Changing career into a culinary blogger, or launching a beautiful Vietnam photo project …, bloggers are still optimistic about their activities during the badly affected tourism year.
TRAN VIET PHUONG (Travip)
In 2020, blogger Travip has 118 flight journeys , equivalent to a flight distance of nearly 100,000 km, approximately 2.7 rounds of the earth, and an aerial time of about 215 hours.
The above figure is the highlight in a year of almost no international flight by blogger Tran Viet Phuong (1981), nicknamed Travip. The year 2020 is also a milestone when he checks-in departure at all civil airports in Vietnam.
Tran Viet Phuong is one of the first travel bloggers, choosing aviation experience as the main direction for his blogger career. Because of that, his travel impressions often revolve around flights. The owner of the Love Bay channel will take advantage of the new domestic routes and aviation services in 2020.
When domestic routes resumed, blogger Travip “went back to the sky”, despite having an uncomfortable experience as before. The most tired journey of the year lasted 1 hour and 30 minutes from Tan Son Nhat airport (HCMC) to Chu Lai airport (Quang Nam). All passengers have to wear masks, gloves, hats with splash goggles, tight coats, and the tense atmosphere from the check-in door to the cabin because almost no one says anything to each other.
His only overseas trip in the past year was to celebrate Tet with his mother in the Maldives. The journey from Maldives to Vietnam is considered lucky by the male blogger. “When I was in transit at Changi Airport (Singapore) during the stressful period of Covid-19 in this country, I was relieved to have a mask available, which was difficult to buy at the airport. Before, I rarely used a mask.” while traveling, “Travip said.
Travip said that he is a travel content creator, so he has to constantly update new experience videos. During the first outbreak in Vietnam, his YouTube channel’s growth slowed down to just two years before its launch. Waiting for the end of the social gap, the male blogger excitedly flew around the country to fill the exhausting archives.
“In the past, I liked and often went abroad, because of Covid-19, so I had the opportunity to explore Vietnam more. Not around the country, I did not know that there were yachts in the Mekong River, or was shocked when I first started out explore Tra Su Melaleuca forest because the outside is even more beautiful than on film “, confided male blogger. Besides, he also introduced many more means of transportation that domestic tourists can experience, such as sightseeing helicopters, cable cars, kayaks, windsurfing …
The plan to be put on hold in 2020 is also the future plan when opening the international route of this blogger. He will travel abroad more, return to places where he once set foot without sharing, experience more new airlines and overseas flight services …
NGO TRAN HAI AN (Quy Coc Tu)
“Can not stay at home forever, I continue my journey to explore places where I can go, combine with work and new projects that I am passionate about”, Ma Coc Tu.
In 2020, blogger Ngo Tran Hai An (1981), known as Ma Coc Tu, thinks that he will have to “lock himself up” at home. The US visa has been applied for, the trips to Morocco, Turkey and many other countries that he has planned until August 2020 have to be canceled. Demons Coc Tu said that his work was heavily affected by Covid-19, the delay of this year’s plans may affect the distant future, especially the development direction of the travel blogger career.
However, after two episodes of Covid-19 broke out, Devil Coc Tu became busy when he received the opportunity to accompany several domestic tourism stimulus programs, taking many trips from North to South. He has set foot in more than 90 sights and landscapes in 24 provinces in the country. He also returned in time from Singapore and Japan before international flights ceased operations.
It was not until this year that the Devil Coc Tu spent his time exploring Vietnam. He used to be a famous traveler for his journeys to discover many new destinations in the country. This time, he invests his trips professionally and in a new way, to match the direction of work.
In September 2020, former photojournalist Ngo Tran Hai An officially announced to become a travel blogger. Right after that, he launched the photo project ” Seeing Vietnam in the skies “, introducing new perspectives from above at domestic destinations that are already familiar to tourists such as Hue mausoleum , Lan Bay. Ha … Despite many difficulties, such as waiting for a license to use flying equipment, paying the cost to go more places, he is still determined to invest in this personal product. This is a highlight of 2020 in the career of the male bloggers.
Talking about the most impressive trip of the year, Devil Coc Tu showed off his 5-day and 4-night itinerary in Con Dao in June 2020. Not only happy when traveling with his wife and 3-year-old daughter, this trip has also accomplished 3 great goals: conquering 3 markers of territorial waters , experiencing the release of turtles back to the sea, exploring white coral columns. Huge chunks on the seabed. Also in the past year, Ma Coc Tu is proud of successfully conquering the system of 11 points of baseline positioning , defining Vietnam’s territorial sea. The male blogger did not forget to mention his journey to the navel of the Central region to support the people who suffered both material and mental damage in October and November.
In 2021, Ma Coc Tu said that he would continue to develop his photo project, and work with tourism promotion agencies to contribute to promoting domestic destinations and experiences before international tourism opens. .
NGUYEN HOANG BAO
Blogger Nguyen Hoang Bao (1976), once “tirelessly walking” in 92 countries and regions, now becomes a culinary blogger
after a break at home because of social gap.
