Some words of wisdom quoted from The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux.

Murphy’s Rules of Travel:

• Choose your country, use guidebooks to identify the areas most frequented by foreigners—and then go in the opposite direction.
• Mug up on history.
• To travel in ignorance of a region’s history leaves you unable to understand the “why” of anything or anyone.
• Don’t overplan.
• It is important to travel light. At least 75 percent of the equipment sold nowadays in camping shops—travel clothesline, roll-up camping mats, lightweight hair dryers—is superfluous.
• Cyberspace intercourse vitiates genuine escapism.
• Don’t be inhibited by the language barrier.
• Be cautious—but not timid.
• Invest in the best available maps.