And here I am, years after my last publication on this worldwide famous blog, writing my words while waiting at Guangzhou airport to fly back to Europe. I wish it was already to Schiphol, however, I still have a short, but existent, layover in Paris, and this suck even more because I met this Dutch girl that is flying directly to Amsterdam 15min before me, and via China Southern as well. Guess this is the price of only having paid 393€ return for this holiday.
Fast-forwarding to know, as in, landing in 30min in Schiphol at last, I want to leave in words my experience in Southeast Asia. After all, that's precisely what I told Kay, this Canadian girl I met at the hostel in Nusa Penida, to justify not having Instagram: I'm more of a words guy, not an image one.
Bali was a great trip. I met really cool people, had good massages, did a very powerful Tibetan meditation session in Ubud that inspired me to do it daily now that I'll be back home, followed my main goal at its fullest and got my scuba diving Open Water course in Amed and, adding ot all of this, visited Guangzhou thanks to the amazing service provided by China Southern - on both legs, they offered me free accommodation and transfer to pretty decent hotels in the city following my 12h and 10h layovers, on both ways, as well as provided me with tickets for two museums yesterday, that I could not visit due to lack of time but kept with me as they have no expiration date.
Nevertheless, and while all of this is already enough for lifetime travel for many people, I couldn't help but feel quite solitary at some point. In Canggu, it was fine because not only I met this guy from Couchsurfing and his friends, but I also joined a CS meeting and got to know, among others, Hassan, one of the best persons I talked to during these days. Then, in Ubud, it was just one night and I still met a Couchsurfing girl and two others that joined her on the place I did the Tibetan meditation. However, in Amed, a place where you only go for either scuba-diving or in transit to the Gilli islands, and if you do the first one you go with friends, partners or family, it was lonely not having anyone to share it, even if on the third night I met cool people at the Pacha bar.
This made me think about stuff in general, and now it's already the 21st and I didn't write anything until now, which means I don't feel the same urge any more so I'm gonna wrap it up already. The bottom line is: go to Bali, it'll be fun and you will get to know really nice people, do amazing sport and nature activities and so on. One thing, though: don't think that by going there you will heal, find your soul, or all that bulshit that is often fantasized on Instagram. I mean, of course, it is a good place to be if you are in that phase of your life, but it is all a process, you are still the same person when you return. The point is the way that you decide to deal with it, and the more days that go by after my return, the more I realize that being there really made me think about stuff in a different way. I still have the same problems here, but maybe I see some of them different.
P.S.: in Amed I saw stars in the sky, which made me realize I don't see them anymore in Europe. And that's a promise I did myself, leaving in a place where I can see them.
This made me think about stuff in general, and now it's already the 21st and I didn't write anything until now, which means I don't feel the same urge any more so I'm gonna wrap it up already. The bottom line is: go to Bali, it'll be fun and you will get to know really nice people, do amazing sport and nature activities and so on. One thing, though: don't think that by going there you will heal, find your soul, or all that bulshit that is often fantasized on Instagram. I mean, of course, it is a good place to be if you are in that phase of your life, but it is all a process, you are still the same person when you return. The point is the way that you decide to deal with it, and the more days that go by after my return, the more I realize that being there really made me think about stuff in a different way. I still have the same problems here, but maybe I see some of them different.
P.S.: in Amed I saw stars in the sky, which made me realize I don't see them anymore in Europe. And that's a promise I did myself, leaving in a place where I can see them.
