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At one point or another in people's lives they have become a tourist or a traveler. Being a traveler does not mean you have to head across the seas and into another country or part of the world. Traveling simply means going from one place to another for leisure of for business. In any case, people always bring along cameras, maps and even hire a tour guide at the place they are heading to. Once there, all they do is lounge around on the beach or at the pool deck, drink some cocktails at the bar, or spend the whole day watching movies inside their hotel rooms. When they get back home, all they have to show for their travels is a bunch of poorly-taken photographs.
Such a waste!
Traveling means soaking up as much of the way of life in your destination place as much as you can. Traveling is not only about the place but is also about the people, their culture, and exchanging your culture with them. Totally immersing in the place and experiencing what they have to offer you and what you can offer them is what traveling is all about.
Imagine the way people travel back in the old days, before planes and cruise ships and five star hotel rooms where even invented or imagined. The only means for people to travel is by horse and carriage, and if they do not have that all they can rely on would be their legs. It would just be like a scene from Lord of The Rings where the Fellowship would have to cross the whole of Middle Earth on foot. Although there might be perils along the way, the journey itself would be an awesome experience and would probably better and enjoyable than arriving in your place of destination.
People in this modern world would not be able to perform such feats and would have difficulty traveling on foot. However, I came across a blog written by Linus Gitahi about a tribe of people who could probably still perform what the travelers of old could do. The Kenyan people, particularly those from the Kalenjin tribe can do amazing feats with running that no other group of people in the world has done.
Linus Gitahi described these stories in his blogs as well as an analysis of the possible causes or circumstances that made these people capable of performing such running feats. Linus Gitahi have looked at various possible reasons why Kenyans and the Kalenjin Tribe runs this way like the way they eat, their environment, their training regimens and even their genes.
In any case, traveling on foot is still an enjoyable way to discover new worlds, although not in a cross-country sort of way or the way the Kenyans and the Kalenjin tribe does it. Still, it's a lot better than traveling thousands of miles across the globe, only to sip beer and soak in a bathtub at a cheap hotel.
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