Chen Fei: Wepay travels around the world

Many young people like to travel abroad, enjoy exotic customs, and even travel around the world. However, the high cost is a headache. Chen Fei, from Taiyuan, came up with a clever idea: send interesting photos taken during the trip to foreign websites and exchange them for money through "micro pay". He has traveled to more than 30 countries such as Eritrea, Kiribati, and Iran in this refreshing and fashionable way of traveling, and has gained novelty and surprise, friendship and love along the way.

Personality "lone ranger", once for "poor money" trouble

Perhaps after reading too many adventure works such as Robinson Crusoe and Crossing Africa, Chen Fei's biggest dream when he was young was to travel around the world, especially Africa and the Middle East, where there were too many mysteries in his eyes. The only way to realize this dream is to be a diplomat. They can fly all over the world at public expense. That's what Chen thought, and he went to BFSU, where he learned English, Russian, and Arabic as refreshing as fruit.

The result was very disappointing. The diplomat was not treated as such and had to stay in a translation company in Beijing. The salary was good and the boss appreciated his business skills. But the boy was wild and went to Kenya Africa on his first vacation in 2006. Chen Fei's father is a veteran photographer whose work has appeared on Chinese postage stamps. Perhaps influenced by his father, he traveled to Yunnan, Xinjiang, and Tibet with his traveling friends when he was in college.

Chen Fei loves photography and likes to take pictures of things ignored by others with his unique perspectives, such as wild donkeys running in groups in no man's land in northern Tibet and the life of the descendants of the Daolang people in Xinjiang. These photos always make people's eyes shine, not only fresh but also can add a lot of insight.

Covering an area of 580,000 square kilometers, Kenya is almost entirely covered by grassland and forest. It is both a natural kingdom of African plants and a paradise for wild animals, which is what attracts Chen Fei most. "The low thatched huts of the tribes, the desolate desert, the scrawny children with big heads, I believe this is what many people think of as Africa." Chen Fei says our understanding is too far behind. When he arrived in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, he found a city no worse than many Southeast Asian capitals -- stocked with hypermarkets, soaring office buildings, and a garden-like embassy district. The northeast corner of Mombasa faces the Indian Ocean coastline, and there are many beautiful beach resorts, where the blue sea, blue sky, and white sand beaches, it the "heaven on earth" in the eyes of Hollywood stars.

One of the rarest sights in Kenya, Chen said, is the annual wildebeest migration. Every June, the dry season begins in Tanzania's Serengeti Plain, and the vegetation Withers, forcing millions of wildebeest there to migrate to Kenya's steppe lakes. To avoid predators and injuries, they are often in groups of lightning and do not stay. So here's the picture: thousands of wildebeests, tens of kilometers long, in a mighty, earth-shaking, dusty rush across the Mara River into the Masai Mara in Kenya, for more than 500 kilometers. In November of that year, these millions of wildebeests cross the Mara River and return to Tanzania's Serengeti Plains.

Every day here makes Chen Fei excited. The click of a camera shutter, in particular, is simply the most beautiful note in the world. After a month-long trip to Africa, he was surprised to find that he had spent more than $4,000 on flights and hotels. It was almost all he had.

Soon he was invited to Nigeria by a famous female explorer. There were many little-known tribes, "sure to get good pictures, but they were short of money, and they were stamping their feet and they couldn't do anything about it."

Internet users applauded Chen's photos. A female French teacher named Chavi Berkely said: "Such a distinctive thing, why not get online to sell?" Everyone can download pictures for free on domestic websites. Who will pay for them? The young man was at a loss. The other party said: "You are too out, I teach you a trick, guaranteed to earn money, maybe even enough for you to travel around the world!" Is there such a good thing in the world?

Hipster's first experience, when happy "micro friends"

After her explanation, she realized that there are many micropayment websites in foreign countries. No matter what country you are in, you can upload your beautiful photos with regional or ethnic characteristics to them. As long as people who appreciate it rent or buy it, you can make money.

