First Time Backpacking
Welcome to First Time Backpacking. The best place for advice, tips and information for the First Time Backpacker.
If you’re thinking of taking a trip there has never been a better time. Backpacking is something anyone can do, young or old, and unlike something’s, doing it for the first time is always the best! Backpackers should always have a smile for the locals, an eye for the unusual and a spirit of adventure. You might never pass by the same way again and you’ll never know what you’ll see around the next corner.
But how do you go about it? Where should you go? What should you take? Setting off into an unknown world can be thrilling and scary in equal measures. Here you’ll be able to find some of the answers and find out if backpacking is for you and what you can expect on the road. The author has travelled around the world twice and visited nearly 40 countries. After living out of a backpack for a total of over 6 years he knows a thing or two about travelling and can remember his first time well.
So don’t be shy, check your passport has enough time, do some research, buy some insurance and get backpacking. Put it off too long and you might regret it for the rest of your life.
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