When travelling one gets more in touch with one's body. For most people, in every day's life, the body is something to be shown to the others (adorned with clothes, makeup, jewellery) and also the main vehicle for the brain. When travelling the body is what makes travelling possible. The body hurts of so much walking, gets bitten by mosquitoes and gets attacked by some nasty and exotic food.
The traveller, like the rest of the human beings has to eat, sleep and shit, but never in a total comfort zone. Eats strange food in strange restaurants served by strange people, sleeps in dormitories with strangers and shits in strange and most of the times dirty toilets.
But from all the parts of the body, the one that all the traveller is aware every day are the feet. The feet hurt almost all the time, get blisters and get swollen. They suddenly exist! How many times does one feels one's feet during every day's life?
When travelling one's body becomes more real.
One's life becomes more real?
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