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]]>Monga was no stranger to hopping from place to place long before she became a travel blogger. Her father used to work in the military so she spent most of her childhood moving around, switching between ten schools and multiple cities outside and within India.
She traveled even more while at university and started writing her travel blog while working a full-time job. She took a lot of workcations during this time, everywhere from Goa to Sri Lanka and Thailand, but struggled to find the balance before she decided to quit her job at LinkedIn.
This was the best decision she could’ve made because her follower count kept growing once she had enough time on her hands to immerse herself in new cultures and experiences full-time. Monga’s videos are extremely popular with women dreaming of exploring the world on their own, and she’s hoping she’ll inspire others to step outside their comfort zone and break the invisible barriers that surround us.
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]]>Hero is a 22-year-old travel blogger from Finland, who’s exploring the world full-time. She’s still in school, studying business administration, but since she’s doing it fully online, she decided to pursue other passions along the way.
Hero has been in love with travel since her high school years, when she spent some time as an exchange student in Australia and New Zealand. Her love for travel kept growing as the years went by, and she set foot in 45 countries so far.
Hero built a huge following on social media, with 200,000 people on Instagram and 140,000 on TikTok, who appreciate her humble approach to travel. She describes herself as someone who’s committed to “showcasing beautiful destinations around the world and teaching her followers how to travel on a budget while still enjoying unique experiences.”
Hero is an advocate for slow travel with a budget-friendly twist, and she’ll show you how to explore the world without breaking the bank. Her viral series “the best places to visit when you are young and broke” will introduce you to many amazing destinations you can check out without spending a fortune.
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]]>Traveling full time with her partner and child, her vacations revolve around water and fishing. There is also plenty of hikes and camping. “My goal is to evoke inspiration and wonder through the beauty of the great outdoors,” she writes on her website. And with well over 16,000 followers on Instagram, a growing number of people seem to be taking note.
Incredibly enough, Anderson’s love for the great outdoors wasn’t instilled in her early on, but rather came as she matured. “That’s why no matter your experience level, I encourage you to to take more detours, step outside your comfort zone, and try something new outdoors,” she explains on her website.
One of her top recommendations is the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. “I think everyone should experience the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness at least once in their lifetime,” she stressed, “and if you can, do it with an outfitter. Whether it’s the pristine waters or secluded wilderness, the call of loons, eagles soaring above, the milkiest of milky ways or the fantastic fishing—there are so many reasons Nick and I go back several times every year.”
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]]>We might as well “hire” food and travel bloggers Mark And Elizabeth Rudd as our guides. The two have founded the brand and blog Compass & Fork where they share their travel tips and dining experiences with a growing audience (so far, on Instagram alone they have well over 14,000 followers).
Together, the avid travelers have visited over 50 countries over a period of 40 years, worked in about ten, and still have a wish list of places they’ve yet to visit.
“We both traveled extensively for work in our corporate roles as well,” the couple shared in a chat with Travel Awaits. “After the kids were older, we decided it was time to travel more and see some of those places we had always dreamed of visiting.”
Fans of slow traveling, they explore each destination in depth. This means for a minimum of a month they update their site with content and posts about the same country.
“We tend to be independent, active travelers,” they note. “Our travel style is affordable luxury. You won’t find hostels or budget travel, but you’ll find great value, unique accommodation, and experiences.”
Their website includes resources like recipes, health tips, and travel guides, with helpful posts including How to Save Money on Your Trip To Vietnam and How to Find the Best Local Experiences in Latin America. We can’t wait to pack our suitcases, prepare our napkins, and hit the road!
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]]>The self proclaimed “international badasses” practice what they preach, having set out to create a travel space that’s tailored to young travelers. This idea came to them after noticing that a lot of their friends wanted to travel but really just didn’t know how—or were too busy or too scared.
“We started making videos mainly because we found it was fun,” they admitted in an interview with CelebMix. “Nobody really watched them at first besides our friends and family (who we would force to watch), but we enjoyed watching everything we squeezed into our trips—cool, cheap, or free places to go that we thought people should know about. We didn’t see anything like it on television or on YouTube, and that’s when the journey began.”
