What does backpacker mean?

Backpackers, also known as donkey friends, refer to people who wander around in groups of three or five or by themselves.

That is, people who carry backpacks for long-distance self-help travel are mainly people who are looking for excitement, such as mountaineering, hiking and exploration, with the purpose of knowing the world, knowing themselves and challenging the limits through travel.

Generally, donkey friends like to travel together, and some of them have tents and sleeping bags to sleep in the mountains and wilderness. Another way of saying it is that it is taken from the homonym of "traveling friend", which means traveling friend. Taiwan Province often calls them self-help travelers or self-help travelers, 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 implementation is self-help, which is an experience. This experience runs through the whole journey. 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 go out to travel, not only to see the scenery somewhere, but also the journey itself is a very important experience. Trains, cars, donkey carts, hotels, coach 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 traveling are self-knowledge of the cold and warm.

the origin of backpackers

Tony Wheeler, the founder of p>Lonely Planet, came from afar to tell the story that he and MINI had to tell and the long-standing 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 travel was just in its infancy.

The name p>Lonely Planet has become a standard to measure the accuracy and reliability of travel information. You can realize his popularity by saying a few things: In 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 22, 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 stories behind the birth of LP are the most touching ones only when the founders tell them themselves. 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 edition.