There are many ways for our trip more enjoyable. Will be even more fun if the place we will visit, there are relatives who live there, can save money and the money to get inn. Some tips traveling that can be tried by whoever, who knows it’s helpful:
1. First survey location you will visit. Traveling without a survey of exactly how a blind man who walks without a cane. Check also a cheap place to stay lively, interesting place to visit. I actually have not written rules, but we should not visit the mall. Better to find other places far more exotic, like waterfalls, temples, orchards or other unique places.
2. Calculate the travel budget, and match with your destination. This fact was related to the management style of expedition mountaineers. Do not forget to provide several tens of thousands of dollars for the budget reserve. Separate to the main budget. This is a precaution in case we run out of money. If it’s fixed, then your money have been used, you can sell one item that you bring, like pants or shirts. But if we've expedition management is good, God willing will not happen.
3. Backpacker usually prefer backpacks instead of suitcases tourist style. The goal of course to facilitate our mobility. If carrying a large backpack (carrier), put a mattress in the carrier, then roll, so the carrier to form a suitable oval mat rolled up. Basic principles taught in this packing material in the organization of nature lovers. The purpose of this is to be more balanced carrier, and its shape is also more pleasing to the eye, which must have positive impact on the carrying backpack (much lighter and does not hurt shoulder). The way to determine whether we are really packing or still wrong is, you try to stand the carrier who've filled with goods. If the carrier could stand upright without restraints, it means you've packing correctly. If it can’t, or even falling, a sign that you are completely wrong packing.
4. Another basic principle is the packing, put the goods under the lighter. Then in a row put the heavier items. This can make carriers feel more lightly.
5. If possible, put the clothes into plastic bags. This is useful when it rains. Dress will not be wet, and we keep warm.
6. Do not forget toiletries. The towels are small enough to carry wrote, which is important enough for using towel after bathing. Personal medicines should also be taken.
7. Mountain sandals are the best footwear, especially if the journey requires us to go far enough. Never travel wearing high heels. After all, your brain sane enough to know that high heels is not suitable and not convenient for travelling.
8. Underwear must also be taken. You do not want it so raw and smelly because not replace the CD for a few days. But why are not bothered, there is a unique way and disgusting. You want to try? This method has been used since the time of old-fashioned. Called Side A Side B. The core teachings were, after the inside've colored a bit smelly and disgusting, wrote back in your pants, the outside so the inside, and vice versa.
9. Customize your luggage to your destination. Avoid carrying items which are not so useful.
Many people have the wrong notion about backpacking, or even traveling. Many of the thinkers that people who love backpacking travel are people who have a lot of money. Many roads lead to Rome, many ways to make money backpacking. Want to know some ways to get money? Check these out!
1. Save! This is the easiest and most difficult for getting funds for backpacking. Easy because we just enter our monthly ration money in our bank or account. Try this routine, each week $100, then in 6 months (1 semester), you can count yourself how much money is collected. It's hard because, sometimes we have some urgent items that need to swallow quite a lot of money. And often times, arise many temptations to buy things that we want.
2. Search old newspapers or bottles. after accumulated quite a lot, immediately go to the gatherer newspapers or bottles, sell! No problem we are practically destitute scavengers. Anyway, we can get a lot of money.
3. Make the high school kids, you can do things a little smelly criminal, for example, come into the classroom. Usually some prodigal son, and lazy, leaving package books or textbooks in the drawer, you can steal it. Collect forbidden books, then sold to the junkman.
4. Play music on street! This way is easy, too kosher. Self-armed one guitar, and voice sometimes betrays the true treasures of singing, you can tour the housing complex for getting money. But it also needs several conditions, among others, bear resistant ama walk of shame. If you feel shy, do not do that! Remember, too, if you play music on street won’t get many friends.
Backpacking can be done by anyone. No need to talk much, enough faith, and courage capitalized, to start doing something different. Fortune Favors the bold! What else are you waiting for? Carry your pack immediately, and start backpaking!
Many people tend to equate between traveling and backpacking. Actually, there is one significant difference, namely customs or habits between the traveler and backpacker.
Today's traveler've identified with tourists. Here tourists can be interpreted, foreigners who come to a place, then spent the money for buying things. This is in contrast with the ancient traveler, like Marcopolo or Columbus. They called the traveler for a trip, or more precisely, adventure, finding new and exotic mysterious places. But over time, where the internet is not a new thing anymore, as Starbucks and McDonald's food has become mandatory, then the change is also purpose and meaning of traveling. People who used to be called a traveler looking for more select experience (buying experience), now its meaning is reduced to tourists, who prefer to buy goods (buying things). Beside that, tourist is moving form one place to another place without any settled purpose, business, or seeking work while backpacker is a tourist who travel from one place to another place with backpack. So, backpacker can be categorized as tourist but tourist is not definitely a backpacker.
Searching experience is now more synonymous with backpacking or adventurer. Backpacker here are carrying backpacks, traveling to where an entirely new, and tends to be more efficient compared with the tourists. They also prefer to buy experiences instead of goods. So do not be surprised, sulking or grumbling when he saw a home backpakcer not brought gifts but hundreds of photos. Not because they are cheap, but they prefer to buy the experience than buying souvenirs. And many people who think that the backpacker was identical to a miserable journey, homeless or not bathing for days, it can not say that opinion is completely wrong. Because of the backpaker, saving is one of the easiest ways to survive. But I think, if you think backpacker must make the journey with passion, it seems you have to change your perspective about backpacker. Travel opinion does not mean a miserable trip right?
Want to travel without a travel service or travel agency can indeed be done by anyone. Especially for the lovers of travel, where the adventurous spirit always attached to him and wants to always find new things in every way.
