This Week’s Travel Highlights

February 24th, 2007 by The Backpackers Team

Things move fast in the world of travel, so if you missed anything on Backpackers.com, check out this week’s highlights for a recap:

Tales From The Road: Planning A Trip To India – our very first guest contributor makes his debut on Backpackers.com (here’s to many more!)
Splashy Fen Ticket Giveaway – we give away two double passes to this popular South African festival.
Apple-Picking In New Zealand: Instant Jobs For Backpackers – shortage of apple-pickers + surplus of apples = instant jobs for backpackers.
Going To Glastonbury Festival? Pre-Registration Required This Year – if you’re planning on going to the Glastonbury Festival this year, you’re going to have to pre-register before 28 February, or you won’t get tickets.
New In Travel Forums: Student Travel Writers Wanted – a travel magazine looking for budding travel writers looks in on our travel forums.
Cool Site: Saving For Travel – tips and tricks for saving up for your next trip.
Cool Site: Ball Of Dirt.com – another social networking, travel-mapping, journal-writing website to add to the growing list.
Travel Photo Of The Week – Not Exact (But Close Enough) Mileage Post, Alaska – the latest in our series of featured travel photos from around the world.

TRAVEL FORUMS:

Europe Jobs – suggestions for jobs in Europe 2007.
good party places in europe during summer – know of good places to party?
looking for a website – ongoing discussion about an elusive travel website… do you know which one Robin is looking for?
travel for shy people – is it hard to travel alone if you’re shy?
travel buddy round oz – looking for travel buddies in Australia.
fruit picking travel buddy – anyone up for fruit-picking and travel?
Travelbuddy India march 07 – looking for travel buddies for India next month.
El Encierro! Two week travel in spain Approx 7/4-7/18 – the Running of the Bulls isn’t far off now, start planning soon!

Backpackers.com