Category Archives: Backpacker

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

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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.

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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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The Best Backpacker Hostels In South America – We traveled light, said yes to as many adventures as possible, made lifelong friends and saw things we only dreamed of. We did all this while traveling on a budget, often sleeping in rooms full of bunk beds.

To make your trip amazing, we’ve put together the following guide to our favorite hostels – the best of the best we’ve come across while backpacking South America.

The Best Backpacker Hostels In South America

There you will find countless others who are also traveling on a budget, all on the adventure of a lifetime.

The 21 Best Hostels In Colombia

The camaraderie and friendship we experienced in these hostels was one of the most positive memories we took away from the trip. When you think about how amazing the rest of our trip was, it really proves how amazing our experience at these … Read the rest

Backpacking Africa: A Comprehensive Guide – The Ultimate Safari Packing List for East Africa: What We Packed in a Backpack for 3 Weeks in Africa!

I must admit, I spent more time thinking about what to pack for our three-week safari adventure in East Africa than I care to admit. I was very deliberate about every item we packed, because it felt like we had to be. This was my third trip to East Africa and what I love about it is that it is so diverse. It has beaches and mountains and savannas and everything in between! On this trip, we went gorilla trekking in Uganda, took several safari game drives in parks in both Uganda and Tanzania, and spent relaxing days on the beach in Zanzibar. And we did it all packed in backpacks because we had several short plane flights because we were told limited bag sizes … Read the rest