Afterthoughts of Travelling Alone...

I have been wanting to write about travelling alone for quite sometime. Just that I keep forgetting about it. :P

A lot of people were actually quite surprised that I travelled alone when I was in China. My colleague keep asking me whether I am sure that I am really going to travel alone in China. Especially when it is not a one day kind of thing. I will be there travelling alone for around a week. My manager told me that he didn't think it is ok to travel alone in China because to him, travelling alone is possible if you are going to those more developed countries such as Australia, New York and etc. China is not within his list of travelling alone kind of countries. He said that I had proven him wrong about it after all.

This was the first time I travelled on my own. I have been to Thailand, Malaysia and Japan but all those trips that I made were together with other people. So it is actually something quite different for me to travel alone in Beijing and Shenyang. The feeling is very different from travelling together with other people.

I don't deny that travelling alone is kind of lonely. You don't have anyone else to share with your discoveries, you don't have anyone else to talk to on the trip and most importantly, you don't have another person to share food with (like my Peking Duck saga) and there's only so much that you can eat alone. :( You also have to learn how to 自拍. Haha... I remember thinking to myself halfway through my trip alone that I do not want to travel alone again the next time. It's just too lonely I guess.

However, in a way after I completed my trip, I had this thinking in my mind that it is not bad to travel alone after all. I have the option of going to places where I want to go, eating what I want to eat, waking up in the morning then planning for my day's iternery and etc. I don't have to worry if my companion is fine with the accomodation that I am booking as I am not very particular about my lodgings since I only need a bed to sleep in. It's like... I am free to do whatever I want to do. Even my trip up to Beijing and Shenyang was kind of made last minute because I am free to decide what I want to do. I guess I do need this kind of freedom once in a while.

I have no idea if I still have a chance to travel alone another time. But I do know I will definitely still do it if I have the opportunity. Till then... :)