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What’s keeping you from enjoying your travels? Here’s 5 barriers to your inner travel experience.
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It happens surprisingly often that, when we are traveling and are confronted by paradisaical locations and amazing people, we are unable to enjoy ourselves entirely.
Culture shock.You’re lost, standing baffled in new surroundings with a heavy pack on your shoulders, unable to tell left from right, up from down, phone booths from trash cans or ripoff artists from friends.
But this image of sudden shock isn’t quite accurate.
In reality, culture shock is a much more nuanced phenomenon that can take months to develop and overcome. Culture shock will flip your emotions topsy-turvy. It will effect you in completely unexpected ways.
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It??s no secret that travelers are targets for any number of scams. At home it??s easy to check up on something that may not be legitimate when you have time and resources on your side.
But what about when you??re traveling? Even if you??re not the target of financial scams or too-good-to-true travel deals there are still many opportunities for criminals to take advantage.
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