What Can You Learn From Taking The Paths Less Traveled

We all have a calling to travel the world and explore new places, people prefer the Asian countries to travel as they are nearby and even sometimes works out cheap. But all go to places like (for example: Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia etc), but have you ever considered Vietnam?

Vietnam is a vast and a very bustling place, famous for many things and also for its choice of cuisine you get there, but have you ever considered travelling by bike from the south most populist city Ho Chi Minh City to it's capital Hanoi. Sounds crazy as its a new place and quite out of the place thing to do in an unknown country.

But I have a crazy brother named Amar Kaushik who did it.

So what Inspired him to do it, and what did he learn from this adventure?

From Childhood my brother and I follow three people like gods Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May (former host's of Top Gear UK and current host's of Grand Tour and Seamen), we use to live of it and even relate their quotes to our daily life's. Once a episode aired on a Sunday evening, and Jeremy Clarkson said "So we have to do a special every series, so this time you join us from the sweat bowl of Vietnam". The episode is called the Vietnam Special. (Top Gear UK is the worlds most watched TV show on this planet)

Here the three gentle men think they are going to explore Vietnam in cars as its a car show but there was a catch, each person was told to buy a two wheeler and go from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi which is 1500kms. So after watching that episode, we had a bug in our brain to do it. But recently Amar went to Vietnam rented a bike and covered the same stretches covered by the three on the show as it was a life long dream.

He told me that Vietnam thought him how the world works, how to assimilate with the ethics of the people from different parts of the world by backpacking through their countries, how to get lost and be found again, and how to survive when nobody is there to fend for you. Travel teaches you that the most experienced person is not the intelligent one, but the person who has traveled the most is. As he/she has been on ground in a different land and knows what happens and how to make things happen, that knowledge no book can ever teach you.