I’ve only been in Nicaragua a few days now, but that’s enough to confirm that this country still offers the cheapest overall prices in the Americas. Bolivia is probably a close secondR...
After three weeks across the Atlantic and some office time back at home, I’m off to Latin America again to check out Nicaragua. I wanted to travel down to Nicaragua in the cheapest way possible...
Even most experienced travelers don’t know much about Bulgaria, even though it’s one of the best—if not the best—values in Europe. It’s also got far more green space tha...
I get start-ups pitching me on all kinds of services that seem to be solutions in search of a problem, but I used to like sending postcards a lot and I’ve sent fewer and fewer of them in the pa...
Despite using the euro, Slovakia is a good enough value that it’s taking another country’s place for the Europe section of the next edition of The World’s Cheapest Destinations. I u...
This cheap travel blog has been packed with informative posts and photos to make you drool lately, so time for a bit of fun instead. It always gives me great joy to find the English language used as ...
I’m making my way through the cheaper countries of Europe right now, finding good values all over compared to their neighbors to the west. Next stop, Romania. I spent most of my time in Transyl...
Travel can be unpredictable. Sometimes that’s half the fun, sometimes it can mean big problems. This month’s issue looks at perceptions and impermanence in three destinations. Michael Buc...
Today’s guest post is from Darcie Connell, co-founder of Trekity.com. She’s been living in Antigua, Guatemala for the past three months and is giving us the lowdown on current prices. While Guatemala...
When I told people my first stop in Eastern Europe was Slovakia, I usually got a blank stare. Or a question meant to gain understanding of what exactly was there. Why travel to…where were you g...
I’m getting ready to hop on a plane to Eastern Europe, where I’ll soon be reporting on cheap travel in four countries there. I’ll be doing some stories for Perceptive Travel and wri...
There are plenty of naval-gazing travel blogs out there and from the start of this one in 2003, I’ve tried to be more useful than that. This is primarily a blog about how to travel well for les...
I reviewed this innovative Camelbak All Clear bottle in detail over at Practical Travel Gear, but it speaks to such a strong travelers need that I’m mentioning it here as well. Anybody w...
Do you know of anyone who has traveled to 95 countries since the beginning of 2009? There is one, and it’s all been well-documented. No, she’s not writing a book about some frantic attemp...
Myanmar, still called Burma as much as H.C.M. City is called Saigon, has made an amazing transformation lately. I’ve long been a skeptic of the whole premise that if travelers go to a place it ...
I’ve started work on updating The World’s Cheapest Destinations, with the 4th edition coming out in December. Meanwhile, here are a few updates in terms of which countries are cheaper, ab...
It’s time for the new issue of Perceptive Travel, home to the best travel stories from wandering book authors. This month we’ve got another eclectic batch from multiple continents, plus s...
Bali has long been a fixture on the Southeast Asia backpacker tour, but it has gotten exponentially more popular since I first landed on the island in the mid-1990s—and prices have risen with t...
Most travelers, moneyed or budget, come into Mexico via Cancun, Mexico City, or Puerto Vallarta. For the first and third options, you probably won’t want to stick around there too long if you&#...
We had already ridden an overnight ferry that had gotten less pleasant as the trip wore on. By the time we arrived on the island of Palawan, in the Philippines, we were exhausted and dirty. Plus we w...
This year I’m flying round-trip to Budapest, round-trip to Southeast Asia, and probably to South America and back—without buying plane tickets. No, I’m not going to any of those pla...
Does the current pace of technology wear you out? For my opted-out father on my side and my befuddled mother-in-law on my wife’s side, it’s exciting and scary both. (the former has never ...
There comes a time in the cycle of my World’s Cheapest Destinations book where people start asking about whether it’s still accurate. I seem to hit that point about three years in, which ...
It’s not even Spring yet, but you have to set your clock forward an hour on Sunday if you live in most of the USA. This early start (and late finish in Autumn) is a remnant from the G.W. Bush e...
If you saw the photo above without the headline, you’d naturally think it was taken in Thailand, right? If someone told you this next one was from the same place, you might be willing to bet so...
It’s time for a new issue of Perceptive Travel, home to the best travel stories on the web. If you don’t believe me, check out the just-announced results of the Solas “best travel w...
More people died in the U.S. last year from “accidental discharge of a firearm” than died in the whole world from airplane crashes. Guatemala’s crime rate is higher than Mexico̵...
I just did a post over at Uptake.com on the differences in hotel prices between big cities and smaller cities in the United States. It’s easy to compare apples to apples in this country because...
Gary Arndt of the the Everything-Everywhere blog put up a nice post recently called All I really need to know I learned from traveling around the world. It’s a play on the bestselling book abou...
Magazines and websites constantly run stories about finding great travel deals and vacation bargains. Usually they highlight some nifty new website, the latest apps, or some Twitter stream that you h...
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