Backpacker

Backpacking – the freedom to travel where and when you want

Backpacking: A hiker in a jungle inSouth America

• Backpackers travel mainly via public transport.
• Interrail is still extremely popular for backpacking travel
• Backpackers are major users of cheap accommodation such as hostels.
• Backpackers travel for a longer duration compared to conventional vacations.
• Backpackers show interest in meeting the locals as well as seeing the sights.
• Backpackers have a keen interest in meeting other travelers.
• Backpackers necessarily use smartphones and online resources for planning.
• Backpackers carry all their travel belongings in a backpack.
• Backpackers have traditionally carried their belongings in 30 liters to 60 liters of backpacks, but suitcases with scroll wheels and some less traditional carrying methods have become more common and there has been a tendency to keep the packing weight below 8 to 10 kg limit for most airlines.
• Backpackers often choose cheap accommodation such as hostels.

Backpacking i Patagonia

Backpackers´ travel agencies

Kilroy

Known by most younger backpacking travelers to bring together a range of valuable services and present them to the otherwise “can-do” oriented backpacking travel segment.

Interrail

Not a travel agency per se, but more the mode of transport to 44,000 destinations in 33 European countries for a starting price of only 185 Euro, which easily and without obligation and not least cheaply brings you around many parts of the world. At Interrail is young from 12-27 years and adult from 28-59 and then not there.

Backpackers world

“Backpackers World is a team of international travel experts and is here to make sure you enjoy your trip of a lifetime through Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and South East Asia. With stores Australia-wide and a growing global network our well-traveled, experienced and passionate staff are there every step of the way – we speak your language, be part of our world.”

Riverrafting og Bungy jump in the Nile in Jinja Uganda

Backpacking around the world

Backpacking to Nepal

Our dispatched backpack globetrotter found Nepal and he experienced hang gliding for a breathtaking view of the Himalayas.

Lonely African elephant in the Ngorongoro Crater in the background of mountains and green grass. Backpacking in Africa.

Safari backpacking in Tanzania

When in Uganda you have to both Bungy jumping and river rafting on the Nile.