To tell the whole story I try to take both wide angle and close up shots of sites when I travel. You may need both to fully appreciate the beauty of a garden, or forest, of flowers.
Using the macro setting helps you fool the camera's automatic focus allowing you to take pictures with less "depth of field" so that your main subject is in sharp focus, but the background is somewhat blurred. Depth of field, is one of those terms I first heard about 45 years ago when I was supposed to be learning about shutter speed, f-stops, and apertures during my one art course in college. Unable to draw, paint, sculpt, sing or act, and having recently inherited a 35 mm camera, I decided taking pictures was something even a person of such limited artistic ability could do. Then, of course, nothing was automatic. The focus was manual, the settings were determined by your light meter - if you could figure out how to use it, and every picture had to count because the cost of film was not in a college budget. Developing pictures in the darkroom was even more challenging.
Most of my macro pictures are, fittingly enough, pictures of flowers. You could take a picture of a rose bush to remind you of your visit to an amazing garden on your trip, but one perfect rose with drops of morning dew clearly in focus is much more dramatic.
The limited depth of field helped to blur out the background of the rose. The amount of available light will have a great affect on your depth of field. If you are taking pictures outside in bright sunlight it will be more difficult to get the effect of a blurred background because the camera compensates with a smaller lens opening which, in turn, increases the focal length and depth of field. Take pictures in the early morning, late afternoon or on a cloudy day.
More Macro pictures below:
