When you live in the world, you only see a small corner of it - your one perspective, your own little nook. But our world is so much bigger than that. Our world is infinite, hiding layer upon layer, all beneath your nose. It is only when you start to chip away at what you see that realize what you were missing. You realize what extraordinary and otherworldly things the ordinary and mundane have hidden. Your day-to-day schedules and normal habits and old traditions all fall away. The boxes you fit your experiences into shatter. 

These are the stories of my travels, of the things that I have found when I pulled away the obvious and dug a little deeper. It is not enough, you see, to simply visit other places. You cannot be a tourist in life. You must experience it. You must look closely and recognize what you’re seeing for what it is. You must listen and hear the history, the tales that places have to tell. 

Only then will you see the world as it is.