People travel for many different reasons, with many different interests, in many different ways. It is quite important in the planning, especially if you are travelling with a companion, to get some things established up front.
What (if anything) do you want to achieve by this trip? For most this is quite simply to satisfy curiosity, see things while you have the means and energy, take the opportunity to broaden your knowledge of people, places, cultures etc.
when you go out you get the oppurtunity to increase your knowledge you learn about that areas language, culture, traditions, dreeses, lifestyle.
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