple skills that, if you can learn them, are going to make your travels more fun, adventurous, and memorable.
And today we are going to talk about four important skills for solo traveling. If you put in the time and effort to learn these skills, your travelling experience is going to get better.
1. Swimming
Swimming is a very important skill to have as a solo traveler. The majority of the earth is water—lakes, ponds, oceans, rivers, waterfalls. There is a lot of nature that is water; there’s a lot of wildlife and a lot of flora and fauna that is there in the water.
If you know how to swim and are comfortable with water, you can explore this incredible gift of nature.
There are many adventure sports that happen in water bodies, like scuba diving, free diving, surfing, jet skiing, and there are many, many more. You can fall in love with these adventure sports, and they can really have a very deep impact on your life.
When you travel, you’re going to come across places where you will get the opportunity to try these adventure sports, and who knows, you might fall in love with one of them.
I was just roaming around Pondicherry, and I came across scuba diving. I just tried it for the fun of it, just to give it a shot, and it changed my life forever. I fell in love with oceans; I fell in love with diving. It really had a very deep and profound impact on me.
If you know how to swim, you will be more willing to try these activities. So learn to swim; put in some effort to learn swimming; it’s going to open a whole new range of adventures.
2. Cooking
Cooking has many benefits:
HEALTH
If you can cook your own food, you are going to be more healthy. No matter what your budget for travelling is, you cannot eat every meal out; it is just not healthy. If you can learn basic cooking, then you are naturally going to eat more healthy food. You don’t have to be an expert in cooking; just learn some basic cooking, and you’ll be surprised that within a few weeks, you are going to cook really well. Cooking is not difficult.
MANAGING EXPENSES
Learning to cook will help you manage your expenses well. You will naturally save money; food takes a very major portion of travel expenses, and no matter where you are, eating out is always expensive. So if you can cook your own meals, not only are you going to eat healthy food, but you are also going to save money, which you can use to do some other adventurous stuff.
SOCIALISING
Cooking is going to help you socialise better. When you are travelling in a new country, you meet people, you make friends, and you invite them over and prepare something from your own country. Just imagine how powerful it is to create strong connections; it’s super powerful.
Cooking will help you in the dating aspect of socialising as well. Whether you are a guy or a girl, if you meet someone in a different land, you can cook for them or you can cook together. Cooking is a very, very intimate activity, and it is going to have a very profound effect on your dating life as well.
If you are travelling through hostels, if you cook, you are going to make more friends and meet more people. Most people do their things during the day when they are travelling, and in the evening, they come back, start cooking in the kitchen, talk to each other, share stories, and talk about places they have been to, and you naturally form bonds with people.
So cooking is going to help you in every aspect of socialising.
3. Driving
Learning how to drive both a two-wheeler and four-wheeler is essential. The better you can drive, the more independence and flexibility you will have in exploring. There are many places on the planet where you will not find public transport. If you have your own vehicle, you can go to these places. In many countries, renting a vehicle or sometimes buying a vehicle is very cheap.
If you can have your own vehicle, you can take road trips and go to places that are unknown, which are untouched. It is really going to increase the range of places you can explore. So learn how to drive and try to be a good driver who can drive in any type of terrain.
4. Yoga
When you are travelling for long, your health is your biggest asset, and you are not going to find gyms or parks everywhere where you can exercise, go for a jog, or do your training. So you need something that you can do anywhere, and yoga is that. You don’t need any special place to do yoga; you can do yoga even in a hostel dorm. You need very little space, and you don’t need any equipment to do yoga.
The best part is that yoga will not only help you in your physical fitness but also in your mental fitness. It is going to help you stay more calm, more composed, and more clear. You don’t need regular instructions to do yoga; you can learn yoga on the internet. Here are the detailed guidelines on How to Do Yoga At Home: Getting Started, Poses, & More.
There are many free resources, and within a few weeks, you will just learn the poses, and then you can do it on your own anytime, anywhere you want.
Yoga is really powerful, and if you fall in love with yoga, you can take a yoga teacher training certification, and then you can travel as a yoga teacher. There are many volunteering opportunities and many work opportunities as a yoga teacher, which is going to enrich your travels. I highly recommend you give yoga a try.
So these are the four skills, guys, that can really help you make your travels more fun and adventurous: swimming, cooking, driving, and yoga.
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