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Photocopy Travel Guides Instead of dropping a third of a hundred dollars on a heavy, often useless, and misleading travel guide, there is a good alternative: Photocopy sections of the guidebook that you want and forget about the rest. ————– Wade from Vagabond Journey.com in Budapest, Hungary- August 10, 2008 Travelogue ————– Finding travel guides are [...]

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Photocopy Travel Guides

Instead of dropping a third of a hundred dollars on a heavy, often useless, and misleading travel guide, there is a good alternative:

Photocopy sections of the guidebook that you want and forget about the rest.

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Wade from Vagabond Journey.com
in Budapest, Hungary- August 10, 2008
Travelogue
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Finding travel guides are easy: all you have to do is walk into a public library, a hostel, a hotel, or find another traveler that has one. Travel guides are everywhere. So you just have to find one, borrow it, take it to a copy machine, and you get the sections that you want for a fraction of the cost of the original. These scraps of guides are also fully disposable, as you only have to throw the pages away after you have used up the information that is printed on them.

Photocopying pages from travel guides is also one way that you can put together a defacto travel notebook that is full of relevant information that you print off of the internet, write down, or copy. 

Good tip, Mira. Visit her site for more travel information, advice, and tips from a woman who has been on a multi-year pilgrimage around the world.

 

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I am the founder and editor of Vagabond Journey. I’ve been traveling the world since 1999, through 91 countries. I am the author of the book, Ghost Cities of China and have written for The Guardian, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Diplomat, the South China Morning Post, and other publications. has written 3699 posts on Vagabond Journey. Contact the author.

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  • Rob October 30, 2011, 11:38 am

    many guidebooks are available as torrents in pdf format. handy for those that travel with netbooks or for those who want to print off particular chapters or sections.

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