Travel Accommodative Essay

Travel has been an essential part of existence for both the human and nun-human entities for number of reasons. Human travellers have earnestly felt the need of recording and narrating these different travel experiences. Attempts have been made to convert such experiences into written documents, and though such accounts are available now in abundance, the genre of travel writing has been considered as marginalized in the gamut of literary studies/academia. But at the same time, the genre of travel writing has always been a very accommodative in its themes, narrations and techniques, it is earning acceptance in the modern era as a form of literature. Travel narrators extend the same experience of delight and knowledge to their readers which they had enjoyed and made them relish variety of different cultures. There is an intersection of different cultures for a traveller at a different and foreign land. This vantage point generates dialogue between two

Accounts of travel satisfy a reader’s curiosity about foreign countries and ‘strange’ experiences; depending on the type of journey and the place involved, they may also fulfil a need for adventure. A traveller tries to capture lives on a different and foreign land and develop communication between two or more different cultures. Travel writing implies decoding an unknown, unfamiliar culture and recording it in terms of another known and familiar culture; it is an act of translating a culture, it provides a space in-between. Travel is a cultural comparison, an intercultural perception, a dynamic act of cultural translation and cultural construction, which is entangled in time and space. The resulting travel literature is, therefore, an interface of two cultures, one editing the other. In this process, the traveller’s own country may equally be the object of his or her