Ngo Tran Hai An - Photographer, travel blogger
Mentioning the trip that sparked the most tourism inspiration for herself, the 8X blogger chose to recount the trip to the Arctic Circle at the beginning of last year, experiencing riding a bicycle on the frozen sea surface, the feeling of driving on the sea surface and going far away to catch the giant icebreaker, continuing to board and explore new lands. Riding the Arctic icebreaker - standing in the vast ice and snow is an experience to see small people, but the aspiration is very big.
In addition to the journey on the icebreaker, the Vietnamese blogger also went to Santa Claus's village in Lapland, making him realize that he had realized his childhood dream in a very special way.
Tourism for me has long been no longer just about exploring, taking beautiful photos, but more than that, each trip gives me different thoughts and experiences, gradually making me more confident, learning to accept new things more gently. Tourism in other words changes people, personality. The more you travel, the more you learn to share and love," Mr. Hai An shared.
Nguyen Thuy Trang - Travel Blogger
The female blogger found 2025 a successful year because she achieved many personal goals set out. But looking back at the trips, the girl was most impressed with the trip to explore the sacred land of Tibet and 22 days of backpacking in Europe.
Experiencing visiting the Tibetan people's house, Thuy Trang was treated to milk and butter from yak cow's milk, and watched the processing stages at home. Sitting in a car passing through the provinces, seeing people drying yak cow dung as fuel, they pile dung on the walls of their houses to dry and store, even building some works with yak cow dung. This is a unique cultural feature showing that life is associated with a closed circle with the yak cow.
Tibet is a land very worthy of setting foot in for those who love cultural and historical beliefs and want to explore. The knowledge of Tibetan beliefs and Buddhism listened to and experienced on the road also made Trang realize that her thoughts about her spiritual life are much more open.
Traveling is to satisfy passion but also a way to explore and understand myself more. Sometimes there are things inside that I don't fully understand, but when traveling, I get more exposure and have more "first times in my life", she said.
Lo Huu Duc Anh - Travel Blogger
Year 2025 - Lo Huu Duc Anh chooses for himself trips with a slower pace. He made a 139-day trip around Southeast Asian countries.
The origin of a series of days roaming strange lands began again from a trip to Da Nang to meet relatives. The conversation in Da Nang evoked the image of a guy on weekends carrying a backpack, carrying a camera, walking across the land of kimchi to approach and learn about people, culture, destinations, break old prejudices and learn new things from a strange land. That moment created motivation for Duc Anh to start a 139-day trip from Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore to Indonesia, Timor Leste.
The guy recounted a long and mostly solo journey enough to form personal habits, changing the three-way gate in a positive direction. He gradually realized the small impact of tourists on the location and people, as well as the impact on those who follow him. Know how to choose experiences that suit him, instead of the crowd effect to go there.
With Indonesia, the final destination of my Southeast Asian journey, my exploration and curiosity about the world around me were pushed to the highest level. But I knew how to restrain myself and slow down to observe nature, and then shine into myself, not like a moth to a flame believing in the saying just go and you will arrive," Duc Anh recounted.
Nguyen Ngoc Minh - Travel Vlogger
The owner of the YouTube channel "Min on the go" considers 2025 a pivotal year in his journey of tourism and personal mobility. Minh, along with his wife and 4-year-old daughter, drove cars across 6 countries by road including: Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and China. The biggest mark is not in the numbers, but in the fact that the entire journey is accompanied by family. Compared to before, he traveled a lot with a personal mindset, but 2025 is forced to move in a different state: all decisions are associated with safety, health and common rhythm of life. This makes trips deeper, slower, and more meaningful.
Minh is impressed with the 100-day drive around Southeast Asia and the 60-day overland drive in China. "These can be considered the 2 trips that inspired my family the most to date. Not only because of the long time, long distance, or the number of countries and regions passing through, but because both trips took place in the same year, with the same living state: Family traveling together, getting tired together and overcoming together.
The 100-day Southeast Asian journey brings a sense of sustainability: Long travel, slow pace of life, familiarity mixed with cultural differences. Meanwhile, the 60-day China journey is a real challenge: Vast space, harsh weather conditions, safety incidents when encountering black ice on the road, forcing the whole family to stop and adjust the entire plan.
Two trips, two contrasting shades, but complementing each other. One side helps the family understand the value of endurance and long-term rhythm of life on the road, the other side forces itself to learn to slow down, be more careful and respect its own limits. For Minh, exploration tourism is only the first layer, the deeper layer is to understand how far I can endure, when I need to stop and why I still want to continue going.
