July 2013 – A month never to forget

July 2013 – A month never to forget

July has been a month filled with travel, adventure and life changing experiences! It all started July 1. I left for India for two weeks. It was my first real trip that I didn't pl ...

Take a trip to Tabarca Island for seafood, a stroll and some history

Take a trip to Tabarca Island for seafood, a stroll and some history

There are some days in Alicante city when all you want is a sunbed, light filtering through an ice-cold drink, and nothing more strenuous than turning the pages of a new novel. But ...

Free Things To Do in Bali

Free Things To Do in Bali

Traveling is expensive, so it's important to save money wherever you can. But who feels like budgeting when they're on a long-awaited vacation, especially when their destination of ...

10 Reasons to Go Travelling on a Gap Year

10 Reasons to Go Travelling on a Gap Year

Travelling around the world as part of a gap year represents an excellent way to learn more about yourself, and provides opportunities to gain a new perspective on different parts ...

What Blogging has done to me?

What Blogging has done to me?

When I first started blogging, I really had no idea where to begin. It was strange because I knew I really wanted to share my experiences with fellow travellers, but I didn’t know ...

Saving Money While Backpacking

Saving Money While Backpacking

Backpacking is really just a way to travel without spending too much and using it wisely. You don’t necessary have to be extremely cheap, but just watch what you spend and where yo ...

Travelling alone: a life enriching experience

Travelling alone: a life enriching experience

Different kinds of people want different experiences from their travels, but for me, travelling through Europe for a couple of years in my early 20s was really about building mysel ...

Leh Ladakh Attractions – Adding Charm to the Traditional Ladakhi Villages

Majority of tourist visiting Leh Ladakh in are trekkers. When planning your trip to this sensitive north western region of India, pay attention to your physical fitness. The chilling winter and the low oxygen level due to high altitude can be harsh on you. Leh is the capital city of the region and is quite developed to provide you with all the basic amenities. You can explore the rugged terrain and the barr ...

Read more

Our Interview with Women on the Road

If you want to learn more about Off-Track Backpacking,  you can read our full interview with Women on the Road here. What top 3 pieces of advice would you give women 18 and under who want to travel on their own? Be aware of your surroundings at all times and always look at the positive outcome, rather than thinking the worse.   ...

Read more

Read our Guest Post on Room 77

Hey everyone, just a little note that we wrote a guest post for Room 77: Tips on Solo Female Travel. Book Room 77 is one stop to find and book your next hotel room. It's a pretty cool website, check it out! ...

Read more

Backpacking Solo in the USA: Unforgettable Experience

For many avid backpackers, hiking far into the wilderness means leaving the distractions of modern life behind and focusing on experiencing the natural world in all its glory.  For such individuals, the most unforgettable kind of backpacking adventure is one that also takes them away from the distractions that friends and family can represent.  Backpacking solo is a way to truly "get away from it all" and b ...

Read more

Wuzhen—A Trip for Three Bosom Friends

As a senior student in university, I, like many others, was exhausted by the graduate paper and summer internship. When the precious May Day holiday approached, my friends and I decided to make full use of the last holiday of our college life. Since the holiday only lasts for three days, we narrowed our choice to cities near Beijing. With excitement and expectation, we searched online for information of can ...

Read more

Interview with the Room 77 Gals!

 We Interviewed two lovely gals from Room 77, a great site to find amazing hotels! We believe that one of the top travel experiences of your vacation, or backpacking trip comes from your accommodation experience. So we wanted Heej Jones, the director of Content and Community and Jessica Skelton, the Marketing Communications Specialist at Room 77 share their expertise and resourceful knowledge about hotels w ...

Read more

Student Protests in Montreal

I know this post isn't necessarily travel related but it will provide some insight on what's currently happening in Montreal. In case our local Montreal news didn't make it to your country (which I really hope it didn't), our students have been protesting against tuition hikes for over 12 weeks now. The liberal government announced earlier this year that tuition would be increasing by $325 per year for the ...

Read more

Finding the right Travelodge in London

Britain’s capital is full of accommodation of all kinds, from family-run B&Bs to ultra luxurious five-star behemoths. So finding the right hotel in London can be a daunting prospect at the best of times. Travelodge is a good option, likely to be cost efficient and reliable. But even finding the right Travelodge in London can be difficult, mainly due to the fact that there are so many, in many different ...

Read more

South Africa. History.101

The most interesting part of visiting South Africa is definitely learning more about the country’s history. Johannesburg is not the most attractive city but let me tell you that it’s comparable to visiting a museum. It's safe to say that most of us are aware of the apartheid, at a minimum. We know that there was segregation between the white and the black population. And until Nelson Mandela came to power i ...

Read more

Time at Gatwick.

Many people know that London, Heathrow airport is one of the busiest airports in the world. Last year Heathrow was the third busiest airport with over 70 million passengers. Even though, Atlanta-U.S.A and Beijing-China was the top two with only a few more million people, but London was still classified as the “gateway” into Europe. The true “gateway” into Europe for many British people is Gatwick airport. I ...

Read more

© Off Track Backpacking 2012. Website Design by Kinex Media.

Scroll to top