Nowadays, an increasing number of tourists are choosing challenging destinations, like the Sahara Desert, for holidays. This trend benefits those who wants to capture their unique experience and pursue self-realization. However, by taking an extreme trip, travellers must face some downsides, such as experiencing discomfort during their travel and having to spend a substantial amount of money.
Travelling to destinations with difficult terrain brings some advantages for travellers as they can document their experience to inspire others and realize their dream travel. Travellers can obtain anti-mainstream footage to be generated into contents and post them on their social media platforms for various purposes, such as for inspiring others, for education, or even for commercial purpose. Aside from benefitting those who highly engaged in social media, travelling to extreme places also benefits those who aspires to fulfil their self-realization. For example, a person who aspires to climb Mount Everest will commit train his body for years to be able to thrive the terrain. By achieving his goal, he will eventually feel a certain contentment and might aspire himself to take lessons from the trip.
Despite of getting a set of advantages, people who travels to exotic places should face some consequences, such as preparing their physical condition and budget for the trip. The travellers should be healthy and strong enough to face extreme weather conditions during the trip. Besides, they also need to be prepared to spend for transportation and accommodation, which usually costs higher as the destinations are harder to reach. For instance, climbing to Mount Everest requires a person to stay at least a month in the Everest Camp before hiking to higher level so that the body can gradually adapt the low temperature and low saturation of oxygen in the area. If this trip is started from Indonesia, it will cost more than 50 million rupiahs per person, or equivalent to 2 units of standard motorbikes.
It can be conclude that visiting extreme travel destination can be beneficial for people who aspire to do so, however, it also requires a good preparation, physically and financially, to face the challenging conditions.