25 countries, two backpacks, one tight budget.
We're Krina and Niraj from Mumbai. Hostels, night trains and street food, with every rupee accounted for. Tell us your budget and your days off, and we'll check you in to the trip of ours that fits.
No two visitors land on the same page.
Ten years, one flight log
Scroll, and the plane flies every trip in order. Each landing lights a pin and the trail stitches the map behind us. Scroll back up and it rewinds.
- Aug 2016
Singapore
7 days · Singapore
- Nov 2016
Thailand
9 days · Thailand
- May 2017
Europe
20 days · France, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria
- Oct 2017
Maldives
6 days · Maldives
- Jan 2018
Sri Lanka
6 days · Sri Lanka
- May 2018
Russia
12 days · Russia
- Oct 2018
Asia
19 days · Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan and South Korea
- Feb 2019
United Kingdom
12 days · England
- Jul 2019
Tomorrowland + Europe
19 days · Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Vatican City
- May 2020
United Kingdom + Turkey
Cancelled. Covid. We stayed home and planned harder.
- Oct 2023
Vietnam + Indonesia
35 days · Indonesia and Vietnam
- Mar 2024
Thailand
7 days · Thailand
- Nov 2024
Philippines
17 days · Philippines
- Nov 2025
UAE
14 days · UAE
to spin
Spin it. Wherever it stops, that's your chapter.
Flick the globe and let go. It slows, wobbles and lands on one of our pins. Or use it the other way round: tell us where we should go next.
- 6Kyrgyzstan
- 5Georgia
- 4Morocco
- 3Peru
- 2Turkey
When we book the winner, everyone who voted gets the first chapter by email.
What would this trip actually cost you?
Built from our own receipts, not tourist-board averages. Pick a country, pick your days, and get a real backpacker number for two.
We tracked every rupee so you don't have to guess.
Steal our itineraries
Day-by-day plans with the hostels, trains and food stops we'd repeat. Free ones in exchange for your email, deeper guides for the price of a hostel breakfast.
Vietnam north to south, 14 days
Sleeper buses, Ha Long on a budget, every bánh mì stop. Get the itineraryJapan and Korea on a JR Pass, 19 days
Tokyo to Seoul via Kyoto, Osaka and one ferry. Konbini breakfasts, one splurge.The backpacker budget sheet
The exact spreadsheet we use on every trip, with our numbers filled in.Hi, from the two of us
We got married in 2016 and never really came home from the honeymoon.
Two Mumbai kids with full-time jobs, a shared backpack budget and a rule: no taxis if a bus exists. We now live in Dubai and plan the next trip before the last one is unpacked. Everything here is what we'd tell a friend over chai.
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