Travel Blogging : New Possibity of Going New Destinations

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Thanks Travel Bloggers and YouTubers ! You Are Showing Us The World 

Let me confess something , I simply hate conducted tours. You may argue that in a group you are absolutely safe while traveling in a foreign land , cheap as everything is booked in bulk by the operator, you can visit many places in a short span of time. But to me , it looks like you are in a school picnic where you can see what your teacher wanted you to show, you can eat only what is planned. On my only maiden trip to Malaysia , arranged by tour operator , I had a feel that I am on a trip to click pictures on exotic backdrop for your friends and relatives or sharing on social media to tell that you have also toured foreign destinations. 

Later, I decided to travel the way I want, stay as long as I wish , explore the local cuisines , see local museums, libraries, flea markets, enjoying street food, interacting with local artists, singers, attending concerts, watching plays and more than anything live  the place like a local. 

This way, I traveled to Hongkong, Macau, Thailand, Singapore, Nepal, Indonesia, Shrilanka , Alaska , Scotland and host of many other foreign locations. When you plan a trip to only one place for a week or so you will live the place, explore. 

You may have a question, whether walking alone in a unknown land do I feel little scared . The answer is both yes and no. By and large people in most of the tourist destinations, locals respect the foreigners as they provide extra money to economy. Many countries largely depend foreigner to grease their economy. 

From last seven months, like most of the Indians, I am also confined to four walls of my building and the nomad in me is upset.

Suddenly, I explored the gem, going places without moving even a milimeter away from home. Thanks to YouTube Travel Bloggers who travel world in a very different way and explore the places and interact with people the way one should do. They are hitchhikers, backpackers loaded with smartphones, GoPro reaching out to the destinations which were/and still out of the ambit of popular tourist map. 

How these travel bloggers manage to travel ? Initially they travel to the destinations whose currency is cheaper than their own currency so that they should not feel load of traveling on pocket. Load their videos on YouTube , if contents are interesting they cross the magic number wherefrom advertisers jump on their wand wagon thus getting some money. Syifa Adriana is an Indonesian YouTube Blogger, quite popular, her video blogs on China, Nepal and South Asian countries are very popular due to her unique way of narrating her journey, eating local food , meeting and interacting local people, talking about how to travel and stay. She normally stay at one place for a month or so do some odd jobs to support of trip, for example while she was in China , she took English teaching assignment to support her expenses. Yesterday I watched few videos of Nomadic Indian Deepanshu , who traveled from Gobi dessert of Mongolia to Interior parts of Russia, China and Vietnam. He has more than 7 lac (0.7 million ) subscribers, so getting modest earning also. I do not say that these videos are perfect, much better could be done. But it is opening up a new vista, giving window to the places normally beyond conventional tourist destinations so cheaper and much to learn and enjoy. 

I also wish to take a new avatar after this pandemic, becoming a Travel Video Blogger ! 





















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