What better way to start your journey than to get hold of a well-written itinerary that takes you back in time and allows you to imagine all possible routes. When we travel, we long for adventurous expeditions and wonderful trails and the best thing that can happen at that time is a story. We write stories when we go through those wonderful life experiences that teach us something and we want others to learn from what happened to us. Below are some writings that became memorable tales. These are the best ways to kill time while wandering around.
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
It is about a convicted bank robber of Australian origin who escapes from prison and flees to India. This story is inspired by the real events that changed life. Roberts is charged with armed robbery, but eventually escapes from jail. Changing his name, he arrives in Bombay with a false passport with Prabaker as a guide in tow. They both embark on the journey of a lifetime when they are robbed, forced to live in slums, protect themselves from a fire attack, learn Marathi, act in movies, and enter the illegal trade only to hate it all in the end. Explore the interior of India not for spiritual purposes but with an excitement like never before.
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The memoirs revolve around the journey undertaken by an author who goes through a crisis after divorce. She starts with Italy where she spends her time enjoying food and then prays for peace in India until she finds love in Indonesia. She travels to close the unfinished business of life. Light to read, the book is a life-changing event and signifies that traveling helps you grow in person when an alien culture and food affects you. It portrays the power of traveling in lives when you are in misery.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
This fantasy adventure novel is based on Pi Patel, an Indian boy who encounters spirituality and practicality from a young age. Survive a shipwreck after being trapped in the Pacific with a companion tiger in a lifeboat for 227 days. The epic reinforces truth as relative while shedding light on the life cycle of Pi in three parts. The first part describes his childhood, the next one uncovers his survival instincts and gives way to a third in which he rises above miseries to become practical and achieve spirituality. It teaches you a lesson through the best ending which says that life advances in interdependence and thrives in faith.
The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara
It traces the early days of the revolutionary Marxist Che Guevara, who travels to South America with his biochemist friend during his time as a medical student. The odyssey marks his transformation after witnessing social ills. It is a story about the coming of age of a nomadic character whose world is turned upside down by social injustices that lead him down the path of self-discovery. Show what vagrants can do if you’ve been bitten by the travel worm.
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