Chao News client reporter Zou Chen Huang Huixian.
In the New Year of the Dragon, we ushered in the longest Spring Festival holiday in history.
In the circle of friends, in addition to the photos of the New Year on the spot or returning to the hometown for the New Year, there are many enviable tourist location positioning.
With the popularity of "Erbin" in China, the competition for involution of cultural tourism in various places, and the continuous expansion of the overseas "Chinese visa-free circle of friends", many young people who have been withdrawn from busy study and work have decided to "change their posture for the New Year" and celebrate the New Year on the journey, especially after outbound travel has returned to normal, it has become a popular choice for people to "go".
Kantar China and Xiaohongshu jointly produced the "2024 Chinese New Year Youth Social Media Trend Insights".
According to the "2024 Chinese New Year Youth Social Media Trend Insights" jointly produced by Kantar China and Xiaohongshu, 18 to 35-year-olds play a major role in the decision-making of the Year of the Dragon, and 18% of them choose to travel during the Chinese New Year.
What is the driving force for this wave of young people who go abroad to spend the Spring Festival? All gone**? What are the different experiences? The Chao News reporter found a few and chatted with them.
The distance is close and cost-effective.
Traveling for the New Year has become a trend
Liu Yawen, a "post-90s" girl who works as a producer in a film and television company in Beijing, flew to Japan on the third day of the Lunar New Year to start a New Year's trip with friends who work there.
Liu Yawen said that during the Spring Festival, it was just in time for a friend's three consecutive holidays, so he chose this time to go abroad. In the first few days of the Spring Festival with her parents in Shandong, she set off directly from Qingdao and arrived at Haneda Airport in Japan in just over 2 hours - the distance is close, and the air ticket is not expensive.
Liu Yawen traveled in Japan and took **. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
In the past few days, Liu Yawen has been very satisfied after visiting Tokyo, Lake Kawaguchi, Kamakura and other places, and eating the restaurant food specially booked for him by his friends in advance. "My trip was planned 2 months in advance, so the air tickets and hotel bookings were relatively smooth, and the consumption level was similar to that in Beijing. Liu Yawen said that some friends around him temporarily decided to come to Japan to watch Taylor Swift's concert or Hisaishi Rang**, and the cost would be more.
Liu Yawen traveled in Japan and took **. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
This trip to Japan is actually not the first time Liu Yawen has spent the Spring Festival abroad. Previously, she had spent the Chinese New Year in the UK for two consecutive years, and Liu Yawen was deeply impressed by the colorful Spring Festival activities of the local Chinese, the interaction organized by the chambers of commerce of various provinces, and the strong New Year atmosphere in China town.
I feel that traveling for the New Year is becoming a new year's custom, and I want to take my family to travel to countries I have not been to next year. During the Chinese New Year this year, Liu Yawen found that many of his friends went to Abu Dhabi, Egypt, Germany, Singapore, Thailand and other places. In her opinion, sometimes traveling abroad can even cost less than going to some distant cities in China, and traveling abroad for the Chinese New Year can be a fun and economical new experience.
Also going to Japan for the Chinese New Year is Xiao Xiang, who is currently working in a foreign company in Shanghai, and he travels around the world on weekdays, and this year decided to take his parents to Japan and spend the New Year with them abroad for the first time.
Xiao Xiang's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner prepared in the hotel. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Traveling while the New Year is very cost-effective, than lying down at home to rest and mix a holiday is worth a lot, considering that the popular attractions in China during the holiday are crowded, ** is not very cheap, so decisively chose a foreign country, after all, bring your parents out, the sense of experience is the most important. Xiao Xiang said that in the past two days in Japan, his parents brushed up on **, saying that the *** scenic spot was crowded, and he was able to understand his decision and choice at once.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, he and his parents prepared a special Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in a hotel in Tokyo with ingredients from local supermarkets in Japan, and also broadcast the domestic Spring Festival Gala live broadcast through the hotel TV's youtube**, in his opinion, from childhood to adulthood, he spent the New Year with his parents at home "formatted", and this year when he went abroad, he could have a New Year's atmosphere, and the most important thing was that the family was happy and reunited.
Watch the Spring Festival Gala at a local hotel. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
In the past two days, Xiao Xiang's family went north to Hokkaido, and checked in Asari, Otaru and other places.
The Spring Festival meets the longest holiday
Spending 20,000 young people to the Maldives thinks it's worth it
Lost contact from time to time, 6 days and 17 dives of the Spring Festival military training began! On February 11, the second day of the Lunar New Year, Tong Hanghang's positioning in the Maldives' "unique" circle of friends attracted many praises.
