Which One to Choose, Traveling as Backpacker or Tourist?
Everyone loves traveling because it gives you freedom a moment from jobs or other activities. Talking about traveling, usually it leads to two things. Backpacker and tourist. That means character of traveler where you are free to choose what is eligible for you.
When deciding to choose between backpacker or tourist, it doesn’t mean to take which one is better than other, because it is only about characteristic and preference. None is better and you should respect to another side.
What is backpacker?
Talking about traveling in low budget, it always comes to backpacking. You don’t have to spend much money since you need only a little. A backpacker means you travel in low budget and find some promo for flight, train, accommodation and perhaps tourism object.
Before start traveling, a backpacker keeps searching the promo from community, website or anywhere they can get. But it needs a bit sacrifice such as you have to buy the ticket at midnight, or you should come to another city to get the best price. Backpacking makes you to do but you should enjoy.
After getting promo price, a backpacker should mingle with local or fellow traveler, especially you will stay in hostel or dormitory. Keep talking with them can give you new information and tips that probably you can’t find in internet. Besides you can learn local language or even other foreign language you never know before. Wonderful, isn’t it?
Try local food is good for you as a backpacker. You are really traveling somewhere if you taste local dish. Probably there are some prohibitions about eating halal, kosher or something else. But you can find something permitted to eat based on your faith.
One more thing, a backpacker usually brings a backpack because it is easier and load a lot of stuff.
Are you interested to be a backpacker?
What is tourist?
If you are not interested to backpack while traveling, you can be a tourist. It means you get a lot of facility for flight, accommodation, other transports and so on. It looks great as you really enjoy the best holiday with the best thing around you.
But you need to understand that a tourist means you have to spend more budget than a backpacker. You choose traveling on this way and shouldn’t never complain about budget. Spend more and get more. Looks great?
You stay in hotel perhaps 3, 4 or even 5 stars hotel. Afterward, you eat in restaurant and then get some souvenir. Join local attraction in beach or mountainous area. It sounds amazing.
Don’t forget to bring suitcase as you are a tourist. It looks fancier and more luxurious. That is why it can match to stay in hotel. Besides, your outfit should be the best. You should pay attention for your appearance. What for? For the best photo, usually.
Traveling as tourist really makes you enjoy, and you don’t need to in a rush to find promo ticket at midnight.
So, what do you think? Which one you will choose when you are traveling? Being a backpacker or a tourist?
