How Do You Travel Off The Beaten Track In A Foreign Country?
You don’t always need to speak the language or have a lot of travel experience to have a good backroads travel adventure. A little creativity, flexibility and open-mindedness can lead you to some exciting and unimagined places. Purchase a local travel guide book geared towards low-budget, adventure travelers. Such books will tell you of places that are more difficult to get to and have less tourist traffic. Visit adventure travel Web sites and chatrooms and talk to other travelers for ideas of possible destinations. Consider these when drawing up your itinerary. Consider arranging to do a homestay or service project with a tour company that organizes such programs. You’ll get to less-frequented locations without having to deal with all of the logistical arrangements and risks on your own. Draw on the advice you have accumulated in your research to identify places on the maps that no one has talked about but look interesting to visit. If you have heard about a beautiful and seldom-frequ
