¿Who I'm?

My name is Yvonne and I'm the person who create the Blog, I studied Tourism and I specialized in Innovation and Quality of Tourist Destinations. I love to organize trips to the maximum possible detail, I make my husband crazy (with whom I usually travel), looking for a new one every week. Bilingual Catalan and Spanish, I speak German as a father tongue, I also studied English and French in the career.

My husband is called Placi, and although I'm who works on the blog and organized the travels, he is my adventures and crazies partner, and he's who contributes the serenity and "relax" time that all travels should have. He loves the gastronomy and the local customs, then a "must" in any trip is that should have stops in restaurants and bars to taste the typical food of the country!

We love travel, although it is not 100% compatible with our other hobby, the animals ... We have to combine them as we can, because we have dogs and horses ...

We have already visited more than 25 countries and 4 continents as: Europe: Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Holand, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Monaco, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Vatican City, Portugal, Turkey; America: United States and the Dominican Republic; Africa:Morocco; Asia: China (Hong Kong, Macao), Thailand and the Philippines.

Even so, we have a lot of World to see!

In 2012 the first version of LaNaranjaViajera was born with blogspot domain. During the year 2017, we wanted to improve the image that showed the old blog, to adapt it to the new dimension that was acquiring, and we created the new version with own domain. We closed at the end of 2016 the Blogspot domain with 113mil visits.

It went from being a personal blog, to a guide to aid to organize travels of great number of travelers, especially on Thailand category.

Sample of this, and that serve as example, we are within the first 5 positions of Google when searching for "15 días en Tailandia" y "Tailandia por libre" ("15 days in Thailand" and "Thailand for freely").

LaNaranjaViajera was born to explain the experiences lived in our travels, and from them, be able to recommend other travellers what is worth visiting, do, eat, live... and of course, make known little gems discovered during the adventure that gives a special touch to our trip...

With that, we try to collect all possible information so that other travelers can use it without getting lost in the immense network.

With careful travel planning BEFORE catching the flight, a detailed description of our day to day DURING the trip -reflexed on my travel diaries- and a few practical informational articles about the destination AFTER return, I public each post to detail so travellers visiting the Blog, can help themselves to organize his own adventure.

I also think that pictures are very important to visualize better a place, activity or tourist service, because that I add on each post lot of pictures.

LaNaranjaViajera is composed by:

• Travel diaries: Where I explain to detail the day to day of our experiences we live, curiosities we found, food we tasted, hotels where we stayed...
• Destination information: Depending on the country and the information that we have about it, this section becomes a complete tourist guide. Whether there's the Guide or the destination information, I publish here articles with general information about the destination, recommendations of accommodations and restaurants, reflections on the place, recommendation of activities, tips on transfers...

With the passage of the years we are improving that content and actually I think we stand out for our detailed and quality content. I try to make all the posts with the maximum useful information for other travelers, and accompany each article with a good amount of pictures , as we know: “is worth more a picture than a thousand words”.

The blog is divided into two sections:

• Travels: Is the most complete section composed of:
  • Travel diaries: We explain in detail our experiences we lived during the travels, curiosities we find, the food we taste, hotels where we sleep…
  • Destination information: There, we publish the articles with general information, recommendations of accommodations and restaurants, reflections on a destination …
  • Travel guides: Complete guides based on our personal experiences during our travels. Here you can also find all the published articles about the destination.
• Gastronomy: Because we love to try typical dishes from every place we visit and we think is a fundamental part of the travel. We speak about restaurants we visit, gastronomy curiosities and local recipes.

Actually we find more than 250 posts published on the blog, including the following travel diaries:

• Hong Kong – Thailand – The Philippines: With 8 posts
• Helsinki - Hong Kong and Macao: With 5 posts
• China and Thailand: With 9 posts
• 61 RoadTrip Following the Blues Siguiendo: ravel Diary of our collaborator Anna With 9 posts
• Trip in Flandes: With 3 posts
• San Juan en Menorca: 1 post
• Lanzarote Jordi & Eva Travel: Travel Diary of our collaborator Jordi With 1 post
• RoadTrip in Andalusia 2016: With 3 posts
• RoadTrip in Switzerland: With 1 post
• Two days in Fez: our trip With 1 post
• West Coast RoadTrip(California): With 16 posts

Updating and creation of new articles is usually monthly. It depends on the travels we do, we could publish more or less, but each month there are new content.

As we previously commented, in December 2016 leave the Blogspot domain with 113mil visits and begin with own domain.

We implement Google Analytics on the blog to get reliable data on their visits. Since we started with the new Blog (01/01/17), have had 55.856 visitors with 118.409 page views.  Translated into monthly visits there are 2,327 visits and 4.933 pages views per month with an average duration of session 3:20 minutes and a 67,73% bounce rate.

