HELLO AND WELCOME
Thanks for stopping by to find out more about us „One and Half backpacks“.
We’re Tereza & Roman, a 30-something couple from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. If you find your way to our blog it would appear you love to travel. Or maybe you would love to start traveling but you do not know where to start… Don´t worry you come to the right place.
“We teach people how to experience freedom by showing them how to plan their holidays and how to save money for it. Because no one knows you better than you.”
Welcome to our site!
One and Half backpacks is a place where we help beginning travellers to find the confidence to plan their trips and save money to actually do so. It doesn´t matter what type of travellers you want to be. Remember, you can be anything you want in life.
We specialize in travel planning and helping people to save money. We are here to help you to maximize the experience from your time off. It doesn’t matter if you love luxury holidays, backpacking trips or crazy adventure. We believe that you will benefit from our planning and saving tips.
Travel is so versatile and one way doesn´t fit all. For some, the perfect time off means the luxury weekend in a city, a week stay in all-inclusive hotels, a backpacking through Southeast Asia, a two months-long road trip, or hiking adventure through the Himalayas.
We are all different and One and Half backpacks is here to embrace your difference and help you to find your personal travel style that fits your budget and your lifestyle.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM US
- Travel planning posts and tools for everyone who wants to start planning their holidays on their own merits. Our travel planning posts aim to help you to not only plan your holidays but help you find the perfect destination for you, as well as help you with your itinerary, finding the best places to visit and much more.
- Money-saving tips and tools, we call ourself saving nerds. We live according to a budget that helps us achieve our goals not only in travelling but in our personal life too. Through the years we master the ways how to set up budgets, save money and stay on the track with your saving plans.
- Travel tips and tricks from our trips, so you get as much information about destinations we have been to.
We started this blog while travelling around Australia in a campervan as a place to collect our travel memories. We wanted to have a place where we could share our stories and tips about countries we travelled to. Now we use it as a platform to share with you our best travel planning and money-saving tips.
We hope this blog will inspire you to travel more and stress less. Our aim is to create a community of newbie travellers that need to find the confidence to travel alone. A community for those who need a little help with planning and support while saving money.
We would love to create a space where travel newbies can learn about travel planning, learn techniques on how to save money, and get support to achieve travel dreams.
For those who already travel, we would like to share with you our best tips about travel planning and saving money, as well as exchange experience and tips with you. We would love to contribute to the travel community by creating a huge resource space about travelling and saving money.
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BEFORE YOU TRAVEL
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How to make travel itinerary in 6 easy steps
Did you just google How to make travel itinerary? Great, so it means that you love travel planning as much as we do. Then we have something great in common. Making travel itinerary always helps us to stay on track and it helps us to stay organized. Also, making a travel itinerary makes your plans real. Before that, it is just an idea in your head, but when you start putting ideas and plans on paper it becomes real. So, no matter if you love to travel with the detailed travel plan, or just a basic outline, it is always
14 tips – Travel planning after coronavirus
Travel planning after coronavirus and how will it change? That is a question that we have had on our minds since March. During the first few months, we all were just witnesses to a world-changing around us. Of course, without a possibility to do anything about it. Now some time passed. The first shock is over. And we all had some time to think about the ramifications of the virus on the world as we knew it. The world is slowly coming to more normal. At least in some parts of the world. It will be a very slow process,
Why should you become your own travel planner?
Why should you become your own travel planner? Because no one knows you better than YOU. Most people have two things in common – a love for travelling and no time to plan it. We have met very few people that would say: “I hate travelling.” However, we have met a lot of people saying: “I love travelling, but I don’t know how to plan it. It is time-consuming and I don´t have time for it.” Maybe you are one of those people. Perhaps you work 9 to 5 to build a successful career. Maybe you even work two jobs
How to immediately improve your travel planning
Would you like to know how to improve your travel planning skills? Right now, at this moment? The answer is easier than you think. It is really easy! Do not let anyone or anything ruin your travel planning and holidays in general! Not even your subconscious! Believe it or not, your subconscious can sabotage your travel planning! Even if you do not realize it. I guess that is why it is called subconscious! We are hugely influenced by our surroundings. And even if you try really hard not to be influenced by social media, you probably are. We definitely are
Do you need a trekking agency to trek Everest base camp trek???
Those who follow us know that we love to travel and trek independently. As independently as possible. Which often means no group tours and no trekking agencies. It is our personal style, mainly because we don´t want to lose our freedom of choice. We just like our independence. But should you use a trekking agency for trekking the Everest base camp? Is it dangerous to trek independently? Should you go with a trekking agency instead? Here are the facts that will help you decide. Should you use a trekking agency? It is probably obvious that we don´t think you need
Can Everest base camp trek REALLY be done on a budget?
Can Everest base camp trek be done on a budget? That is the question. And the answer is….. It depends. Everest base camp trek can´t be done on a budget unless everything goes absolutely smoothly and according to your plan. Let me explain why. Picture perfect scenario. You booked your international flights, planned a few days in Kathmandu and book flights to Lukla. You are ready to get started, you are pumped. But HEY. Something goes wrong. If everything goes according to your plan than Everest base camp trek can be done on a budget. But Everest base camp trek,
