Backpacking | Budget Travel | Living Abroad
Southeast Asia is great value for backpackers with Singapore the only notable exception. You can get by on as little as $20/day in some parts of the region but costs do vary between countries and sometimes even within countries. Below, we’ll take a look at the cost of travel in Southeast Asia. There are also […]
This post details the estimated cost of travel in Laos. We have outlined two daily travel budgets – one for shoestring travellers and one for those on a slightly more comfortable backpacking budget. Further down there is details on the Lao currency and sample prices for travellers in the country. Laos Cost of Travel in […]
After a difficult few years, an element of normality has returned to travel in Southeast Asia as backpackers once again flock to the region’s infamous “banana pancake trail”. Below you will find an extensive Southeast Asia backpacking route featuring the best of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Malaysia. You can easily tailor it to your […]
Laos is home to brilliant waterfalls, stunning landscapes and rich culture that will be worth every ounce of time and effort you spend getting there and backpacking around. Still slightly removed from the tourist extravaganza that fills much of Southeast Asia, Laos offers a slower pace of life. So, if you have time to spare, […]
Planning a backpacking trip in any reasonably large region can be quite a headache, particularly when it comes to judging the optimum times to visit the destinations you have in mind. A region like Southeast Asia has some fairly large climatic variations as you move around. Therefore whatever time of year you pick, you’d have […]
We get lots of questions from readers about the current situation with tubing in Vang Vieng. After receiving varying reports, some suggesting it had almost completely shut down, we decided to give it a visit to find out. Update on Tubing in Vang Vieng First things first, tubing is still very possible in Vang Vieng […]
