Off The Map Blog

One of the biggest barriers to travel is cost. A lot of people dream of travelling but feel like it’s too expensive or they simply don’t have enough money.

There are so many ways that you can start adding to your travel fund each week and before you know it you will have enough cash to fund your next adventure.

Here are 15 tips to help you easily start saving up for your future travels.

As a traveller, who loves to adventure & explore to discover new cultures and lands, tourist traps are a BIG turn-off. However, with popular destinations, businesses will always try to exploit an opportunity to make more money (and also to cater to Western tastes *eye-roll*). If you are like us and seriously dislike feeling ripped off for an inauthentic experience while travelling, continue reading to learn our top tips for avoiding tourist traps.

Before you take your first trip to London, it is really helpful to know a few useful things about how everything works. This will help you save time, money and a whole lot of hassle. Continue reading to learn 26 things you need to know about London before you go for the first time!

In this post, we’ll be sharing the beauty of winging it when your travel and 11 of benefits of not having your entire itinerary planned out. We also include some tips on how to wing it successfully.

There are countless benefits to travelling which make a very compelling argument as to why we should all prioritise travel. We broaden our worldview, learn about how other people live, get to know ourselves and others better, break the mundane cycle of everyday life and we can also learn valuable lessons.

Continue reading to discover 8 reasons why everyone should prioritise travelling throughout their life.

There are so many incredible apps for travellers these days which are making travel easier and more affordable than ever. In this post, we’re sharing 22 of our favourite travel apps that we simply couldn’t travel without!

In this post, we are outlining our best 17 tips and hotel hacks so you can get the cheapest accommodation possible without compromising on the standard of accommodation.

Here are 13 smart jet lag tips to help you adjust faster. These tips cover everything from preparing before your flight, how to manage jet lag in the air and what you can do when you arrive to adjust faster.

In this post, we are sharing another list of essential camping tips. We cover camping tricks and hacks for your tent, keeping warm, packing, camp cooking and more!

With years of travelling come years of mistakes, mishaps and just plain experience. As passionate travellers, over the years we have accumulated so many smart travel tips, we just couldn’t fit them all into one post! In this post, Part 2 of clever travel tips, we are diving deeper into more clever travel tips to help you travel like a pro.

Are you a solo traveller who loves to take pictures? It can be tricky enough to learn how to take a good picture, but on top of that figuring out how to take pictures of yourself to capture precious moments is an extra challenge when you’re galavanting the globe solo.

In this post, we are sharing photography tips for beginners as well as tips on how to take epic photos of yourself when you are travelling solo. By the end of this post, you’ll be armed with photography tips, advice on how to make yourself look amazing (with the help of no one else!) and also how to edit your photos like a pro.