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HOW TO
Backpack and Travel
Round the World
How to backpack and travel round the world is a great question. No two travelers are alike, and
what works for one, may not work for others.
In this post we share our top backpacking tips of how we were able to backpack round the world
over a 10-year period, and what you need to consider before setting off on your trip of a lifetime.
When thinking about how to backpack and travel round the world, we suggest you ask yourself
these questions:
•What regions of the world do you want to explore the most?
•How long do you want to travel round the world for?
•What’s your travel budget?
•Are you traveling alone, as a couple, or in a group?
•What’s your desired style of travel? (planes, trains, automobiles,
boats, other?)
The answers to these questions are important, because they’ll go
along way towards making sure you give yourself the best chance
to have a richly rewarding travel experience.
Whether you’re a seasoned backpacker, or you haven’t done any
backpacking trips before, our top 3 top tips would be:

1. Always Leave Room for Flexibility in Your Schedule
Things change. People change. You’ll meet people. Others will
recommend great places you’ve never heard of; you’ll discover
interesting places you thought you only needed two days in but
you’ll need a week.
If all your flights, tours and accommodation is pre-booked, it can
be costly to change and frustrating to leave a place you love!
2. Spend a Longer Amount of Time in Fewer Places
Why? It costs you less!
Transport can really eat into your budget, so instead of racing
through 20 countries in 20 days or 5 continents in 5 months, get
to know a region well. Racing around the world and visiting too
many countries can also be tiring.
Having to pack and unpack, deal with many airports or bus
terminals, border crossings and visa issues, can get you down. So
slow down, and take more in.
That way, you won’t suffer from burn out, and you’ll really get a
feel for a place and learn about the cheap places to eat and cheap
things to do.
3. Travel Like the Locals on Public Transport
You get great knowledge and insight by hanging with the locals,
it costs you less, and is a more authentic travelling experience!
We roughed it from Kenya to Cape Town using nothing but public
transport – it was amazing!
http://www.ytravelblog.com/how-to-backpack-the-world/