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Nearing the end of travel…??

July 16th, 2006 Amit No comments

I have just three days to go before I end this phase of travel. On Wednesday I leave Bangkok for Chennai, and will spend the next five or six weeks working for a microcredit organization, following some of the work they’ve done.

Travel is great, and I’ve enjoyed the last five months or so immensly. Its hard to find a better way to know yourself, and the world, really. However, I did realize that there will be more opportunities for me to travel, and I’d rather use the time remaining to do something that I would otherwise not be able to do. And that’s the experience I hope to get in the next month or so, in India.

Unfortunately, that does leave Africa and South America out of my ‘six continents in six months’ scheme, but I have a good idea of what I want to do there, and over the next couple of years, I’ll use my vacation time to experience them.

I head to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand for a couple of days, and then have a few days in Chennai, which I shall use to update my blog, photos and suchlike.

I hate to sound all philosophical, but life truly is a journey, and being on the road, seeing new places, meeting different people, and adjusting to different ways of life, is just an incredible and enjoyable learning experience. It also refreshes you in many ways, and helps clear things a little, as while discovering the world out there, you find out more about yourself.