- Quarterly statistics 2018 -

The dates of the quarters we analyze are:

1rst    Quarter 1/01 - 31/03: 7.800 sessions with 16.100 page views

2nd Quarter 1/04 - 31/06: 8.166 sessions with 16.609 page views

3th    Quarter 1/07 - 31/09: 9.948 sessions with 17.219 page views

4th  Quarter 1/08 - 31/12: 6.184 sessions with 11.189 page views

The statistics of the last quarter (18/1/10 to 31/23/18) is 6.184 session with 11.189 pageviews.Average session duration was 2:18 minutes with 73,92% bounce rate.

We closed the year 2017 with 23.758 sessions and 57.292 page views and an average duration of the session 3:56 minutes a 61.41% bounce rate.

We started to be in social networks and currently don't pay Blog "advertising", all the won followers and visits are thanks to SEO work and good Google position.

We are learning, improving and growing day by day!

- Social Networks -

We have some accounts in social networks to broadcast our blog as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and a YouTube channel to complete our blog. Although what we give more importance is on the internal work of the blog. But we know that have presence on social networks today is very important.

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From March 2017 we are members of the BcnTB (Barcelona Travel Bloggers) association. An association of professional bloggers, which brings together the best bloggers and travel blogs residing in the province of Barcelona.

From February 2017, we started to work on cooperation with companies in the tourism sector.

You can see some of the works below:

National:

• Eiffel restaurant - Madrid/Spain: Post "Two days in Madrid" 2017
• Vinos de Bellota restaurant - Madrid/Spain: Post "Two days in Madrid" 2017
• Causal Madrid del Teatro hotel - Madrid/Spain: Post "Two days in Madrid" 2017
• La Bodega Flamenca restaurant- Barcelona/Spain: Post "Barcelona Flamenca: La Bodega Flamenca" 2017

International:

• O Kathedral hotel - Antwerp/Belgium: Post "Amberes" 2017
• Art cafè de Rooden hoed restaurant - Antwerp/Belgium: Post "Amberes" 2017
• Cafè Theatre restaurant - Ghent/Belgium: Post "Gante" 2017
• Portinari hotel -Brugge/Belgium: Post "Brujas" 2017
• Sans Cravate Michelin one Star restaurant - Brugge/Belgium: Post "Brujas" y "Michel Star Restaurant in Brugge: Sans Cravate" 2017
• De Plaats restaurant -Brugge/Belgium: Post "Brujas" 2017
• Dar Anebar hotel - Fez/Morocco: Post "Two days in Fez: Guía de Fez" y "Two days un  Fez, our trip" 2017
• Provider Mozio - Fez/Morocco: Post "Two days in Fez: Guía de Fez" y "Two days un  Fez, our trip" 2017
• Horizon Cruise restaurant from Shangri-La Bangkok - Bangkok/Thailand: Post "Restaurant in Bangkok: Horizon Cruise" y "Bangkok Guide" 2018
• Haven't Met hotel - Bangkok/Thailand: Post "Haven't met Silom: "Our hotel in Bangkok" y "Bangkok Guide"
• Arena Island Resort - Narra/The Philippines: Post pending publication 2018
• Fog Harbor Fish House restaurant - San Francisco/USA: Post "Restaurant in San Francisco: Fog Harbor Fish House", "Our Coast West trip", "Travel diary day 5" and "San Francisco Guide"2018
• GuesttoGuest (in USA): Post "Stay free with GuesttoGuest" y "Our Coast West trip"2018
• Vineyard Cave hotel - Göreme/Turkey: Post "Vineyard Cave hotel: Our hotel in Göreme" and "Capadocia Guide" pending publication 2018

Press&BlogTrips:

• PressTrip "d’Espàrrecs de Gavà": Organized by the consortium of tourism Baix Llobregat, together ofthe Baix Llobregat agricultural Park and the Town Hall of Gavà.
• PressTrip "Dijous Llarder a Vic"

Most of this collaboration are “Experience tester”, in which we are invited to try the service and through our experience in first person, and then we explain to our readers our experiences and sensations with the service, in a real and honest way.

External articles:

• Involvement with the Blog "Caminito de Amor" in his article " The most romantic places in the world featured in 17 pairs of travellers"
• Collaborative post with the Blog Historiesdunaamera in his article "12 trips during the summer"
• Collaboration with JordiCanal.com in "Books to travel"

Formacion: organise conferences, exhibitions, workshops...

• Talk Asia Low cost: Held in Barcelona, in this talk we explain how we organize our trips to Asia, so we have more time available to dedicate to the tourist attractions that we prefer and travel cheaper. We inform the steps to follow to plan the trip, we gave recommendations on accommodation, food, transportation...

From LaNaranjaViajera we offer various types of collaborations and we are always open to new proposals.