A traveler’s guide to dealing with culture shock

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Unless you staying at an isolated resort and you do your best to avoid going outside the resort’s premises, you can’t avoid experiencing a different culture when traveling, and why would you? Culture shock can be exhausting and downright scary, but it happens to every traveler who visits a country that is fundamentally different from their own for the first time.

And after you get over the initial phase, you being discovering the nuts and bolts of the place you are visiting, and you start enjoying the bits of culture that you see and learn. A different culture will always have parts that you’ll find interesting, amusing and sometimes strange or disturbing, but these are all things that will make your trip worthwhile. Here is a traveler’s guide to dealing with culture shock, in case you’re trying to minimize the impact. …

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Solo travel tips: getting used to traveling alone

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For those who are used to traveling in groups, with friends or family, solo travel can sound like a cross between a nightmare and the biggest adventure of their lives. But traveling alone is nowhere near the tragedy it might seem to be the first time.

Solo travelers from around the world have found the way to enjoy themselves while traveling alone and make more of their holiday than even when they’re traveling with other people.

There are many advantages to solo travel – making up your own schedule, visiting whatever you like without making compromises, meeting a lot of locals and fellow travelers and learning to rely on yourself. But traveling alone can get lonely, and the solo travel blues can really ruin the trip of a lifetime. But all you need are some solo travel tips: getting used to traveling alone is not impossible, after all. …

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Travel myths about women’s solo travel

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Not so long ago, women wouldn’t have even dared to travel alone, or even worse, weren’t allowed to travel alone. But today, traveling is no longer restricted to only one gender, and women make up a large portion of travelers.

Still, women who are planning on traveling alone usually hear a lot of horror stories that can put anyone off traveling for a long time, and while there’s a grain of truth in many of them, some travel stories about the terrors of solo travel are plain unfounded.

Unfortunately, women traveling alone will still have to take all manner of precautions, but in the end, there is a lot less to fear than what the myths say. Here are some travel myths about women’s solo travel which need some debunking. …

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