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The Best Traveling Style

6 min readAug 6, 2023

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Author exploring the deserts of Northern Sudan. Photo by Amalina Davis

I have been travelling for over a decade.

In that past decade, I have covered almost 40 countries across 5 continents.

I mostly travel for leisure. It quenches the curiosity I have about the world and becomes an outlet for my adventurous soul.

Through those travels, I have experimented with different styles of travelling. From solo travelling to travelling with friends and family… There are indeed many different permutations when it comes to travelling styles.

I’ve had some great experiences and plenty of good experiences… Unfortunately, I’ve had some bad ones too, bordering on ugly.

Here I will try to list down each style’s pros and cons, before letting you know my personal favourite.

So hopefully you don’t have to learn the hard way what works or doesn’t work for you!

Family Travel

This is probably how most of us were introduced to travelling.

As a child, going on family vacations with mom, pop and siblings was probably the only travel mode we did for the first 15 years of our life.

Some continue to do so way into their adulthoods. Where I’m from (Malaysia), it's quite common to go on family travels as…

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Amalina Davis, MSc
Amalina Davis, MSc

Written by Amalina Davis, MSc

I'm a psychologist (MSc) , storyteller & global citizen. Corporate slave in a previous life. I write about humans, psychology, mental health and travel.

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