Low Budget Backpaking Tips

Do you like traveling? Want to feel the adventure to the state or to the far corners of the world? Many of those who answered "yes". However, many people think that traveling is expensive and cumbersome. It should be easy and fun.

In fact, traveling does not have to be expensive, there are many ways traveling at minimal cost. Being a backpacker is one of the cheapest ways to traveling. Unfortunately, many people consider to be a backpacker's cumbersome because everything should be self-managed.

Backpacker are identical with wandering. It now become a trend, especially when people start to choose to solo adventure or traveling with a very low cost. When people have started to realize that traveling no longer have to be expensive, from here then developed some new terms like flashpacking, campervan, etc.

Here are the reasons why people like to be a Backpacker:

• Adventure was a fun.
• Get to know a new tourist destinations.
• Adding lots of acquaintances.
• Backpaker it is cheap and easy.
• The journey becomes more memorable.
• Challenging.
• Getting a lot of life lessons.

So how do the backpacker? Given the independent backpacker is traveling or traveling independently or in small groups, with a low cost / low, it is very necessary for preparation.

Planning and Managing

Planning is important and absolutely necessary, this is the starting point of all the adventures in locations that may have never been known by a backpacker. Good planning not only includes background location to be addressed but also sufficient knowledge to deal with problems that may occur.

Travel planning process include:

• Specifies place or country destinations to be addressed.
• Specifies what to do there: the streets, learn the culture, courses, study, conference, shopping, etc?
• Look for information regarding the destination.
• Knowing the condition of the destination location. Is it safe to travel there?
• Administrative Requirements: prepare all the necessary documents. Suppose passport, visa travel insurance, currency, permits etc.
• Natural conditions: weather, season, distance between cities, the availability of transportation
• Accommodations: where to stay, how much distance from the city, how the condition of residence, who owns it (if you have to stay at home person), how far away from shopping malls/stores, telecommunication networks, etc.
• Budget: calculate the cost of tickets, transportation during the trip, lodging, meals, daily necessities.
• Source of Funding: how much money is needed? where it is coming?

Most of this information can be searched via google, wikitravel or some other site. Traveling books like Lonely Planet can be used as a reference, as well as seek information and ask ever go there.

Travel Management

Travel Management is the cornerstone of traveling with a low budget. Limited costs and time required to perform a backpacker cost management, time and needs a careful and precise.

Why is this important, example of the ticket, cheap tickets can usually be purchased a few months earlier. There are several low-budget airlines like Air Asia, Cebu, Tiger Air, Jetstar which often provide tickets at low prices.

Sometimes major airlines also do promotions with special prices in certain seasons. We recommend that you subscribe to certain airlines that regularly sends newsletters. Make it a habit to read the terms and conditions when you will buy a ticket. This is important if you have to postpone the trip or the flight is canceled.

Choose the Right Time

Time management becomes important especially if you have other activities such as work or school. Planning and good management will give make your trip easy, cheap and convenient. For example, during school holidays, airfares and accommodation usually tend to be expensive, but on the contrary at the time of school entry season ticket and accommodation prices tend to fall and become very cheap.

Summer is usually not a good time to do the traveling to countries with four seasons, summer is the peak density generally traveling activities. On the other hand, winter is also not the right time, although the possibility of cheap ticket prices but will cause physical problems for people who are not familiar with cold weather.

Itinerary

Travel schedule is another thing you should prepare. Schedule an organized trip will make it easy for you in time management and expense. Get used to arrange travel schedule or itinerary before you leave. Make a list of spot you plan to visit. If you could try to check the location via maps or access to a google map. With good planning schedule, the time and cost of your trip become more efficient. Some tourist attractions possibility lies in the adjacent location so you do not need to pay extra for transportation.

Create Items List

Many airline ticket applied low price ticket rules as long as you don't bring the luggage in the trunk, just simply take cabin bag or as carry-on bag only. So you need to pay attention to these terms, if you still want to go for a small fee. Management luggage very useful, especially if you do a lot of traveling on foot.

You have to decide what to carry and how much, it will be easier for you to travel comfortably. Remember the more you bring the more luggage you should watch.

Choose clothes and shoes that are comfortable and does not require special treatment. Bring personal use such medicines.

Self-Manage

Many cases that people will go crazy and forget about commitment and intention to travel. Usually for beginners or people who first visit to an interesting place, they will lose control when they see the good stuff. They put on the budget should not be used.

You have to discipline yourself to focus on the plan that was created earlier. We can be flexible with the schedule that we make, but again, if you are flexible as possible what the plan would not be met. It may be that you will pay extra for it.

What should be prepared?

If you've been able to determine where you want to target and acquire enough information, it's time to make travel arrangements including ticket purchasing, handling permits and arrange travel itinerary. Make sure everything is arranged neatly and fulfill what you want to do and see.

Start looking info for rate hotels or cheap lodging in hostelbookers or Hostelworld. Familiarize yourself to read the information which available. There is a lot of useful information which is often passed by the us because we are lazy to read. Get used to reading as it gives us a lot of advantages when traveling.

And most importantly, your safety is number one priority. Happy adventure...

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