The traveling accounts to follow on Snapchat
Snapchat it has become a temporary window to many corners of the world. Every day hundreds of users generate unique content about their trips. Mobile in hand, the most intrepid adventurers tell their story, allowing users of the application can witness their adventures.
Thus, Snapchat makes it possible for someone who is on the way to work in the Madrid metro to be digitally in front of the culinary specialty of a local restaurant in Bangkok. However, the possibility of contemplating that typical dish it only lasts a few hours . Afterwards, the memory disappears and the window to that concrete experience closes. Real and virtual experiences are equal: now both are ephemeral.
The Blonde Abroad in China
When Snapchat was born in 2011 it was cataloged as an app for teenagers . It allowed users to send images directly to one of their contacts and select how long the recipient could see that message — 1 to 10 seconds — before it was destroyed.
However, the application continued to develop and in 2013 it started allowing its users to share “stories” , a chronological account of photos and videos that is available to all his followers for 24 hours before fading completely.
This condition is one of the key points of the app . Digital experiences disappear quickly, in a close up much more realistic to daily life , in which we cannot rewind to enjoy the same moment over and over again or freeze it with the intention of lengthening it over time. Provisionally, the app and the travelers who use it connect through a virtual corridor that unites two remote corners of the globe and that allows adventurers and users to contemplate the same reality.
The Vagabrothers in Mendoza City (Argentina)
Now Snapchat goes one step further and has turned places into protagonists . Every day they select a location or an event to endow it with its own virtual history and make it the protagonist of the 'Live Story' of that date , a compilation of snap —videos and photos— of users who are in a specific place or event and who send the content to be part of that collective story.
Contributions are moderated by Snapchat, which chooses which are part of the narrative, group and temporal. As usual, after 24 hours, the clock ticks and the virtual dream fades. But before that, Coachella, the Tour de France, Tomorrowland, the Quidditch World Cup —yes, you read that right— or San Francisco —among many other cities— receive their moment of attention. Snapchat makes it easy for those who dream of traveling and can't do it to have the opportunity to spy through a peephole from their phones, to know a vibrant reality thousands of kilometers away.
Tell your ephemeral story
The potential traveler of the application is so high that has already given rise to its own show. the british company Top Deck has hosted three editions of his **Topdeck Snaps**, the first travel show ever held on Snapchat. Year after year, for a week, users can follow a traveler on a concrete adventure financed by the company.
In the first edition, the youtuber ** James Hill ** shared his journey through different European cities. In the most recent Skye Burkin he spent seven days in New Zealand. Bungee jumping, majestic glaciers and the charismatic Kiwi accent were just part of the claims of the trip that users were able to follow daily through videos and photos on this traveler's account.
In the end, watching the adventurers also becomes part of the experience. They are the protagonists of the route and how we live the trip will depend on them. If you have decided to launch yourself into discovering these virtual adventures, here is a list with some recommendations so that you let yourself be guided by the best. You will witness incredible experiences. Virtual and ephemeral, yes, but unique.
**Kate McCulley —Adventurous Kate—** left her job to travel around the world. Five years later and with more than 60 countries visited , she continues her route around the globe. Her style is very personal and direct: she is not shy about making jokes or sharp comments, so following her Snapchat not only takes you to far corners, but also offers a good dose of humor.
Travelers and youtubers ** Marko and Alex Ayling —the Vagabrothers— ** use a different style to narrate their experiences on each social network. Snapchat brings us its most relaxed version and all those images that are left out of his more serious videos but which, precisely, recount the funniest and most extravagant realities of his travels.
** Drew —The Hungry Partier— ** has been sharing his travel experiences on Snapchat since 2012, although he had already been running his blog for several years. He has visited more than 74 countries and shows both the good and the bad moments of the traveler. He is also a window to different festivals in the world , since he loves music and partying.
Drew will show you his traveling life in more than 74 countries
**Krista Simmons** is a culinary adventurer. Although her snaps are quite hungry, she travels around the world in search of the best delicacies is worthy of virtual attention.
** Kiersten —The Blonde Abroad— ** is a Californian who has already made stops on five continents. With a constant flow of videos and images, this traveler takes us to festivals, beaches and cities full of life around the world. She has, like most of them, a blog in which, in addition to narrating her adventures, she offers advice for those travelers who want to go on a tour of the globe.
Through these adventurers, Snapchat allows you to escape, at least for a few seconds, to some different and remote place and learn something about its culture and gastronomy, so wherever you are, do you travel?