Tips & Tricks

Most backpackers will have to deal with long bus journeys or train journeys. For example, one-day train journeys in India are certainly not strange, and Sri Lanka and Thailand, for example, are also perfect destinations to explore by train. Even if you are not traveling through Vietnam on a motorbike like we did, but traveling […]

In February 2016 we visited Malaysia for the second time in two and a half years. During five weeks we’ve visited islands, swam alongside sharks and ate delicious street foods. Just like two and a half years prior we made an awesome trip through this diverse country. In five weeks time we made a big […]

Our statistics show a lot of people are looking for information about traveling to Sri Lanka, an amazing country still mainly unexplored most backpackers. To help you plan your trip to this versatile country we put some essential information together, so you won’t face unexpected surprises. General information about Sri Lanka Sri Lanka has lots […]

Money, even if you want to go on a backpacking trip and you are mostly going to hitchhike or couchsurf, you will always need money. That’s why we are showing you how much we’ve spent in different parts of the world. Keep in mind that we always travel like so called “flashpackers” which means we […]

In November 2017, we traveled sixteen days through magical Iran. And of course we kept the balance on how much we were spending. In this post we explain in detail how much we’ve spent on our two week road trip from north to south to tell you all about the cost of travel in Iran […]

Sending money abroad is one of those things that can be a nuisance when traveling. If, for example, you’re planning on doing a working holiday in Australia or New Zealand, transferring your hard earned dollars to your own currency can bring considerable costs. Luckily there are very cheap ways of getting your money safely in […]

The Balkans are becoming increasingly popular. Rightfully so if you ask me, because the region is spectacularly beautiful, the people are very warming and, not unimportantly, it’s not very expensive. It’s actually pretty cheap. Macedonia is considered one of the cheapest countries in Europe, so you can probably last here with your travel budget. We […]

It’s way more easy to get flat broke in London than it is on a city break to Skopje, Tallinn or even Paris for that matter. Britain’s capital is known for its relative expensiveness compared to other western European cities. We want to show you it’s still perfectly feasible to keep your costs low. We […]