Backpacking Malaysia: A Guide for Easy Asia Travel
Backpacking Malaysia is great for easy Asia travel. Easier than South America, easier than Thailand. We traveled the length of the Malaysian peninsula from Malacca to Penang, Kuala Lumpur (KL) to the Perhentian Islands through the Cameron Highlands. The people are friendly, welcoming, and excited to have you in their country. The buses are clean […]
Why Your Hostel Needs A Marketing Consultant
We are hostel marketing consultants and in our years of traveling we have stayed at a LOT of hostels. The difference between a good hostel and a GREAT hostel is often so small that it’s hard to notice from an inside perspective. We have worked with almost 50 different hostels and hotels on five different […]
Baja, México Financial Summary
Baja, México Financial Summary Exchange Rate: $1=approximately 12 Mexican pesos Total Money Spent: $1387 Total Days: 9 Per Person Per Day: $77 Wow! Obviously, that’s quite a lot compared to our previous travel budgets! However, this was our honeymoon, so we spent a lot more willingly then we did when we were penniless backpackers without […]
The Cost of Our Cross-Country Move
The Cost of Our Cross-Country Move We did a 6 day road trip from Ohio to California! It cost us about $100 a day total including gas. This was because we used Couchsurfing for all of our accommodations. When you are paying for a place to stay, travel in the USA gets expensive. Toledo, Ohio […]
Write for La Aventura Project/Stay in hostels for free
Write for La Aventura Project/Stay in hostels for free A big announcement today, everyone! Since we are back in the US now, working real jobs again (boo) and editing the documentary, we don’t have as much to post here! Thus, we are looking for current travelers in South or Central America to write hostel reviews […]
El Salvador Travel Financial Summary 2012
El Salvador Travel Financial Summary 2012 Total money spent: $354.31 Total days: 17 So, we spent $20.84 per day, or $10.42 per person per day. Basically, we were WAY under our $15 per person per day goal! Woot! El Salvador was our cheapest country yet! The fact that food was half our budget proves how […]
Nicaragua Financial Summary
Total Money Spent: $504.66 Total Days Spent: 12 That comes to $42.16 per day or $21.13 per person per day. So we were again over our $15 per person per day budget, but this is because we splurged on a lot more activities than normal when Steve was here, and we bought one super-expensive bus […]
Panamá Financial Summary
Hola chicos!!!! I just realized that although I wrote this awhile ago, I never posted it! Better late than never though! Here are the stats for Panamá! Days in Panamá: 10 Money Spent: $286.88 That means we spent $28.66 per day, or roughly $14.33 per person per day. So we were just barely under our […]
10 Tips For Cheaper Travel in South America
While on the road for extended periods of time, it’s more important than ever to make consistently good economic decisions in order to keep your trip going as long as possible. Here are a few tips and things we have learned in our months living out of our backpacks. 1: Try to find hostels with […]
Bolivia Financial Summary
We spent a total of about $1441 in our 34 days in Bolivia. That breaks down to $42.38 per day, or $21.19 per person per day. A little bit over our budget of $15 per person per day, and there are two big reasons for that: 1. $135 per person visas to enter Bolivia 2. […]