I am a 56-year old Indian Sikh man. I have a wife and two children. As my wife and I became empty nesters and got done with our children-related responsibilities around 5 years back, we started exploring travel to broaden our horizons and explore more of what the world has to offer. Over the past few years, we have travelled extensively to Australia, UK, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Turkey and Dubai apart from many domestic travels in India.
My wife & I are travellers and not tourists. We explore places in depth, we are always interested in exploring the real side of every new place we visit and we love meeting and befriending local people wherever we go.
Personally, after every single one of my trips, I reflect on my experiences and thoughts from my travels. I crave to speak about my experiences with other people, however in my age group and friend circle in my home town, I do not have many like-minded people who are interested in travel in the same way as I am. For me, Local Guides gives my desire of sharing and bonding over travel an outlet. I am able to share places with other travellers through my eyes. When other travellers read my reviews and add their own experiences to it, or add my suggested places to their travel itinerary, it gives me a sense of great joy and kinship.
I learn further through the travel experiences of other people and am also able to connect with youth and travellers of today’s world, telling them about my travel experiences through my lens. I can do this because of Local Guides seamlessly, while the same thing is next to impossible for me if I were to depend only on my immediate physical world and immediate personal network in my home town.
So Local Guides gives a person like me a platform to connect with, learn from and impact people across the globe. It enables sharing and a sense of kinship, and that’s why Local Guides is a huge and indispensable part of my life today.