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Travel Blog: How To Start, Build Your “Tribe” and Monetize Successfully
So you are wondering about your first ever travel blog: how to start, reach first readers and eventually earn money to travel long-term like digital nomads? This post is for you! My piece of advice: Don’t pay too much time for travel blog name generators and try to get a domain and server in early weeks. Let’s get deep to the core: Travel blog writing, because it is useful travel blog posts that people visit your website and become loyal readers (Come on, don’t be a travel blogger without a single fan but your mom, it’s solitude!) Best Tips For Travel Blog Writing So I finished a very book on writing (Copywriting: Successful…
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A Guide to Trek Chua Chan Mountain
Chua Chan mountain, the second highest mountain in southern Vietnam, is your perfect choice to hike. Here we go! Introduction So where is Chua Chan mountain, and why it is so special that become one of HCMC citizen’s most favorite mountain hiking spots? Located in Dong Nai, Chua Chan mountain (aka núi Gia Lào) is about 100 km away from Saigon. As 837 m high, it is also the second-highest peak in the southeastern region of Vietnam, just after Black Virgin Mountain (núi Bà Đen) in Tay Ninh, whose height is 996 m. It was recognized as a national heritage site in 2012. Read More: Black Virgin mountain trekking tips…
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Everythings about Fansipan – Vietnam’s Highest Peak
For a long time, the extraordinary summit – Fansipan mountain has drawn a huge attention of massive travelers, both Vietnamese and foreigners, who would love to make arduous treks or simply take cable cars to the peak station to admire the beauty of breath-taking scenery above the cloud. Introduction about Fansipan Mountain In short, Mt Fansipan (Phan Xi Păng in Vietnamese) is the highest peak of Vietnam and The roof of Indochina. However, the height of the mountain has slightly changed: It was 3,143 metres (10,312 ft) in 1909, but is 3,147.3 metres up to now. Why Fansipan called … “Fansipan”? Fansipan meaning is one of the best-kept secrets in Vietnam. Actually, when you ask some Vietnamese, they mostly…
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Review Homestay Cao Bang: Lan’s homestay Ban Gioc
An amazing place to stay in Cao Bang with a super cool host that definitely surprises you “Lan’s homestay is such an ideal place for ‘workation‘ during covid quarantine”, commented my travel buddy Isaac while we were all temporarily locked down in the city due to the covid pandemic spread. And I totally agreed with him. Surrounded by picturesque landscape with an emerald river at the front and backed by majestic mountains, Lan’s Homestay offers guests a comfortable living with well-cooked local food, clean rooms on a stilt house bearing traditionally cultural architecture, perfect internet coverage – all at a very reasonable expense that guests can hardly complain. Truth be told. We had never…
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A Guide to Bui Vien Street, Vietnam
Bui Vien street, where there are restaurants, massage parlors, boutique hotels, cheap hostels, vibrant pubs, unique souvenir shops, go-go bars and the best travel agencies, is such a not-to-be-missed destination in the neighborhood. Let’s explore now! Where is Bui Vien street? Just less than 10-minute walking from the city center and you find the most famous backpacker’s street of Ho Chi Minh City. Love Bangkok’s Khao San Road? I bet you will find yourself falling in love with Bui Vien street location (here). “Where is Bui Vien street” is among the most common questions from first-time travelers to Ho Chi Minh city. Indeed, the trio of Bui Vien, De Tham,…
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The Book In My Backpack: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Review
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams is such a hilarious travel story. At the very first beginning, I had no idea what the story was talking about but bite-sized pieces of story revealed quickly through chapters went crazy eventually. It hooks! It all began with the central protagonist in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – The British Arthur Dent, a normal Earthman who tried to prevent the demolition of his house, but then a sudden event (you would be surprised but it truly hilarious reading on) that his long-time friend (a kind alien disguised) made him a fateful hitchhiker to the galaxy (actually, it was like fare dodging first) in…
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A Destination Guide to Travel Tuyen Quang, Vietnam
Off the beaten track destinations for those who seek desperately. Do a query about travelling Tuyen Quang on the search engine and the result may astonish you: only 135,000 sites, but of which actually only roughly 10 sites provide enough useful information to plan a trip. What happened? Located among famous Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Phu Tho but Tuyen Quang possesses an understated fame that attracts less visits than other provinces nearby, which means you are rarely annoyed by flocks of curious tourists. Indeed, the province has two major kinds of tourism attractions: the richness of historical sites and a couple of spectacular natural wonders that are worth sightseeing once or twice. The province is nationwide…
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Book Club: The Life Lessons I Learned From “When Breath Becomes Air”
I still remember a quote in the popular book “When Breath Becomes Air“. “What makes life worth living in the face of death?” That lead was indeed a striking question to me, in my search for true happiness in the lifetime. Death is not a new subject to inspire people to live. When I was in university, the speech that Steve Jobs had delivered at Stanford University inspired me probably every single day, with 3 simple points of view: connecting dots, love and loss, and death. “If today was my last day, would I do what I’m doing” – the constantly obsessive question pushed me to follow my deep inner…
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Phu Quoc Ridgeback: Four-legged Guardians Of Pearl Island
Many years ago, I travelled to Phu Quoc for the first time and was knocked back right away by its spectacular beauty of a tropical paradise, but not the native Phu Quoc ridgeback dogs. I rode to almost every corner of Pearl island on a rental motorbike with travel buddies I met in the dorm by chance and visited almost best beaches in Phu Quoc. Dogs hardly try to run faster than fueled machines and their barking is often significantly overwhelmed by the loud noise from the engine. So that’s why I have ignored these native dogs of the island: Phu Quoc ridgebacks (chó Phú Quốc), despite their nationwide renown for superior characteristics…
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Life for Rent: a Song for Nomadic Soul
Lockdowned by covid just like a bird in a cage, I just wanna share with you a song that inspires me when I’m feeling lost in my life, even when it offers me too much comfort zone, full of warmth but boredom too. The first time I heard this song, it didn’t make any sound to me. Maybe that wasn’t time for me. But the second encounter really hit my head with a brick. What’s wrong with me? I listened to the lyric and slowly realized how truly it reflected my mind. “I haven’t ever really found a place that I call homeI never stick around quite long enough to…
