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The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide.
1. Actually there are two main ways of travelling – travelling on your own and being led by a tour guide in group. Sometimes when we plan for a trip, it is always hard for us to choose between these two methods. Meanwhile, I would prefer be led by a tour guide while I am travelling around. There are several benefits of being led by someone who is acquainted with the place you go and of being in a group.
Being led by a tour guide in group can offer us convenience during our vacation. Usually we are not familiar with the landscape, the direction and the customs of our destination. Sometimes if we travel abroad, we may even know nothing about the language and thus cannot turn to anyone for help. I still remember when I travelled to Italy; I knew no Italian at all and found it hard to stay in this foreign country, let alone enjoy myself! Finally I found a travel agency and then followed the group. The tour guide offered me a lot of convenience during my stay in Italy and finally I went back home safe and sound.
In addition, following a group also guarantee a deeper understanding of the culture in your destination. Almost all the tour guides have received formal training in the local history and culture. Actually every time we stay in a group with a tour guide, he will always tell you the customs and the detailed history of a site of interests. Therefore, by staying with the group and listening to the tour guide, we will learn more about our destination without much effort.
Moreover, being in a group with a tour guide will make you safe during the whole vacation. Actually this point of view is the most important in my point of view. The tour guide is familiar with the country or the city we visit and thus we can hardly get lost. Staying in group makes us less likely to be focused by some bad people. All of us want a safe tour. As a result, the best way to guarantee safety is to stay in group with a tour guide.
All in all, thought we might lose some freedom by staying in a group with a tour guide, this way of travelling still can be well-rounded because it offers us convenience, deeper understanding and safety. Under this circumstance, I want to state that the best way of travelling is to be with a group and to be guided by a person who is familiar with our destination.
2. Based on my own experiences, and those of my close friends, I believe that traveling with a tour guide is a frustrating and stupefying experience which prevents the traveler from fully experiencing bot the positive and negative experiences that make travel such a mind-opening and wonderful experience.
Firstly, going on a group tour is disadvantageous because it has every aspect of the tour scheduled—from arrival to the return flight every meal, every activity, and every bathroom break is planned with minute detail. Though this rigorous scheduling might make some tepid individuals feel safe and secure it completely misses the point of what travel should be! Traveling is not simply a nice, safe, experience from which individuals return to their boring, everyday lives unchanged. It is a series of encounters with the broader world which enrich a person’s life and open up their mind. Traveling is at its very best a challenging and fascinating learning experience. Group tours, with their rigorous scheduling stop all spontaneity in travel. They block the individuals’ ability to learn or be richly rewarded by the travel experience. Instead they only offer a nice opportunity to take snap shots to show people back home without having made a real connection with the place or people they have visited or learned from the experience.
Another irritating aspect of most group tours is the lack of flexibility of choice. The individual cannot decide where to go or what to do. When traveling in a group tour the tour guide dictates where the group goes. Often this involved being taken to sites, restaurants, and stores where the tour guide is paid to bring in groups of tourists. Often these places have little or no interest to the travelers, and are only “traps” designed in selling things at a much higher-than-usual price to the unsuspecting tourists. A friend of mine was relating the horror story of a guided tour she took in Southern China recently where here tour guide took their bus tour 5 hours out of its way in order to try and get the tourists to buy oranges for a farm which belonged to the tour guide’s family.
Traveling on a guided tour can be a stultifying and frustrating experience. The lack of spontaneity and freedom to really explore and discover a new place robs traveling of its magic and adventurousness that otherwise make it such a rewarding experience that can enrich a person’s life.
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