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Traveling through Southeast Asia soon?
Welcome to Backpacker Savings, a site dedicated to helping you save money while backpacking or doing long-term travel. If you’ve found yourself on this page, odds are you you’ll be taking off for Southeast Asia soon. If so, great! Traveling is one of the most fun and enlightening things a person can do. Unfortunately, when you arrive in a foreign country you have no point of reference beyond your guidebook and most likely no idea what you’re doing. Tens of thousands of people make the same mistakes and throw away hundreds of dollars every year when traveling Southeast Asia. It is this unavoidable, wasteful, and negative side of travel we'd like to help you avoid.
Pai, Thailand
As anyone who has traveled knows, getting ripped off and making mistakes is part of the experience. Unfortunately, these very things cause stress, ill feelings towards the locals, and a variety of other generally negative feelings. It is for this reason we developed the Backpacker Savings Guide series. Our guides offer highly practical tips that can save you money on a day-to-day basis while traveling Southeast Asia. Further, these aren’t tips pulled off the Internet or re-phrased from Lonely Planet; every one of the tips in here comes from a mistake I or someone I was close to made while traveling. So, if you would like to save money and enjoy less stress while traveling Southeast Asia, our Backpacker Savings Guide: Southeast Asia e-book was designed for you.
Below you will find examples of the tips found in our guide:
Temple in Chiang Mai
- How taking an early train versus the afternoon train can save you $33!
- Point by point instructions for avoiding border crossing scams (savings potential: $20+)
- How walking 50 yards/meters could save you $6 on a taxi fare
- How you can save 10-20% when exchanging money entering Laos
- One thing you can bring guaranteed to save you $5
- One tip that applies to everyone and can save you $100-700!
- Why taking morning buses in one country can prevent wasting $10-20/day
And many, many more!
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On top of this, all of our tips have been cross referenced with Lonely Planet to ensure we are offering unique advice that you don't already have. Only two of our tips can be found in Lonely Planet, and we break down one of them in much more detail. Further, our tips are not time sensitive; they are guaranteed to be relevant today, tomorrow, and next year (given inflation in the area, the guide may actually become more valuable over time). But that’s not all...
Our Backpacker Savings Guide: Southeast Asia e-book was developed by backpackers for backpackers. To save trees and cut down on weight in your pack, we've transitioned our hard-copy guide into a PDF e-book! No weight, no maps, no fluff, just money saving tips! But that's not all...
Mui Ne, Vietnam
Included with our guide is the Southeast Asia Packing List, which breaks down what you should pack and what you should wait to buy until you get there. The list itself could save you $25 or more! So, let's recap what's being offered here:
Backpacker Savings Guide: Southeast Asia
Sunset off Koh Phangan
- Country by country breakdown of Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos
- 32 highly practical tips that can save you hundreds of dollars
- General Tips section that apply regardless of where you are
- Ways to save money when doing transport between highly popular locations
- Free access to further editions (many, many people go back)
- Index, for quick access to relevant tips
Southeast Asia Packing List
- 14 tips that can help you save money and cut down on weight in your pack
- Items to pack that most people forget about
- Things that are cheaper to buy at home
- Items that are cheaper to buy overseas
** 2% of profits are donated to the Our Friends Orphanage in Takeo, Cambodia. Learn more on our [FAQ ](/faq.html)page.
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Total: $29.99
But there's more! We are so confident our guide will save you at least $30 while traveling that we are offering a 60 day, 100% money back guarantee! If during or after your trip you realize you did not save at least $30 while traveling, simply send us an email and we will refund the full price, no questions asked. We'll even let you keep the Southeast Asia Packing List. There is literally no risk to you!
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"A fool learns from his mistakes, a truly wise man learns from the mistakes of others." - Otto Von Bismarckk
Me and the people I traveled with made a ton of mistakes before and throughout our trip. I personally wasted hundreds before leaving and wasted hundreds more while traveling. Unfortunately, this left me bitter and cut my trip short as my budget was depleted ahead of time. So please, learn from my mistakes. And in case you're wondering, these are not abstract tips that only apply to 7% of travelers. If you’re doing the standard backpacker trail, which involves Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, these tips WILL apply to you. It's no joke that we offer one tip, which applies to 100% of people traveling to Southeast Asia, that could save you hundreds before you get on plane. Still skeptical? Here are a few more examples of the tips you’ll find in our guide:
- How to avoid being ripped off by Thai ATMs (their technique is subtle and legal)
- Where renting a motorbike/scooter for 3 days is cheaper than 3 taxi rides
- How to avoid a common $20 mistake when visiting Angkor Wat
- How you can save $18-22 per guidebook (most people carry 2-3)
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If that isn’t enough, here are some testimonials from travellers who have used the Backpacker Savings Guide: Southeast Asia:
“Thanks for giving us the free sample of your guide, it helped us travel Vietnam for super cheap! And we got
some cute clothes at Chatuchak. xoxo” – Gerjanne, Holland
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“Your tips re: Cambodia and the border scams saved us. Our taxi driver took us to their shady looking office space claiming it was “immigration.” Thx mate!” - Tom, England
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“Took ur advice and worked in Vang Vieng for a week. It was the most fun I’ve had while traveling, and I spent less
than $10/day! ” - Shawn, Hawaii
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And if that still isn't enough, you can read about the history of Backpacker Savings, our 'Immutable Laws,' and why we take this guide
so seriously on our [About ](/about.html)page. So what are you still waiting for?!
White Temple, Chiang Rai
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