How to travel the world with almost no money | Tomislav Perko | TEDxTUHH

Many people daydream about traveling the world, but all of them have the same excuse - lack of money. Tomislav, after traveling the world for years with almost no money, shows how it is possible for everyone to do the same, if they really want to. Tomislav Perko, 29, is a travel writer from Croatia. After a career of a stockbroker, broke because of the financial crisis, he hits the road and turns it into his home. He uses alternative ways of traveling – hitchhiking, couchsurfing, working/volunteering, and manages to wander around the world with just a little bit of money in his pocket, meeting the most amazing people on the way. Five years later, he publishes a book “1000 Days of Spring” and goes around giving lectures about what it means to live on the road. Find out more on his website: http://tomislavperko.com/en/. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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2. MARIA JUANA
3. so sad I have never had a chance to get out of kenya
4. thats a myth
5. Best way to travel! If you travel with bling, you will get robbed. Also, perhaps this works for males, but I don't know if it'll be the same outcome for young females. :/ Bad weather, accidents, and the unpredictable can be more then some can handle alone. You do need to be rather clever about planning it.
6. arab might kill you :) hahaha
7. very cool guy i ve ever seen
8. Where can I find working opportunities during travelling??
9. the sign said "iran" but he was hichhiking
10. Totally Inspired. With God everything is possible.
11. money isn't the main problem in my situation.... visa is my problem ..
12. Shooort term loaaans 200$-1000$ here => https://twitter.com/ebb885034581e7007/status/822777246943326208
13. So by your logic, traverse the world with little to no money, would in essence just make you temporarily HOMELESS. You didnt even really go any place significant...i mean Iran, Middle East, Australia? The whole thing looked liked a shitty adventure, if you want to call it that.
14. did u travel in bangladesh? it is situated at asia.
    i hope u didn't.
    you are invited.
15. INDIA..GREAT
16. He vidited my school library fyu months ago. Everyone was so inspired. I'm so glad we have a Croatian so devoted😄
17. I wish I could travel the whole world
18. i love this guy
19. LOVE This so cool!
20. The first time I got the idea to travel, I went to the library and read a bunch of travel books. By the end of the day I had narrowed them down to two: "See Europe on $75US/day", and "Lonely Planet: India", which said that if I was willing to live like the locals, after transportation costs I could get by for ~$3US/day. (Not a typo, three US dollars a day.) If I sold everything I owned I might be able to afford three or four weeks in Europe, or an estimated 6 months in India. My girlfriend and I ended up spending 12 months in India, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, flying home two days before our 1-year open-ended plane tickets would have expired. Together, aside from the cost of plane tickets, the two of us spent $2300US. Rent for the one-bedroom dive apartment we'd lived in before the trip was $500US/month plus bills; enough money for three months at home turned into a whole year traveling. On the road we spent even less than the Lonely Planet guide estimate, partly by renting an apartment in Varanasi for 2500 Rupees per month - ~$60US at the time - and cooking our own meals.
    
    After we got home we immediately started planning for our next trip. But it is much easier to do those things when you don't have kids, don't own a house, and aren't paying off student loans so travel first, if you can. (If that decision would require a time machine, travel soonest.)
    
    The biggest thing we learned: money is NOT the thing holding you back. You might think it is, but unless you have special needs it's not. Convincing yourself to take that first step is what holds people back. Convincing yourself to let go of the excuses and the fear and the numbing comfort of the familiar. Trusting that there are good people everywhere, and if they can survive where they are you will too.
    
    It won't be easy. But everyone I know who took that first step considers it to be the defining moment of the rest of their lives.