3 Proven Ways to Save Money When Traveling Long-Term

Here are our best ways to spend less money if you’re traveling long-term that actually works. If you’re a traveler on a budget, you can make your money last longer!

If you don’t have much time for your trip, just pack in the sights, don’t care about sleep too much, taste all the foods and drinks, and try to find a special-occasion type of hotel. If you plan to travel long-term, you have to stick to a strict budget unless you want to find yourself with no money in a foreign country.

Here you’ll find everything you need to know about saving money on long-term trips.

Cook instead of eating out

Yeah, that’s right – you have to stop eating in restaurants (too often). If you’re in a foreign country for more than three or four days, you’ll see how eating out adds up very quickly. When you go to a restaurant, you have to pay not only for the food itself, but there’s also tax, tip, and all these additional things like appetizers and desserts that you didn’t plan to order in the beginning.

The prices differ, of course. For example, if you’re in Sri Lanka, eating out for two will cost you about 6 USD (all prices in this article are listed in USD), so it’s not too big of a deal to eat out a bit more often. But still, cooking with fun locally grown ingredients you can find in markets or in supermarkets is a great experience in its own right.

In Peru, you can cook local dishes using Peruvian chili peppers, in Mexico, you can try all sorts of taco. If you’re traveling long-term it’s a good idea to learn how to cook some dishes, this will definitely be more memorable than just eating out all the time.