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What's covered with backpacker insurance? Post Office Backpacker Insurance is similar to other forms of travel insurance. It'll cover you for medical emergency, the cancellation or cutting short of your trip, and loss of your belongings.

Backpackers usually stay in inexpensive hotels like hostels. They try to experience the local life as if they live it along with its inhabitants. A backpacker is usually a younger person that tries to look for the cheapest way of getting around and looks for the lowest cost accommodation and food.

Backpacking is a form of low-cost, independent travel, which often includes staying in inexpensive lodgings and carrying all necessary possessions in a backpack. Once seen as a marginal form of travel undertaken only through necessity, it has become a mainstream form of tourism.

When should I use hostel/ backpacker accommodation? Hostels and backpackers are great and convenient if you are staying for a short time in Australia. You can stay at hostels for one day or even a week. Mostly it is used when travelling around Australia or as a temporary stay while looking for a permanent home.

Choose an easy destination: Short overnight hikes close to home are best. Get essential gear and clothing: Borrow and scrounge gear to save money. Plan your food: Just-add-water meals can be found at your local REI, or find easy to cook options at regular grocery stores. Also pack plenty of snacks for trail fuel.

Hostels often hire backpackers for short-term front desk, maintenance, and hospitality jobs in exchange for free accommodation and meals. No prior experience is required. Working at hostels is a fun way to connect with fellow travelers. Leverage sites like HostelJobs and score these sweet gig perks.

Backpacker tourism generally, but does not always, include: Traveling internationally for long periods of time on a tight budget. Willingness to forgo luxury, suffer hardships, and be resourceful in order to make such a journey possible.

Yes, it's very very common. Although I didn't find anyone I wanted to hook up with, I mixed with and travelled with many that did. In fact, in one hostel in Borneo, it got very complicated with a group of backpackers and caused a few problems.