Why Do You Travel?

I love travel channel. There's the 707 on Astro and 621 on HyppTV. It's a good non-stressful show to watch while I'm doing work or just relaxing. There are those travelling for good food, bizarre food, coffee beans, booze, the extreme challenges, mega roller coasters, luxury, spice trail, beaches, diving, cruises, fishing and probably many others I can't even imagine people want to do.

We have limited resources. It could be time, it could be money. So when we have the opportunity to travel - unless you're the lucky ones who are doing travel shows, we better narrow down our interest for unforgettable, memorable experience. I once met a tourist on a trail in Taman Negara who is cursing and swearing because she hates trekking in hot humid weather. She probably returned home with not so good stories about her travel. While travelling can be a good eye-opening experience to other cultures and different way of living, I'd like to knock off items on my bucket list as well.

I love the beaches. But I don't fancy lying around on the sand getting baked under the sun for the whole day, let alone days. My beach holiday must include activities like trekking or bicycling, snorkeling or diving or island hopping, caving or whatever's possible at the particular location. Therefore, no point going to beaches without any activities I'd be miserable.

I don't really like shopping unless it is for something that I really couldn't get here in KL. Museum or sightseeing, can be part of the holiday but NOT if it is the only agenda in the itineraries.

Here are some activities that I would love to do on holiday.

Helicopter ride - anywhere with amazing views

Hot air balloon - also can be anywhere with amazing views.

Sky diving

Waterfall abseiling

Whitewater rafting

There's also experiencing hamam in Turkey, elephant ride in Chiang Mai, rafting in Yangshuo, Nile cruise, jumping from Auckland tower and a few others which I'll add to my list later.

If I did some research on my TripAdvisor app, I'd jump straight into Things To Do. If it doesn't look interesting, no way I'd go no matter how low the air fare promotion is. I hope I can still do stuff when I'm old and having more fragile bones. What can I say. I don't really fancy milk. So why do you travel? You better think about it and have a more interesting travel experience and memories.