Some people think that visiting foreign countries is better way to learn about foreign countries. However, in my opinion, it is one of the best ways that experiencing learning other countries by newspaper and magazines. This is because we have limitations to visit overseas land. And also, we could learn informations about other countries by using books.
To begin with, there are many limitations to visit actually. Most people have not enough money to go where they want. Even if they have enough money to travel, they have no time to enjoy their vacation because people are very busy to achieve their goal in university, business, etc. And many companies give people only one week as the vacation. It is so little that people can’t go to trip where they want. I will give an example of myself. When I was a highschool student, I had only one week to summer vacation. You could think it’s enough time to travel, but I had so much vacation assignment to do, and I even had to go school to take additional lessons. So I couldn’t go anywhere even though I have money to go trip.
On the top of that, useful books can help us to know other countries. Traveling has a lot of purpose. One of them is learning about other culture or experience of the new environment. But we can get these experiences indirectly in the books. The books are written by experts. we can have correct information about overseas and also we can get information that we want to know about. For instance, I will talk about me and my friend to explain my point. In the case of my friend, she likes to read books about where she interested in than traveling. Unlike my friend, I am more likely to traveling than reading books. We became both interested in the country, Laos. When it is winter time, I went to Laos to experience their culture. I traveled there only 3 days so I can’t travel all attraction that I want to go, and I couldn’t feel enough of Laos. However, my friend indirectly visited Laos by books and travel magazines, and she could learn entirely about Laos. So I learned about Laos to my friend rather than my visiting.
To sum up, actual visiting have many disadvantages of taking much time and money. Moreover, there are enough information about aboard in books and magazines. In this regard, I firmly believe that reading materials is one of the best methods of learning aboard land.