For an authentic travel experience, it’s always better to be gracious and not to expect special treatment. A lot of people take themselves too seriously while travelling or feel entitled. Put on airs, and you’ll create a distance between yourself and the people you are visiting instead of forging a connection. Something as simple as making an effort to speak the local language can go a long way. Behave like a tourist, and you’ll get treated like one. If you want authentic travel experiences - this is my top tip for travelling like a local - it’s a state of mind. Behave like a tourist and you’ll get treated like one | © Blake Barlow/Unsplash Self-importance had no place on our vacations, and we didn’t get special treatment because we were visitors and we certainly weren’t allowed to call ourselves that or behave as such. You know that famous saying - when in Rome? Well, we didn’t visit Italy, but intentionally or unintentionally, my parents taught me the tenets of that phrase and culturally immersive travel. While it would have been nice to visit Greece or France, our holidays were a lot of fun, and as culturally immersive as things get. Waiting for monsoon rains, eating peanuts and french fries out of bags made from newspaper, playing cricket in the streets, and adopting the social and cultural norms. Part of my first-generation immigrant upbringing meant that come summer, when my friends went off to Disneyland or Europe, my two younger siblings and I boarded a long-haul flight to Pakistan.įor a few weeks every year, we would visit Karachi - Pakistan’s roaring metropolis - and live like the locals. Growing up, I got to travel like a local.
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