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Travel shows you monuments.
But people! The people show you the world.
Over the years, across continents, what has stayed with me isn’t architecture or itineraries.
It’s humanity.
🗾 Japan - Kindness that walks with you
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In Japan, we were lost. Google Maps had given up on us.
A policeman had just finished his duty. He was on his way home. We asked him for directions to the bus station.
He could have pointed. Instead, he turned around… and walked with us.
For twenty minutes. In the opposite direction of his home.
No rush. No irritation.
Japan taught me this:
True courtesy is quiet. It doesn’t announce itself.
🇪🇬Egypt - Generosity that feeds the soul
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In Cairo, one late evening during Ramadan, I was walking near my hotel. A local restaurant owner noticed I was a tourist. He called me in.
He served me food. Not commercial food. Food his mother had prepared for him to break his fast.
He refused payment. No drama. No show.
Egypt taught me this:
Hospitality isn’t about wealth. It’s about the heart.
🇰🇭Cambodia - Lessons in Survival
My guide Samat in Cambodia
In Cambodia, our guide Samat picked up an ant. And ate it.
I must have looked shocked.
He smiled and told me about the years under the Pol Pot regime — when people survived on ants, spiders, insects… anything they could find.
It wasn’t a story for shock. It was a lesson.
“You don’t judge what you’ve never needed,” he said.
Cambodia taught me this:
Comfort is a privilege. Survival is strength.
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🇫🇷 Tournan-en-brie - Sweetness without Expectation
Picture taken by me. Yes, this is the bakery
Near Paris, in the quiet town of Tournan-en-Brie, we stepped into a small bakery. We were clearly tourists.
We bought a few macarons and were looking at the different varieties. The girl behind the counter smiled, took a couple of different flavoured pastries, and handed them to us.
“Try. No charge. Free”
No pressure. No expectation.
Just generosity in its simplest form.
France taught me this:
Sometimes kindness tastes like warm bread.
🇨🇭Switzerland - Compassion beyond Rules
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In Switzerland, my husband got down from the train to take some pictures of the Alps and before he could get back in, the doors closed! The tickets were in my purse.
I panicked but gestured that I would wait for him at the next station.
Technically, he had no ticket when he boarded the next train.
The train collector listened. Trusted him. And allowed him to travel until the next stop where I was waiting.
He could have fined him. He didn’t.
Switzerland taught me this:
Systems can be efficient — and still compassionate.
What Travel Really Taught Me
Different languages.
Different histories.
Different scars.
But everywhere — the same possibility of kindness.
A policeman.
A hotel owner.
A guide.
A baker.
A train conductor.
None of them had to help.
They chose to.
And that choice has stayed with me longer than any monument ever will.
The world is not perfect.
But it is not hopeless either.
Sometimes, it just takes travel to notice.
— Yogi 🤍
PS: All the experiences I share in my newsletter are true (that I have experiences) and not imaginary or AI generated ☺️
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