Name: 4 tips for traveling cheap
Uploaded: 2018-08-11T20:05:30.000Z
Duration: 11 min 20 s
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And I wanted to make a video today about how I'm able to afford to travel so much

So if you've been following my videos over the past few months

You know that I was traveling through Europe for basically the last two-and-a-half months and people tell me all the time

You must have a ton of cash in order to travel that much because this is not just something that I just did this summer

But I pretty much do this every year. I'm always traveling and people are always coming up and asking me

Where are you going to next? Where you off to next?

Where is the next adventure? And I'm always going places, but it's not because I have a ton of cash saved up

it's because I'm really frugal and I have

Basically spent the last few years learning how to travel for really cheap

I'm going to talk about four ways that you can travel a lot more and a lot longer

For less money. All I can really do here is

talk about my own experience traveling. And I am an

Unmarried male with no children and I can set my own hours at work

So I understand that my situation might not necessarily be the same as yours

Which is why I can travel for two and a half months at a time

But all the tips that I'm gonna give you here are not just specific to me

You just have to modify this for yourself

And the first tip that I'm gonna offer you for learning to travel cheap may be the most obvious and that is to forgo luxury.

I'm gonna start using big words and then explaining them for the benefit of people that are learning English

So forgo means to do without it something that you don't need.

so this goes without saying but if you're traveling and you're able to go without buying all the

Expensive luxury items you're gonna be able to travel more and longer. You can stay in expensive hotels,

You can get massages, you can go on luxury cruises and all that

is fine if that's what you want to do, but you're just not gonna be able to travel as long unless you're super loaded

so what you have to do if you're not Bill Gates is find the right balance that you want to strike between luxury and

I personally prefer to buy a lot less and have stuff that is not nearly as nice but be able to travel further and

places.  That is more enriching to me than having all the super fancy nice stuff when I travel and there's a lot of ways that

You can forgo luxury.  Instead of eating at fancy restaurants,

buy some rice and beans at the grocery store and cook them in the kitchen at your hostel.  Instead of staying at expensive hotels

you know or go camping or stay at hostels or use Couchsurfing.  If you're not traveling across an ocean,

then instead of flying take a bus or take a train.

hitchhiking and I literally just stick up my thumb on the side of the road and I get rides all the way across the country

to wherever I'm going. This is how I go to

Canada to practice French a lot of times. When you get to the destination and you want to travel around within the city,

don't buy taxis. Those are so expensive. I

Either that or I take the subway or the bus cause you can usually get a bus ticket for like a dollar two as

opposed to a thirty dollar taxi ride, and the other secret is to not just forgo luxury while you're

traveling.  You do it while you're at home too so that you can save up money to go traveling.  If you're like me then you're

constantly saving up for some trip that you're gonna go on and it takes me a long time because I don't make very much money

But I can do it because I'm constantly looking for ways to avoid spending money.

but when my friends want to go out and I feel like being sociable,

I'll go with them and buy the cheapest thing on the menu and I don't buy soda.

I drink water.  And this is something I do all year long in order to afford

Going on vacations and trips around the world.

My next tip is to be flexible about when and where you're gonna travel.  If you don't have a specific time or a specific

Destination in mind you just want to go somewhere,

But you don't care when or where and you have a lot of freedom to find really cheap travel

Experiences. If you've been following my videos

you know that I just walked the Camino de Santiago, which is a backpacking trip across Spain and it's

Probably the single cheapest month-long excursion that you can take. I slept in alberges and hostels every single night

So I didn't camp out at all and I spent an average of 6 euro a night

You multiply that by 30 days that I spent traveling and you get a hundred and eighty euro that I spent over the whole month

Ok, that's what you're gonna spend on one night in a luxury tourist hotel and it lasted me 30 days

But it's because I chose to go to a place that was really cheap and I knew I could travel for a long time

I wouldn't be able to afford to do that a lot of other places.  If you choose to travel to Colombia or Thailand or

places in Africa, you're just gonna be able to sustain yourself for a lot longer than if you go to Cancun or Paris or

Dublin or any of these places because those are so expensive and if you don't have a set time

That you have to travel go in the off season

This doesn't work for me because I'm a college student so I can only really travel for a long time during the summer

Any time a year go in the times where people aren't

Traveling a lot check prices for flights or for bus tickets over the course of several weeks because you'll see how much it varies

But if you check over the course of several weeks you'll be able to find a much cheaper ticket than if you're just checking for

My next tip is to find a way to make money while you travel online jobs are becoming more and more popular

So if you already have one of those then you're golden.  While I was walking the Camino de Santiago,

I met an Australian guy in one of my hostels who is a computer programmer or a coder or something

but all he had to do was bring his laptop with him wherever he went and he was able to work from anywhere in the

world, and so what he did was sold his house and then he just went traveling indefinitely and he was able to do so because

So he's just supporting himself while traveling and basically being on one long vacation

I am able to make a little bit of money off my youtube channel.

I don't make much. I only make about one dollar a day,

but when your total expenses for the whole day is like

Seven to ten euro, that actually is a big help

So get creative.  If there's anything you can do from online from anywhere in the world

And a better chance of being able to travel for further and longer.  A lot of times when I travel, I do

Busking which is another word for street performing.

harmonica with me wherever I go and I just play on the streets and I don't make a ton of money doing that but a

Lot of times I make enough just to buy the bare necessities

That I need to eat and travel for that day

And when you don't need very much to survive, that provides all you need. Sometimes when I'm traveling for a long time

I'll also look for odd jobs that I can do to make a little cash on the side