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Smiles, people, shadows

LATVIA | Monday, 18 May 2015 | Views [143] | Scholarship Entry

Traveling - it's not only way how we spent our leisure time or vacations. It's not about how many countries we have seen, how many different kind a foods have we taste or how many fringes magnets we brought home. It's not about selfies, which we took next to Eiffel tower or sunny days spent on the beach. Real traveling is something more, something that excites us, something that's goes inside and feel like drugs and don't let as so easily go.
My "Travel Treasure" is like music rhythm, very fast and energizing, but at the same time soft and with secret.
Traveling is about people, about personalities, about their shadows on the streets, their fingerprints on the walls, their smells in shops and their dreams in the culture.
People are main resource which let me to know real world around them, real taste of their daily rituals, real sound of their history and their point of view. The way how we interact with different kind of personalities in different kind a situations or districts let as know cities real atmosphere.
For example, You go inside shop, see the nice cover book, green one with with black and white drawing, it says friendship .Then you go to your friend and tell him I read this amazing book, I get to know the real friendship is like black, white and green. Your friends ask why? It's simple, every relationships have their black and white days, but there always green side where just to relax. This is how to read a book from outside. Maybe it's true, maybe the author was trying to say the same thing. But if you are wrong, if the real point is opposite?
The same thing is about countries culture. You can go to see many, objects, many monuments, but it tells nothing about culture if you don't dig deeper. Talking with strangers get you closer to understand the real meaning, event it's incorrect, still it's how important this part is to them, how they see it.

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