Budget friendly · a Vonda Wanderlist

Rich days, thin wallet.

443 places for budget friendly travel, gathered from every corner of the map.

Camino de Santiago, Spain
Camino de Santiago · via Wikimedia Commons

The best travel purchases are rarely purchases: a pilgrim menu, a market lunch, a bed that costs less than the ferry to reach it.

Camino de Santiago, Spainvia Wikimedia Commons

First stop

The Camino, Europe's best deal

A month of walking, cathedral included, for the price of pilgrim dinners and albergue bunks. The currency is footsteps and the exchange rate has held for a thousand years.

✦ April to June, September to October · $ · Galicia, Spain

Chapter I

Cheap sleeps, full plates

Night markets, island guesthouses, street food that shames the fine dining budget. Places where spending less buys you more of the actual country.

Every place in this Wanderlist

4 places, no itinerary.