Backpacking | Budget Travel | Living Abroad
A popular destination with travellers for many years, increasingly foreigners are looking at Southeast Asia as a region not just to visit, but to live. In the age of remote working, affordable countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam with warm climates are natural choices for digital nomads and anyone looking for a new life abroad. […]
Thailand is one of the most popular and affordable countries for digital nomads and anyone looking for a new life in a beautiful place with low living costs. In this post, we’re going to look at some of the cheapest cities to live in Thailand and five of the best options for anyone thinking of […]
This post details the estimated cost of travel in Thailand. We have outlined two daily travel budgets – one for shoestring travellers and one for those on a slightly more comfortable backpacking budget with a fairly big difference between the two. Further down there are details on the local currency and sample prices for travellers […]
You could be in a café in Quito or a rickety bus in Kenya but it is a small street in Thailand that bizarrely continues to strike a chord with travellers as the centre of the backpacking universe. With Thailand still the most popular country in the world for backpackers, it seems every other traveller […]
In this post we’re going to look at the busiest air routes in the world, or at least what they were before the pandemic disrupted domestic and international travel. We’ll look at the busiest domestic and international connections by annual passenger numbers, as well as the busiest air routes in every continent. The figures come […]
In this post, we’re going to hop around the world to find the most popular places on Earth with travellers. From historic European capitals to emerging Asian destinations, below you will find the top ten most visited cities in the world. The data comes from Mastercard’s Global Destinations Cities Index (2019) – figures relate to […]
The experience of backpacking Thailand has changed dramatically over the past twenty years and some would say for the worse but travellers continue to flock to the so-called ‘land of smiles’ in ever-increasing numbers. This page gives you an idea of what a typical Thailand backpacking route might look like. It’s most applicable to travellers […]
