A Life Scan of Backpackers

Speaking of travel, Ma Jia's eyes lit up. According to Ma Jia herself, in life, she is introverted, especially not good at interacting with people. But when I first saw her, her bright smile immediately infected me.

Today, Ma Jia has been traveling for more than ten years. Yes 199 1 year. Ma Jia just started working. A friend of hers opened a travel company in Shenzhen, so she was asked to use her holiday to help her friend's travel company travel. The reward is that she can go out with a tour group for free. This is Ma Jia's first contact with the tourism and tour guide industry. The first tour group she led was a guest from Taiwan Province Province, with more than 20 people, who took the group from Guangzhou to Guilin, Guangxi. At that time, tour guides did not need to have professional knowledge of tourism, as long as they had certain accident handling ability and could connect passengers with local travel agencies. This time and again, Ma Jia has developed a strong interest in tourism, and has never stopped.

During her part-time job as a tour guide, Ma Jia had an experience of almost dying. On one occasion, she took a delegation from Guangzhou to Beijing and went to Harbin. The trip took seven or eight days. The station wagon is driving on the central street in Harbin. Suddenly, someone fired three shots at the station wagon, and none of the passengers on the station wagon were injured. Afterwards, I learned that this was caused by the personal grievances of the station wagon driver. Fortunately, Ma Jia got along well with the tour group, and everyone was very reasonable, so she didn't get into any trouble. Afterwards, Ma Jia recalled the accident and was surprised at her composure.

Ma Jia studied accounting and worked in a famous Japanese company. Because she loves traveling, she left the Japanese company on 1996. Do some irregular work while helping friends take some foreign individual travelers out for a trip. 1996 to 2000, Ma Jia basically worked for a period of time, and the money earned from working was used to go out with a backpack. 1997 Ma Jia got a tour guide card when she took the tour group with Saite International Travel Service. She wants to travel while working and realize her dream of traveling around the world by being a tour guide. After officially obtaining the tour guide card, every time I take passengers out to play, I don't want to play again when I enter the working state. So after working for two years, Ma Jia gave up being an official tour guide.

Ma Jia found that work is work, and tourism cannot be taken care of at the same time. So I work hard to make money, and I don't care about going out to play. From 65438 to 0997, Ma Jia began to establish a "tourist information database" to provide information guarantee for his self-help tour. With the increase of "inventory", I think it would be a pity if such useful things are only for my own play, so I started to set foot in travel websites, and entered CYTS online production website in July 2000, until now.

Ma Jia wrote two suicide notes for the trip.

On one occasion, 1998, Majia decided to travel to Tibet by train alone to celebrate her upcoming 30th birthday. Backpackers must be fully prepared in the early stage. Because the information is not comprehensive enough, Ma Jia doesn't know that there is no industrial and commercial bank in Tibet, and all the money is in Cary. Because she didn't have much cash on her, Ma Jia scrimped and saved all the way, eating only a steamed bun and a salted duck egg every day. On September 3rd, my 30th birthday, I had a six-dollar meal in Tibet for the first time, and I felt very sad at that time. But when she finally stood in front of Mount Everest, she burst into tears and had no regrets. This is Ma Jia's first backpacking trip, the longest time, one month and three days. Before going, Ma Jia wrote a suicide note without telling her family, because she knew that Tibet was a difficult journey. Although Ma Jia is full of curiosity and timidity about Tibet, her desire to go has overcome all difficulties and obstacles.

On the way to Tibet, it was raining heavily and the car was raining lightly. The weather is very cold, so I can only sleep on a stool at night, and my legs are frozen with arthritis. More than 400 kilometers of road, along the way, the vest was shivering with cold. When Ma Jia came back from Tibet, she told her parents the truth about her trip. At this time, she was already sallow and emaciated, but she had no regrets. Because of this trip to Tibet, her family sincerely admired her courage. Originally, her relatives and friends neither supported nor understood Ma Jia's trip. Up to now, inspired by Ma Jia, almost all of their families are tourists. Especially the three "silver-haired old donkeys" at home-Ma Jia's mother, second aunt and young aunt, and three retired white-haired old ladies, all became standard backpackers under the influence of Ma Jia. They often go together and become a unique scenery of tourist attractions.

