Going on an adventure holiday means different things to different people. For some, it could mean camping in a tent in the outdoors or trekking through the forest. For another, an adventure is nothing less than sky diving at Lake Taupo, New Zealand or scaling the Everest.
Whatever adventure means to you, it a step out of your comfort zone. A break from your norm to do things which you would not usually engage in. Going on an adventure holiday doesn’t necessary entail taking on risky activities and pushing your boundaries, although that certainly qualifies. It’s also about seeing new sights, trying new activities and connecting with a new culture and here’s why adventure holiday is good for you.
Challenges you
The idea of an adventure holiday is to have the kind of experiences that you don’t get in your regular life. You may plan to do something from your bucket list of things or venture off to places you’ve always wanted to go. Adventure travel propels you out of you comfort zone and challenges you to see how far you can really go. Everyone’s comfort zone has different boundaries, and adventure travel is a way to stretch those limits.
Boosts your confidence
Adventure holidays launch you into a world that is so different from what you are used to. You may find yourself reeling from culture shock in a remote village in North India, struggling to make yourself understood with a local vendor in Thailand or pushing yourself on the final stretch towards the summit of Mount Kinabalu. Successfully dealing with those challenges boosts your confidence that you capable of dealing with whatever is thrown your way.
Raises your ability to cope with uncertainties
One of the inescapable truths of adventure travel is that things don’t always go as expected. Given that the very word ‘adventure’ suggests an element of the unknown, you have to be flexible and adapt during your trip. There are many factors like weather, not understanding the local customs, missed transport connections and miscommunication due to language barriers that can derail the best laid plans for your holiday. Making the best out of the situation during your trip helps you learn to cope with the uncertainties in life.
Broadens your perspective of life
When you have an opportunity to interact with locals in a new country, you learn about their cultures, traditions and the struggles they go through in their everyday living. It gives you a better perspective of your life. Your own troubles may pale in comparison of the challenges faced by the locals. Very often these people are resilient and cheerful despite their struggles. The experience helps you to value what you have and learn to adopt a different attitude in the face challenges. These are life lessons that will stay with you long after the holiday is over.
Creates long lasting memories of your experiences
An adventure holiday has the power to create lasting and vivid memories. You’re bound to remember that incredible trek up the mountain more than that holiday sunbathing by the beach. Not to mention, you will also have a treasure trove of memories and cool stories to tell. Sharing stories of your stay in a yurt somewhere in Central Asia sure beats recounting your beach holiday to friends.
Forges new relationships
It is easy to make new friends when you are on an adventure holiday. You get to meet a diverse range of people whom you would not otherwise cross path with. There is something about being in a new environment with strangers that strips away all artifice and makes you bond over shared adventures. Some of the friends that you make while traveling may turn out to be life-long friends.
Gets you real life education
Adventure travel teaches life lessons in a hands-on way that no book learning will. Meeting different people from vast cultures and societies, exploring diverse landscape and places, learning of the history and heritage of the place you visit, provides an education that is impossible to get in a traditional school, college or a university.
Whether it is cruise to view the Northern Lights or a horse-back riding adventure at Central Asia or even just an overnight camping trip at the outback, an adventure travel will make your life better, long after the adventure is over. So if you want to experience the out of the ordinary; cast off your inhibitions and escape on an adventure-filled holiday to bring back a suitcase full of memories. Remember, you only live once. Live a life full of adventures.