Cheapest places to travel

“I make it a policy to not get my hair cut until I can do it for a dollar or less.” That’s what one American traveler told me in 1993 when I was early along in my first backpacking trip around the world. This meant he got a little scruffy sometimes, but he had pulled …

If you’re looking for the very cheapest place to travel in the world, Nepal is certainly close to the top. It was one of the world’s best destination bargains the first time I landed there in the mid-90s and it still is today. Travel prices in Nepal are a perpetual bargain. Looking back at my …

Do you want to pay tourist price or regular price? Do you want to pay the maximum or the minimum when you travel? Those sound like dead easy question when they’re put that way, but travelers often take the high-priced option without realizing they’re doing. it. There are usually at least two tiers of pricing …

If you’re traveling in the USA, Canada, or Mexico, which destinations will cost you the least? The cheapest cities are probably not the ones you would expect. I write a lot on here about the cheapest places to travel internationally, but my fellow Americans aren’t exactly worldly wise. Only about a third of them even …

  Every time anyone goes on vacation and posts gorgeous photos on social media, frequently someone says, “You’re so lucky. I wish I could travel more.” You can almost hear the wistful sigh. In most cases the answer to “Why can’t you?” would have something to do with not enough time or not enough money. …