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r/travel
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r/travel is a community about exploring the world. Your pictures, questions, stories, or any good content is welcome. Clickbait, spam, memes, ads/selling/buying, brochures, classifieds, surveys or self-promotion will be removed.
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r/solotravel
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A place for all of those interested in solo travel to share their experiences and stories!
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Cheap traveling, ways to get around, tips & tricks, etc.
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r/backpacking
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A subreddit for traveling backpacking and wilderness backpacking, not restricted to one or the other. All posts must be flaired "Travel" or "Wilderness"
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r/TravelNoPics
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Somewhere to discuss travel. Not to dump your vacation photos. Pose a question. Share a trip report. Recount a funny/unique travel related story. Offer advice or ask for it. **Note that images are 100% welcome as part of a longer, thought-out text post. Photos are a great way to augment your story. Simply embed them within your text post.**
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r/travelpartners
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Share your itinerary and meet new friends along the way, or search and join other travel buddies.
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r/traveladvice
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Have a question about traveling? Post here! Have advice to future travelers? Leave them here! Don't be a tourist, be a traveler.
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r/Shoestring
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A community to discuss frugal travelling, last-minute travel deals, cheap destinations, and cheap means of travel. Whether couchsurfing, camping, or staying in hostels, whether hitchhiking or staying on Airbnb, let's discuss and share the best budget travel ideas and deals!
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r/digitalnomad
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Digital Nomads are individuals that leverage technology in order to work remotely and live an independent and nomadic lifestyle.
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r/travelphotos
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A subreddit for sharing your favorite travel photos from anywhere in the world.
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r/onebag
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This is a minimalist urban travel community devoted to the idea of lugging around less crap; onebag travel. Fewer items, packed into a single bag for ease of transport to make travelling simpler with more focus on the experience than the logistics.
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r/travel_deals
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Cheap accommodations, train, bus and plane tickets.
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r/travelblogging
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How best to document your travels and possibly make money by travel blogging.
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r/europe
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Europe: 50 (+6) countries, 230 languages, 746M people… 1 subreddit.
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A subreddit dedicated to finding a travel buddy or friend! If you're looking for someone to travel with, post your destination and dates with as many details as possible.
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All video travel vloggers, travelers and YouTube travel explorers, use r/TravelVlog to share your travel vlogs or travel videos, exchange tips and tricks for vlogging and traveling. We are a powerfull travel vlogging community, taka a look and stay fit for another fresh Travel Vlog!
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Travel_HD - Explore the world in HD. Find the little heavens across the globe. Choose the best destination for your next holiday or simply enjoy breathtaking pics and videos. The world is vast and its all yours to explore. Join us in our adventures as we venture across the amazing corners of our planet
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Writing Prompts. You're a writer and you just want to flex those muscles? You've come to the right place! If you see a prompt you like, simply write a short story based on it. Get comments from others, and leave commentary for other people's works. Let's help each other.
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For players of the merge game TravelTown. Not affiliated with its developer.
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Posted by9 days ago

The 3 biggest expenses when traveling are:

  1. Accommodation

  2. Travel

  3. Food

Lets go through all of them...


  1. Accommodation

The biggest expense when traveling full-time are short term Rentals, accounting for roughly 70%.

My hack is House-Sitting!

Which means you take care of other peoples homes/pets and can live for free in their House. I'm doing that already for 2 1/2 years full time.

- Between the Sits are days without one as there is never a perfect overlap. For that I use Couchsurfing to get to know nice people/cultures and also have the days in-between filled.


2. Travel

Flights can be expensive, but if you travel around Europe they are pretty cheap, if you fly light you can get to most countries for under $50, That means no check in luggage! Only a backpack and a 2nd carry-on max 8kg of weight.

Also try to use Buses (Blablabus, FlixBus) when possible or I often use Blablacar ride-sharing which is sometimes cheaper.


3. Food

First rule is to never eat out! Simple as that. I actually still do, especially in cheaper countries like Portugal, Spain, SEA, SA etc.

Buy groceries that are in season and local - Always try to find discounter supermarkets around you (Aldi, Lidl etc). In most western countries every supermarket has a weekly leaflet with often really good offers. So check them out each week and buy in bulk, if there is a good offer. -

Especially in Asia, Middle/South America go to local markets! The produce is so much cheaper there.

If I only prepare food at home and eat healthy, I probably spend around 15€/$20 per week on groceries. Granted I'm Vegan, it's actually a lot cheaper to make food at home. Most Vegan staples like Pasta, Rice, tomato sauce, vegetables, fruit, Müsli etc. are really cheap.

