Pack Your Bag and Go

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Thuy Thi Ngoc Pham

Language : Vietnamese

Title :  Xách ba lô lên và Đi (Pack Your Bag and Go)

Author : Huyền Chip

Year: 2012

Summary

Huyen Chip, the author of the book Pack Your Bag and Go is a personal travel diary of her extraordinary life experiences. She also intends to show, from this book, her future children what great things she has done when she was very young. Furthermore, Huyen Chip traveled by herself without a cell phone to 27 countries from Asia to Africa, starting out at the young age of  20 years and with only $700 in her wallet.  Her book shares Huyen Chip's feelings, challenges, and failures during her the trips. There are 2 parts: “Asia is home. "Don’t cry" and “Never die in Africa”. 

Everything happened when she was working in Malaysia. Huyen Chip was stressed with her job, so she decided to get out of the rut by traveling to Brunei. Her money wasn't enough for traveling too far, so she had to find a job in every country she visited.  She used to be tour guide, and share a small room with a man. Huyen Chip went hiking in Kuching. What's more, she ate worm for the very first time in her life. 

Moreover, in Africa, she underwent extreme loneliness, physical collapse, starvation, and abandonment. Huyen Chip was also haunted with a disease. She said that: “I never intended to teach anyone any commandments, and critics do not expect to read my book. Please see me as the writer and are recounted the journey that I went through."

Recommendation

Pack Your Bag and Go is a travel diary of Huyen Chip's amazing adventure. The first book of her travel  diary was published in September 2012 and became an instant bestseller in Vietnam. Huyen Chip also hosts a column about her travels on Tien Phong - a Vietnam's national newspaper. Her experiences are very bona fide and quite realistic. Huyen Chip's narrative also shares about what she had learned from her journey. She isn’t good at writing; she just writes what inspired her to write. When I read it, I learned that everyone have to have a dream. Even though it is crazy and impossible, we should give it a try.