The Tux in the Backpack

If you read about that perfect, secluded, off the beaten track destination on a guidebook remember there are thousand and thousand more that like you read and are going to read that same page.

Finding destinations not yet full of tourists, and as a consequence with a still original culture and cheap prices (remember Flashpacking is not only about having a big budget) is getting more and more difficult. Internet if you avoid LonelyPlanet and similar websites can be very helpful. Here’s how Escapework.net sees it. India (Goa in particular), Thailand and the Caribbean are no longer the realm of the itinerant traveler.

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We don’t necessarily agree that Flashpacking is simply backpacking with loads of techno-gadgets. However, flashpackers or not, who doesn’t travel nowadays with a digital camera, a mobile phone, and maybe even a laptop? That also means chargers for these toys, and if you go from country to country different plugs, so inevitably an adapter is required.

However in the last months we’ve noticed how (usually newly built) flashpacking hostels and hotels are helping in this task equipping their rooms with something as ingenious as simple. An international, universal wall plug.

We’ve seen it recently in Sydney, Singapore and Bangkok. We thought, how come nobody thought of this before? Hopefully in a year or two the international travel adapter will be a gadget off your backpack (or suitcase)!

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