However, not necessarily a backpacker called for a tourist who likes to travel to various places with a backpack on the back early in his adventure to visit some places in the country or abroad, if successful in his journey before departure is not equipped with various preparations required during the journey. Therefore, for those who love traveling the world and want to travel backpacker style, you should first understand what is to be prepared before you slide with a backpack on your back.
1. Search reference
If you have a plan for a vacation-style backpacker, select options or city which countries will be visited. To ease you in finding a few references to places that OK, you can browse through the Internet, asking for references from friends or family nearby, asked in the forum that you follow the mailing list, and look at tourist brochures or can also find references from the tour package offered by a travel agency.
2. Create a plan and calculations
Once you get an idea where I'll be traveling, start to seek as much information about the place, ranging from transportation to reach the place, weather, condition of the place, the language used, custom or local customs, and the ins and outs of the place It is the big picture.
If all the information you have, make the cost calculations that you would exclude, from the cost of travel documents such as passports, visas, tickets (if you want to abroad), the cost of transportation (land, sea, air or river), the cost lodging, the cost of visits to tourist objects, food costs, the budget money to buy souvenirs or gifts and unexpected expenses. And make sure all the calculations already include the cost of all your needs during vacation.
3. Bring the necessary equipment
All equipment will be taken, should be adjusted to the type of travel and also the place to be visited. For example the location of beaches, mountains, or urban. That way you will make in bringing the necessary equipment. And you need to carry all your equipment is just a backpack, not the usual case brought by the tourists who want to vacation. Because the name is not a travel backpack that carries luxury or glamor, because the backpack can be termed as a cowboy vacation, then the equipment was not taken until seheboh with an exclusive vacation or holiday with tour packages. And do not forget to bring a digital camera or camcorders to capture the interesting objects and any special moments that you get during the trip. Also you can take pictures or photos. So make yourself as comfortable as possible during the trip, with no fuss is made with a tote bag or suitcase, because you are a backpacker who wants to seek adventure experiences in places that are full of fun and challenges.
4. Bring Enough Money
If you visit the location you select are abroad, you need to bring enough money and before you come, do not forget to exchange local currency. With so will allow you to do any transactions at the spot, because it does not necessarily apply. Dollars in almost all countries around the world. So you will more easily in the transaction there. Also, take advantage of local currency, you no longer need to bother looking for money changer in place. In addition, you should use any cash transaction, so you no longer need to swipe a credit card transaction each time, because if so, do not be surprised if you return from vacation, your credit card bill will swell.
5. Be Confident
Because of the way you use the principles of courage and daring of capital without the help of travel agencies or detailed information so do not be shy to ask the community or local police. If you lack the language skills, do not forget to bring bilingual dictionaries Indonesian or English + local languages. But if you want information much more clearly, look for the tourist information center or a tourist information center. There the information you need is available complete with the details.
6. Ask a friend to Go With You
If you do not want to be alone when backpacking, invite some friends or relatives nearby to jointly conduct to backpack. Certainly will be more exciting if you go with friends who have the same hobby is traveling. That way you can explore interesting places together and not be afraid of loneliness atapun lost.
Do not ever leave the Khaosan Road in Thailand if you want to choose as backpacker. Therefore, it places all the State tourism information, including the White Elephant other countries can be obtained. Very easy to reach Khaosan Road, because of available facilities and the airport shuttle bus to Don Muang tariff bath 100 (USD 25 thousand). From the spot, all the objects of tourism in Thailand has to offer ranging from tracking tours in Chiang Mai, Golden Triangle (border between Thailand, Burma and Laos) in Chiang Rai, ballet Siam in the Rose Garden, Crocodile Breeding in Samut Prakan, or along the Ancient City Ayuthaya over lunch on a yacht, a floating market at Damnoen Saduak, the central jewel in Kanchaburi, snorkel in some islands such as Koh Samet, Koh Samui, Phi Phi Island, Pattaya beach complete with a half servings of Dance Male Female and beautiful. Fantastic, very cheap price, and are usually offered in the form of a complete package with accommodations, entrance tourist sites and eat.
In essence, all you need to tourists are available at Khaosan Road. As in the afternoon, some travel agent back to give the command to the tourists clustered according to their destination. At night, the streets seemed transformed into cafes, where berajojing, drink, or "sanook" (Thai, which means having fun).
No one if Khaosan Road became a favorite of the class model hippies Back Packers, sloppy, shit, bertatto, without clothes, and look rumpled because rarely bathed) to the elegant class. Moreover, for this place is relatively safe from the threat of bombs and the like. Services provided to tourists other than visiting tourist attractions in the form of packages, as well as visa services to various countries. Prices offered by travel agents in Khaosan Road sometimes does not make sense so cheaply. For example for purposes ranging from Siem Reap to 300 Bath (USD 75 thousand). It is conceivable to go abroad with a trip that took nearly 12 hours is only about USD 75 thousand. Price sebasar applies in almost all travel agents along Khaosan Road.
One thing that is interesting to note that only serve the travel agent booking orders from the next tourist trip affairs handed over to the other party. So the travel agent did not do his own transportation business, but there are other parties who then coordinates with other travel agents.
For the price of tour packages offered by different relative to each other, the difference is not much meskipum. Because of that, it's good to do some comparisons before deciding on a particular travel agent. Only, you must be alert to choose a tour package offered, because sometimes the campaign and in fact very different.
One thing that deserves a thumbs up efforts to exploit the tourism resources available, through large-scale promotion and coordination that make travel antarbiro Khaosan Road still alive, still visited and became a favorite place for young tourists from all over.