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    Points:6

    Travel blogs are more effective than travelogues in learning life

    Travelling ten miles may teach you more about life than reading ten books. That was (and is) why there are study tours in educational institutions. Educational trips or other excursions teach a lot of things that are better and easily learned than many theory classes.

    After the popularity and reach of the internet and social media, travel blogs have taken over the place of travelogues or travel books, Do you read travel blogs? Have you an example of learning some unique lessons learned from such a 'travblog'?
  • #775785

    Points:5
    What we experienced will be remembered for a long time. We all know that what we see will be in our memory for a longer time than what we read. What we read about a place in a book will inspire us to visit that place. But the feel will come only when the expression is good and attractive. But when we see that place we will get real enjoyment. These days we are all reading blogs on the computer and reading books is coming down. A small article on a particular place giving all important points about the place is more interesting to read than reading a book with more description, I feel.
    I read travel blogs, when I am planning to visit a particular place. I read travel blogs in which we get information about that place. I try to keep my memories alive after visiting a place by making a crisp article and keep it on my personal computer. Some such articles were published in the article section of ISC.
    drrao
    always confident

  • #775788

    Points:8
    By taking up any tour of an important place - historical or otherwise, we enjoy the place immensely and such events make our lives enjoyable. Such memorable experiences do not die out so easily. The starting point of the visit to a place emanates from our references to a book detailing the information of the captivating places ultimately inspiring us to visit such places. The real enjoyment can be felt only by our visits to such exciting sites. We need not go to any book to extract information related to such important places but a booklet containing relevant information about the interesting places can serve our purpose meaningfully. In that way, travel bloggers are more purposeful.

  • #775803

    Points:5
    The author is right. Reading in a book about a place is different than visiting the place in person. I have seen the wonderful architecture of Belur, Halabedu of Karnataka in one Tamil cinema, 'Karnan' with historical story. But when I visited there in person later I really felt overwhelmed on seeing such wonderful architecture.
    Our Spiritual Guru used to tell in all his meetings that it is easy to tell about a taste in words but when we taste the same by ourselves the difference is unexplainable. It is totally correct in all and every aspects.
    Simply speaking the libraries have many books in different tastes and languages. It is understood by a student normally when a teacher or other says but when he or she visit the library by him/her own, the astonishment is different in him/her.
    Students of any level should be taken by the parents or teachers to the nearest historical places and notable places as it would enrich their knowledge and interest. I, went to Padmanabha puram near Trivandrum with my0 brother (that too in my 66th year) saw a group of school students and teachers came there from a school of Tenkasi, nearby town. As I know some new items of that palace, I explained the same to my brother. But the students and teachers themselves joined with us and listened the matters very eagerly.

  • #775811

    Points:4
    There is always a big difference between what we read and what we see. When we see the things then we see them in real life situations in the set up where they stand but when we read them in books or internet then we see the beautiful photographs highlighting only the positive aspects about the place or thing.
    I remember during my UG studies I had attended a NCC camp in far away location in a picturesque and serene environment of Uttarakhand hills. The impression and memories of that time are still deeply engraved in my mind. That outing was a great learning experience for me.
    Knowledge is power.

  • #775834

      

    Points:5
    I also like Travel Blog more than Travelogue. I read travel blogs due to various reasons and few of them are, blogger's own travel experience, easy access to their posts online and each traveler gives a different opinion of the same place. Their perspectives, professionalism and presentation. Few travel blogs would have missed a few points but others cover them enough including Photos and Videos beside additional information like how to reach by various modes, where to stay, budget, when to go, continuous references and so many things of the particular place. It is more like an adventure addition from their own experience. I learned different things from different blogs, and the recent one is on "North Sentinel Island" and "Bermuda Triangle" stories, though we are unable to visit there but it is one of the interesting one to go through them, like reading many different blog topics when needed, as visuals are less and experienced content is huge.

    Another one is, when we were new in ISC (2009-10) then ISC Admin used to introduce a few programs / contests like create a free blog for education and ISC niche and share it here that also helped many (including me) to learn and create a blog as a first timer. It helped to go ahead for more favorite niches in the coming time. In addition, it also helped brands to reach us (bloggers / writers) for collaboration on Travel event invites at later times which we were unaware of when we began to blog. I got few opportunities of event / collaboration from that free Travel blog post written that mainly because of ISC's platform helped to learn such things. Those days, free Blogspot (Google) or WordPress blog platform used to get ample traffic for many months or years due to less competition and unique contents or micro-blog contents - Data limit / high cost time as well beside.

