Have you got a moment when you flashback through your traveling memories, you only remembered the good pictures you took, but no memorable stories to make you smile?
If you do, maybe you have to try traveling in a different way.
You travel just to visit places everyone else visits. You want to have pictures at famous places to show in your Instagram account. In the end, you forget to discover what the locals’ life is like.
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see” — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Traveling like locals are doing what locals do, going to places to make you feel the life in a city you’re in. It doesn’t mean to skip the famous places, but to see the destination in a different way.
Traveling like local is not only mean to support sustainable tourism but is also good for you. It makes you more aware of the differences around the world and to have stories to make you smile when you look back.
So, how to travel like locals in Indonesia?
The Indonesian archipelago is so diverse it has more than 600 ethnic groups and more than 300 different languages, meaning that each city has different things to…
