Spending a summer in Spain and Portugal is certainly up there with the best backpacking routes in Europe. Two Months in the Balkans Time – 2 months | Budget – US$1800-2400 The Balkans is a relatively under-visited part of Europe but it makes for a great budget travel destination. ...
Other Europe Backpacking Routes There are many other Europebackpacking trip itinerariesthat you could follow and some of those are listed above. Europe is not a particularly large continent so with the exception of the South Caucasus region which lies on the border between Europe and Asia, all of...
I backpacked for about three months around Western Europe on a Global Eurail pass. The pass wasn’t cheap; it cost me €1100 for three months of unlimited travel through Europe. It was a bargain considering the area I was traveling through and how much I was hopping around on trains. Yo...
Unless you’re devoting months or years to your Europe backpacking trip, there’s no way you can cover the entire continent in one go. I’ve been living here for 5+ years and even I haven’t been everywhere! Remember, Europe isn’t going anywhere, and you can always come back. The ...
Bangkokis the most popular starting point for travellers to Southeast Asia. Flights from Europe and the US are fairly cheap and frequent. The city is safe, friendly and one of the easier (we didn’t say easy!) Asian cities to navigate. Plus, there are loads of great sociable hostels wher...
In recent years, the price to travel South America has become even cheaper, relative to Europe, the Balkans and Southeast Asia as the cost of living in some of the best cities for digital nomads and backpackers in South America has dropped. Keep in mind that Argentina, Chile, and Brazil ...
All our europe routes iberia|central europe|baltics|balkans|hungary-romania-bulgaria|scandinavia|south caucasus|greece|UK UK Backpacking Tips Visa Requirements for UK At the time of writing (March 2020), the UK is in the transitional period of Brexit meaning it has technically left the European Un...
Backpacking New Zealand Routes These are a few of the routes that I recommend doing while travelling around New Zealand. A road trip in New Zealand is the perfect way to see the country, so it would be a waste not to drive one of these routes. I would recommend going to New Zealand ...
You might recall that Phillip spent 7 months hiking northbound or “NOBO” on the Appalachian Trail last summer and that we spoke in Episode #51 only a few days before his departure to Europe to hike the Camino. Episode 55: Tour Du Mont Blanc In Episode 55, Kaylee (aka “Smiles”) ...
The history of the Kyrgyz people and the land now called Kyrgyzstan goes back more than 2,000 years. As the Silk Road trade routes became more and more utilized over the centuries, Kyrgyzstan became an important trading and migrant hub. Historically, Kyrgyzstan was a nation of nomadic people....