I still go out and try local cuisine, but I don't drink since 12 years, that saves a huge chunk of money. Normally I'm never out at night to party's, bars etc simply because it's not my vibe!.


Let me know if you have any question or would like to know more about some of the points. Happy to help :)

Here are screenshots of all my expenses for the last 4 months!

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Posted by20 days ago

Hi everyone,

I'm 35 year old from Germany and just before year-end 2022, I have resigned from my job to travel the world. As per my notice period, I have one more week of work left and a week later I'll start my trip. I'm working in banking with a good salary which while not making me rich basically allows me to live a comfortable life without financial worries.

I've already travelled quite a lot in the past 10 years, with several 1-2 months trips and the longest being 3.5 months on which I traveled from Europe to Asia with the Transmongolian Railway. On these trips, I've met many other travellers who were traveling for half a year, a year or more. I've always envied them.

During the last 3 years, I've been focussing a bit more on my career and moved from project-based consulting work to a more "normal" role, with only shorter trips of 2-3 weeks each. During this time, my wish grew stronger to do another longer trip of a few months at some time in the future. Around summer last year, I had a now-or-never moment when I realised that the 3.5 month trip was already 5 years ago. At the same time, I wasn't too happy with my job and the direction in which it was developing.

So after months of contemplating and getting opinions from friends and family, I eventually handed in my resignation just before the end of 2022.

I have a very rough travel plan in mind for around one year of travelling. My plan looks as follows:

  1. March / April: Balkan countries

  2. May - July: Southern/Eastern Africa (Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, maybe Ethiopia

  3. August: Silk Road + Pamir Highway

  4. September - November: Some other Asian countries - Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, maybe Laos

  5. December - March: Some places in Latin America I haven't visited - Northern Peru, Patagonia, some parts of Brazil.

Places and timing might change. I want to keep it rather flexible. I'm currently trying to balance the number of places I want to see with the speed of travel.

Besides experiencing all these new places and cultures, meeting people, and having fun, I'm so much looking forward to experiencing the absolute freedom on the trip and I'm curious how it will impact me.

Feel free to ask me a question if you like. Any advice from people who have done a similar trip is very welcome.

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Posted by1 month ago

I'm 36M from Eastern Europe. I lived in Beijing and travelled to 60+ countries, so I'm not new to different cultures. Most of my favourite countries are developing ones (like Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Mexico, Peru).

I'm in India now and for the first time ever I'm thinking about cutting my trip short. This country is so inconvenient on so many levels.

I'm not a budget traveler, but also not a "resort" kinda guy. It feels like in India you either go budget or luxury, but mid-range is completely missing. I usually walk a lot exploring the city, but it's just so stressful here. Dirt, dogs, cows, beggars, sellers, scammers everywhere. No sidewalks, you literally have to walk between cars and tuktuks. Haggling with tuktuk drivers is a pain, Uber drivers simply don't show up, just try to collect the cancellation fee. Don't get me wrong, the sights are amazing, but when my visit comes to the end I get nervous that I have to go back to the streets.

I usually go for mid-range hotels, but in here the quality is beyond shitty. I choose the ones with above 8 rating on booking.com and they look great in the picture. Even more expensive hotels lack hot water and there's always at least one stain on the sheet and the towel.

Intercity travel is also a struggle. I try to avoid domestic flights or solo taxis for environmental reasons, train tickets are sold out and all that is left is buses. There are no bus terminals and travel agencies don't organize hotel pick-ups.

I'm used to paying more as a foreigner. But the record holder might be the modern art museum of Mumbai, where I paid 25 times what locals do. For a museum that doesn't even have a permanent exhibition, basically just a gallery for a (bad) temporary exhibition.

I always check the tipping policy before traveling to a country and happy to apply it. If I get a service worth tipping. That rarely happens in India. Taxi drivers try to shame me into tipping after an extra stop at a tourist trap or not even reaching the destination. Restaurant workers point out a dozen times that the service fee was not included.

Vendors keep following me and don't understand the word no. The touching is the worst. I can't stand when somebody touches me and tries to physically stop me so they can sell/beg/scam. I'm a calm person, but Indians get the worst out of me.

People in general act nice on the surface, but the communication and cultural gap is wider than I expected. I use CS to meet locals, usually just for a chat over a coffee, sharing travel stories and getting to know each other's culture. Well, in India it quickly turns into a charity case: how can I help them get "a Schengen visa" or "a job in the EU" or they simply just push me to pick up the bill after their expensive order at the restaurant. I never had an Indian CSer before and I feel I won't ever after this trip.

Am I getting old for solo traveling or do others have similar experiences in India? Are there any hacks that help shut out the bad things?

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