About My Travel Journals
In current travel writing, I find some positive trends. First, I feel the current travel writing are becoming more useful and aim to help travelers to save money. A great deal of information proves that travel is no
longer a luxury activity. Travel becomes popular among ordinary people. There
are many ways to save money and make the travel affordable. For example, in the
article “8 Easy Ways to Save Money as you Travel in Europe,” the author, Jane, only
spends around €7000 including all flights, accommodation, food, and tourist
activities to travel around Europe. There are many tips provided by the author for saving money in
order to help travellers accomplish their dreams. Just like Jane, I often stay at hostel when I travel. From my observation, many people can get free accommodation from helping out at the busy traveling time. However, a large number of people are still afraid of
living hostel, since they think it is dangerous and dirty. From my own experience, I never meet dangerous
situation and most of the hostels are clean. I enjoy the time living in hostels and make a lot of
friends there. I also have a great opportunity to work in a hostel. This experience makes me believe hostel is a good choice for travelers to meet friends and save money.
Secondly, ecotourism is becoming more and more popular. It is a good trend for people to change their travel style, appreciate nature, and acts sustainably. In Jane's article, she also addresses that experiencing the outdoor activities can save
money. Nature is free and always amazes us. I want to write my travel journals with many details about nature. I feel what I am good at is to write details, which people
often ignore.
Thirdly, the authors of travel journal provide photos or videos to record the
trip, rather than simply words. Many of the photos have good quality and they
will capture people’s attention directly. I love pictures, therefore I may post some good ones in order to make my blog look beautiful.
There are still a lot of trends and great ideas coming in recent travel writing. In this week's reading, I enjoy Watson's story “Where the Roads Diverged.” It is not only a piece of beautiful nature writing, but a story that touches me deeply. I feel travelers should first love the place they write, find it unique. That will makes their travel writings stand out from others and meaningful to readers.
Other thoughts:
There are some very famous places that people love
to write. They are all amazing places. However, I am getting tired of seeing
them over and over again. I wish to see more about the places that I have never
heard of.
In the past, I don’t think of my hometown. However,
when I am studying abroad, I started to miss it badly. No doubt, there are lots of tourist
attractions in Beijing. Tourism is not a new topic but a continue growing
industry in China. Beijing, as a capital city, can be seen as a must-go destination when traveling China. Beijing has also suffered serious
environmental problems In my blog, I want to introduce some new places in
Beijing, not only the famous Great Wall or Forbidden City, but also the places
that only residents know.
I've discovered similar issues in considering new places to go to; the "top places" are places that I've either already been to, or that seem to be more touristy than I'd care for (just in terms of personal preference). There's nothing wrong with going to a popular place, but there does seem to be a lack of creativity. Maybe that's why ecotourism is becoming so popular; at least for the time being, it's not an overwhelmingly popular sort of vacation. You've mentioned before that nature is appealing to you, and it sounds like ecotourism would be something you might enjoy. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's been a long time since I've stayed in a hostel - I think the most recent experience was within the past 10 years - but I can see their appeal, especially if you're traveling by yourself. The most recent one in which I stayed, in Chicago, was pretty nice (although I didn't spend much time there), and I even hung out with another traveler at one point, going out to dinner. I wasn't married at the time and it was nice to have someone to go exploring with.
What sort of places would you introduce to travelers who would go to Beijing?
Yinong,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on appreciating Nature. I think China has some stunning mountains, for example the mountains in Zhejiang, which inspired the movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee, and the Huang Shan mountains that inspired Avatar.
I enjoyed exploring the streets near the Forbidden City, and standing in Tiananmen Square, thinking back to my readings in history, wondering how many million footprints were under mine.
I love traveling in cities in Asia I guess. It's true though, the pollution in Beijing is pretty bad, and drifts far from itself, influencing weather patterns around the world.
Hostels are a great place to meet people and get oriented sometimes. And they are cheap. Sometimes it's a good place to hear interesting travel stories.
Good to read your post.
Rhea