Profile of a New Age Traveller Camera, towel, Lonely Planet guide to the local area, phrasebook, hiking boots and a backpack of books you’ve always meant to read but never found the time. That’s surely what every traveller needs right? Well it would appear that the missing piece of traveller’s heaven is free wi-fi and a bottomless cup of coffee. At the risk of sounding cynical it’s these additions to the travel essentials that are killing the once unquenchable thirst to share your experiences with another human being. Picture if you will, a sunny afternoon in the lakeside town of San Pedro, there are a host of activities available to you and if you don’t feel up to any of them there’s always the pleasure of an ice cold beer and a friendly chat. Sadly this doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. While you will definitely still find a number of tourists taking advantage of the many adventures Guatemala has to offer it’s sad to see the greater number of younger tour-
ists sat in internet cafes. Of course you want to share your adventures with those back home but wouldn’t you have more to tell them if you were out there grabbing the bull by its horns so to speak?! With so much to do and see it seems a waste to spend time uploading pictures instead of taking more. Skype certainly helps you to keep in touch with those back home but nothing compares to face to face conversation with fellow travellers; exchanging stories over a beer and being told about that ‘secret spot’ doesn’t come close to paging through an online travel blog does it? Remember why you left home in the first place I say and experience everything available to you whilst you are away. A Chinese proverb says it best - ‘No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.’
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