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Budget Travel, A Guide to Travelling on a Shoestring
Explore the World, A Discount Overseas Adventure Trip:
Gap Year, Backpacking, Volunteer-Vacation & Overlander
Budget Travel, A Guide to Travelling on a Shoestring is a practical and concise guide to travelling the world and exploring new destinations
with fascinating opportunities and experiences. Full of anecdotes, travellers advice, informative timelines and testimonies, with suggestions,
guidance, ideas and need-to-know information to help you survive and thrive on your budget travels and have the adventure of a lifetime!
Whether you go solo, join with friends, participate in humanitarian work, join an overland bus trip or take your own vehicle, this book is for you.
Why travel, options, ideas, opportunities and experiences
The style of your trip, what to do, when to go and the cost
Gap year safety, medical and health related issues and remote travel
How to travel with money, cash, ATMs, haggling and remunerations
Your rucksack/backpack, what you need to take and leave behind
The plane ticket, review sites, applying for a visa and airport etiquette
Finding a place to stay, reservations and accommodation checks
Personal hygiene, scams, settling in and a foreign language
Be smart, shrewd and safe, the laws of the land and social media
Food & drink, keeping a journal, culture, writing and photography
Buses, trains, taxis, motorbikes, overlanders and vehicle maintenance
Overland bus trip and researching an organization
Humanitarian and development aid and leading a volunteer-vacation
A working-vacation, advice for leaders and a working team
Can you help me and the end of the journey
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Book Details
Size 9 x 6 inches (229mm x 152mm)
42 chapters
210 pages
ISBN 978-1907066-54-2 (paperback)
eBook Details
ISBN 978-1907066-55-9 (eBook)
Available on multiple eReaders.
Kindle, Kobo, Apple iBook, Nook, etc.
Split into 8 Sections with 42 Chapters
1. Where to travel, with whom and preparation
2. Safety, medical, health, survival and extreme travel
3. Budgeting, money, what to buy and pack (kit-list)
4. Plane ticket, visa, airport and accommodation
5. Hygiene, scams, settling in, language and law
6. Food, journal, culture, oppression & photography
7. Public transport, your own vehicle, renting, overland bus and researching an organization
8. Aid work, volunteer-vacation, advice for leaders, a working team, can you help me (money) and returning home
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Why Travel
Travel Options and Opportunities
The Style of Your Trip and Timing
Practical Preparation
Things to Consider
Gap Year Safety
Medical Related Issues
Health Related Issues
How to Survive Your Trip
Extreme and Remote Travel
Budgeting for your Travels
How to Travel with Money
Make Your Money Go Further
Time is Money Remunerations
What to Buy
What to Take Kit List
The Plane Ticket and Review Sites
Applying for a Visa
A Beginners Guide to Airport Etiquette
Finding a Place to Stay
Reservations and Accommodation Checks
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Personal Hygiene and Scams
Settling In
A Foreign Language
Be Smart and Shrewd
The Laws of the Land and Be Safe
Food, Glorious Food
Keeping a Journal
How People Tick Culture
Being Culturally Sensitive
The Oppressed and the Exploited
Travel Writing and Photography
Transportation Buses, Trains, Taxis etc.
Overlander Your own Vehicle
Renting a Vehicle
Overland Bus and Researching an Organization
Humanitarian and Development Aid
Leading a Volunteer-Vacation
A Working-Vacation Advice for Leaders
A Working Team
Can You Help Me $ £
The End of the Journey
Appendices
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About the Author
As a world traveller, Mathew Backholer has visited more than forty countries and has travelled the length of Africa, from Cairo to the Cape,
across South-East Asia from India to Vietnam and from Nepal to Russia via China and Mongolia and has survived the Trans-Siberian Railway.
He has driven around Europe, visited North Africa six times, and has journeyed alone, with friends, as part of team and as a leader. He is
the co-founder of ByFaith Media (www.ByFaith.org) and films and presents the reality mission travel series ByFaith TV which airs globally
on numerous networks. He is the author of many books, including: How to Plan, Prepare and Successfully Complete Your Short-Term Mission and
Extreme Faith.
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