I also wrote a suicide note at the end of April 2000. Ma Jia left alone 1 1 provinces, from Shennongjia, Hubei to Chongqing, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang and Henan, and then returned to Beijing for two whole months. Ma Jia said that traveling helped her the most. Before becoming a tourist, she couldn't understand many people and things. After falling in love with travel, she went to more places, increased her knowledge, experienced life and death tests and risks, and now all the problems that she couldn't figure out at first have been solved.

The vest said, "I belong to nature." Today, except Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, vest has never been there. She has been to 32 famous capital cities in China, and has also been to famous tourist attractions in various provinces. Now, the place that Ma Jia wants to go most is abroad. Her ideal is to visit 90 countries she is interested in, which is her goal. Ma Jia and Jiao met at a tourism seminar. Later, the two met and drove to Ejina Banner, Inner Mongolia. There is a lot of wind and sand on the road, and there are no road signs on the road. The car rolled down the ditch and returned to the ground smoothly. The scene at that time was extremely thrilling, and the two girls were incredibly fearless and extremely calm in a critical moment. This is also the most difficult trip for Jiao. Unlike Ma Jia, Jiao usually travels by car.

Seeing Jiao will unconsciously remind me of San Mao, a female writer who also loves traveling. Jiao is the public relations manager of a famous company. His greatest hobby is go on road trip, who writes travel notes while traveling, much like Sanmao. Her articles were published in Fashion Travel and City Pictorial, and she is a talented woman.

Jiao said that the interest in tourism is innate, not cultivated, and it is a nature to love tourism. As a child, Jiao yearned for the vagrant life of Gypsies, envied that they could drive anywhere in the world, their car was home, and followed them around the world. This unrestrained life, the simplest way of life and the richest content of life have always been Jiao's dream. Therefore, every weekend or holiday, Mr. Jiao always sets out with his backpack, escapes from the noisy metropolis and goes to the place where his soul yearns. There are always some people who like to stay away from the surrounding space and go to the suburbs to see other people's lives. At that time, time has stopped relative to people who travel far away, and tourists can stay away from the joys and sorrows of being outsiders.

Some people temporarily give up their fixed life and go to distant places to see beautiful mountains, waters, townships, towns, trees and flowers ..... while people with different lives breathe strange breath, make different friends, gain new feelings and touch deep feelings.

Traveling, wandering in nature, being a free person, getting close to nature, getting rid of bondage, and being as happy as a child during festivals and holidays, this is what travel brings us.

Say goodbye to the unchanging days, look at the dark blue sea, green leaves and beautiful strangers ... The world is a book, and those who don't travel can only see one page.

Jiao drove to Yunnan for the first time. It was 1997. Before leaving, Jiao booked an RV in Kunming. So, at Kunming airport, the coach has been waiting there quietly. From the appearance, it is no different from ordinary medium-sized buses, but it is very different as soon as it enters the carriage. This car has become a one-room structure, with the front of the car as the hall and converted into a train seat that can sit side by side for four people; At the back of the car is a bedroom, which has a double bed, a TV, a wardrobe and a luggage locker ... In the center of the car is a kitchen and a bathroom, where there are liquefied gas stoves, pots and pans ... and the equipment is very complete. This "home" made Jiao fall in love at once, and it accompanied Jiao on a short wandering career. Therefore, Jiao also gave this partner a nice name: Red Horse. In just 9 days, Red Horse accompanied her across nearly 4,000 kilometers. After the trip, Jiao could not bear to part with it.

Jiangnan water town has always been a fairy tale world in anxiety, as if there is always light rain in the sky, small bridges and flowing water, misty rain. Later, Jiao Wen took advantage of a long vacation and drove to the long-awaited Jiangnan water town. The driving route on this road is from Shanghai to Shaoxing to Anchang to Hangzhou to Nanxun to Xitang to Wuzhen to Nanjing. She visited six water towns in one breath.

In fact, Jiao's driving time is not long, only five years. Fortunately, she hasn't stopped driving since the first day she owned the car book. Her car is a Fukang car, which suits her very well. It's easy to drive, and everything is under control.

