Backpacking Essential

Backpacking can be interesting, confusing, time comsuming, fun, exhausting and
could be dangerous too. Consequently, there should be adequate preparations. The hostels generally offer single beds, doubles or dormitory rooms. If you need privacy, you can opt for a private quarter. Backpackers usually have ample time and do not need to rush. Their schedules are not fix and they can move about freely.

Without any schedules and time constraint, a backpacker has much to do in
visiting places rarely offered by commercialized tours. A sleeping bag and a haversack are the basic of a backpacker. The other essential gear for your backpacking trip should include personal toiletries, towel, walking shoes, socks, underwear, shorts, jeans, camera and medications.

There are many cheap rooms in most towns and cities in almost any place on earth. Most hostels provide a wide variety of cultural and eco activity. They include city tours, cultural tours, eco tours and jungle and cave explorations.

Hostels or inns (as they were called long time ago) probably have been around for many hundred years providing cheap accomodation and warm food for travelers. Hostels are more or less like a budget hotels. They provide essentially the same services but with less cost. Nearly all hostels offer free use of closets and or other services like transfer to airport or helping booking tours.

Generally, large hostels in the city are open for 24 hours while other smaller hostels have the main door close by midnight. However, you can arrange for the door to open if you intend to party all night long.

With the invention of internet, you can not book hostels from far away countries in just a minute. I have personally booked a hostel in a remote part of Thailand and surprising I paid a cheaper rate than a walk-in tourist. Try this link to book a cheap hostel.