{"id":757,"date":"2016-04-22T04:35:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T04:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/family-world-travel.com\/english\/?p=757"},"modified":"2018-10-31T11:24:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:24:45","slug":"two-most-important-family-travel-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/family-world-travel.com\/english\/two-most-important-family-travel-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"About to go travel? The two most important tips I can give you."},"content":{"rendered":"

A second before summer vacation, a lot of the families I escort can already smell the flight date getting nearer. And the closer the moment comes for them, I feel a sort of confusion, a need to hold on to something, a minute before they lose control and head into the unknown.<\/p>\n

So for their sake, and for any others that feel the need, here are the two most important tips I can give:<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> you already made a basic plan (after in depth research or maybe in less depth), bought flight tickets, consulted with a traveler\u2019s clinic. Everything is more less arranged? Great.
\nNow let go. Leave the travel guides be. Leave the facebook groups, leave the blogs (even mine).
\nFrom now on, let the road set the way<\/a>. Sit quietly, breath deep. Live already knowing that each one will get his\/her own journey. It doesn\u2019t matter if it rained on you on the way to Dharamsala or if it was boiling hot. If you have a hotel in New-Delhi or not. Those things are no longer in your control. All that\u2019s left is to look on the road, the view, on what your journey will bring you.
\nThat the decision that whatever comes your way- you\u2019ll deal with. That you\u2019re open and ready for adventures, of every kind and color. To meetings with others, with yourselves, with your family members. Accept that the way won\u2019t necessarily be what you imagined it would be, or (and especially) what you planned. Changes and surprises will come. They\u2019re part of the journey.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> the hot springs in Vashisht<\/a> are a huge gift. A little piece of heaven I\u2019m grateful for everyday I\u2019m here. We enjoy them and learn a lot from the experience of going to them.
\nThings that would\u2019ve been very hard to teach my daughters any other way. And that I probably couldn\u2019t teach them any other way, if it wasn\u2019t for our stay here.
\nBut not everyone sees it that way. In fact, most tourists that come here to see the hot springs don\u2019t spend time on them, and definitely don\u2019t dare to actually swim in the pools.
\nThey see that place in an entirely different way. They see grey cement, dirt, bare brick walls.
\nAnd they run away.
\nAnd I want to thell them- wait a moment. Stop. Take those western glasses off for a minute. And look. Lean. Without prejudice, without criticism, without judging. Leave the west outside. Come try. Open a door to experiences, to curiosity, to love for something completely different, and not necessarily better or worse.
\nOpen yourselves. Completely. Don\u2019t close down because that\u2019d be a shame. To visit a different place, a new place, totally different from anything you know and manage to really experience it on a deep level- that\u2019s amazing. A whole world suddenly opened. A million flakes of inspiration, a million new points and each one of them can lead to a different and spectacular way. And it\u2019s a shame to miss that.
\nOh\u2026 all the things I learned in the last five years. From everyone. The tourists. The travelers. The views. The locals. There\u2019s so much wisdom in them, a different wisdom, odd and fascinating. Yes, they think very differently from us. They see things differently. But that\u2019s what\u2019s so interesting!
\nI see tourists that made an effort and saved money for a very long time, invested a lot of money and and went really far. And all that for what?
\nLeave the books, the researches on the internet. Leave them. Go see the world with clean eyes. Sit with the locals, talk with them, ask them where they think you should go. Where is the best local food. And how exactly do you eat it. How to get from this village to the other one. Join that journey you took yourself into.
\nCome take of your clothes, slowly slowly dip your legs in the hot water, until you get used to them, look around you, see the women, the youths, the old ladies. How everyone here, free with their bodies, washing each other, dipping naturally in the pool, chit-chatting, laughing.
\nCome, get in, like it\u2019s your first day alive.<\/p>\n

watch this video<\/a>– the girls talk about their experience at the hot springs in vashisht.<\/p>\n

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