Backpacking overseas is the dream of many 20-something females. Truth is that you’ll fall in love with all that you see and want to do nothing more than stay longer and longer, and to see more and more. Other truth is that your credit-card probably has a limit just as your savings. We all want to travel as long as we can, and as much as we can but sometimes it is just not possible. However: obviously there are a few tricks you should know so you can travel more. Amity Smile Travel would like to suggest 7 ways to you as below!
1,Volunteer – I never heard of this (form of volunteering) before, but it was a big thing at the hostel I stayed at in Budapest: you volunteer in a hostel and work during the pub-crawls the hostel organizes. For doing that you can stay at the hostel for free. Fun, easy and cheap! Other forms of volunteering that will save you money: animal care in Costa Rica, building houses in Africa, cleaning in hostels and hotels and teaching English in Asia. The best thing about volunteering (and working; see below) is that you are able to stay longer in one specific destination and learn much more about it!
2, Work – Obviously you can also just work for your money so you can travel longer. However, you do need to know whether you are going to work before leaving on a road trip, because that requires you to have another visa. So, be careful with working when you don’t have a work-visa. You could seriously get in trouble for that. You can basically work in a lot of places. Like on a farm, as a cleaning lady or in a restaurant. The more fun things are the seasonal jobs like a summer camp in the USA, working in an apres-ski bar in Switzerland or Austria or working on a ski resort in Canada or work in tourism during summer in New Zealand.
3, Budget – Obviously. As fun as it is to eat out every night, to do everything imaginable and to splurge on hotels, it isn’t the best thing to do when you want to travel longer. So keep the budget: stay in hostels, couch surf, or stay at a friends house and prepare meals at home, make choices in what you want to do and what not and fly with budget airlines only or go by train and bus.
Set a budget as well. This is basically the best thing to do when you travel. It makes it so much more easy to stick with a budget and to make choices in what you want to and don’t want to do.
4, Work from your laptop – Accept freelancing jobs, maintain a blog or fill in surveys to make money. It all are small amounts of money but hey.. everything helps if you want to travel! This is also easier said than done, but the earlier you start looking for freelancing jobs the more you will earn in a year time.
5, Find promotions and discounts – A lot of museums have free opening hours. For example, museums in New York are free at Friday morning or Friday night and museums in Budapest are free to enter every third Saturday of the month – every city has benefits like this and they will save you a lot of money if you know these free opening hours! Also, check your hotel for free city maps, folders and city guides. These are mostly filled with promotional discounts for restaurants, hotels and entree fees! Google also knows a lot of discounts;-)
6, Get rid of monthly payments – Already traveling for 6 months and still have your mobile phone subscription? Get rid of it! You probably don’t call anyone anyway because of the additional fees with oversees calls. As long as you have a phone number and wifi you are ok! Also: choose the cheapest deal for travel insurance, lend your car to someone or sell it, or even rent out your house!
7, Ask locals and other backpackers – 1+1 = 3 and every local and every backpacker has tips on how to save money and travel longer. Learn from each other and find out how you can lengthen your own stay!
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