Category Archives: Backpacker

Backpacking India: Spiritual Journeys – Of the 65 countries I have visited so far, India is the most spiritual. In this story, I will tell you about five spiritual places in India that are worth seeing.

Whether you consider yourself religious or spiritual, the confluence of belief systems and their associated historical sites in India is fascinating.

Backpacking India: Spiritual Journeys

Add to this the incredibly low travel costs, including on airlines like Spicejet, and the ease of obtaining a six-month visa, and it’s easy to see why backpackers choose to spend half a year there at a time.

Best Road Trips In India

My seven weeks in India were guided by my spiritual curiosity. Here are five places I visited while traveling across northern India from east to west.

The journey from Gangtok, Sikkim to Bodhgaya over a day and a half was indeed my form of pilgrimage!

But … Read the rest

Backpacking Central Asia: The Silk Road Adventure – Have you ever wondered what it was like to travel on the ancient Silk Road? You don’t have to wonder anymore because you can travel the Silk Road on your own with my guide on how to travel back through Central Asia in a month. With tips on getting out, where to stay, and where to start, everything you need to plan your own trip. Without further ado, let’s get started, shall we?

Day 1-2: Almaty, Kazakhstan Almaty is a great place to start your journey in Central Asia as it is the travel hub of this region, with many flights to and from Almaty via Air Astana and others. an international airline. Getting here shouldn’t be a problem. Read more 🛌 Where to Stay in Almaty?

Backpacking Central Asia: The Silk Road Adventure

Day 3-5: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Bishkek is one of … Read the rest

Backpacker’s Guide To Local Cuisine – We’re here to help with the best knowledge and ideas available on healthy, nutritious foods. This article will cover the amount of food you should bring, where to get it, and basic nutrition concepts. We will talk about different types of food; Low Carb, Omnivore, Gluten Free, Veggie, Vegan and Keto. Where you can find natural fats, proteins and micronutrients. And ultimately we can save you tons of food in the process. Let’s dig!

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Backpacker’s Guide To Local Cuisine

This is a complete introduction to backpacking food. We cover every important aspect of food packing and hiking so you have all the information you need to plan your backpacking … Read the rest

The Art Of Couchsurfing: Tips For Backpackers – The Art of Couchsurfing | How To Stay With Strangers Around The World Dec 02, 2015 | ANĐELKA JANKOVIĆ | Travel

You won’t find an 1886 medieval mansion with a greenhouse and butler’s quarters on Airbnb. It’s unlikely that your hostel will greet you with a cup of homemade coffee, and I’ve never heard of a hotel concierge taking you to a punk house show.

The Art Of Couchsurfing: Tips For Backpackers

If you’re longing for a more engaging or adventurous accommodation experience (because it’s more than just a change of scenery, right?), Couchsurfing is a way to travel cheaply and meet locals around the world. A travel community based on global altruism, Couchsurfing connects like-minded travelers on an online platform where “surfers” request to stay with a local host in a city. Fun fact – there are apparently more hosts on … Read the rest

How To Document Your Backpacking Journey – It is so important to document your travels. This will help you reminisce about your backpacking adventures and allow you to relive all your amazing experiences. Thankfully, saving travel memories is easier than ever.

With the multitude of apps, tools and technology available at the touch of a button, the options to document your travels are endless.

How To Document Your Backpacking Journey

In this article, we’ve covered a variety of cool ways you can document your backpacking trip, allowing you to record all your memories.

Backpacking Europe: How To Plan Your Dream Euro Tour On A Budget

Choose to shoot on a professional DSLR camera with all the accessories, or choose a simple mobile phone capture.

To choose a camera, it is important to consider your individual needs. Are you most concerned about picture quality? Maybe you plan to do a lot … Read the rest

Budget Backpacker’s Odyssey – Without a doubt, the best way to get around New Zealand is with your own set of wheels. It gives you flexibility and independence that buses and tour companies just can’t offer.

This may be determined by the length of time you plan to stay in New Zealand. If you are there for a two week vacation – definitely rent. You want to buy if you stay on a working holiday visa for one year.

Budget Backpacker’s Odyssey

There seems to be a magic break around 6 weeks, when buying becomes cheaper than renting. I worked out the two and a half months I was going to spend in New Zealand, the minimum budget for camping rental was around $6,000. But I could buy one for around $4000. As you can see, even if I couldn’t sell in the end, I would still save money on … Read the rest

Footloose And Fancy-free – You also have the option to add your watermark to images before downloading or sharing. Add your name, website, phone number, or whatever works best for you!

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Footloose And Fancy-free

Add the essential oil drops to the empty bottle and shake gently to mix. Add the vegetable glycerin and mix again to combine. Add the castile soap or shower gel and gently shake to combine.

Rod Stewart, Foot Loose & Fancy Free

Use it as you would any shower gel. Lather up with a sponge, washcloth, loofah or mesh sponge puff.

If you use liquid castile soap and find it drying on the skin, increase the size of the bottle to 8 oz., add 3 tablespoons … Read the rest

Essential First Aid Tips For Backpackers – You probably already know that first aid kits are one of the most important tools you should bring to the countryside.

But if you think that throwing a package bought directly from the store into your package will get you out of any emergency, then you would be terrified if something went wrong.

Essential First Aid Tips For Backpackers

Anyone who travels more than a few hours from civilization needs to be fully prepared for dealing with the most common emergencies and injuries on their own.

The Definitive Guide That You Never Wanted: Packing Your Backpack

Even if you find yourself in a critical situation, search and rescue teams often take hours to reach your location on foot. You should have the tools and knowledge to prevent a bad situation from getting worse and get out safely.

Before we even get into the … Read the rest

Backpacker’s Guide To Eastern Europe – After my first trip to Europe and visiting only popular cities in the West, the whole next year I dreamed of Eastern Europe at University waiting for summer to come. It took me many years to plan my sample itinerary for Eastern Europe – and I’ll explain it all to you in detail now that it’s all said and done.

I’ve written about all of these cities before, so there will be links to the respective guides. As I mentioned in my sample itinerary for Western Europe, at the time I didn’t have the funds to go to Ireland and Spain as they would have required flying with my time constraints. So I made sure to hit them first before heading east.

Backpacker’s Guide To Eastern Europe

I mentioned Ireland and Spain in my Western Europe itinerary and as I said, you can do … Read the rest

Backpacking New Zealand: Adventure Awaits – There is so much to see, do and experience in Aotearoa – the land of the long white cloud. If you already know where you want to spend your vacation, see what active adventure we offer there.

As avid hikers, mountain bikers, canoeists and all-rounders, we can use our own personal knowledge and experience to create route plans and guidance to ensure your trip expectations are exceeded.

Backpacking New Zealand: Adventure Awaits

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