slow travel

I am not too ambitious and busy when I travel. Slow travel is my style.
I do not make perfect travel daily plan, and I take rest as much as I need. I go to bed late and wake up late. I keep the good status of myself when I do travel. I bring a lonely planet to know the basic of places and take a notebook with me. I talk with local people to ask them what should I see or do here.

Observe people and street during traveling is my favorite. Instead of using camera, I like to use my eyes recoding the scene, breathe the air, listen to the voice. Then put those things in my mind. And I think about What makes this city different, such as what are colors of and style of the city.

Eating local food, seeing local arts/dancing/musical performance, doing shopping in open air market or supermarket, drinking coffee or tea, sometimes have a hair cut, find a place with good view to take a rest, visiting a bookstore and reading the books to know more about city, writing a postcard to a friend or my family. Above are basic things that I do when traveling. Those things make me busy enough.

I like to travel with friends but also love to travel alone. Food becomes extremely delicious when enjoy with friends. I do things that would be fun with friends. When I am alone, I like the freedom and knowing new friends accidently.

When I was 20. I am so excited about traveling. And now I think travel is also part of life. :)