Chen quickly clicked on a link and found it was an English-language website with a brief introduction on the front page that offered free and paid downloads of images, as well as the ability to register and sell images of her gallery on the site. See these Chen Fei very excited, this is not exactly what they want? Sell pictures and let the people who like these works have them, which not only solves the waste of these pictures sleeping on the computer, but also can help themselves to increase some extra income, and can also share the personalized pictures with everyone. That's great!

Chen Fei clicks to register as quickly as possible, and after registering successfully, uploads the photo immediately. He wanted to throw away all his goodies, but there was a rule that he could not have more than 100 in a day.

Then he began to get nervous: I wonder if these photos will get a lot of hits. Will anyone download it? Finally, on the third day, Chen Fei opened the website page and logged in. To her surprise, she found that more than a dozen photos had been rented and five had been purchased, which was only ten minutes after the website approved the photos. Looking more closely, he found that 96 of the 100 photos he had uploaded had been approved, with many having less than 5 percent approval rates. This shows that their things are very popular!

After a month, Chen Fei checked his account and found that he had $1200. He was taken aback by such a large return. Unexpectedly, inadvertently, I stood at the forefront of the development of The Times and became a member of "micro friends" (a general term for people who profit from micropayment).

In the spring of 2007, Chen Fei quit his job to travel to Iran. In his eyes, this religious country is full of mystery.

The sun is shining, but young Iranians have no time to enjoy it. Suddenly, Chen Fei found a man has been far from looking at himself. The man had a crew cut, a neatly trimmed beard, and a shy smile. Emboldened, he stepped forward and said in his patchy English: "We, can we take a photo?" "Sure, come on." The man was surprised and took his wife with him. She was shyer in her flowered headscarf and jeans. His name was Hassan, a handsome young Iranian teacher. Chen Fei experienced this many times. When he said he was Chinese, they would say, "Oh, Tai!" In Persian, Chinese is pronounced Tai. It can be seen how close the contacts between China and Persia were thousands of years ago!

"In Iran, Chinese people will be asked to take pictures countless times, and they will invite you to their picnics, even volunteer tour guides, treat you to free fruit, take you home, and so on. Don't be surprised, don't be overly wary, let the Iranians show you about Iran."

Inside Yazd's loess walls, Chen Fei was surprised to find young Iranians on high-end imported motorcycles darting from side to side amid a traffic queue of cars, racing with their feet on the gas pedal and talking on cell phones. They listen to heavy metal, read Gunter Glass, worship Tom Hanks, and store the latest Hollywood action movies. The girls' eyes, wrapped in black veils, were not so much wary of outsiders as eager. From south to north, there are many variations in women's headscarves: in Yazd, black jumpsuits dominate; In Isfahan, flowery turbans began to increase; In Tehran, girls wear headscarves only around their necks.

After returning from Iran, Chen Fei uploaded the photos he had taken to the website, which received a staggering number of hits and downloads. "Ha, great fun! Sitting at his computer and throwing away his coffee cup, he danced with excitement. "Working on the road, traveling on the job, it seems that being a micro-friend is a cool career!"

Walk the world, make love in Belarus

When it comes to the sense of accomplishment, it's not the number of dollars he made, but the most satisfying thing for Chen Fei was his trip to Belarus in 2008, where he met a girl more beautiful than Genia in the Quiet Dawn Here.

In the small Eastern European country of Belarus, everything except wood is imported from abroad. With a population of just 10 million and relatively few natural resources, this country has another local product that is the envy of the world -- beautiful women.

After getting off the plane in the capital Minsk, Chen Fei, who has been to fashion capitals such as Paris and Milan, was struck by the fact that most of the girls here are tall and even, with delicate faces and delicate makeup. Later by talking to hotel owners learned, that Belarus and Russia, Ukraine belong to ancient east Slavic peoples of descent, but, in contrast, east slavs physical traits are reflected especially in Belarus: big eyes, clear eyes, a high nose bridge, a sharp chin, and whiter skin. This is entirely in line with the aesthetic views of most nations in the world.