HOW I TRAVEL THE WORLD ✈ CHEAP TRAVEL TIPS | Go Natural English

Hey, how's it going if you didn't already know, I'm Gabby and in this video

We are talking about a topic that is near and dear to my heart a question that I get asked all the time

How do you afford to?

Travel so much if you've been following me

You know that I love to travel, and I usually take several international trips every year

So I must be rich right actually no

I am NOT rich unless you count things like friendship and health yes

I am rich in those things

But I actually do some creative things so that I can afford to travel and you can do them, too

I want to share them with you in this video, so if you're interested in

Travel if you're interested in seeing the world in

Speaking to people from all over the world and learning new things then

Keep watching because I want to share how you can afford to travel as well now

This assumes a few things like you already have enough money to cover the basics like

your rent

food

utilities

Things like that have to come first

but after that you can make travel a priority and that is

Essential if you want to travel you really do have to make it a priority especially if it's a stretch to be able to afford

a plane ticket or a hotel or things associated with

Travel so first of all let's prioritize

Travel let's create a savings account for your travels

And maybe let's cut back on some of those extra items that new pair of shoes

Or the new t-shirt or maybe going out and drinking on the weekend

those are maybe some things that we could cut back on if they're not as high of a priority as

Travel is now. I have a question for you

I would love to know where is the next place that you would like to travel

Tell me in the comments cuz I would love to know

Next we tend to think of the total cost of a trip, and it really freaks us out

I know travel can be expensive. Let's say you're looking at a plane ticket. It's $1,000 because you're traveling far

Maybe you're gonna travel for a couple weeks and your hotel

Your hotel cost might be another thousand dollars food and activities might be another thousand dollars and all of a sudden this

Two-week trip cost three thousand dollars, and that's a lot of money that you don't have right now

But think about if you saved for a year if you just saved three thousand dollars in a year

That would be eight dollars and 22 cents a day that's about the cost of bringing your lunch to work

Every day now these are general rough estimates

But you can see what I'm trying to say instead of trying to come up with three thousand dollars like that out of nowhere

Try to break it down into smaller goals, and it may not even take you a whole year to save the amount that you need

Especially if you use some other strategies to keep your travel costs low

Now my third strategy for affording to travel. Anywhere is I

don't take

Luxurious trips I try to find the luxury in the little things for example when I travel to Brazil

I find

Luxury pure luxury in having a good cup of acai which is a Brazilian?

fruit that they make kind of smoothie out of and that could cost maybe

$5 or less

Much less depending on where I get it or a good mango a good piece of fruit

that is luxury sitting on the beach is a

Luxury that costs absolutely nothing of course it costs money to get there

But as you see once you're there in your destination where you want to be you can do so many things that

feel luxurious

But don't actually cost money so again try to find luxury in the little things it could even be a conversation

With someone it could be having something. That's low cost like a cup of tea and a nice conversation

Another tip is to always be on the lookout for

Eels or specials or even alternative means of travel I talked about plane tickets

But maybe you could get on a boat, maybe you could take a road trip, or maybe there's other ways to travel

That would be

Cheaper or maybe there's some special deal that you could watch out for finally in my opinion

One of the best ways to travel is to actually

Travel as a worker

Or as a volunteer or in a way where you might actually be getting paid to travel

Let me explain my very first trip abroad was actually to Cuba many years ago

I was a student in college and I got a scholarship to take classes that took me to

Cuba not only that but I got a grant to

actually pay for my travel to go to Cuba so I was able to go for a very low cost my

Second trip was studying abroad in Dominican Republic, and I also had a scholarship to study there

And you know instead of paying for a really expensive study abroad

Package program that a lot of students do kind of a commercial program

I talked to people and I made some phone calls

and I figured out how to

directly enroll in the University in the Dominican Republic

And I lived with a local family and in that way my costs were very very low in fact. I was spending less money

Living in the Dominican Republic that I would have been if I was studying at my home university in the United States

then I went to Brazil a few years after that and I

Saved money by working for several months to save you know my airfare and some other miscellaneous

Costs, but then I saved money by staying with a family again. I did a homestay program

That was actually free because it was like an exchange program finally one of the best experiences

I've had traveling abroad was when I got a work contract to teach English in Japan

and I had all my expenses paid for and I actually got paid to teach English for a year in Japan and that was my

first real paid job teaching English and well

You know what happened after that I totally loved the experience

And I've been teaching English ever since and traveling ever since so look for those opportunities

that may not be

commercialized or advertised as much

There's a lot of opportunities for you to

volunteer to lower your cost of travel to stay with locals maybe to study or even

To work abroad so that you can see more of the world without having to stress about money or put it off until

Someday when you're rich, so I hope that you get to travel where you want to again

Tell me in the comments where you'd like to travel

Tell me if you enjoyed this kind of video and these tips and I will look for your comments. Thanks so much for watching

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