After the world closed down in 2020 due to the Covid19 pandemic, travel is set to return with a vengeance in 2021! But with the world starting to open up again, the reasons for travel bans and lockdowns becoming increasingly hard to justify and everyone’s wanderlust at an all time high, where do you go? Here are your top 10 destinations for an epic bucket list filled 2021!
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Travel After The Pandemic: Your 2021 Travel Bucket List.
Tagged with: bucket list, coronavirus outbreak, coronavirus travel, New Year, new year travel dreams, pandemic
Posted in Travel Lists
Posted in Travel Lists
Top 10 Ethical Wildlife Experiences For Your Gap Year Bucket List.
Many people who dream of traveling the world have a bucket list, and wildlife experiences are quite often right at the very top. The big problem is ensuring that you aren’t contributing to the widespread abuse of animals in the tourism industry and that you are instead observing animals in an ethical and sustainable way to ensure that travel and tourism has a positive impact on wildlife. Here are the top 10 ethical wildlife activities you can safely add to your bucket list right now.
Tagged with: bucket list, does wildlife tourism harm animals, how to interact with wildlife on your gap year, illegal wildlife trade, responsible wildlife tourism, safari, travel, volunteering with wildlife, wildlife, wildlife conservation, wildlife exploitation, wildlife exploitation in tourism, wildlife tourism, wildlife volunteer work abroad, zoo
Posted in Responsible Travel
Posted in Responsible Travel
Top 15 Alternative Bucket List Experiences.
Gap years are all about the experiences, but the big problem is most travel bucket lists are all the same. Once you have seen one you have seen them all and everyone ends up on a gap year adventure doing and seeing the same thing. So how do you make your gap year bucket list different? Here are some alternative bucket list ideas to make your gap year completely unique.
Tagged with: alternative bucket list, alternative gap year ideas, bucket list, gap year, Gap Year adventure, gap year ideas, what to do on your gap year
Posted in Travel Lists
Posted in Travel Lists
Beat The Fear And Travel Anyway.
So many people want to travel the world and take a gap year, but a huge number of those people are held back by one thing. Fear. Fear is one of the most common reasons people give up on their dreams of travel, and it really shouldn’t be. Fear is never a good reason not to do anything. Here is how you can beat that fear and follow your travel dreams.
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Posted in Travel Talk
Posted in Travel Talk
The Ultimate Guide To Space Camp In Huntsville, Alabama.
NASA’s Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama is the ultimate bucket list experience for all independent backpackers and gap year travellers, and this is your ultimate guide on how you can have this iconic experience for yourself and get yourself ready for the birth of space tourism!
Dreaming Of Space Tourism In Huntsville, Alabama.
In the very near future space tourism is going to be the ultimate in adventure and experience travel, and with a galaxy’s worth of space orientated experiences that any travellers bucket list would be proud of, Huntsville in Alabama will be at the very heart of this exciting new aspect to the travel industry.
Why It’s Good To Get Lost When You Travel.
e of the best experiences you have as a traveller will be those unexpected moments when you go off the beaten track and get away from where all the guidebooks tell you to go. Sometimes travellers worry far too much about sticking to pre planned routes on their gap year or only ticking off the major tourist sites, and they don’t realise the local wonders they are missing out on if only they got a little lost from time to time. Here is why getting lost when you travel can be a good thing.
Tagged with: backpacking, backpacking around the world, best ways to explore new destinations, bucket list, gap year, getting lost on your gap year, how to live like a local on your gap year, how to meet locals whentravelling, independent travel, losing yourself on your gap year, meeting locals when you travel, rtw, travel experiences, travel the world like a local on your gap year
Posted in Travel Talk
Posted in Travel Talk
Excuse Buster Series Part 7: Taking Time Out To Travel Will Ruin My Career!
Will a gap year ruin my career?
Tagged with: backpacker, backpacking, bucket list, bucket list excuses, career, career break, excuses not to travel, how a gap year can help your career, how can i take a gap year when working, how can I take time off work to travel, job, taking a gap year around your career, using travel to boost your CV, will my career be stalled by going backpacking, will taking a gap year ruin my career, work
Posted in Travel Advice
Posted in Travel Advice
Excuse Buster Series Part 3: I Don’t Have Time To Travel!
No excuses! Everyone can make the time to travel the world, if they really want to.
Tagged with: backpacking, bucket list, bucket list excuses, don't have time to travel, excuses, gap year, how can I get time off work to travel, how can I get time to travel, Quit your job and travel the world, sabbaticals, taking a career break to travel, taking time off work for travel, time off work for a gap year, time to travel, unpaid leave, want to travel more but don't have the time career break
Posted in Travel Advice
Posted in Travel Advice
Excuse Buster Series Part 2: It’s Too Expensive To Travel!
Is it really too expensive to travel the world or is that just an excuse made up by people too afraid to take a gap year?
Tagged with: backpacking, backpacking budget, bucket list, bucket list excuses, budget travel, gap year budget, how can i afford to take a gap year, how can i afford to travel, how can I afford to travel indefinitely, how much to budget for a gap year, how much will travelling around the world cost, is it too expensive to travel, round the world, rtw, saving up for a gap year
Posted in Travel Advice
Posted in Travel Advice
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