Who are backpackers?

Backpackers are travellers whose aim is getting to know new regions, history, people and their customs, and before all that - fun. What separates them from the other tourists is their way of travelling. They travel freely and not through the medium of the travel agencies, which makes possible for them to constantly change their plans, make improvisations and time calculations.

They are mostly secondary schoolboys and girls and students - young people with enough enthusiasm and strength to bear the dynamics of this kind of travelling. Another reason why exactly this part of population turned to backpack travelling is a small budget it requires.

Backpackers use different ways of travelling and combine them. It appears to me that they most often travel by trains, buses, boats, they also hitchike and travel by aeroplane if necessary but, they don't mind sitting on the motorbike nor even bicycle. They sleep wherever it is possible: in motels, hostels, mountain resorts, camping sites... They often spend the night at some local resident's house - someone they have just met - but, it can also happen that they must sleep in the woods or in the park. That's the point - to see and experiance as much as you can and not care about the comfort!

This style of travelling is not well developed in our country. The reason for that is the bad political and economical situation during the last decade. TV media has also contributed to this with its program full of violence so that young people think that it is more nidely spread than it really is. Thinking about the bare necessities, we forget to feed our spirit. And what is better way to feed it than travelling? So, whenever you find some time in your daily routine, remember that there is a way to travel into a big adventure with a small amount of money in your pocket!