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Save money while traveling in two different ways. The first way is to get the best deals with to certain things. Is the type of limitation of this approach to work. For example, if you find the best hotel in Honolulu at the height of the lowest price at the end of the season, save money, but still a very expensive vacation. Getting exactly what you want, or what you think is generally expensive proposition, in travel and in life.

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Another approach is to be a true opportunist. This is difficult for some of you, and completely unacceptable to the other. However, travelers who get to travel the most, go to the widely different locations, please read the most and do most, are opportunists. This is true, until you are so rich, that you do not have restrictions.

Ecuador, went for the first time I went there because it was cheap. It was not a great time, I was somewhere else. " It took months and costs of travel of $ 1045, which contained the air journey and up to $ 130 for the payment of the Guide to take me to the ice at the top of Mount Chimborazo.

Cut costs by taking a bus back to my home for Michigan to Miami, and when I returned to originating in Ecuador. Reply to the ticket cost of $ 158. The response to the Miami Airport was only 256 Quito $ because it was a courier flight, which meant I signed some luggage (car parts), and could be achieved only in the pasulóng na luggage.

You should never feel deprived or bored. I had a great time to eat, whenever it was cheap and clean, do all kinds of inexpensive, but interesting things and to travel across the country to climb Chimborazo. I met my wife Ana also and fell in love with.

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Can You drink the bottle of rum, is the dollar/favorite beer instead? You can eat chicken instead of steak? How to visit the free sights first and dancing in the Street Festival instead of the disco?

Opportunist means you are likely to be one of the many different and almost all of what you want-eventually. You only have to try to get exactly what you want exactly when you want to stop. If the guide that took me up Chimborazo was not dropped his price from $ 200 to $ 130, I used a $ 2 bus and gone Hiking in El altar, another great Andean Mountain. That would be left me enough money to several small adventures.

Cheap travel more Secrets

Air Tickets: My wife and I were planning to travel, visit the family of Ecuador. The cheapest flight distance to traverse City, Michigan, was $ 1720 Quito. Out of curiosity to Miami and had revised the Quito only $ 404. Traverse City Miami airfare was $ 300. Book two separate flights and save more than $ 2000! Discount sites are not set up to look like this (yet), so you can do this yourself. Otherwise, the entire six-week trip, which we took in 2004, costs $ 2400, including $ 100 and robbed of $ 174.

Food: Whether or not to travel here, or in other countries, is generally cheaper to buy some healthy snacks grocery store instead of each meal to eat in a restaurant. When you eat in restaurants, it may be cheaper to order individual items in the menu of appetizers or side dishes from the list. You can also get more variety this way.

Accomodations: Long travel you may want to rent housing in an interesting city. We did this for two months in Tucson, Arizona, about $ 600 less per month, even when compared to the cheaper motellit. Hotel coupon-books, petrol-clock. Often, you'll save $ 10 coupons, the room, you have been kept anyway. If you have a conversion van or RV, you can camp for a couple of nights a week, as we do to save the motellit. We Love Me you have an exemption, $ 3 instead of the $ 40 fee BLM cheapest Motel area hotsprings.

Travel Costs: More and travel less. It is often part of the costs of the voyage, the most convenient, fast food, gas, and the cost of expensive hotels to pay when you just can not be run within the shortest possible period of time. So If you can find a reasonable Motel, and much to do during your stay you can enjoy the area for some time!

Steve Gillman hit the road of its own, as the case may be, sixteen and traveled solo first 17 in the United States and Mexico. Now 40, he continues to travel and his wife Ana, who backpack, he met with Ecuador. Many of his stories, plus tips and lightweight backpacking and travel information can be found on his website: http://www., EverythingAboutTravel.com and http://www.TheUltralightBackpackingSite.com