Asia

We’ve spent over 3 years in total travelling around Asia and we consider it to be our favourite continent on Earth (so far). The people here are friendly, you almost always feel safe and the landscapes offer everything from grasslands and beaches to mountains and waterfalls. Asia is everything you hoped for and more.

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budget backpacking guide to myanmar

Budget Backpacking Guide To Myanmar

Myanmar has recently become the most searched country on this website, so we thought a Goat Guide was in order.  We hope this guide to Myanmar will help out all those people who plan on visiting this amazing country. In this Goat Guide, you will learn everything you need to know about Myanmar. How much ...
Yangon For Budget Backpackers

Go To Myanmar Before It’s Too Late!

“This is Burma and it is unlike any land you know about.” -Rudyard Kipling, Letters from the East (1898)- Things are changing everywhere in the world, but perhaps this global metamorphosis can be best portrayed in Myanmar, where tourists are flooding in as the travel barriers are being broken down. With every government sanction dropped ...
Visas In Southeast Asia

10 Reasons To Travel To Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is still budget backpacker’s territory, where voluntarily homeless souls wander the endless coastlines, trek through the dense jungles and indulge in the delicious cuisines. A trip through Southeast Asia is often a right of passage into the big wide world of travel and makes for a great first, or one-hundred-and-first trip. Some people mistakenly ...
The Ancient Town Of Tunxi, China: For Budget Backpackers

Tunxi, China: Visiting The Ancient Village

Arriving in the ancient town of Tunxi was a breath of fresh air, literally! Backpacking in China can trying at times. Beijing and Shanghai are massive, polluted cities with populations of around 20 million people.  Tunxi is much smaller and has less than 100,000 people living there…it really felt like there was no one around. ...
Shanghai, China For Budget Backpackers: Skyscrapers & Smog

Shanghai, China: Skyscrapers & Smog

We were so excited to arrive in one of the biggest cities in the world, Shanghai. Meaning “by the sea” this massive city was a popular trading port for years in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. Shanghai is not exactly a budget backpacker’s ideal destination but it is doable on a budget. We took the ultra-modern, ...
Beijing & The Great Wall Of China: A Budget Backpacker's Guide

Visiting The Great Wall Of China: A Travel Guide

“He who has not climbed the Great Wall is not a true man.” Mao Zedong The next stop on our trip through China was the ancient, capital city of Beijing. It’s not exactly a budget backpacking ideal destination but this heavily populated city of 15.6 million people was somewhere we had been looking forward to ...