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Traveling Light: Less is More

Traveling Light: Less is More

Stay Light when Traveling
In the comedy movie Four Rooms, a witch whose entire luggage consists of a single broom states that she "likes to travel light." Now, your idea of traveling light doesn't need to be nearly as extreme – you can still pack the essentials without bringing yourself down with a heavy backpack. The basics of your luggage Light or not, you'll need to carry some sort of backpack with you. Its size should depend on your specific needs – even some who would call themselves light packers will still have a humongous backpack accompanying them, and that's fine. The duration and type of your trip determines how heavy your luggage should be. For example, will you have access to a washing machine? If not, you might need to double the amount…
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Best Travel Gear for European Backpacking Trip

Best Travel Gear for European Backpacking Trip

Backpacking Tips
We're not gonna lie – it takes some guts to decide you'll gonna go on a European backpack trip, and even more guts to actually go through with it. This type of journey will probably take you through many different countries, some of which can seem exotic and strange. To make things more difficult, you'll only have a single backpack to fall back on when making pit stops. This means you'll have to pack smart, including the best travel gear possible. It's probably going to be a big pack, though, so there's no reason not to fill it with everything you could need. A trip across several new countries is no joke – it's best to prepare yourself for an Indiana Jones-like expedition, even if you'll mostly drive around and…
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Top 3 Tips to Travel on a Budget

Top 3 Tips to Travel on a Budget

Tips to Travel on a Budget
Wanna travel to the best of exotic places? What is stopping you? Is it the fear of the bills you are going to rack up? Well fear not because we have come up a with a list of things to do, if you want to travel on a budget. Making a plan We cannot begin to stress the importance of having a good plan to take things forward. We are not talking about a formal blueprint of everything you are going to be doing, but a general idea of what it is you want to do and how long you will be staying in a particular location. The thing is that plans change and those changes can cost you a lot more than anything else. So it is good to…
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Top 10 Cheap Backpacking Tips

Top 10 Cheap Backpacking Tips

Backpacking Tips
For the traveller’s soul, backpacking is an adventure unlike anything elsethat helps them experience the unexpected, broaden horizons and simply breathe away from the complexities of an urban lifestyle. Backpacking is both liberating and terrifying. Terrifying because it’s usually a solo effort where you’re mostly just on your own. Liberating because, the best part of backpacking is that you make the rules! You pick the destinations, the budgets, the modes of travel and any little detours in between. Besides, like the title proclaims, you also travel light, with just a backpack stuffed with only the barest of bare essentials. A lot of people look at backpacking despite the light load, as an expensive, luxurious affair not meant for everyone, but this not necessarily true. Here we bring to you the…
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How to Pack & Stay Light when Traveling

How to Pack & Stay Light when Traveling

Stay Light when Traveling
Traveling light is a magic trick that most people cannot pull off. The reason why we call it a magic trick is because there is a secret to doing it and once you learn that secret, you can be a magician as well. Jokes apart, here in this article, you will find tips to travel light. Also, we would like to mention that we have been traveling for well over a decade now and we come with ample amount of experience when it comes to this particular topic. What we learned the hard way is now compiled into a two to three-minute read, so sit back and learn the ways of the force. Small is better The major reason why people end up carrying a lot of things is that…
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Top 4 Common Travel Mistakes

Top 4 Common Travel Mistakes

Common Travel Mistakes
There is something about traveling that makes everyone happy. It might be the destination that is making one happy or the kind of company they are going to be having or it could just be that a vacation is long overdue. Regardless of why you are traveling, there are certain things to keep in mind before traveling. We have compiled a list of common mistakes that people make while traveling and how to avoid them. So before you sit back and sip Long Island Iced Tea at the beach, make sure to give this article a good read. Passport Most people don’t realise that certain places require your passport to be valid for a significant period of time before entering that country. What most people do is that they look…
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Top 3 Myths About Travelling

Top 3 Myths About Travelling

Myths About Travelling
Experience is lot better ways to learn things than listening to someone tell you what to do. We have travelled the world and don’t for a second think are experts at traveling, but we have come to some myths about traveling. Here in this article, we have listed some of those myths and state why they don’t hold weight to the argument. Months in Advance People keep saying that you should book tickets for your trip months in advance to ensure that you get the best deals. The notion held weight in the early 2000s and has since died off. The argument was that the earlier you book, the better the deals were and the more money you saved in the process. Studies have shown that it doesn’t make a…
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Here is why you need to Travel more:

Here is why you need to Travel more:

Travel
People travel for various reasons. Some are born with wanderlust and want to explore the world, while others seek after new experiences in life, and yet few others love spending the weekends with friends and families in another location. We have gathered up some of the best reasons for why you need to travel more. Travelling allows you to become an adventurous person: When you travel, you will come across things which you haven’t seen before in your life. When you are not in your comfort zone, you will tend to take up every new thing as a challenge and try to solve it most efficiently. Travelling enables you to put yourself in such challenging situations, and you will learn how to be more confident when you are put in…
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Advantages of Travelling alone

Advantages of Travelling alone

Travelling alone
Traveling itself is a brilliant thing to do as it expands our horizons and makes us understand the true meaning of living. But when you decide to travel alone, you will get the chance to explore yourself besides exploring other things around you. Traveling alone has a lot of perks, and it can even change the way you view life. Though it is often considered as lonely and unsafe, there are several other advantages of traveling alone, and we have listed down some of the top perks of traveling alone. Utter freedom to anything: Traveling alone gives you the freedom to do anything you want. You don’t have to consider the opinion of the people who are traveling with you or adjust your plans based on others needs. Traveling alone…
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2 Must do things before booking a hotel

2 Must do things before booking a hotel

Booking a hotel
We have all been there; checking into a hotel and realising that it is clearly not worth all that money you have spent. The worst part is that that hotel is most likely to set the tone for the whole trip that you have planned out. The biggest red flag should be raised when you don’t want to return to your hotel room to crash; dreading go back is a sign that you didn’t put enough effort to book the right hotel. To spare you the blushes and to make sure you don’t make that cardinal sin; we have compiled a list of things to do before booking a hotel room. Reviews Reviews are your biggest trump card, so play it well. Before you even consider booking a place, make…
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