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Home  >  Budget Travel • Destinations  >  Top 4 countries you can travel, in under 35$ a day
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Top 4 countries you can travel, in under 35$ a day

Posted By TripZumi Posted on July 6, 2015
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Travelling is without a doubt affordable, i.e. if you pick the right countries. You don’t have pockets that run deep to jet set around the world. With a little enterprise, if you pick and choose your destinations carefully, you can enjoy budget holidays in style. There are many countries, especially in South and South East Asia, that you could cover on 35$ or less a day.

Central America and some South American countries also offer affordable holiday options. Here are the my top picks:

Bolivia – The old joke goes that protests are a national pastime of many South American countries. And there is more than a particle of truth to it, particularly in this country. If you budget for adequate time to be able to wait out protests and regular bus breakdowns, this is one spectacular South American country you can cover on a modest to lean budget. Decent accommodation starts from upwards of 3$ a night in more obscure towns.

Optical illusion at Salar de Uyuni
Optical illusion at Salar de Uyuni

The country has all manner of attractions to offer. To name a few:

  • The worlds’ largest salt flats in Uyuni
  • The cheapest place in all of South America to experience the Amazon; Rurrenabaque (think piranhas, pink dolphins  you can frolic with, alligators, anacondas, howler monkeys etc)
  • The wild west of Bolivia, Tupiza
  • The colourful annual carnival at Ouroro where participants bombard each other with water bombs (in good spirits of course!)
  • Potosi, the historic silver mining town where you get to chew coca leaves and go down mine shafts to converse with miners who still work by hand.

Ethiopia

This Eastern African country is a backpacker’s delight in an otherwise expensive continent for travellers. With inexpensive ATR Ethiopian Airlines flights zipping you across the country, you can cover the country quickly and on the cheap (tip- book local air tickets in Ethiopia instead of pre-booking it from your home country, they are marginally cheaper if you do). If you have time on your hands, you can cut costs even further by using local long distance buses (tickets are sold sometimes as low as 5$ or less).

A holy book in Ge’ez held up by a priest in Lalibel
A holy book in Ge’ez held up by a priest in Lalibel

The historical circuit includes:

  • Axum, for its UNESCO world Heritage site of ruins of stelaes, tombs, churches and palaces including that of the mythical Queen Sheba.
  • A leisurely stroll around the castles and palaces of the ancient and royal city of Gondar.
  • A tryst with the ‘bleeding heart’ or Gelada Baboons – an old world monkey in the lush Siemien mountains.
  • The striking painted churches, reputed to be some of the world’s oldest on islands scattered on Lake Tana.
  • The nearby lovely blue Nile falls.

Alternately or additionally travel to South Omo to visit at least a dozen tribes of ethnic peoples. The Omo region is home to the Surma and Mursi tribes where women wear large lower lip plates that stretch sometimes as far as their chests.

India

In this dizzyingly large and diverse sub-continent you can make a dollar really stretch. Even without exercising strict economy, you could get by with less than 20$ a day, on most days. This vast country has everything from stunning Himalayan vistas to wild party beach towns in Goa to colonial towns like Pondicherry to palaces and exquisite temples both in the South (UNESCO world heritage site the Belur and Halebid temples for instance) and the North (Rajasthan is chock full of heritage palaces now converted into luxury hotels) of the country.

Sculpture at the Belur/Halebid temples
Sculpture at the Belur/Halebid temples

This populous nation offers so much that it is impossible to cover in just a couple of months. It would take years to explore its length and breadth in its entirety. The good news, you can do it in next to nothing. For a quick snapshot of the country:

  • The magnificent Himalayan vistas of Leh/ Ladakh.
  • Offbeat travels (and to beat the crowds) haunt the Hornbill festival in Nagaland in the North East.
  • The wild beauty of the backwaters in God’s own country- Kerala in the South.
  • A bicycle trip around temple town – Hampi (or you can spend hours just lazily gazing at warm rocks in this little town.

Philippines

The dazzling island archipelago of Philippines offers a range of budget accommodation in almost all of its islands. Each island is more beautiful than the next one. Here are a few places you can experience:

A secluded beach at El Nido
A secluded beach at El Nido
  • El Nido and Coron are in close competition for top island destination not only in the Philippines but also in the world.
  • A beautiful hill country with terrace cultivation of paddy in Banaue and Batad.
  • Loboc in the South offers not only pristine beaches but also quaint lodges by the rivers running through it. You can visit a local sanctuary to spot the nocturnal and endangered Tasiers, supposedly some of the smallest mammals in the world. Hire a motorcycle to ride across roads cutting through paddy fields to take a dekko at natural geological formations, chocolate hills so called because of the sun-browned grass growing on these perfectly rounded mounds.
  • Hop back to Boracay for adventure activities such as parasailing, scuba diving, and night life on beautiful white sand beaches.
  • Swim with gentle but majestic whale sharks in Donsol and much more.

Tickets on low cost airlines such as Air Asia and Cebu Pacific are often on sale and you can snag them for as little as 15$ to 20$ one-way. Travelling by air is not only convenient and faster; it is now sometimes cheaper than any other mode of transportation in this part of the world.

Featured image – A fillipino boat in Coron, Phillipines (Shutterstock)

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