Wednesday 27 March 2013

How to Blog Your Travel Adventures

By Patrick James


Great! So you were pleased with holidays to Turkey, and you now arrived home. You have interesting stories and a huge number of photos regarding your Istanbul city tour, your wonderful experience in a Turkish bistro, your breathtaking ascent to Mt. Ararat's summit, and your shopping episode at the coastal area of Kusadasi. And now, you want to share your stories to everyone through your blog.

However, your travel blog is among the thousands on the net. How are you going to let yours stick out among the crowd? Continue reading how to make your travel blog as interesting as possible.

1. Make your blog easily readable. Text should be readable and should not blend in with the background. As an example, utilize simple Arial or Times Roman font instead of Script or Forte fonts. Don't use text that blends with the color of the background. And do not use a cluttered background, which only functions as a distraction.

2. Lower extra design in your blog. True, you do like to customise your blog, but the extras such as widgets, interactive applications, monitoring applications, and other icons will only serve to distract readers. Remember that people want to read what you have to say. People don't visit your blog to know how great a designer you are. Readers wish to know your vacation tale: the sights you visited, the wonders you witnessed, and the experiences that you had.

3. Post a lot of pictures. Images are touching, and your vacation photos will surely attract viewers. It will reveal to viewers how the Eifel Tower looks up close, the beauty of a sunset in Canada, the earth below the top of Mt. Ararat, or how people ride Thai tuk-tuks. With photos, you can articulate your climbing, city tour, scuba diving, resort hopping, clubbing, etc. experience far more vividly than just words.

4. Place the details in. For instance, you want to share your experience eating in an exotic Turkish restaurant. Don't just settle about the "I came in, I ordered food, food was mouth watering, I paid for the bill" post. Discuss the looks of the waiter. What about the dancer who performed in front of your table? Or perhaps you'd like to discuss about that tongue-burning experience you felt as you took a bite of that very hot peppered recipe? What can you say about the red tapestries that are draped everywhere? Describe your experience as felt by all your senses; this will make the readers feel as though they're there with you.! Let's say you climbed Mt. Ararat on your family holidays to Turkey 2013. Don't merely write your blog as a "we climbed, we reached the summit, we went down" entry. Place details on it. Describe how beautiful the scene is as you ascended. Describe how you were able to scramble up the rocky, slippery soil. Let us know about your camping experience where you had nothing but cold food. Tell us about that heartstopping moment when your close friend almost fell down a ravine. Use your five senses to make your readers feel as if they were there.

5. Make your article helpful. In my case, I typically include a schedule, a few tips, and a budget. For example, returning home from Krabi, Thailand after a rock climbing trip, I post in a 2-day weekend itinerary; how much a traveller should pay for transportation, food, leisure, and guide charges; important contact people, best months to visit, tips on minimizing expenses, along with other details. This way, your blog will become a traveller's resource rather than a typical blog.




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