Backpackers are engaged with backpacking?

Backpackers - the amateur tourists who are not buying rounds, and the investigating(researching) distant countries without the help of the tour agencies, independently planning the travel. They carry the things in backpacks, unlike the "civilized" tourists, using suitcases and porters. Traditionally backpackers aspire to the most budgetary decisions. Actively use public transport, spend the night in inexpensive hotels, avoid services of intermediaries. Every morning these people begin with an omelette at restaurant recommended their favourite LP (the popular guidebook). Behind meal they do not let this book go. But after a breakfast... It is logical to assume, that after a breakfast backpackers are engaged backpacking. But here not all so is simple.

The term backpacking on the English-speaking Internet use for a designation of activity ordinary pohodnikov is much more often. Yes-yes, there is to go to a lasting many days hike with a backpack and tent it not huhry-muhry, but backpacking.

This kind of rest by that also differs from hiking, that all carry on itself, in a backpack, and do not hope for shelters and grocery a bench. The person with a huge backpack behind shoulders looks(appears) very impressively. The size matters, but... Sooner or later you understand, that bear(carry) a lot of superfluous and is perfect(absolute) in vain muchaesh shoulders (and also a back, knees and other bodies). And then you throw out all superfluous, saw off half of tooth-brush, sew to yourself an awning instead of tent and become legkohodom. And your rest henceforth refers to Ultralight backpacking.

And when will bother it is possible to borrow(occupy) still trekkingom. It too abruptly. Though, as a matter of fact, nothing differs from usual hikes.

I hope, you have already understood, - this article I did not wish anything to clear. On the contrary, my purpose was to confuse a little you in variety of terms of modern tourism. It was possible?

Cyril Jasko.
On March, 13th 2009