On the eve of the Spring Festival last year, Jiao saw on the Internet that some netizens collected travel companions to travel to the Xisha Islands together. She was the first to buy a plane ticket and flew to Haikou alone on New Year's Eve. Nine days later, netizens came to Haikou to meet her. A group of travel enthusiasts who chatted enthusiastically on the Internet finally met in real life. They rented a car in Haikou and drove to Sanya. All they talk about is travel. After going back and forth to Beijing, these people who love traveling often get together and drive to the scenic spots near Beijing together. This year 1 1 month, Jiao also drove to Daocheng, the border of Sichuan and Yunnan, to meet them. This place is one of the holy places in the eyes of backpackers. Living conditions are particularly difficult, but the natural environment is very beautiful. With the feeling of being a pilgrim, even if you are in hell, you will see heaven in your eyes.

Jiao Liwen said that she has a natural worship of nature. Her trip is to go to strange places and see how irrelevant people live. Every time she goes to a city, the people there move her.

Before I was interviewed, Jiao had just returned from a trip to Qinghai. She drove for a day and a night, and the road was very hard. Going to the expressway, Qinghai, the road conditions are very risky, and all the way is on pins and needles. But when I saw the beautiful scenery of Qinghai Lake, I didn't feel tired at all.

The scenery displayed by nature is not fixed, and every scenery is different. Because of his travel, Jiao also fell in love with photography. He is also a member of the Step Photography Club. This Spring Festival, she plans to travel to Hakka Tulou in Fujian. 1998 During the Spring Festival, Ma Jia and Aring Zhang met on the train to Changbai Mountain. Perhaps because of the same hobbies, two girls who grew up in Beijing suddenly became familiar. After some greetings, the two men admired each other. This is also because they are alone outside for the New Year, so they hit it off. In Changbai Mountain, they almost died. On that starry night, the two of them lost their way in the night view of Changbai Mountain. Snow fell on their knees, and the wind blew harder and harder, almost blowing them down. There are no pedestrians on the road, only the stars in the sky wink at them from time to time. Vest and Aring Zhang arm in arm, encouraging each other, and finally singing back to their residence. After this incident, the friendship between the two people deepened.

This has happened more than once. It was February 8, 2000. Ma Jia and Aring Zhang were traveling along the coast of Jiaodong Peninsula. One weekend, they wanted to go to the seaside, but they didn't want to take the regular sand road and wanted to take a shortcut. So the two men walked in the sea in swimsuits, but when they got deep in the water, the waves became more and more rough, and they realized that it was too risky. But there was no turning back, and the two men went ashore arm in arm again.

Another time, in Huangguoshu Scenic Area in Guizhou, Ma Jia and Aring Zhang got lost in the mountains. They have to cross a river to get to expressway. It was already dark and the river was flowing fast. Ma Jia and Aring Zhang also took to the road hand in hand. After I went to expressway, I saw many male migrant workers looking at them by the roadside. Being in a foreign land, they ran to a village and rented a car before returning to Huangguoshu Scenic Area.

Aring Zhang seems to be only in her twenties, but she has swam across the river. She said that she was very independent since she was a child. When I was in primary school, I traveled to Xiamen and Hainan with my family every winter and summer vacation. 1999, I went to Zhouzhuang with my backpack and came back after playing for four days. Because I have a regular job, I use my vacation time every time I travel.

In life, Aring Zhang claimed to be an introvert. I asked her what her blood type was, and she said it was type A. Interestingly, in this interview, Ma Jia, Jiao He are all type A blood. Aring Zhang's personality has changed a lot since he started backpacking. Maybe the more you experience on the journey, the more mature you will be. Aring Zhang is used to healing on the journey, watching the scenery and regaining the strength of life. When she came to a strange city and walked into the green mountains and green waters, she found that her pain was too small.

The most unforgettable time in Aring Zhang's travel career was Valentine's Day in 200 1 year. She went to Huangshan alone. February 14, Huangshan was foggy and the air was fresh. She stood on the top of the mountain and watched the sunrise and sunset for four days. This is a romantic feeling that a person enjoys loneliness. While in Huangshan Mountain, Aring Zhang remembered a short message sent to her by a friend who also likes to travel in Zhenjiang: "Early autumn in the north of the Yangtze River and bloom in the south of the Yangtze River are endless. She always lives in duckweed and wanders around. "

Travel is the continuation of Aring Zhang's life. Next stop, Aring Zhang will go to Qinghai and Xinjiang with his backpack alone.