Nowadays, travelling has become common to all sorts of people — tourists, students, politicians, businessmen and others. A tourist, for example, is interested in seeing places and observing the ways of other people in the world. Students go on educational tours with the intention of enriching their knowledge. Everyone who travels long distances, does so with some purpose.
Travelling has great educational value. First, seeing places with our own eyes leads to assimilation of knowledge. The scene directly witnessed and observed makes a deeper impression on our minds than what we read in a book. When we travel to other countries, we come across different cultures, different customs and habits and different manners. We learn not only about these but all about the modern advancements in those foreign lands.
Education, leads to a sympathetic understanding of problems. One face in life. Similarly, travelling among natural objects like mountains and hills, rivers and valleys, forests and beaches softens the human mind and leads to a sympathetic understanding of all living creatures.
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During our travels, we come across many kinds of people, speaking different languages and having a different set of beliefs, and we learn to move with such people. Travelling, therefore, reinforces a friendship between people of different regions of our country. We probably learn other languages, which is an advantage.
Travelling helps us see the historic monuments of our country. The Taj Mahal, the Qutab Minar, the Gol Gumbuz, the Sun Temple at Konark, the Ajanta and Ellora Caves, the Stupas at Saranath, the Triveni Sangam at Allahabad, Lord Balaji at Tirupati Hills and the temple city of Varanasi are only a few things which remind us of our historic past. A person who travels from the Kanyakumari at the southern tip of India to the foothills of the Himalayas becomes a true Indian. He is infused with the spirit of the past and the great thoughts and deeds of the earlier generations of people. This is worth more than all the knowledge books can impart us all our life.