At just 23 years old, Saward, who is home in Launceston for the Christmas holidays, has visited 49 countries and six continents.

And most of that has been in the past year.

"It's has been like one crazy ride," Saward said at her Prospect home last week.

"You don't imagine it to happen and you don't really see it happening.

"It's probably been the past couple of days that I've been like, 'what have I been doing the past year?"'

The former Prospect High School and Launceston College student has spent the past year travelling full-time as a solo travel blogger.

She is the woman behind the blog World of Wanderlust.

Just this year, her site has had four million views, her Worldwanderlust Instagram page has 121,000 followers and the WOW Facebook page has 35,000 likes.

Saward also won the Skyscanner International Travel Blog of the Year for WOW in February.

Saward said she initially started her blog in December 2012 because "all my friends and family would ask me questions about where I'd been".

"They'd say, 'I'm going to Paris what are your tips, where should we stay, what should we do?'," she said.

"I was so tired of writing down tips and things that I would suggest so after a while I was just, like, 'right I'll put all this information in the one place and it'll be on the internet so I can just link it to them'."

Saward said the first blog was "really bad".

"I kept writing stories about places I'd been in the previous years and then after a while I realised I had comments from people I didn't know and I thought, 'this is interesting'," she said.

"It became a bit addicting to write for people that I didn't know.

"So I started my website about three or four weeks later."

Saward's first big opportunity came in January 2013, the same time she was in the US as part of an Australian delegation taking part in the Harvard National Model United Nations conference and debating competition.

She decided to double up on the trip and approached a travel company called Elite Adventures about doing some free work for them.

The call worked and Saward was able to take an eight-hour luxury tour around LA and also be the company's TV presenter for a promotional video.

"For them, they didn't have to pay someone to do their TV presenting, and for me, it was a really cool experience that I would never normally get to do," Saward said.

"It snowballed from there."

In November 2013, about the same time Saward was finishing her international relations degree at the University of Tasmania, she worked for the same company again, but this time the work was bigger and better.

She caught a helicopter to the Malibu Rocky Oaks Vineyard that features in the movie The Hangover 3 and then flew back over Los Angeles.

"It's stuff that I would never imagine doing in my life, let alone at 22," Saward said.

Saward graduated from UTAS soon after and looked around for jobs but couldn't find much in Tasmania.

"It was either move to the mainland, or move overseas and try and do this (blogging) full time.

"I thought, 'why not?' It was a massive risk. I'd saved for a couple of years because I'd had a job in hotel reception, so I'd worked there since I was in college ... so I had a back-up if it didn't work out."

The day Saward graduated she bought a one-way ticket to London.

"When I landed there, in my headphones I had Lorde's song Buzzcut Season and the lyrics as I touched down were 'and I'll never come home again'.

"It gave me this little confidence boost that everything would be OK."

From there, jobs were offered continuously and WOW travelled solo from Europe to South Africa, back to Europe, to Hong Kong, Dubai, the US and more places in between.

"Sometimes I'd be in three different time zones in a week," Saward said.

"It was three or four months in that I got really comfortable with myself.

"I think that's the biggest challenge. You spend so much time in what I call semi-solitude, because you're spending so much time by yourself but then so many people are watching what you are doing, that you've got to be comfortable."

Saward said the worst thing about being a travel blogger was living out of a suitcase.

"What I do, which I shouldn't say this out loud, is I send stuff home and it's normally dirty washing - because I'm staying in five-star hotels, it's cheaper to buy new clothes than get them washed, so it's either throw them out or send them home. So I send them home and then buy new clothes."

About 80 per cent of Saward's jobs are now offered to her.

She is often approached by tourism associations or by her sponsors Go Pro and Lifeproof.

For the other 20 per cent, Saward approaches people to fill in the gaps.

Saward has also written and published three e-books about blogging this year, which she says are selling well.

She said "as long as the opportunities are there" she would keep travel blogging.

"To be paid to do something you love, you never really feel like you're working."

She said it felt good to be back home in Tasmania, but she was still wrapping her head around the past year.

WOW will restart for Saward on January 12, when she flies to Bali with her 12-year-old brother Liam.

"Then it's Singapore and mostly Asia and the Middle East for the first three months."

You can follow Brooke's adventures at worldofwanderlust.com.