Tim Leffel's Cheapest Destinations

Bargains in the Cheapest Destinations

I don’t know it all and couldn’t keep up with everything new everywhere even if I did. So here are some recent worthwhile posts from some of the cheapest places to travel.

This week the Carnival of Cities was at the Happy Hotelier blog and I found this gem from the Twenty-something Travel Blog: How to see Budapest for almost nothing. (Plus one splurge.) And the aptly-named Taylor Chase has a piece in Transitions Abroad about running through Eastern Europe.

Over at BootsnAll, Julie Blakley has a great post on Central American on $25 a day. How much are you spending at home per day? (Add up your month’s expenditures and divide by 30. I dare you.) I especially like this tip: “Pop and juice are cheaper than water.” Real sugar in that pop too—none of that modified corn syrup gunk.

Here’s a great interview with Ben Box, who has amazingly been updating Footprint’s South America Handbook (upcoming edition pictured here) since 1980. Really—since 1980! Now that’s a guy who knows what he’s talking about!

Matador has a great piece about what to get used to when living in Bolivia. Here’s a post with good advice on how to make a new (Latin American) city home.

Lot of news outlets reported this week that “Tibet would be closed” during an upcoming holiday period, but this lackey publication says there will just be “restrictions” on foreigners.  “There will be restrictions for the entry but I cannot give details,” said a spokesperson. Whatever. Go to Nepal instead. Or northern India. Real Tibetans without the side dish of depression.