There's travel and "travel". My SO and I visited Thailand way before we met each other. I went to a Muay Thai camp and stayed in a nearby town. SO went with a

There's travel and "travel". My SO and I visited Thailand way before we met each other. I went to a Muay Thai camp and stayed in a nearby town. SO went with a tour guide, slept and ate in hotels, visited some temples and rode cute elephants. My impression of the country is totally different from SO's. I could say the same about India and Morocco. I definitely grew, but not in the way I expected. Westerners often fall into the trap of multiculturalism and this romantic idea of travelling which feels more like a product. We simply cannot grasp how easy we have it.