Through a let of trial and error and some hard work, they slowly build up their audience to where it is today, cultivating a community of nearly 2M+ in total social media subscribers. They might just inspire you to shut up and go.
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? ?? @nachelicoptersA seasoned traveler, Cole is known for his entertaining travel content that has an added layer of education and provides a teaching tool for sustainable travel and community-oriented living. But with a moniker like FunForLouis, fun, and more importantly, passion is a core element to what he does.
These days, alongside his online platform, Cole teaches other influencers how to turn their passion into a booming business. His number one tip? Come from a place of being passionate about capturing and sharing moments and “not straight from this mentality that [you] want to make money or jump straight into having Instagram as a revenue generator or a business.”
? #teamtrees“That’s an added bonus if you can get to that stage,” he noted in an interview with Entrepreneur where he talked about his business model, “but if that’s your initial goal, it could be quite tricky especially if you’re not enjoying what you’re doing. I think the audience can really notice that as well.”
Some of his more recent projects also include running The Social Good Club, striving to create a community designed to empower others to effect positive change around the challenges we face as a global society. We’re all for it.
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]]>One of the things we’re most looking forward to in the days after COVID-19 is traveling. And at least according to Leyla Giray Alyanak, traveling doesn’t require a partner. In fact, the best journies are the ones you take on your own. A solo traveler based in rural Eastern France, Giray Alyanak has launched an online platform that encourages women to take a leap of faith when it comes to traveling. “Forget the partner, forget the doubts—you can own this!” she writes.
Giray Alyanak puts her money where her mouth is. Her blog— Women on the Road— provides women with the tools and guidelines that can help them deal with unfamiliar situations on the road.
“This entire website should NOT be necessary,” reads her website. “Solo female travelers should not need to take special precautions, travel with greater awareness or behave in certain ways just because we are women. But sadly, the world is a less than perfect place, and we do have to be aware of those differences. I won’t let them stop me from traveling on my own, and I trust you won’t either.”
Having traveled all over the world for the past 50 years, you’ll want to listen to her sound advice. Her guide will teach you how to plan a trip, how to stay safe, what to take, how to budget, and how to avoid getting lonely. In other words: all the things you face before, during, and after you travels.
When international travel is permitted again, we just might take her advice.
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]]>But following the right luxury travel experts might just help satisfy our innate wanderlust. Recently we’ve taken to Misha Gillingham’s travel blog, Wildluxe. Ranked as one of the top luxury travel blogs in the world, Wildluxe celebrates the meeting point between luxury hospitality and the great outdoors, so you get to enjoy the best of both worlds.
“I must admit I’ve always been fascinated by luxury hotels and all of the things that go into creating that perfect five-star guest experience,” relayed Gillingham in an interview with Husskie. “There are so many variables involved and I just love when it is executed flawlessly. It’s an art form and I want to give people a closer look at it.”
Alongside her fascination with all things lux, Gillingham admits to having an immense passion for adventure and a desire to share these explorations with others. A firm believer that getting outdoors is a key component in living a happy and healthy lifestyle, Gillingham is the half-glass-full type, with a positive outlook on life and people.
“Don’t waste any time on negative emotions that don’t serve you,” she says, “and most certainly—do not stand in your own way!” We might just take her word of advice…
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]]>With 50 countries behind her, Alice Yeh is a semi-professional wanderer. “My love for travel is deeply rooted in my curiosity and desire to learn,” she writes on her website. “My mom even told me that when I was a kid, she could never take her eyes off of me because as soon as she turned around, I’d be gone—off in my own world exploring.”
With the recent pandemic, Yeh had to get creative. A tech sales executive and travel blogger, she recently took to Instagram to share her insights regarding travel restrictions. “2020 is the year of US National Parks!” she wrote, explaining that since there will be no more international trips for the rest of the year and most likely 2021, it’s all about exploring the great outdoors, while staying within the US borders.
Her optimism might just spark that sense of wanderlust in you that’s long laid dormant. Yeh herself ties her love of traveling to her early travels, as a child. around the US. According to Yeh, when she was a kid, her parents would take her on road trips all around the US to visit National Parks. “As immigrants, they wanted to experience what the new home country had to offer,” she writes. “Even though we never actually went camping (my first camping experience was during college with schoolmates), I was always amazed by the beauty that nature had to offer. The US is a huge, diverse country.”