    You may or may not know, many Students and Youth have got huge benefits from this website that they were using their free-time effectively while studying till they got the best campus selection. They have learned a lot and also got best placement in top-notch companies using and showing their contribution at ISC. Since their leisure time is over after getting trained or employed then slowly they become busy in their profession. Google Chat was famous at that time and we used to chat with them to know and learn from them as well.

    Time to time platforms (Web or App or YouTube etc.) may change but writers have a good value forever if they show persistence that watches remotely by many for their search needs on brand collaboration and promotion etc. that includes Educational niche. I got a few event invites for School Anniversary or opening a new School and attended them. Proud moment for sure. They already knew where you came from (after blogging). So, learn and keep writing on your desired niche whether it is on your own blog or platform like ISC, you / others would get benefited from.

    You can also contribute on ISC's sister website for Travel niche at https://www.indiatravelblog.com/

  • #775835

      

    Points:5
    The opening sentence which is a well-known proverb is very apt. While you can get knowledge about a place through a book or brochure, it is when you actually experience it by going there that gives you a more realistic perspective. I have a couple of travel blogs of my own and am thrilled to bits when I see the surge in page views. As Hafeezur Rahman rightly stated, it is ISC that created that learning experience of starting a blog. I created a simple blog for the reward program that the ISC admin. had launched, for which we had to write about ISC and give a link to the site in that blog. Using the Google Blogspot platform, I started that blog. It was extremely simple to use through self-learning. From that first post, there was no looking back for me. With my passion for writing, I then started other blogs on various niche topics. I got some guidance from Tony Sir on how to create the Tabs for various categories at the top of the blog. I then kept those initial blogs aside and now have a world travel blog, putting in information and photos that family members and friends have kindly shared with me, other than my own travel experiences and photos, and videos. Through my contributions to the city and State-based niche sites of the SpiderNetwork that Tony Sir heads, I also learned with advisories from him to not put all information in one post, but split them up (how to go, overall review, tips for visitors, the food, etc) and interlink them so that readers would remain within the pages.

    I have not earned much in terms of AdSense from the blogs, but derive immense satisfaction from doing such work. Now and then I take a break from ISC-related work to put in the content on the blog and my zest has not diminished for those travel blogs.

    Yes, I do read other blogs to preview a place that I am visiting and find some of them really informative, while others are just barebone details that are not really useful. However, printed matter should not be totally ignored. Some years back, I joined a local public library and would take travel magazines on hire that had informative content on various destinations. If I visited the place I had read about, I would know what to look out for specifically, such as a particular architectural feature of a place of worship or a display in a museum that otherwise would likely miss my attention. By continuing to read travel books, magazines, and the like, we are encouraging content writers and we should help in developing the reading habit in others, not just online reading. So don't altogether abandon travel books for blogs!
    When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust! ~ John C. Maxwell

  • #775840

    Points:1
    #75803,nice narration about some travel events by Ramachnadran Pattabhiraman. Like you, I also could explain the uniqueness about a temple and some monuments to the students and others while visiting those temples and monument. This was helpful to them to enjoy and enrich themselves more contextually and make the visit meaningful and fruitful. I could do that by my previous visits to those or from the travel blogs I visited.

    Responses from Hafeezur Rahman and Vandana gave more inputs to me especially about the usefulness of ISC to them and early members.

    Dr Srinivasa Rao's response also says about the value of travel and travel blogs and also testifies that they were motivating to write articles on travel and post in ISC.

    Umesh and Sheo Shankar Jha also have added more concurring points on the thread matter.

    I am planning a two week travel(pilgrimage package trip) to Andhra side. Experienced members can enlighten me briefly.

  • #775847

    Points:2
    As told by others, ISC gave me opportunity to write about various places i have visited, but really i wondered how nice people are described make us to know the beauty of the place. Nowadays vlogs are more than blogs are taking us to the places and popular.
    shasthranaam Ganitham moordhanisthitham


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