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Why do I like traveling?

If we look to the world map, how many countries on this universe? There are 195 countries in the world. Do you think, you can visit all these countries in your entire life? Of course not ! Many people living on this planet, they could not even afford to pay for a holiday in their own country.

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I grew up in during the war and in a very poor family in Battambang city, Cambodia. When I was 3 years old, I always heard many shooting gun and bomb every day. In the morning, I saw many dead bodies were lying on the ground. My world was very small and full with Horror. I never think that, I could even survive until now and have my own family. My father was always kept telling me and my two younger sisters, when we were in the banker. He said, It will be fine son, if you are looking up to the sky, you can see the world is big.

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There are a lot of things to see and to learn. You should never give up in your life and always follow your dream and love what you do. I knew, he kept telling me that, because he did not want us to be scare, but I realize that it is true what he said to me.

My parent had 9 children, but 4 children die in during the war. They are older than me. I never seen them before, even their picture.

You do not even have money to support your family, how can you manage to travel?

We should never give up in life and always look further. Most important thing you can do is, to make a clear decisions. Keep asking to your self, what do you want for your future?

You like to have an expensive mobile phone, a fancy car, a big villa, to travel around the world? Of course you can, if you are rich. Otherwise, you need to make a choice between buying an expensive car, better buy a cheaper car and keep the money for travel.

Lets me tell you, how did I manage with all my travels.

After my father died, I was a big brother in the family. I could not finish even high school. I had to make money to support the whole family and I still had my dream, that I wanted to travel around the world. In the years of 2000, I became a motor-taxi driver in my home town called Battambang in Cambodia. At that time, the tourists started to come to visit Cambodia. I decided to learn English from a monk in a pagoda. Only 6 months, I could communicate with tourists already, but I could not write any English yet.

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I heard lot of nice stories from tourists with their traveled experience, made me feel that, I could not wait anymore to discover the world.
I moved to live in a city called Siem reap. It is very touristic place in Cambodia and it is a place of my first traveled. I was a motor-taxi driver and a tour guide over there. I lived there for two years, then I got a job from a big tour company. I became a tour leader for four countries. Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. With my job, I met many people from different countries around the world.

Of course, as nice single guy like me, I met many beautiful tourists girls with different nationalities across the world.

In the end, I met the right one for my whole life.

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I met my girl friend in Cambodia, when she just finished with her study and she traveled around Cambodia. We felt in love and we have been living together in Cambodia for a year. One year later, I moved to live with her in the Netherlands. We have two beautiful daughters together. Me and my girl friend, we have the same dream. We love traveling.

Cheaper way of travel

First make a plan, which country you would like to go and visit. Then, book the plan ticket or a hotel three months before. If you get a chance, better travel in a low season, when there are not much tourist in a place that, you wish to go and everything will be cheaper for you. If you want to buy something or eat something, its should be in a local area. Do not buy or eat something in a touristic place, because the price can be double and you will know nothing about local life.

If you are traveling around Europe or in an expensive country, a cheaper way to sleep in a hostel or go for a camp. If you have no money to travel, you can try to find a job in a place that you wanted to go. That's what I did. When, you are traveling a lone will not make you feel happy. Mostly you feel very lonely. It is good to open your self to other traveler by having a chat with them. You can even share a room together if you are feel close together.

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How many country, I have been already?

First, I have been around in my own country Cambodia, then to Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Spain, Japan, Greece, Poland. Total 17 countries. I don't know, if I can traveling around the world in my whole life, but it is always still in my dream.

Please always follow your dream and love what you do and never give up in life.

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Thanks readers, I hope you enjoy with my dream of traveling around the world.

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Greeting from @chanthasam

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