Solo traveling is surely going to enhance your organizing skills and increase self- awareness and patience level. The morning when I reached Pushkar it was colored everywhere as everyone was celebrating the Holi festival which made it challenging for me to get accommodation. The alleys had colorful water flowing in the drains and the people were wrapped in torn clothes with their faces smeared with dark colors. The scene where I could see people rambling and walking in groups with loud trance music being played in the background, I felt like an alien on that planet who was about to get shot by someone soon. At the very moment, I bought colored powder packets from the only shop open in the alley and requested the owner to let me change my shirt and keep my bag for some time. The shopkeeper agreed and thereafter I took out my essentials, put on a ragged shirt, showered a colored powder packet on myself and roamed like a resident greeting, dancing and playing the wildest of Holi with strangers. I soon found out an Ashram where I went post a few hours feeling a sigh of relief. It becomes direly important for a solo traveler to know, utilize and protect his belongings which can be made possible by pre-research about the place and keeping the self-surrounding awareness level high. When it feels that the end is approaching one needs to believe that it’s just the beginning and should try calming oneself which shall help to find another direction.

The flip side of solo travel which I found was lack of ideas w.r.t covering of places, more expenditure in travel, lodging & other activities, less time to relax as I was self-dependent and lastly the comfort space which one has taken years to create with a friend can’ t be created within a short period with someone which sometimes resist our actions, words & creativity and therefore the strange yet familiar environment seldom feels sharp to us.