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5 amazing facts about travelling you should know

Anybody who has traveled outside his or her comfort zone can attest to the excitement that comes from being in a new environment. As research has shown, travel is not only exciting; it also offers amazing health benefits and has some interest facts about it.

1. Relieves Stress and Boosts Mental Health

Travelling can lower levels of depression and boost psychological functioning. Pulling yourself out of your daily routines and into new surroundings resets both your mind and bod.

2. Promotes Heart Health

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This is how travelling promotes good heart health; it is a physical activity which involves walking, climbing and a whole lot. This eventually lowers blood pressure and the risk of heart disease and stroke.

3.Expands your perspective

Travelling makes you more open minded. You realize that there’s no one way to live life. Meeting people from other places will show you that your world view isn’t the same as everyone else’s.

4. Appreciating your life

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Exploring another place will give you a fresh appreciation for your hometown, country and “real life

When you’re mired in your daily life, it’s easy to lose sight of what you posses. Your eyes aren’t open to what’s really special about your home.

5. You make new acquaintances

You make new acquaintances and expand your contacts. It’s much easier to make new friends on the road than it is at home, where people are less inclined to chat to strangers on a bus or strike up conversation in a bar.

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