Posts from the Cheapest Destinations Blog about travel adventures around the world: hiking, biking, kayaking, rafting, skiing, and other outdoor activities in the great outdoors.
Now that the whole continent is open again, where are the cheapest places to travel in South America? This can be a moving target because of economic conditions and exchange rates, plus pandemic times produced a lot of changes. I spend a lot of time traveling in South America and the continent features prominently in …
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Do you hate paying the full retail price for luggage, travel gear, or outdoor adventure clothing? Well, it’s easy to avoid that if you get your timing right and follow a few simple strategies. You can always find great deals on travel gear if you shop smart. Long-time readers know that I founded and ran …
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First you walk through a church with no roof, gnarly roots twisting across the floor. Then you pass a building with rusty metal mining equipment attached to the stone block wall. Up a set of steps to nowhere and you have a panoramic view of the other ruins. Ghost towns in Mexico like Mineral de …
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As you may have noticed, the world is opening up again, so preparing for long-term travel is not an exercise in futility anymore. For nearly two years, many countries were 0ff-limits to visitors, including Australia, New Zealand, and most of Southeast Asia. That last one was especially tough for digital nomads and round-the-world backpackers. Countries …
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Sometimes the best advice can be distilled down to a one-word answer. My most common answer to how people can travel more for less money is one of those. Independent travel success and keeping the travel budget in check primarily rely on one key trait: “flexibility.” This was true for me this week—more on that …
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