About Travel Fatigue And Its Signs

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Travelling around the world may sound exciting because it allows you to experience many new things you may not get from other activities. However, travelling frequently can lead to travel fatigue. It is a condition where you feel lack of motivation to enjoy the trip. You no longer feel excited to visit iconic or famous landmarks, or that you want to stay in your hotel room all day. It is common to experience travel fatigue from time to time, especially if you have been travelling for long period. 

Find out the signs of travel fatigue

Some of seasoned travelers have experienced travel fatigue in which they no longer enjoy the trip. While in a group tour, they tend to do what others do out of obligation. It is pretty sad to travel with no motivation behind because then you won’t fully enjoy the moments. Here are several signs of travel fatigue you can recognize:

You just don’t care

The first sign is lack of care and motivation about the top sites everyone talk about or that you have been dreaming about. While your fellow travelers are excited to go inside the site, you don’t feel like doing it and instead looking for a cafe nearby where you can chill. 

Skip the moment and opportunity

Another sign of travel fatigue is when you don’t feel anything to skip an opportunity. For example, you have an opportunity to visit beautiful temple in Bali, but you go to a mini market instead to buy some drinks. In this situation, travelers usually feel the need to use every opportunity to make the most of their trip even if they have to hold their hunger for a little while longer.

Had enough of local foods

It is also common for long-term travelers to feel like they had enough of local foods. It maybe because they are currently suffered from travel fatigue. When this happens to you, you feel some kind of sickness looking at all authentic local foods even though you know they taste good. Instead, you prefer going to hunt for some pizzas. 

Cut your trip short

When experiencing travel fatigue, you feel like you can’t wait for the trip to end. You want to go back home as soon as possible even if it means you skip the main tour or destination. It may end up with you buying a last minute ticket to escape the rest of your trip schedule. 

Don’t care about budget anymore

If usually you are very tight with your budget, you may throw it out the window when experience travel fatigue. You no longer care if your budget will last your trip or not. You feel like you can’t take backpacking anymore so you spend more on unnecessary things during the trip. 

It is common for travelers to experience travel fatigue and it is usually not permanent. You can take  a break from travelling for awhile and trying to build more sparks before planning for another adventure.