If there is no travel companion, this is not at all a reason to refuse the trip. On the contrary, traveling alone will do much more than you think.
Rest in company is a great thing. But the only problem is that for us and our friends and relatives, the schedules do not always coincide. And if you don't want to spend your vacation waiting for a travel companion, go alone.
Close people (just those who, in theory, should have gone with you) will begin to dissuade you from traveling on your own, but do not listen to anyone. You don't have to put off all good experiences until some of your friends have some free time. Better plan your dream trip: make a route, study the experience of other travelers, and go ahead, to new discoveries!
1. Freedom
The most obvious advantage is the ability to not tie your decisions to the wishes of other people. You can visit places that will be of interest to you, you can dine in restaurants that you have chosen yourself, or you can stay at the hotel at all, if you wish. Of course, you will have to organize the whole trip yourself, but is this a problem?
2. Pride
This journey will give you the opportunity to know yourself, to understand how you adapt to new circumstances and solve spontaneous problems. Improved self-esteem is guaranteed! Getting lost in an unfamiliar city for the first time and finding your way to the hotel by trying to communicate with locals in broken Portuguese is a lot of new experiences. And not everyone has experience in solving such problems.
3. Meeting with yourself
You will have the opportunity to better understand yourself. Taste different cuisines, bike around town, scuba dive, visit a local temple - follow your own desires. You may be hearing them for the first time. Get to know yourself better: everything that you love will stay with you, and everything superficial and unnecessary will never bother you again.
4. Meeting the world
Your travel environment, when you are not alone, remains unchanged. In a solitary journey, there are no more barriers between you and the world around you, and you willy-nilly have to immerse yourself in a completely unusual environment. So solo travel is the only surefire way to feel the "spirit of the place". By the way, you can also train a foreign language in parallel.
5. Meeting others
Paradox: traveling alone will make you forget about loneliness at its worst. You will discover that this world is full of people, whom you would hardly have been able to get close to under other circumstances. Be open and you will see the world in all its glory.
