Gain a richer travel experience with making friends on your trip

Have you ever been on trips and noticed people which made you wonder if you would be able to make friends with them? Has it ever happened to you that you met someone during one of your wanderlust expeditions and made friends for life? Movies have often given us the hope of finding these things during our trips. But how many times has it actually happened? How many times have you been able to travel and meet new friends? Or how many times have you been able to add new contact details to your phone and called them your travel friends? Well, making new friends during travelling is not all that easy for many. But here are some ways in which things can be easier for you.

Tips for meeting new friends during travelling for solo trips

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Be amiable

One of the travel benefits of solo trips is how you can meet new people and make new friends. But how do you approach them? How do you meet new friends during travelling? To add some new names to your travel diary, perhaps the best way to approach making friends would be to be amiable. Keep your phone aside and focus on your body language. With a big smile on your face, you can easily show efforts that you would like to meet new people and make friends. Eye contact is key and definitely something that would get you some new friends on your solo trip.

Be open to spontaneity

If you are looking at meeting new people and making new friends, it is important that you be open to the idea of making changes to your travel plans. Meeting new friends during travelling, especially in groups, means that its not just one person's plan but requires everyone to be onboard. So it would be great if you would be gung-ho about the plan with everybody in it. Either you could alter your plans or you could ask your new friend to join you in your plan As long as you are flexible to changing your plans, you would be able to engage in and be part of some diverse social groups.

Join travel groups

Social media pages are the best place to join travel groups and get along with like-minded travel souls, such as yourself! An increasing number of women opting for solo trips have enabled the genesis of many such online groups and pages. If you are travelling with friends, you can further extend your social circle by adding more folks to your travel tribe. One of the major benefits of travel communities is how you can easily find people who would also like to exchange ideas, culture, travel stories and meet new friends.

Learn the basic language for communication

An understanding of the local language for communication would take you a long way during your travel expedition. You don't have to learn the entire language but a little bit of basics would be nice. In fact, this could be your chance at connecting with and making new travel friends while you all survive in a foreign city. There are language apps available on Apple Store and Play Store from where you can learn some of the simple words.

Explore travel apps

To meet new friends during travelling, you can also get a head start by downloading some of the important travel apps to give you a tour guide and a pal! In order to enhance your solo travel experience and meet new friends while travelling, you can download some apps such as Couchsurfing, Showaround, SoloTraveller and more to connect with locals. It is a bit of a gamble as you would be indulging with complete strangers. Ensure to do your research well in advance before you book one of these services where a local from a different city takes care of your touring and even offers accommodation.

Take up volunteering or work exchange

Do you like animals? Would you like to do something from them? You can make things happen by signing up for a volunteer programme or a work exchange setting. There are many such opportunities available, especially in Southeast Asian and African countries. Through such volunteer organisations, you can make friends with people who have also arrived to make the world a better place. Depending on the social cause that is close to you and that you can relate you, accordingly, you can choose. It would be a good indulgence and you would definitely have a good time meeting new friends during travelling.

Visit hip local spaces

A great way to meet new folks and like minded travel buddies is to hit the local places that are known to be hip with tourists. For an enriched experience, the ideal way to kick off your solo trip would be to visit some hip places where travellers like you would be chilling. This would help you get acquainted with some of them. For all you know, you might have found fun people to hang out with for the rest of your trip!

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