How many people are best to travel in?

Traveling alone is the greatest freedom, independence and greatest travel flexibility. However, a lot of people can look at you as a weirdo or antisocial, especially if you look lightly used after a few months. ** Advantages: ** – You are not limited by the mood, condition and abilities of your travel partners as with other travel options – You make and change the program exactly as you want, as it currently suits you. ** Disadvantages: ** – Significantly higher travel costs for accommodation. A single room usually costs practically the same as a double room. Lone travelers are so often forced to take shared rooms in hostels where you don't get a good night's sleep so that accommodation is not so expensive. – Higher taxi costs. – In countries where public transport is handled by minibuses, which set off when full, waiting significantly longer for departure than when you arrive, for example, four. – In some countries, guides are required for various hikes and treks. If you do not manage to join a foreign group here, then such a tour may be unavailable to you for financial reasons. – If you plan longer treks, you will find that you will have to carry a much larger load than if you partially share it with your fellow travelers – food, tent. – There is no sharing of experiences from beautiful places. In the pub, you will soon get tired of telling your personal experiences – what a difference compared to a group that remembers the sorrows and pleasures of traveling together. ** Opportunities ** – If you are communicative you have far more opportunities to meet interesting people or practice a foreign language. – Make long or something curious expeditions that are difficult to find a fellow passenger.> – You will consolidate – you usually have to rely only on yourself. You will know your limits and possibilities. ** Risks ** – Wandering alone in remote mountains is in itself very risky. Even a minor accident can endanger your life. – Even evening walks around cities or night crossings are not as safe as in a larger group of people. – However, most of the short-term meetings or „friendships“ that you make on your own are relatively flat, and you can't rely on people you barely know in tense situations. The person you met yesterday on the loggia will interrupt your dream, or your dream trek or mountain ascent is quite discrete ** The ideal option to travel alone: ** – for loners, or for those who want to „go“ exactly according to their plan or on the contrary, for strongly extroverted individuals looking for short-term companions at the place of each night for a while or a few days before moving on again. – for classic travel itineraries, where you don't have to venture too far into the wilderness

Traveling in pairs is probably the greatest travel classic. ** Advantages: ** – You are still very flexible – In two you can still easily agree on the plan of your own journey, if you do not have diametrically different interests. – Accommodation for two is always easy to find – A taxi will cost you half as much as you travel alone ** Disadvantages: ** – If you travel in regions where you can move only by shared jeep (such as the Bolivian Altiplan) you will get an individual trip in two still too dear. ** Opportunities: ** – If you are traveling as a couple you may get to know each other, especially on long journeys, even in other situations, often more stressful than at home. It's a double-edged sword, of course. The relationship tightens or ends, but the average will definitely not stay. ** Risks: ** – With difficult and long frictions in deserted regions, the number two is still very risky. ** Ideal option: ** for couples, good friends.

** Advantages: ** – Further reduction of costs for taxis or treks with a mandatory guide. – At three, it often becomes advantageous to pay for individual guided tours at trips with local travel agencies. – Three is already a good number even for more demanding expeditions. In case of injury, one can stay with the victim and the other goes for help ** Disadvantages: ** – For three, the hotel may not always offer a room. – When in this trio the two know significantly more than the third. This can then become the odd number, which is always outvoted. – You are starting to be less flexible ** Ideal: ** for good friends who have about the same relationship with each other

Four is the last real number for relatively viable independent travel. ** Advantages: ** – You can still fit in one ordinary car. The costs are divided into 4, so even longer taxi journeys are relatively cheap – In countries where local connections run only if the seats are full, or empty spaces are paid for if you want to go earlier, you can drastically reduce waiting time in this number ** Disadvantages: * * – Usually you will need two rooms. – In this number it may not always be easy to agree on the continuation of the next trip ** Risks: ** – If you do not agree on a detailed itinerary before the trip, there may be disagreements on the way to the next route. that the procedure is delayed by the indisposition of a participant. ** Ideal variant: ** for students saving every crown, two pairs, a good group. Longer and more challenging treks / mountain climbs

If you go five or higher, you will look almost like a small travel agency. ** Conditions for a viable course: ** – In this large number, one hundred percent should already have the position of „leader“ with the right word. – Accommodation and transport should ideally be arranged in advance, because you just don't have to go anywhere. ** Ideal variant: ** for steaming groups, stays by the sea