A year long travel taught us the rules of budget travel.
10 commandments of a budget traveller
- Thou shall not stay in a place with air conditioners, mini bar or a hotel with any star
- Thou shall bargain for everything including petrol and medicines and of course water
- Thou shall not buy tickets from the hotel concierge (point to be noted: if your hotel has a concierge and it is called that, then you are not following the first commandment)
- Thou shall find the best deal on everything even if it means that deal finding left you no time to do the thing you wanted to do
- Thou shall eat at a ridiculously cheap place and get a diarrhea
- Thou shall never take taxis from anywhere to anywhere
- Β Thou shall walk it even if it means that thou shall be in bed for two days after the walking
- Thou shall look for the cheapest laundrette in town only after number 9
- Thou shall look for a bucket to do your own laundry
- Β <<Are you a budget traveler? Help us figure out the tenth>>
It is adorable π I love it!! And every point shall be followed π I want to know who out of the two has written it? Or its a collective effort π
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Thou shall hitch hike at every possible opportunity & be ready with a sleeping bag for any exigecy / unforeseen circumstances.
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Well said Giridhar π Agreed but Ishwinder is very apprehensive about hitch hiking and I hate every night I had to sleep in a sleeping bag
Thou shall carry not carry lugguage >= 1/7th of thou’s body weight.
KG Sriram,
nice one, We have tried really hard to do that but never succeeded. do you do that when you travel?
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Thou shall put saving money before all else, even at the expense of not seeing the sites you came to the country to see in the first place
Great post – although we’ve broken a few of these from time to time we’ll try harder in 2014! π
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Well Said Travis.
We will be revising the list in a couple of days, your reply will definitely be on it.
Hahaha, this is brilliant and we agree in 100% π As for the 10th commandment, for us it would have to be: Thou shall always try to hitchhike everywhere (or maybe this should be the first one π or as KG Sriram mentioned, something about carrying a light bag.
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Hitch Hikers,
Being Indians, and the kind of stories we have seen in Bollywood movies related to Hitch Hiking, we are yet to try it.
May when we are in Europe, we will give it a try, In India our skeptical side shines.
-Empty Rucksack
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Would agree with the most, bit with kids around, would like to be careful with food.
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Sudhir,
With kids around, the whole equation would change.
It will be more challenging but can be done π
-Empty Rucksack
Thanks! 8 out of 9 is good enough to follow
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Thou shall try and get invited thouself π to breakfast / lunch / dinner / chai / nashtha / anything to eat / drink at every possible occasion and maintain thy dignity by calling it mingling with the locals π
Well said Prakash, easiest way to get all of those done is to hire a local guide π
I agree with all of them. My fav is the7th one. When it comes to eating, my rule is to eat in a crowded place, where the most locals are eating. That has worked for me so long!
Sonia,
In smaller cities that works well but at times in Delhi, it can completely backfire, but we don’t travel to places like delhi as often
Well worded. 10th commandment for me is definitely – “stay away from shopping”
Sapna,
Shouldn’t that be practised even when we aren’t traveling π
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“Thou shall look for a bucket to do your own laundry” π – this made me burst out laughingg π
Always learn how to say ” Too Expensive” word in local language at it will work like password in any bargaining…
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