The nomadic life experience and jaw-dropping beauty of the 3,000 m. high plateau in Kyrgyzstan, at lake Son-Kul, is the perfect cure to boost travellers wanderlust.
When you travel for a long time, it might happen that everything starts to feel kind of already seen: just another church, just another beach, just another hike… marvel becomes the rarer the more you have seen and done “stuff” all around the world.
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It seems that time has the power to slowly suck the joy out of travel experiences with the risk of making the once enthusiastic wanderer fall into a bothersome traveller apathy.
I met many long term travellers speaking to me in such terms, and I might have lingered on the idea myself in a few occasions: What? Another Buddhist temple? No thanks!
So, I started to work on remedies, otherwise the whole concept of backpacking the world would lose its deeper meaning, wouldn’t it?
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In the absence of a work or any other kind of projects to stick to, my tips for the world traveller against wanderlust apathy are very simple:
1) Look for nature
Nature never ceases to amaze me, be it wildlife in a jungle, a boat ride on a river, or a hard trek on some beautiful mountains. Nature always pays back the efforts one makes to go and discover it with one’s own eyes, nature is a marvel.
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2) Mingle with locals
The language barrier is often an issue, true. But whenever possible, I do homestays and mingle with locals. I accept invitation for dinner by curious people who want to exchange a couple of words (when it doesn’t seem dodgy of course) or I proactively ask questions about local life.
In other words, I try to get out of my comfort zone, even when communication is complicated. These experiences are always different and have always become a dear memory of my visit to any country.
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3) Change your surroundings
I have been for a while at the tropics, I look for mountains. I have spent a long time in dry and desert areas, I look for waterfalls and rivers. I have been volunteering in a farm or remote area, I look for the chaos and cultural life of a big city. Variety is key to avoid boredom, and with the variety of landscapes often comes a variety of cultures.
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But why am I writing all this in a post dedicated to the Son-Kul lake in Kyrgyzstan?
Because this place is so amazingly jaw-dropping beautiful that would pull anybody out of traveller apathy, and it so happens that it matches all three points above, at least it did for me.
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The vastness of the surrounding nature left me absolutely speechless; life in a yurt with the nomads was a memorable experience; and this is definitely a place like I have never seen before, despite a year and a half of wanderings in the whole of Asia.
Kyrgyzstan keeps marvelling, and my thirst for marvel is far from being satisfied.
That’s 500 words, let’s go!
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