Pinay Traveler Shares Experience during Tours in Asia and Eastern Europe Countries in Video
Pinay traveler and vlogger Kim Cordenete shared her story on how she was able to tour 19 countries in Asia and Eastern Europe alone in one year with minimal budget.
Are you one of the people who dream of seeing other countries in the world? However, you might also be one of those individuals who are hesitant to do so thinking your funds may be limited for international travels.
On different social media platforms and video-sharing platform YouTube, a Pinay traveler and vlogger, Kim Cordenete, who also goes by the online name “Auntie Kim” shared her pursuit of traveling 19 countries in one year only.
Not only that, Kim also cited her total expenditures for visiting 19 countries in Asia and Eastern Europe in a year — which is fairly unexpected compared to the number of nations that she’s been to and, surely, the multitude of priceless experience she got in visiting these nations.
According to the 26-year-old Pinay traveler, it is really her dream to travel the world, visit places unfamiliar to her, and explore the unknown things. She believes that her self-growth have taken place after she went out from her comfort zone.
“For me to travel is not a luxury. It is something that I must do,” she said in a video that she posted on YouTube in the pursuit of sharing her experience.
According to Kim, she did not visit the places abroad but also experienced life there and talked to other people. The dream started when she was still schooling that she even took a tourism course. She had part-time jobs while in college and started saving money when she was still a student.
She also adjusted her standard of living most especially when her father lost his job. She studied in Singapore and had to work double to pay for her school fees. According to her, she even had a 22,000 Singaporean Dollar-bank loan when she graduated in 2018. She paid for it until 2020.
There were a lot of challenges for Kim including the passing of her mother. Meanwhile, she did not give up on her dream and she also prioritized saving. She revealed that, ever since, she did not have her own room in Singapore.
The Pinay traveler went to 19 countries in Asia and Eastern Europe from October 12, 2022 to October 28, 2023 or exactly 381 days. Her total expenditure was Php 583,200. According to her, there were several great experiences but there were also moments of homesickness. She also got to talk to a lot of strangers in the countries she visited.
Auntie Kim visited the following nations:
- Nepal
- Thailand
- Laos
- India
- Cambodia
- Vietnam
- Hong Kong
- Macau
- Taiwan
- Mongolia
- Kazakhstan
- Uzbekistan
- Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan
- United Arab Emirates
- Armenia
- Georgia
- Singapore
- Malaysia
The Pinay traveler believes that people are not meant to stay in one place citing that even Jesus travelled. She wants to be an inspiration to other people by showing that travelling is actually possible even with little money. Here’s a video posted on YouTube: