| The term backpacking has originally been used for | | | | It has also become way more mainstream and is |
| a form of international low cost or budget | | | | a popular activity among young people who try |
| traveling. There are many aspects that | | | | for their first time to discover foreign places and |
| differentiate this traditional form of backpacking | | | | countries by themselves. |
| from other forms of tourism. In most cases is | | | | The most important aspects of a backpacking |
| the use of public transport to travel the preferred | | | | journey are to see and discover other cultures |
| variant to move between the different locations | | | | and countries with another language than ones |
| the traveler wants to visit. As hotels are too | | | | mother tongue and to meet new people from all |
| expensive and too private - meeting new people | | | | over the world. Sometimes it takes willpower for |
| is another aim of the most backpackers - youth | | | | the young people to start their trip alone or to |
| hostels are the most popular sleeping | | | | talk to complete strangers, but this is a training |
| opportunities. | | | | and experience for their lives. |
| The length of the trip is in almost every case | | | | Especially the technical changes in the 2000s |
| much longer than the time spend on traditional | | | | helped to popularize backpacking. Today a journey |
| vacations. To see as much as possible and | | | | far from home doesn't mean that you can't stay |
| experience new ways of life it just needs more | | | | connected with you friends. When you traveled a |
| time than two or three weeks. The backpackers | | | | few years ago, the only possibility to give a sign |
| travel often "alone". Alone means in this case, that | | | | of light to your relatives at home was a |
| they start without someone they know so they | | | | expensive call from a phone box or something |
| have to make new friends if they don't want to | | | | similar. Today, backpackers "Skype" with their |
| stay for themselves. This makes the backpacking | | | | friends at home, write about their newest |
| a experience and adventure that helps the mostly | | | | experiences in Facebook and use the built in |
| young people to learn for their lives and | | | | webcam of their laptops or netbooks to show |
| sometimes to find to themselves. | | | | themselves. |
| Last but not least the fact that gives the | | | | The planning of the tour is also much easier today |
| backpacking its name is that almost everyone | | | | because of the internet and digital guides. You |
| uses a big backpack to carry the things they | | | | don't need a whole route in the beginning, you |
| need. As a backpack is the most flexible way to | | | | just go where you like to and from there you |
| transport one's clothes, shoes and souvenirs it's | | | | search the internet for new ways to go. So |
| number one among these travelers. You have the | | | | backpacking will probably become even more |
| possibility to make trekking tours but you can also | | | | popular in future, especially among young people. |
| leave your rucksack in the hostel. | | | | It won't replace the normal beach holidays but |
| Today the backpacking isn't anymore just a way | | | | become and for many already is a good and well |
| of low budget journeying but has become way | | | | known alternative. |
| more and for some people it's already a lifestyle. | | | | |