The author of the travel book ” Steps” undertakes several jobs at once, all related to tourism, including management of a tourism business, university lecturers in the tourism industry, and writing. However, during the social gap in April 2020, his workload decreased by 50%. Instead of regretting plans being delayed due to the epidemic, the male blogger has found new joy in the kitchen.
Recalling his foreign trips, he cooks a few favorite dishes that he once enjoyed abroad. But he can only do it a few times because finding ingredients is difficult at times when everywhere is closed for translation. Buried in Ho Chi Minh City, a blogger originally from Vinh Long suddenly craved the homeland dishes that his grandmother and mother used to make and then wondered why he didn’t try his meal with a homeland flavor. After a few “breaks”, he not only cooks the correct recipe but also presents it as a “real” chef. Up to now, almost every week, even every day, Hoang Bao has introduced new folk specialties such as spring roll vermicelli , skin roll, broken rice, Kien Giang fish vermicelli, fish noodle rolls …
Out of social distance, blogger Nguyen Hoang Bao spends most of his time exploring Ca Mau, due to an invitation to cooperate in local tourism development. Here, he has the opportunity to go, eat, and blend in with the rural activities of the river, thereby adding confidence and pride to introduce the beauty of this place to friends near and far. Besides, he also spent time “living slowly” in some mountainous areas such as Da Lat, Di Linh, Dak Nong … “If I can’t go to New Zealand, I will probably leave the street to the forest in Di. Linh replaced “, Mr. Bao confided in social networks.
This blogger thinks that cuisine is a cultural bridge between regions, so he aims to learn more about Vietnamese cuisine to introduce to local and international friends, especially Western dishes. which is familiar to you. Enjoying 30 dishes from Ca Mau crab, learning to cook more than 20 Western specialties is the “achievement” of male blogger in 2020.
When the international routes reopen, he will travel 1,000 days to the rest of the world.
BEAUTIFUL
Dang Thi Huong Nhi (1988) is a prominent female character in Vietnamese travel bloggers. With plenty of time, because of having to stop overseas trips, female bloggers often take “where to go or get there” trips to revive her wandering spirit for a year that was almost stagnant .
Maybe many people think that a “famous” blogger like Nhi Dang must travel across the country. But in fact, this 33-year-old blogger has never set foot in many familiar destinations in Vietnam such as Con Dao or Phu Quoc pearl island – where she first visited in 2020.
In it, she missed the Cao Bang trip with the group of friends the most. It was a long trip on an antique car (produced in 1967), traveling from Hanoi to the northeastern highlands province, camping at night in the middle of nature. Because of not following the plan, Nhi’s group accidentally passed through Khuoi Ky stone village. On the full moon day of August, they and the local people organized a night of breaking the deck for the children, even though there was no moon cake. She suddenly realized that the results obtained from each trip were not necessarily the production of a movie, the investment photo of the quality she used to do, but more importantly, the spiritual values she rarely to care about, as simple as giving and receiving smiles.
Previously, the female blogger used to be a bit “prejudiced” with some localities in the country, because she was not comfortable with crowded scenes. But when she met deserted places, Nhi felt a bit upset about the situation of the tourism industry in the season of season. In 2021, she will explore more places in Vietnam to introduce on social media, contribute to supporting domestic tourism, before re-departing overseas trips.
LY THANH CO
Ly Thanh Co (1992) missed one trip to Singapore, two trips to Korea, rescheduled to New Zealand and Mongolia in 2020. On March 8, on a business trip to Hanoi, this blogger had an impossible experience. forgot when she was suddenly quarantined at the hotel where British tourists infected with Covid-19 stayed.
After a rather dusty overseas trip, the young blogger spends “the year of Covid” traveling in the style of relaxation and health care . His resting place is more than 25 hotels and resorts close to nature, which give him space to practice relaxing yoga exercises. In 2020, Co feels special because he has been able to go to more places in Vietnam, he has never visited, such as Buon Me Thuot , Ninh Van … and also visited some favorite destinations.
In early November, a young Saigon man traveled to 30 countries for three years to publish a book entitled ” Honeymoon with Myself “. This is the third travel book in his career as a travel blogger, sharing his experiences alone in nearly 25 countries. Although the book was published half a year later than scheduled, Ly Thanh Co was still happy that the spiritual child could still be born in Covid year.
“I must not gasp before my travels to distant places on earth to satisfy my feet like in 2019. Instead of resentment, I would like to thank the year 2020 for teaching me a lesson to preserve relationship, take more care of yourself “, blogger 9x confided. In the new year, he continues to share experiences of domestic trips, disseminating past trips on his personal blog.
Last year, the tourist community did not forget the return of blogger Tran Dang Dang Khoa after a 1,000-day trip around the world by motorbike. Returning home, he wandered around the streets, especially organizing souvenir auctions to raise funds for floods in Central Vietnam in October 2020. At the same time, blogger Chan La Ca also ran into the navel to help the people.
In general, bloggers choose to travel domestically in a more diverse style, such as specializing in hotel experiences, upscale resorts, or “leaving the street to come home”, and actively participating in social activities for a year. full of volatility.
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