With COVID dictating a change of pace, local traveling suits us just fine.
I'm trying to slow down on vacations now to really enjoy those special moments, no matter how small. I realize that being the goal-oriented person I am, I can get too focused on making sure I check off the next thing on my list of things to do and see. ? So I sometimes forgot to cherish and be present about what I was doing in that particular moment. I think this can also be applied to life. We're so focused on the future that we forget to appreciate the present. ? During this pandemic, we've been so focused on when it will end (likely never at this rate…) and what we haven't been able to do. A conversation with a friend the other day made me pause to consider: what has been a positive from this time period? ? I'm thankful for spending a lot more time with my boyfriend. Our relationship has really grown. I've finally made time to focus on growing my travel blog, a personal passion project. ? Looking back on these past 5 months of COVID for the bright side of things, is there a moment you can value? If not, is there something you can do going forward to make a positive change happen for yourself?The post This Travel Blogger Will Help You Reclaim 2020 appeared first on TettyBetty.
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]]>Travel bloggers know best. Having visited over 100 countries over 13 years, Brenna Holeman doesn’t just treat travel as a form of vacation but as a passion turned into a full-time job. Originally from Winnipeg, a city in the Canadian prairies, she has lived in Halifax, Toronto, Copenhagen, Yaroslavl, Edinburgh, Osaka, and London.
But 2020 has driven her back home. “At the moment I have absolutely zero desire to travel outside of Canada, or even to another province,” she explained in a recent post on Instagram, adding that the thought of traveling to a higher-risk location or being in close quarters with tourists who haven’t quarantined makes her itch.
“It’s all so complicated, isn’t it?” she adds. “To travel, or not to travel. One thing’s for sure: the way we travel may not be the same for a very long time.” For Holeman, the solution was simple: travel – but do it closer to home. According to Holeman, she will be road-tripping, hiking, canoeing, fishing, camping, and supporting local businesses. Which doesn’t sound quite as bad as staying home.
“I was in talks with Travel Manitoba over a year ago that I would spend this summer traveling around this beautiful province, and that is indeed happening,” she explains. “While I’ve already been to Bird River as well as Winnipeg Beach, Pinawa Dam, and Birds Hill Provincial Parks in the past month, I’m soon headed to Brandon, Swan Valley, and Riding Mountain National Park for a Manitoba series with Travel Manitoba.”
We encourage you to follow her journey – online that is.
I recently had the opportunity to explore the Interlake region of the province, checking out Gimli and Hecla Island (both found on Lake Winnipeg, one of the biggest lakes in Canada). My memories of Gimli came flooding back to me; I had gone often as a kid, but to visit again as an adult was so much fun… all of my childhood favourites were still there (you can’t beat H.P. Tergesen’s General Store) but I saw it all through new eyes, too, stopping for coffee at Flatland's and pickerel tacos at The Ship and Plough. I’m about to head off on a totally new adventure – I’m going to Namibia for the next three weeks – and the strangest thing happened before I left. When I used to travel from London, it was always a countdown until the departure date, always a chance to get away and see something new. I never, ever felt sad about leaving London or that I’d miss it while I was gone; it was always about the adventure ahead. This time, however, knowing I am leaving #Manitoba for three weeks… I feel sad. I have never, ever felt this before I’ve travelled. Don’t get me wrong, I am crazy excited to head to Namibia, a country that has long topped my dream travel list. It’s just that, locking up my house, I knew I’d miss it. I knew I’d miss my friends and family. I knew I’d miss my office and garden. I knew I’d miss the freedom and happiness I’ve felt all summer, one of the best summers of my entire life. Sixteen years ago, when I thought I was leaving Manitoba for good, I could have never predicted how much I’d fall back in love with it. This summer of beaches and festivals and so many adventures has humbled me, humbled that attitude I used to have about my home province. Now? I can’t imagine living anywhere else. I am so excited to share even more of Manitoba with you, because it is seriously underrated. I barely scraped the surface of everything there is to do here, and I can’t wait to see more. I hope you’ll come find out for yourself, too. The post Blogger Shares Thoughts About Traveling During COVID appeared first on TettyBetty.
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