Travel Prices in Ecuador
Monday, October 19th, 2009 Posted in Cheap Latin America Travel, Destination reports, Travel bargains, Vacation deals | 5 Comments »Ecuador has been in all three editions of The World's Cheapest Destinations book and is a backpacker favorite for good reason. You can do and see a whole lot in a country that's pretty compact and the weather is quite ...
Succumbing to a Group Tour (for a Good Reason)
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 Posted in Destination reports, General, Travel adventures, Travel industry | 2 Comments »Long-term budget travelers are, by nature, and independent lot. You wouldn't be out there backpacking around in the first place if you were trying to fit in and conform to the norm. "I don't do group tours" is a common ...
Old Travel Assumptions Die Hard
Sunday, October 4th, 2009 Posted in Cheap Asia Travel, Cheap Latin America Travel, Destination reports, General, Travel adventures, Travel bargains | 4 Comments »Once a place becomes a pariah destination, it's pretty hard to dig out of that hole. Blame it on sensationalist cable TV or our brain's constant search for patterns and shortcuts, but once war-torn regions stay that way in people's ...
Cheap Travel USA – St. Louis
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in Cheap North America Travel, Destination reports, Travel bargains, Vacation deals | 6 Comments »A couple weeks ago I went to a conference attended by a bunch of U.S. and Canadian tourism bureaus. I asked most of them I met with, "What can a weekend visitor do for cheap in your city?" The St. ...
Bia Hoi in Vietnam
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 Posted in Beers of the World, Cheap Asia Travel, Destination reports, Travel bargains | 1 Comment »Vietnam probably wouldn't come near the top of your list when thinking of great beer cultures, but this country actually has some of the cheapest beer in the world. No, you can't get a local hop-heavy microbrew or an ink-black ...



