I started avoiding "Instagram" destinations 4 years ago and travelling has had a huge healing impact on my life ever since. Learning new things about places, communities and people is a blessing. I'm wondering if anyone else out there has adopted a similar travel philosophy.

When I travel I like to explore little known destinations, not necessarily remote but simply very little frequented. If online there are a gazillion articles about a top destination like say Barcelona, I go on google maps and pick a nearby city that nobody talks about and go visit it (Tarrega). I've been avoiding big cities/top destinations since 2016 and since then I have in a way rediscovered the pleasure of travelling, as in learning about different places and people. In my opinion aside from good photo taking ops, in top attractions they have very little to offer experience wise. They're dirty, overcrowded, pricy, and with a non-existent human dimension. For example you can't have a genuine conversation with anyone about the place, they just repeat a narrative over and over. And on many issues the narrative is the same from Paris, to Berlin to San Francisco. I enjoyed the hospitality and enthusiasm of these less frequented localities. I think this is also a way of being fairer to smaller communities and smaller cities, villages, counties, businesses that have a lot to offer but get penalised by what I think is tourist group think (which should be treated as a top issue in today's world imo). I'm wondering if I'm the only one or if there are others like me. Would love to know what everyone here thinks.

Submitted November 16, 2020 at 06:51PM by zeroboundss https://ift.tt/2H6LbLC