Tong Hanghang is a "post-90s" Northeast girl who works in an Internet company in Hangzhou. During the Spring Festival this year, Tong Hanghang's husband returned to his hometown in Liaoning for the New Year, so she had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with friends in Shanghai, and flew to the Maldives on the first day of the new year.
A group photo of the group with their passports when they set off. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Compared with a vacation on the island, Tong Hanghang chose a more affordable "liveaboard" trip. "There are more than 20 people in a boat, and most of the time we don't go ashore, so we take the boat to dive near different islands, and we have been to three or four islands so far. Tong Hanghang is a diving enthusiast, and this year's Spring Festival holiday is very suitable for long-distance liveaboards, so as soon as she heard about this rare diving activity in the Maldives, she immediately signed up.
The blue sky and blue sea, the warm sea breeze, the sandy beach, all kinds of sharks swimming in the sea, and a series of scenery constitute the outline of Tong Hanghang's Spring Festival trip.
Great views on the way to the liveaboard. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
We're going to see the whale sharks later! In the interview, Tong Hanghang said excitedly that this year is his first time abroad for the New Year, and he has not dived for 4 years. "There is no signal on the ship, so I can't swipe my mobile phone, we people from Tiannan and Haibei often chat together, and the relationship has become familiar, and I also found out that a little friend is actually working in the same building as me! ”
Speaking of the cost of this Spring Festival trip, Tong Hanghang calculated an economic account to reporters: round-trip air tickets are more than 7,000 yuan, and liveaboard and diving fees totaled more than 10,000 ......"I spent about 20,000 yuan to go to the Maldives, it's worth it! Tong Hanghang said with a smile.
The extraordinary experience of underwater diving. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
I didn't go home for the Spring Festival this year, and Tong Hanghang had already made a plan in his heart. She plans to return to her hometown of Heilongjiang to visit her parents in May this year, when the weather is warmer. "Now there are many people from other places in the Northeast, and air tickets are expensive, so it's not too late to wait for festivals like the Dragon Boat Festival to go back, and my mother will come to Hangzhou to see me this spring." Tong Hanghang said.
Check in Kilimanjaro and collect the "Five Giants of Africa".
Celebrate Chinese New Year's Eve with locals and tourists from all over the world
The farthest and smallest overseas Chinese New Year contestant in the circle of friends is the "post-90s" girl Yancy who went to the East African savannah to experience the most authentic and primitive nature.
After a long period of hectic experience, Yancy decided to reward herself with a no-burden vacation to the places she had always longed for since childhood, visiting Tanzania and Kenya to chase the snow of Kilimanjaro.
African elephants and Kilimanjaro in the sun. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
She and her husband set off two days ago, landed at Kilimanjaro Airport, booked a local guide, and took them along the vast African continent and into the animal kingdom. In this most uncivilized land, chasing lions, chasing leopards, chasing black rhinos, watching wildebeest cross the river, gathering the figure of the "African Five", and all kinds of wild animals "contact", lions once directly under their car to take a nap.
One night they slept in the tent, listening to the lion's cry outside the tent all night, and just the day before yesterday, they squatted for more than two hours, chasing the beautiful Kilimanjaro Snow Mountain in the sun with African elephants, giraffes, and zebras.
African lions surround pedestrian vehicles. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Wildlife in the East African savannah. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
When I was a child, I read comics, and when I grew up, I read books written by 'The Green Mountains of Africa', and I fulfilled my dream, which is an experience that I will never forget in my life, and I really like the feeling brought by this warm humanity and pure nature, galloping on the Serengeti savannah, constantly exploring, searching, facing the unknown, and harvesting surprises. Yancy sighed.
Although it is thousands of miles away, the sense of ritual of the New Year has not yet fallen.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, Julius, a local guide in Tanzania, secretly contacted the hotel and prepared a surprise New Year's cake for Yancy and her husband. At dinner, the lights in all the restaurants suddenly went out, and more than a dozen waiters played tambourine and sang the songs of the prairie, and walked straight to them, wishing them a happy new year over and over again. Later, she distributed the cake to visitors from all over the world in the restaurant, inviting them to share the joy of the Chinese New Year of the Dragon.
A local New Year's cake for Mr. and Mrs. Yancy. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
I often don't get enough sleep, but I always have a lot of energy", this is the daily life in Africa shared by Yancy to her circle of friends, this trip is undoubtedly lucky for her, many scenes are beautiful that many people can only enjoy in books and TV for a lifetime.
The character in the article, Yancy is a pseudonym).
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