Planning for a big backpacking trip can be stressful, and you wouldn’t be the first if you got to the airport and suddenly realized you forgot something important at home (although hopefully it’s not your eight-year-old son). Every backpacking trip…
Backpacking Europe: What every first-timer needs to know
Europe truly has it all. From quaint villages to bustling cities, scenic vistas to world-class nightclubs, and baguettes to paella; there is something for everyone. Perhaps what makes the continent so unique however, is its incredible diversity. Planning for such a…
Backpacking: 10 useful tips for first-time backpackers
About to head off on your very first backpacking trip? The idea of long-term travel with nothing but a pack can be daunting. Here are some backpacking tips to help you prepare for an unforgettable journey: 1. Invest in a…
Backpacking: 10 quotes that will inspire you to hit the road
Everyone knows the same old tired travel quotes. There are only so many ways you can superimpose text of “Not all who wander are lost”, or “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a…
This company will plan you a private trip to some of Asia’s rarest cultural festivals
The eastern Tibetan region of Kham, historically renowned for its fierce warriors and enlightened sages, has for centuries been more accessible to intrepid travellers than the holy city of Lhasa which lies far to the west. Nowadays, Kham also incorporates…
For 7 years this vagabond collected 1,000 stories from strangers who helped him on his journey
BY: JESSICA BEUKER All photos by Gabor Gabor hasn’t had a place to call home in over seven years. Instead he has spent those years backpacking the world and meeting new people. Gabor decided to document his journey through the…
A backpacker’s guide to the diverse world of the South American Guianas
BY: ADAM THRUSH The Guianas (or ‘the Wild Coast,’ as it was once known) is a section of South America usually omitted from both long-term backpacking trips as well as short-term vacations. Located on the northern coast of the continent,…
Living on $50 a day, we took our one-year-old daughter on a 6-month adventure across South America
BY: TIM O’NEAL It took several minutes to explain to the woman at the airline counter why we only had one way tickets, no long-term visa, and very little luggage. “What are your plans?” she asked. “We’re flying into Nicaragua…
How using Tinder while travelling completely revolutionized my epic backpacking adventure
BY: ADAM THRUSH This year, I decided to make Tinder my travel buddy while I backpack solo across Mexico, Central, and South America. Testing the hypothesis that, together, two great things – tinder and traveling – can create something even…
Travel is easier than ever for millennials but what that means is harder to decipher
BY: REGAN MCNEILL How many people have heard about their parents’ backpacking through Europe and accidentally eating cow brains for dinner? To my surprise these things actually happened to my mother the nurse (she is cooler than I thought). But…
Portable wood-stove collapses small enough to fit in your backpack to heat tents, vans and tiny homes
BY: EDITORS Let’s face it, we are not all Bear Grylls. When the wind is as sharp as a knife, not all of us have the skills, or the willpower, to take refuge inside the carcass of some large land…
Research shows that people are ditching religion and turning their attention to nature instead
BY: SWIKAR OLI Science is showing that the spiritual experience of watching the sun cascade through a ceiling of trees is being preferred to the long-winded sermons of synagogue or Sunday mass. A Baylor University study confirmed that people who…