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02.01.2024

The Cheapest Destinations Blog

The Cheapest Destinations Blog, established 2003, by the noted author and destinations expert Tim Leffel. Budget travel tips and living abroad advice.

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02.01.2024

The Cheapest Places to Live in the World in 2024

Each year I do an updated rundown of the cheapest places to live in the world, from the perspective of someone who wrote the book on this subject and regularly travels to the countries featured.

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13.12.2023

How to Travel to See Monarch Butterflies in Mexico

Read our tips for how to travel to see Monarch Butterflies in Mexico. Visit the butterfly reserves in winter for a bucket list trip!

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05.11.2023

Five Festive Travel Ideas for the Holiday Season at Sea or on Land

Five festive travel ideas for the holiday season that are fun to do. Whether at sea or on land thesedestinations offer festive travel fun.

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31.10.2023

Ilulissat Icefjord Cruise Excursion: The Best Boat Tour

On an Ilulissat Icefjord cruise excursion, you'll board a local boat to explore the many icebergs in Disko Bay. It's a photogapher's paradise!

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24.10.2023

One-Day Southwest Road Trip Itinerary on I-40

A one-day Southwest road trip itinerary on I-40 with tips on where to stop and what to see and do in Arizona and New Mexico.

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21.10.2023

White Stallion Ranch: Multigenerational Fun in Tucson

Discover multigenerational fun at White Stallion Ranch in Tucson, Arizona. Ride horses, line dance, and explore the Sonora Desert.

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13.10.2023

5 Adventures on the Navajo Rez that You Can Do

Discover 5 adventures on the Navajo Rez that introduce you to the scenery and culture of the Navajo Nation.

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13.10.2023

How to Spend 3 Days in San Miguel de Allende

Discover how to spend 3 days in San Miguel de Allende on an itinerary that includes the historic city, hot springs and pottery shopping.

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13.10.2023

North Georgia Mountains Fall Trip Itinerary

Follow this North Georgia mountains fall trip itinerary for a fun Georgia road trip filled with color, waterfalls, and charming towns.

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12.09.2023

4 Ways to Find Cheap Places in Europe to Visit

This year I spent close to five months in Europe. Every time I tell people that in person, their eyes get wide or they start mentally calculating in their mind how much of a fortune

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05.09.2023

Bulgaria by Train: Bansko to Plovdiv the Scenic Way

I have been to Bansko several times now, on a hiking trip, a ski trip, and twice hanging out for weeks around the Bansko Nomad Fest. But I had never come or gone by train.

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29.08.2023

Add Splurges for Day Tours to Your Travel Budget

There's no such thing as an average travel budget for a two-week vacation or a trip around the world. Whether you're going to circle the globe or just hit four different places in Mexico, you

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23.08.2023

Driving in a Foreign Country: 9 Questions and Answers

I’ve been running this Cheapest Destinations Blog since 2003 so you’d think I would have covered international car rental plenty of times, but I haven’t really written much about driving in a foreign country. If

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16.08.2023

The 4-Hour Workweek, 16 Years Later

Back in 2007, an ambitious and unknown author named Tim Ferriss reached out to me because he had a book coming out and wanted to know if I'd review it and/or interview him. I was probably

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10.08.2023

The 17 Best Things to Do in the Sacred Valley, Peru (Besides Machu Picchu)

Most people breeze through Peru in a hurry, in a big rush to get to Machu Picchu and snap their identical selfie. If they see the Sacred Valley of the Incas at all, it’s often

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03.08.2023

Airport Rideshare Fees for Uber and Lyft in the USA

When you land at an airport in the USA and need to get to your hotel or the city center, you can just pull out your phone and use Lyft or Uber, right? Last decade,

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02.08.2023

Best Things to Do in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Discover the best things to do in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Learn about hikes, waterfalls, boat rides, history and more.

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30.07.2023

Strange Gravestones in the Sofia Cemetery of Bulgaria

There are plenty of things to do in Sofia, lots of interesting sights to check out in Bulgaria's capital. So why was I tramping around the Sofia Cemetery for two hours in a drizzle, on

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21.07.2023

Travel Long-term Without Depending on Savings

It used to be that if you wanted to pack everything in storage and go travel long-term for months or years, you needed to have lots of savings or you needed to find some kind

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