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Bed & Breakfast

Bed and breakfast offers great accommodation, wonderful breakfasts and terrific value for the backpacking visitor to Australia.

This good value comes down to the quality of the hosts, who usually offer accomodation plus something beyond normal customer service and are friendly and helpful with all travel information on bed and breakfast budget travel in Queensland... more

Camping in Oz

Camping is popular with budget travel and backpacking visitors to Australia, with many thousands of designated camping grounds and areas.

If you want to camp on private property you need to get permission from the owners, but all roadside space in Queensland is publicly owned and usually if you get off the road in a quiet place then usually nobody will complain about budget travel camping in Queensland... more

Hostels

To try to convince you to book with their accommodation many of the hostel groups give away free directories and discount cards and when you join up.

In practise many tour businesses don't recognise the discount cards, so they may not be as valuable for backpacking... more

All creatures you see should be treated with respect - the important point to for the budget travel visitor to remember is that most animals prefer to run away and usually will only attack if they feel there is no other option.

Most animals are looking for food, and the best travel information says they don't regard humans as very edible. So from a safe backpacking point of view, leave the animal plenty of escape options... more

In Australia, the tradit-ional bedding for outdoor sleeping is the swag, and in the demanding condit-ions of the outback the swag comes into its own.

Historically this was a sausage shaped bed roll used by itinerant workers - and so they were called "swagmen", which was a term sort of similar to the Engish "tramp" or the American "hobo".

When unrolled the outer covering goes on the ground to keep the bed dry. There is an inner, usually lighter canvas sheet which goes over the sleeper and bedding making it the ideal camping gear for budget travel... more