Best ways to be a tourist in your hometown

Have you ever come across an acquaintance from another town who has given you interesting titbits or facts about your hometown? Maybe something to do with its culture or its food or the best spots in the city, an outsider with an inkling towards exploring always knows more. You might think you know a lot about your hometown, but perhaps there are a lot of things that you still need to learn. So, how do you approach the idea of hometown travel? How can you excite yourself about a trip to your hometown? Considering how your mind is already conditioned to believing that you know everything about the place, what would enable you to invoke a sense of interest and intrigue towards visiting your hometown? Well, here are five ways in which you can be a tourist in your hometown.

Top tips on how to explore your hometown

Chart out a travel itinerary

Before visiting your hometown or planning to explore your hometown, you can start by listing out a proper itinerary. There are many places to visit in your hometown that you might not remember properly. Hence, it would be best to chart out a list. Treat your trip to a hometown as a proper trip to any new destination. With any other destination, you would always make a list of essential itinerary that would help you plan your days accordingly.

Further, it would also help you plan your stay properly without any hassle. You can pick up some brochures from a tourist office to help you get a better idea of the places that you may have visited and would want to revisit. Carrying a brochure along with a camera would certainly give you the thrill of being a tourist in your hometown.

Try to add more historical places to visit in your bucket list

How much of your hometown's history do you know? Every time you visit your hometown, do you learn anything new aside from what's happening with the people living in your vicinity? This time when you do visit your hometown as a traveller, try to do some research on your hometown and try to check out those historical places with great cultural relevance. Sure, you might have already visited these places when you were young or with family. But did you pay attention to the details of its history?

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You can transform this trip to a hometown as more of a historical exploration where you learn more about the relevance of the monuments and important buildings of your hometown. Not only would it be educational, but it would also be very beneficial to you. This would further enhance your knowledge about your city and give you a new perspective on why your hometown is such a big deal.

View the city from a different perspectivea

Different angles and way of thinking often change the perspective one has towards anything. With the same ideology, how about looking at your hometown with a different eye? The only way you can enjoy the best things about your hometown is when you look at it from a tourist point of view and not a local point of view. You might need to train your mind a little to ace this but as and when you do realise that there are some hidden gems in your hometown that have been well-kept and away from you, it might intrigue your interest.

Tourists find beauty in anything and everything that the place they visited has to offer. As a tourist in your hometown, this is probably one practice you can take up. You would be amazed by some of the surprising facts you learn about your city in the process. Also literally visiting places which give you a great vantage point of the city- a heritage terrace restaurant, a hilltop spiritual place, a palace with a view or just a ferry ride to enjoy the coastline and skyline from?

Visit new restaurants that you've not checked out

When you are travelling to an unknown destination for experience, you do check out some of their fabulous restaurants as there is a reason behind their fame. Try incorporating the same idea here as you explore your hometown. There might be a handful or a plethora of restaurants, chaat corners, quaint little cafes or even stalls in the markets that have a reputation for tantalising the taste buds. Perhaps you could make a list of all the famous restaurants or cafes or stalls that you should try out.

You can also take some help from the locals who have been residing in your hometown for longer than you have. This would be a good practice as much of the travel experiences that we seek to have a lot to do with what kind of food they make and how tasty it is.

Actively participate in the local events

The cultural societies of every hometown always have some new and fascinating event to engage the citizens. You might have even heard of some of them every time they've been announced. However, for some reason, you might not have been able to indulge in the festival like a tourist. As part of travelling plans in your hometown, this is one of the activities that you can undertake. As we mentioned earlier, how you should view your hometown in a new light, this is probably one of the activities that you can undertake.

Be a part of the festivities of your hometown, and you would be surprised by the magnitude of fun that you'll have! Be it a football tournament or a film festival or even a local group's shot at performing a Raslila during Dussehra, these indulgences would enable you to see the beauty of your hometown that you may have missed out. It would also help you feel closer to your community. Perhaps you can even participate in some of the activities that have been planned out.

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