Enhance your traveling experience with some amazing apps. Here are 9 great free and cheap apps that you’ll want to have while traveling.

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Looking for ways to stretch your travel money? It’s easy, we promise! All it takes is a little planning. Here are some simple tips on how to save money while traveling.

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Saving money for travel is easier than most people think it is. Here are some simple everyday ways to save A LOT of money. Put the money you save by following these tips into your travel fund and watch how quickly it grows!

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Traveling solo can be a lot of fun and very social. Meeting people and making new friends is easy when you’re on your own! Here are 6 tips to meet people while traveling solo.

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Looking for ways to save the earth while you travel? Look no further! Here are 7 easy tips for making your travels a little greener.

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Ever notice how some travelers carry giant backpacks with too much stuff while others manage to fit enough gear into a small backpack for a long hostelling trip? Here are some videos with tips on packing a smallish backpack without carrying too much stuff. Read more »

Here are 5 reasons why staying in hostels is the best way to travel!

1. Make New Friends from Around the World

It’s easy to meet people in hostels. If you stay in a dorm room, you can quickly get to know your roommates. Read more »

Jodi Ettenberg from LegalNomads.com is a native Montrealer currently eating her way around the world. Being from Montreal and a foodie, we knew she could point our readers to the best food, drinks and atmosphere in the City. Read on to find out where the best place to drink with the locals is, where to get the best poutine and what Jodi’s all time favorite restaurants in Montreal are.

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For 16 months, Michael Hodson from Go, See, Write traveled through 44 countries and covered 6 continents – all without getting on an airplane. Read on to hear about some of the more unusual modes of transportation he used and what traveling the world by land and sea was really like.

Jazz Hostels: You traveled for 16 months, visited 44 countries and 6 continents without ever getting on an airplane. What modes of transportation did you use?

Michael: I have a tattoo on my back that goes over most of them. Here’s a pretty full list: cargo freighters, buses, trains, taxis, rental cars, donkey, sailboat, tuk-tuk, motorcycle, and lorry/truck. Off the top of my head, those are the ones I can think of.

Jazz Hostels: What was the wackiest form of transportation you used on this trip?

Michael: Riding on top of a lorry/truck was probably the oddest. In northern Kenya, there is no public mode of transport, so to get to the Ethiopian border, I had to get a ride on one of the cargo trucks driving that route. Since it was so dusty while the truck was moving, all of us passengers rode up on the metal framework on top of the truck. It was quite an odd two days, to say the least.
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Audrey Scott and Daniel Noll of UncorneredMarket.com have been on the road for more than 1510 days, have taken more than 41,966,479 footsteps and have visited 65 countries. Life, to them, is about experience and there is no cornered market on experiencing life. Audrey shared with us how they’ve been managing their journey.

Jazz Hostels: At the time of this interview, you have been on the road for 1510 days. When you set out of this journey, did you plan to on the road for so long?

Uncornered Market: No, not at all. We figured we could travel around the world in 12-18 months and had saved some money to do so. Once we got on the road, two things happened – 1) we realized how exploration takes time and we wanted to go slow and 2) we picked up some freelance work that allowed us to extend the life of the journey.
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