My Best Travelling Partners

             There are thousand ways of traveling and types of travelers in this universe. Let’s say the backpackers, flashpackers, traveling for business, and others. Yet, I’m sure that each of us has traveled to (at least) one place with one person, even if it was just going to somewhere we’d known for ages, like nanny’s house. Time we spent with these people when we go travel whether it was just couple of hours to couple of years should reveal some new facts. Facts about how well we know our traveling partners and how much we don’t know them. Prepare to be shocked by it!

“When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee. – Helen Hayes”

Indeed! You will never know what you’re up to when it comes to travel with your partners. I myself had traveled to some places, both solo and with some friends. Surprisingly, some of these occasions changed my perspective on how we cope with people’s ego. Among my past traveling experiences, here are the names I would say as my best traveling partners and why I bother put their name in this post.

1.    Hardantika (Tika)

I first met this tall skinny girl at Czech while doing my professional exchange in Prague. We didn’t know each other at all until the time we shared apartment with 3 others foreign students for approximately a month. Since we were both Europe first timers, we planned some trips to cities like Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna, Brussels, and Dresden and had my best times!

 Why I put her lovely name on my top of the list is because she is just awesome! I adore her good planning skill. She’s just the right person to discuss and plan some exciting trips. She also has unbelievably massive storage of energy all day long and huge curiosity about new places. One day, when we went to Bangkok, we walked and walked to almost all the tourist attractions from dawn to midnight and ended up smirking at our exhausted legs. Sometimes when problems arose, she didn’t freak out but came up with A to Z solutions.

How about shopping? Oh, this girl really knows what she need. From cheap-night-market in front of MBK Bangkok to the almighty Louis Vuitton main store in Paris, she just somehow know how to spend her money while stay on budget. She doesn’t bother at all to scrape for unique stuffs to cheap market though she has more money.

Flying in Dresden. Photo taken by Ayip.

2.    Ayip

His real name is Ahmad Arif and he’s Tika’s boyfriend. Same as Tika, we first met at Prague as exchange students. Unlike Tika, there ain’t much things I can tell about him (sorry yip, haha). Generally, he’s a go with the flow person. Where the flow means is Tika’s and my plans. But, things for sure, he is a great photographer you can travel with. He’s able to take precious moments through his shots. This lazy skinny guy also has good sense of humour and most of his jokes was on me and my single times. Thank God I am taken now, yip! LOL. More good things about him I wanna say are he’s a responsible and reliable person. He really took care of us (girls) and didn’t complain in many hard times and threw some annoying jokes instead, as usual. Sometimes he and Tika made me jealous and made ‘traveling with my boyfriend’ into my bucket wish list.

See? This is why sometimes they made me jealous. Photo taken by me.

3. Fifi

My closest friend in college I first met in class we are together in. She’s a group of people pleasers and she does it with such ease because it's just part of her personality. She’s so easy going and able to be kind to all people. Just like me, she doesn’t mind to walk a lot, catch a public bus, being sun burnt and try new crazy things. When you want to buy some souvenirs in traditional markets, she’s the right accompanies. Her bargain skill is just so good and she would get the lowest price for you. There are always times when things don’t go as we want to. Fifi is the type of the person who laugh and make the fun of it instead of get stressed or annoyed.

Call us Alay, but we did have fun!

I think it’s a wrap everyone! I haven’t done many trips yet but I’m dying to do more. So that I can add up other names in my list next time. Too many places you ought to see but make sure you see it with your loved ones. See yaa!