My love for Australian National Parks is well documented. First of all they are beautifully accessible, dotted right across the country, and secondly they are very cheap to visit, providing some incredible super budget camping facilities and a wealth of free activities. This has led me to call Australian National Parks a budget travellers dream […]
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Now I’m certainly not a handbag and heels kind of girl, in fact I’m not even a hairdryer or hairbrush kind of girl! So, much to my boyfriend’s delight, it seems I’m pretty low maintenance when it comes to the luxuries and comforts many ladies like. This definitely helps when you’re a budget traveller. […]
Americas, Budget Travel Ideas, Central America
10 Key Things to Know Before Backpacking Central America
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I spent 2 years backpacking Central America … and loved every moment of it! When I left the UK and headed there however, I hardly knew anyone that had been, in fact, most people I spoke to had never even heard of half the countries there! As such, I wasn’t able to glean a lot […]
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Having just returned from another beautiful camping road trip away in one of the many gorgeous Australian National Parks, I thought it was about time I compiled a camping checklist for adventuring out into the wilderness in this massive country. Like normal, the recent road trip to the beautiful Bunya Mountains National Park, was a […]
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One of the most iconic cities in the world, when you visit London it’s hard not to get overwhelmed by the number of things to do there and how much it can all cost. But fear not, there’s a heap of free things to do in this great city which, after living there for […]
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It was during a trip to New Zealand back in 2008 that I first heard about the free guided meditation courses of Vipassana. Taking place in dedicated centres around the world, these 10 day retreats are conducted in silence and offer a step-by-step chance to learn a very specific sort of meditation technique. The […]
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Some super news here in the Big World Small Pockets camp …. I’ve been named as one of the top 15 budget travel blogs by Flipkey.com, a TripAdvisor company. I know, top 15!!! You can check out the award, and the 14 other great travel blogs chosen, here .This is such an exciting accolade, […]
Americas, ECUADOR, Solo Female Travel, South America
Hiking the Loop: A Solo Female Walking Quilotoa in Ecuador
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The green of the open valley stretched as far I could see. Broken only by the odd tree or patch of scrub, it flowed up the to the mountain ridges on each side and looked smooth and soft, like a green dustsheet that had pull over the furniture of these Andean hills to cover […]
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Armed with my 1 year Working Holiday Visa, I arrived into Australia in late 2013. Within a few months time, I already knew I wanted to stay in this beautiful country longer and set about researching how I could extend my visa here. I found it was possible to extend the 1 Year Australian Working […]
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Travelling in Australia can be very expensive and one of the most costly things is the price of accommodation and activities. But I want to let you in on a little secret, one that hardly any backpackers seem to know about and many locals don’t either. That secret is Australian National Parks. All across […]