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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The best way to travel is in a group led by a tour guide. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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The answer to the question is depend on people's preference of traveling style. If people want to visit famous place as much as possible in short term, tour traveling might be the best way. However, I do not expect to visit many famous place and take photos at each place as if we intended to make proof of visiting the place.

I think the best way to travel is travel with a few friends some of who know well about the place because we can go everywhere we want to go and in the trouble during traveling, the friend who is familiar to the place, must manage to deal with the situation.

Walking around the strange town with a few friends brings me new experience which refreshes my mind apart from my daily life. I will find interesting shops where novel things are sold, with which I notice some characteristics of the town. If I lost my way, I can get the excellent chance to talk with residences of the place. Thus, looking for the building that I want to go with map gives me good chance to experience very interesting thing.

Traveling privately gives my lots of exciting memories of the traveling, which defferent from others. The place where I would visit is more impressive for me, because I can go everywhere by myself. I might encounter several troubles, but later, they would be an interesting memories. I cannot go around efficiently. But going to lots of famous place is the first priority of traveling? In my experience, group traveling with hard schedule only left not a few pictures. I do not remember the each "famous place".

Traveling in a group force me to go to the same place with other strangers. I feel that I cannot relax with them. Even if group traveling can be a good opportunity to make friends with them, it refrain me from extending my traveling plan. When I like the place, I want to change my traveling plan and do long stay.