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　　Every time we see something new, we wish to document it in some form or another. Our pleasure at experiencing something new or even re-visiting something we have seen before is enhanced when we share it with others. If your travel stories are written well, the appreciation from known and unknown persons alike are the greatest rewards for those travel stories could bring。

　　When you write your travel stories, bear the following in mind。

　　Memory

　　Don’t trust your memory. No matter how photographic your memory is, when you are travelling, you are bombarded with extensive visual and audio treats. While you are admiring and enjoying them, when you return to write about your travel stories, you are bound forget something. Make notes, take photographs, take videos and, if possible, orally record what you see。

　　Notes

　　Keep a small notepad and record what you see. You can elaborate on what you see and write it in your personal style without missing anything。

　　Photographs

　　Photographs are very useful for you to recall what you saw. You can describe your experiences simply by recalling what you felt when you clicked the photographs。

　　Length of your travel stories

　　When you are writing about your travel stories, make sure it is not too short as your reader may not get the full impact of your story and make sure it is not too long that the reader gets bored with excessive adjective usage。

　　Format and content of your travel stories

　　While writing your travel stories, don’t write it without breaks. Break it into paragraphs. Use images to show what you saw and help readers feel what you felt. While images help you share what you saw, the combinations of many factors will not reveal itself in the photograph – the lighting, the sight combined with sounds, the wind and the smells around – this is where your description of the sensations and feelings that you went through in your experience will help your readers understand and live the experience through you。

　　Popular factors while writing about your travel stories

　　Make sure your articles contain popular factors so that the reader finds your travel stories not only enjoyable to read, but useful as well. Popular factors are food, places to eat, places to stay, what to look out for while travelling in a strange land, how to steer clear of the mistakes you made, how to make the best use of what you found useful and finally what to do about the things you missed or wished you did。

　　每次看到一些新鲜的事物，我们都希望能够以某种形式记录下来。把这些经历拿来分享的时候，体验新事物甚至重温旧事物时的愉悦感都会得到加强。如果你的旅途见闻写得好，那些来自认识的人以及陌生人的评价便是这些旅途见闻能带给你的最好的回报。当你准备写旅途见闻时，要谨记以下几点。

　　记忆

　　不要相信自己的记忆。旅途中大量的视觉和听觉信息不断涌入，当时你会不胜感叹、乐在其中，但是当你回过头来记录旅途见闻的时候，不管你的记忆是多么活灵活现，你必然会遗忘一些事情。要在旅途中做记录、拍照片、录影，如果有可能的话，用录音的形式口述你的见闻。

　　文字

　　带一个小记事本，记录下你的见闻。你可以详尽地描述所见所闻，按照自己的风格一字不漏地写下来。

　　照片

　　照片在你回忆所见所闻的时候非常有用。你只需回想一下你在拍照那一刻的感受，便可描述出你的经历。

　　旅途杂记的长度

　　你在写旅途见闻的时候，要确保篇幅不要太短，以致于你的读者领略不全其中的魅力；也要确保篇幅不要太长，以致于你的读者厌倦了大量的描述之语。

　　旅途杂记的格式及内容

　　写旅途杂记的时候， 不要“马不停蹄”，应采用多段的形式。借助图片展示你的视界，并帮助读者体会你的感受。旅途见闻是一个多元素的综合体，尽管图片能帮你分享你的所见，却不能将你的全部体验展现：闪电、声画合一的景象、风以及周围的气味——你在旅途中经历的这些感觉和感受有助于你的读者体会，并通过你得到身临其境的感觉。你要将这些感受描述下来。

　　旅途杂记中的流行因素

　　确保你的文章包含一些流行因素，这样你的读者就会发现你的旅途杂记不仅读起来有趣，而且还很有用。流行因素包括食物、吃饭的处所、住宿的地点、在陌生环境下应该提防的事项、如何避免你犯过的错误、如何最大限度地利用你发现的有用的东西，最后，对于你错过的机会或希望自己实现的一些想法有何建议。