Travel: A Passion

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In the youth of today, traveling is a growing passion. The aim of maximum of them out there, is to travel as much as possible and explore every part of the planet.

Reasons of Traveling include: recreation, tourism or vacationing, research travel for the gathering of information, for holiday to visit people, volunteer travel for charity, migration to begin life somewhere else, religious pilgrimages and mission trips, business travel, trade, commuting, and other reasons, such as to obtain health care or waging or fleeing war or for the enjoyment of traveling. Travel may occur by human-powered transport such as walking or bicycling, or with vehicles, such as public transport, automobiles, trains and airplanes.

One of the best traveling spot in India is the Himalayas!

Travelers who delve into this mysterious world are confronted by incredible panoply of deities, mythical beings and symbolism. Everything, from the layout of buildings to the precise positions of human figures in paintings and murals, is dictated by ancient principles of spirituality, geometry, and numerology. There are even rules for the direction that pilgrims must walk around Buddhist monuments – always clockwise, the same direction that Buddhist prayer wheels should be spun.

Also, apart from that studies come across a fact that Indian women are traveling solo in increasing numbers, experts thank the easy access to information and books “Solo travel has emerged as one of the most favorable options for Indian women travelers over the last two years with more than 35% of Indian women opting to travel alone,” Holiday IQ CEO and founder Hari Nair said. 

According to him, most women are traveling single, and prefer to travel as couple or with group only in one out of every five trips.
Majority of these solo women travelers belong to northern region of the country followed by south, he said.

He said according to the search data at Hotels.com from January-August this year, searches for hotels by overall solo travelers for the top 10 destinations grew by over 90% from last year.


There has been a rise in the number of Indian women exploring both domestic and overseas destinations in the past few years, mainly due to change in safety measures, better and safer accommodation options, improved transport and accessibility to off-beat destinations among others, he added.


“Usually, first time women prefer traveling with groups keeping the safety aspect in mind. However, this mindset is undergoing a drastic shift,” he said. 

Traveling provides one with different happiness backdrops of life!