Wilderness Backpackers

Wilderness Backpackers have sleeping arrangements which are usually communal with a dormitory-style arrangement consisting of beds or bunks, although private rooms are quite common.

Wilderness Backpackers are a budget-friendly and cheap way of travelling in Wilderness. Staying at backpackers in Wilderness is often a preferred option for student travellers and the young-at-heart looking to meet up with fellow travellers.

Wilderness Backpackers will normally offer limited self-catering cooking facilities and social areas where everyone is welcome to get together. Areas and amenities such as showers, toilets, lounge and dining facilities will all be shared. Wi-Fi is usually a must-have for a wilderness backpacker. Wilderness backpacking is a form of self-reliant travel that affords opportunities to see sights available no other way.

What wilderness backpackers should know?

Carrying everything you’ll need to survive for several days in the wilderness isn’t everyone’s idea of a “vacation”, but if you don’t mind including some physical effort and additional inconvenience in your travel time, it’s an ideal way to truly “get away from it all”, and hopefully see some truly majestic scenery.

Landscape

Before taking off on a wilderness backpacking trip, assess what kind of territory you’ll be traveling through. Distances on a map never look that hard to cover, but once you find yourself staring up at a 400-foot ridge standing between you and tonight’s camp, it’s a different story. Topographic maps will give you a better idea of what you’re getting yourself into, as well as being essential for navigation if you’re going off-trail. Unless you have an uncanny sense of direction, you’ll probably need a compass. GPS can be nifty, but many feel it takes the adventure out of hiking, and it may not always work as well in actual use as the sales pitch suggests.

Climate

Find out what kind of weather you can expect at the time of year you’re planning to go. When’s the rainy season? What’s the temperature range? Keep in mind that going up in altitude is like going up in latitude. Daytime temperatures may be pleasant, but how cold does it get at night?

The wilderness is all about survival.

If as a wilderness backpacker you choose to go into the wilderness with nothing but the clothes on your back, you will need to carry a survival mind-set to find food, shelter and water to stay alive. Most of wilderness backpackers go to the wilderness for other reasons, though: adventure, tranquillity, to work their bodies, camaraderie, to observe wildlife and to enjoy the natural world.

Before you go, learn how to set up your shelter and use your stove and water purification system. Those are your survival tools. And then relax as you tune in to nature’s rhythms and rules. There’s no need to conquer anything. As most of wilderness backpackers spend time in wild places, they seem more and more tame.

Backpacking Tours

For Backpackers who want to spend time in the great outdoors, backpacking tours are a great way to experience world’s most beautiful hiking trails and the adventures that come with them. Camping under the stars, swimming in pristine mountain lakes, looking out over scenic vistas. Backpacking tours can be the perfect way to reconnect with nature when you need a break from the pace of the modern world.

Backpacking tours, by definition, involves carrying everything that you’ll need for the duration of your trip with you in your backpack. This will include your clothing and personal items, but it may also include food, a tent, and additional camping gear depending on the type of tour that you choose. Regardless of what style of backpacking tour you choose, you’re certain to get close to nature and experience the authentic beauty of the land and everything it has to offer!

According to Wikipedia “Backpacking tours may include wilderness adventures, local travel and travel to nearby countries while working from the country in which they are based. The definition of a backpacker has evolved as travellers from different cultures and regions participate in the trend. A 2007 paper says “backpackers constituted a heterogeneous group with respect to the diversity of rationales and meanings attached to their travel experiences. They also displayed a common commitment to a non-institutionalised form of travel, which was central to their self-identification as backpackers. Backpacking, as a lifestyle and as a business, has grown considerably in the 2000s due to low-cost airlines and hostels or budget accommodations in many parts of the world”

Let’s count the reasons backpacking tours are awesome: there are literally thousands of options to take you anywhere in the world, covering pretty much every experience imaginable.

Planning backpacking tours is really as simple as choosing one. The best thing about a backpacking tour is that all the planning is done for you by experts, so all the essentials have been taken care of. You just need to turn up. Backpacking tours don’t get much better than that.

What do backpacking tours include?

Tour inclusions will vary depending on which backpacking tour you choose, so we always recommend checking carefully before booking. As a general rule, backpacking packages will include an English-speaking tour guide, transport, accommodation, and a set number of meals. Most will also include the admission fees for any tourist sites visited. This is why backpacking tours usually represent incredibly good value.

Many backpacking tours will also provide optional activities that will cost a little extra on top of your initial fee. These can often be viewed before departure.