A Bucket List Not For The Faint Of Heart: 7 Great Adventures Around The World. Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1) Preachers Rock, Preikestolen, Norway Blue Caves - Zakynthos Island, Greece Skaftafeli - Iceland Plitvice Lakes – Croatia Crystalline Turquoise Lake, Jiuzhaigou National Park, China Four Seasons Hotel - Bora Bora Ice skating on Paterswoldse Meer, a lake just South of the city of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Marble Caves, Chile Chico, Chile The Gardens at Marqueyssac Ice Canyon - Greenland Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, British Columbia Valley of the Ten Peaks, Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada Multnomah Falls, Oregon Seljalandsfoss Waterfall on the South Coast of Iceland Petra - Jordan (at night) Verdon, Provence, France Wineglass Bay, Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, Australia Norway Alesund Birdseye of City Benteng Chittorgarh, India Riomaggiore, Italy Keukenhof Gardens - Netherlands. Sky Lantern Festival - Taiwan. The Wave is on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes, which are in turn located in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness, on the Colorado Plateau, Arizona. Mount Roraima - Venezuela. How to Travel Full-Time for $17,000 a Year (or Less!) Wise Bread Picks For the last five years, I've been traveling the world full-time, and for less money than I've ever spent (and I'd wager less money than most people would spend) to live in one place.
My worldly possessions fit into one bag (just larger than carry-on size) and a backpack containing my laptop and computer gear. This small entourage (weighing less than 45 pounds in total) comes with me as I wander around the world, sometimes quickly, but mostly slowly. In 2011 alone, I traversed 13 countries and over 45,360 miles. Sounds pretty expensive, huh? What if I told you it wasn't? Believe it. How to Keep Your Travel Costs Low Of course, I could travel for way more than $17,000/year. Here are a few of my secrets. Don't Pay for Accommodations In the entire year of 2011, I paid $173 for accommodation. Work-Trade/Volunteer There are lots of creative opportunities to work in trade for your accommodation (and sometimes food) and enjoy a more immersive travel experience. Hospitality Exchange. 50 of the Most Important Landmarks of the World (Part 1)
Hostels, Hotels & Youth Hostels at HostelBookers. Cheap Travel: Work-Stay Programs Worldwide. With the dollar’s exchange rate collapsing like a house of credit cards, it’s tempting to put off travel plans, or erase them from the calendar altogether.
But don’t cancel your flight just yet— check out these creative ways to stay and eat for free abroad … in return for a little work. One of the oldest work-stay programs has been around since 1971. World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) have been putting travelers in touch with farmers all over the world who offer free room and board in exchange for four to six hours of work per day. Sound too good to be true? Here’s how it works: More than 20 countries have national WWOOF organizations, and there are independent WWOOF hosts in more unusual locations, such as Romania, Tonga, and Ecuador. After you become a member, you’ll be able to choose from a list of host farms to contact—but you can see sample farm postings for free on their Web sites, like for Sweden, or for Italy. Feel like taking a road-trip across the country?
Travel that won't Break your Budget! The gas prices just keep going up and up and up!
How can you have a Chick Vacation if you can't afford to get anywhere? Check out these two companies Megabus which is a bus company in the Midwest and 0n the west coast that offers fares starting at $1.00 and Skybus that is an airline with 10 seats starting at $10. Megabus is part of coach buses and operates here in the United States in the Midwest through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and now a stop in Memphis, TN. The reservations for seats on the bus do start at $1 for the first couple of seats and go up from there with many seats at the $10, and $20 range one way. One very nice thing about mega bus is that unlike Greyhound, Megabus may stop for a rest break but does not have local stop buses.
Mega bus is looking very good as a reliable source of travel since people have rave reviews of their experience and the fact that its destination list keeps expanding. How to See the World: Art of Travel; European and World Backpacking; On $25 a Day or Less.