What does backpacker mean?

Backpackers, also known as donkey friends, refer to people wandering around in groups of three or five or single-handedly.

In other words, people who carry backpacks for long-distance self-help tours are mainly looking for excitement, such as mountaineering, hiking and exploration. The purpose is to know the world, know yourself and challenge the limit through travel.

Travelers generally like to travel together, and some have prepared tents and sleeping bags to sleep in the wilderness in the mountains. Another way of saying it is from the homonym of "traveling friend", which means traveling friend. Taiwan Province Province often calls them self-help tourists or self-help tourists, while Hongkong calls them backpackers.

Backpackers advocate spending the least money, taking the farthest road and seeing the scenery that others can't see. The means of realization is self-help, which is an experience. This experience runs through the whole process. At the beginning, you only know a general destination, and you need to find information, plan the route, buy equipment, estimate the travel time and calculate how much you will spend tomorrow.

Backpackers travel not only to see the scenery of a certain place, but also the journey itself is a very important experience. Trains, cars, donkey carts, hotels, carriage shops, clear mountains, green waters, lonely deserts, bustling cities in the wilderness, ancient roads and westerly highways, drunken singing and sleeping in the wind, and so on, all the joys and sorrows of travel are self-knowledge.

The origin of backpackers

Tony Wheeler, the founder of Lonely Planet, came from afar to tell the story that he and Minnie had to tell and their long-term relationship with Country Man. Lonely planet is one of the most important reference tools for millions of travelers around the world to travel around the world. In the early growth of LP, self-help tour has just started.

The name of Lonely Planet has become a standard to measure the accuracy and reliability of tourism information. You can appreciate his popularity by saying a few things: 1996, The New York Times called Tony "the leader of backpackers and adventure travelers all over the world" and one of the "pioneers" who changed the way of world travel.

When Bill Gates visited Australia, he only wanted to meet two people: the Prime Minister and Tony Wheeler; In 2002, the British Travel Writers Association awarded Wheeler the Lifetime Achievement Award.

If you love traveling, you must know a little about LonelyPlanet, but the little-known story behind the birth of LP is the most touching one only when the founder tells it himself. Another highlight of the evening is that Mr. Wheeler will release a new book LonelyPlanet on the spot, which is specially tailored for MINI COUNTRYMAN and will be released in limited quantities.