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Travel is love, but I
never wrote “go backpacking” in my bucket list, mostly because I had vague
ideas about it. I've always associated backpacking with mountain or rock
climbing – what with those huge, towering bags that could carry an entire
wardrobe. And I’m a self-confessed introvert with very little to no interest in
sports or anything that requires physical agility. I have a poor sense of
direction and awkward balance. So with utmost certainty, I’ve concluded
backpacking is not meant for me. That is, until I watched a documentary by
Sandra Aguinaldo on her Vietnam and Cambodia backpacking trip.
Aside from dispelling the
myth that it is similar to mountain or rock climbing, backpacking didn’t seem
such a bad idea after all. If anything, it sounded exciting, fun, and challenging.
Traveling on a low budget with a backpack in tow sounded physically exhausting
too but the thrill of novelty, the promise of adventure, and the potential of
spawning great tales and stories far outweighed my apprehensions. This was a
life experience I couldn’t miss.
I couldn’t stop yakking about
it until I convinced myself and a few friends to follow suit and travel by
backpack to Vietnam and Cambodia. Quite the ambitious travelers, we set plans
for a two-week backpacking adventure for June 2013. This was around October
last year. The universe cooperated in this pursuit because the day after we agreed
on the travel dates, Cebu Pacific announced a seat sale. It is on, baby! :)
So, for my next blog
posts (yeah, I figured there’d be more than one), I will write about the
Viet-Cam experience – the quirks, the little misadventures (we almost didn’tmake it!), the joys of first-time backpackers, and everything in between.
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