When we travel around the world, we always feel inferior to the people from western Europe, Americans or the Japanese. The reason is money. They earn much more and can afford more, we earn very little in comparison to them. Unfortunately, we can’t afford many things and we have to plan in advance or think twice before we spend some cash.

In our case, going for a trip or visiting a new country is connected with saving money for a long time.

Money does not give health or real happiness but it helps and open diffetent doors.

A good example is our whale shark adventure. We paid $280 in total to see those incredible animals, however, the people who went with us: Germans, the French girls and a Dutch young man were caught into a marketing trap, spent much more cash and got first class treatment and service.

Numer one on our boat belonged to the French girls who decided to rent wetsuits for $15. Then there were the Germans who bought four long-sleeved T-shirts (which amounted to $100) and the Dutch. We did not spend a penny so we got number five, which meant the last in the water or the invisible ones.

Ocean Tour guides Alex and Carla forgot about us (I mean our turn in water) twice. I had to remind them that we also want to see and dive with a whale shark. Had we spent some cash at the beginning of a trip it would have been different.