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Time flies! We are officially 100 days prior to our 1,000,000 KM budget-travel journey without flying. Of course, we can't wait packing our bags and get out of the door real soon. Anyhow, we have been planning for this journey for a few years. It is exciting to see it going smoothly step by step finally. In the coming few months, we still have a lot to do. One of the important agendas is to catch up with our friends and family in Ontario before December comes. Other tasks include gathering our travel gears, packing our bags, figuring out our last-minute financial budget, visiting travel doctor etc. And of course, we will have to keep our YouTube Channel active by posting more of our preparation videos. We are the YouTube newbies, so "practice makes perfect" is definitely a line to motivate us to create more videos. In case you have missed what we are up to and what this 1,000,000 KM budget-travel journey without flying is about, let's catch up with this YouTube video :)
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A lot of people always said we are rich as we could quit our job and go on the coming big journey. Yes, we are rich, but rich in our heart only. We are not millionaire, but we did save up when we are not traveling. It is a choice of life. If you don't dine out frequently or own a car, you may be able to save up more than a normal people. Another way to make a big journey possible is to control your travel spending. When people travel, they tend to stay in fancy hotels and try nice food in a fancy restaurant. But we are definitely not that type of travelers. We are leaning more towards budget traveling, where we spend most of money on experience. Plus, we save the money of buying flight tickets by using mass transit. So, when you account for all these, traveling won't cost so much as you imagine. Accommodation is the biggest expense when traveling. We usually tend to stay in hostel and Airbnb. But sometimes, with two people, a hotel room may cost similar to two bunk beds in a hostel, then we will go with a hotel. With the same price, a hotel room offers more privacy. The place that we choose to stay is nothing fancy, but it fulfills our basic needs. As long as it is clean and safe, we will go with it. Our last trip to Kaiping, China, we stayed in a 2-star hotel and we created a brief hotel review to show the world what you would get for a USD20 per night hotel room in China. Check out this YouTube Video to give you an idea before you go to China~ (English subtitles are available) While many people like to travel with an airplane, we are the exception. Instead of jumping from place to place, we like to see the ongoing changes between place to place. That's why this is the theme of our next big journey, traveling by mass transit without flying. We will be starting this big journey in December 2023. More details will be announced real soon. Please feel free to follow us on YouTube and Instagram for all the updates. We would like to share this journey with you all, anyhow, IT'S ALL ONE JOURNEY! 💙 For now, we have been busy preparing for the route of this trip and practicing our video-shooting skills. We are not the professionals, but we keep trying. We have been using our stock footage to make different videos, hoping that our skills will be improved so that we can produce better-quality video when we hit the road. As English is not my mother language and I don't want our audience have to bear with my so-so spoken English, I have been starting some videos with Cantonese audio but English closed caption. We hope that not only the Cantonese-speaking community, but the English-speaking community too, could follow along our journey. So, bear with us that there will be a mix of English and Cantonese-audio videos on our World Vagabonding Channel. Though the videos may be with different languages, we will try our best to include closed caption in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and English to cater everybody's needs. We really hope to invite you to join this journey. As the title of this blog indicates, we missed traveling by mass transit! On our last trip to Kaiping, China, 99% of the tourists will be arriving the diaolou spots by taxi. But we did it by completing the trip using local buses, which saved us some money and also skipped the awkward bargaining or cheating by some taxi drivers. Is it difficult to walk to tour around by local buses? I would say, if you are well-prepared, it won't be too difficult. Or, simply follow our itinerary, then that will make life easier! Take a look at our YouTube Video about taking local buses to tour around Kaiping, China to get some insights :) P.S. English closed caption is available in the video, remember to switch it on :) |
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