Travelling

o be honest, when somebody asks me for one location I fancy taking a trip to, I always hesitate before I manage to answer. It’s like if all the images got together in my head at the same time, blocking my thoughts. I cannot simply say the first thing that comes to my mind, because my thoughts won’t emerge in a particular sequence. So forget about trying to find out which place I like the most by the order I think about them. There are a lot of countries I want to go, a great number of places I’d like to visit, and so many cultures I’d love to get to know that I wonder if my dreams will ever come true. I won’t settle by traveling abroad just once, because I can’t pick only one destination. Oh! I’ll give anything for travelling everywhere.

But if I must make a choice about one country to travel and cross from top to bottom, I would definitely select my native home. The reason I’m choosing Chile is that despite I’ve lived all my life in its capital Santiago, I’ve visited a few towns in the north and been in some southern cities and villages; I haven’t got to know a great part of it.

My country is beautiful, diverse, huge and unique. So: if I’m going to travel across a country, why not my Chile? Besides, I could collect a great deal of sociological information from the national society. Yes, that’s me: always thinking of sociological stuff. In fact, I’ve even considered going to the religious festival of La Tirana, in the dry and deserted north, at the middle of the year, with a group of classmates and friends. The music, dancing, devotion and atmosphere during the festivity are a one of a kind experience I don’t want to miss. I hope enjoying and being part of this festival in the next two years, if possible.

Nevertheless, I will constantly look forward to traveling around the world, visiting the six continents, and sailing every single sea.

If I could go somewhere else...

If I could choose to go somewhere, anywhere, I would take my time to decide. If it were possible, I'd like to visit every single continent and share with as many cultures as I could.

Although I’d love to travel across the whole extension of what once was the Roman Empire (form Antonine and Hadrian’s Wall to the Caspian Sea, from the Rhine and Danube to Egypt and North Africa) for historical reasons. I even remember wishing with all my hart going to Europe, especially to the romantic France and the gothic Germany. I love its architectural, musical and artistic tradition and evolution. In fact, I once wanted to study History of (Western) Arts; and I haven’t ruled out the possibility of studding Sociology of the Arts (including eastern arts).

But I must confess, since I can remember, I’ve been interested particularly on African tribes. It might be all the Discovery Channel’s programs I used to watch when I was a kid, and the anthropological part in me, telling me to take a leap of fate and go for adventures. No wonder why I’m studding Sociology, a close field of investigation to Social Anthropology. Still, this is one of the things I want to do before dying:

"To experience one of the most ancient cultures, to reconnect with our human roots."