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People start travel blogs for all kinds of fine reasons:\n\n- to keep their family and friends posted while on a big trip\n- have a personal diary of their travels \n- create a lasting memory of the trips and people they've traveled with\n- and, of course, build a big audience and monetize the blog to finance future travels\n \nA quick Google search for the term \"travel blog\" today yields over a million results and, according to Google Trends, interest in \"start a travel blog\" has been increasing significantly in recent years.\n\n### Why Not To Start A Travel Blog\n\nBlogging is hard work! Anyone's who has become a successful blogger, will confirm that. And while it may seem obvious, it cannot be emphasized enough. Beyond the technical requirements of getting you up and running, think about what it takes to plan and produce unique, inspiring content on a regular basis, promote that content, interact with readers. 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It's not easy or possible to embed custom maps or map widgets that would show directions, trails or points of interest, or tag places easily to give your readers a better way to follow your journey. Often photo layout options are limited too.\n\nHosted with site builder like GoDaddy, WIX, Weebly, Squarespace (freemium/paid): The most common way of setting up a web presence these days, though in most cases limited travel website templates or functionality aimed at travel writers, as pointed out above. On the plus side, you can often fully customize the sites to give them your own look and feel (or pay a web designer to help you with that). \n\nHosted with travel-specific blogging platform like Uncharted (free): One of the motivations for starting Uncharted was to address the particular needs of travel writers while giving them a world-class editor that publishes beautiful to web and mobile interfaces, with an easy way to integrate powerful maps, beautifully laid out photos and videos, and easy tagging of the places visited. More importantly, rather than starting with zero traffic, travel writers can quickly build an audience through exposure in Uncharted's community. Learn more here.\n\nYou can find plenty of advice on each of them and how to set them up on other blogs so we won't spend too much time on this topic here.\n\n## Time to Write!\n\n### Have A Plan\n\nOf course you could just start and see what happens. But it's nice to have a plan to be able to learn from comparing what you think will happen to what actually happens. \n\nHow often are you aiming to post a story? It's a good idea to come up with a rough plan, make a list, especially when traveling for a longer period of time. For example, you could try to post a story once a week, maybe take notes throughout the week and then have some time blocked on your calendar to finalize and publish your story.\nAre you going to stick to a particular format? Especially when growing your audience, some readers may get used to a particular format e.g. providing a summary of the post in the beginning or starting with a fun anecdote. If you roughly have an idea of the format it will help you plan and collect collateral for your post throughout the week.\nAre people loving your content? Where is your referral traffic coming from? Make sure you get feedback from your readers and understand what's working and what's not.\n\n### Write Your First Post\n\nYour first post. It can be a bit daunting get started and click \"publish\" that first time and share your article with your friends and family ... and the entire world. Well, you're probably feeling the pressure, so here's some of our favorite advice to help you make it a good one!\n\n\"Use anecdotes and scenes in your storytelling\", recommends Julie Schwietert on her blog. Stories that linearly talk about every single activity, meal are just not that interesting to most readers. \n\n\"Writing is like painting a picture; you need the tiny details as much as the broad brush strokes in order to bring the scene to life for your reader\", recommend the Adventurists. 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      "body": "Kyoto, Japan's old capital, is one of the most amazing cities to explore by foot. I have been twice and can't wait to go back. Below are the highlights of our itinerary. We fly into Osaka's  Kansai International Airport and took an airport bus to the train station in Kyoto which took us about 1.5 hours. \n\n Our plan was to spend three full days in Kyoto and do day trips to  Tokyo and  Nara. Below is the itinerary for our 3 day visit. \n\n## Accommodation\n\nWe had Hyatt points so decided to make the  Hyatt Regency Kyoto our home base and were positively surprised that it had a very unique, different feel than its cousins abroad - the architecture and interior design were very tasteful and the room, overlooking the courtyard garden, an oasis of quite and peacefulness. We loved the little details, like the bathrobe kimonos.   \n\n ![Screen Shot 2017-10-24 at 10.31.53 AM.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbgcZ8tRfRPcPm1PADzfirGgijeWVCYqD67BbyB2bYPJD/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-24%20at%2010.31.53%20AM.png)\n* Hyatt Regency Kyoto* \n\nWe arrived after dark and despite being tired from traveling we were eager to see the old town and so decided to go on an evening walk. Few people were out and most of the restaurants had closed - it was kind of a magical experience. Highly recommend! \n\n ![Screen Shot 2017-10-24 at 10.32.39 AM.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmS1AGwNRDqhQNKbu7TfcB6HQWqByNCLvwxqzNL6K5ETrn/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-24%20at%2010.32.39%20AM.png)\n\nAfterwards, we decided to just sample a few Japanese whiskeys in the downstairs hotel bar.\n \n## Day 1\n\nWe were a little tired from traveling and given the heavy rain, we decided to stay close to the hotel. \n\nWhat ended up being one of our favorite Buddhist temples that we visited, is just a short 5 minute walk from the hotel:  Sanjūsangen-dō.. The main hall has one thousand life-size statues of the 'Thousand Armed Kannon' and standing among them and letting yourself be carried away by the ambience of the space was a very unique experience, especially as this was the first temple on our trip. \n\n  ![Screen Shot 2017-10-24 at 10.32.58 AM.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTiwNGUA4q4UUxPjMzmnUCnmfu3NFSYF69bjouXvxGeoz/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-24%20at%2010.32.58%20AM.png)\n*Sanjūsangen-dō *\n\nIn the afternoon, we visited the  Kyoto National Museum. which is one of Japan's oldest and most prestigious art museums. A great place to learn about the local culture and escaping the rain for a few hours! \n\n## Day 2\n\nWe woke up to gray skies but luckily it wasn't raining when we started our walk. First stop was  Kiyomizu-dera, one of the must-see, iconic temples in Kyoto on top of Mount Otowa, a 20 minutes walk from the  Hyatt Regency Kyoto.\n \n![Screen Shot 2017-10-24 at 10.34.41 AM.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmVe2oejwBTuC1d5UtrQEjC9YM7sBxiks5Xt8LC7GZKz8h/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-24%20at%2010.34.41%20AM.png)\n* Kiyomizu-dera *\n\nOur next planned stops were the  Chion-in Temple and the  Shoren-in Monzeki Temple, both a short walk from  Kiyomizu-dera. Since there's a lot to see along the way, we ended up getting there only early afternoon, as we were taking our time, sometimes venturing off the main road, exploring a side alley or some of the smaller shrines and temples.\n \n![Screen Shot 2017-10-24 at 10.35.40 AM.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXLgonPp2Hr4W83xxWogUEMePAsja413Ca4h78NfuJNVd/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-24%20at%2010.35.40%20AM.png)\n*Entry gate at  Chion-in and gardens at  Shoren-in Monzeki Temple *\n\n## Day 3\n\nYou can't go to Kyoto without visiting  Fushimi Inari Taisha, a Shinto shrine in Southern Kyoto. It is famous for its thousands of orange torii gates. To get there, take a train from  Kyoto Station to  Fushimi-Inari Station.\n \n![Screen Shot 2017-10-24 at 10.36.15 AM.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmcnAaijjdZCWVwhCJdCh8gQMP1krGSXC1xMd8UbNTRfaQ/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-24%20at%2010.36.15%20AM.png)\n* Fushimi Inari Taisha *\n\nWe ended up spending the better part of the day walking around  Fushimi Inari Taisha and it was nice to not just rush through (which is what you are often tempted to do simply because there is so much to see) it but take a little breaks along the way, stop for a picnic or simply people-watch and taking in the atmosphere.\n\n## A Word on Food...\n\nBetween great street food and Kyoto's many Michelin star restaurants, there's something for everyone. Most days rather than doing a sit-down lunch, in order to save some time, we opted for supermarket onigiris, a popular triangle seaweed wrapped rice snack and tried to find a small, local izakaya for dinner, depending on what part of town we were in. \n\n![Screen Shot 2017-10-24 at 10.36.57 AM.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPfwKAJemcZ5Xm417myYzCm962XKVx85gkab5APgXMVDg/Screen%20Shot%202017-10-24%20at%2010.36.57%20AM.png) \n*Japanese lunch snacks, a typical lunch combo and a small izakaya in the old center of Kyoto*",
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