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Improvised Festive Avocado Salsa with Tostada’s

Sometimes you just want to stay in your hostel, eat dinner, chill out and go to bed by 9 pm. However, if your hostel doesn’t have a kitchen this isn’t always possible. You end up going out for dinner often with new hostel friends, your quiet night can quickly turn …

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There is nothing “lucky” about travel – It’s a choice.

Yesterday I was on a boat travelling across the breathtaking Lake Atitlan… I was on my way back to my hostel for a nap after climbing a volcano only days previously. Sounds amazing right? It was – even the being exhausted part was amazing! On this boat I met a …

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Why getting your PADI in Cozumel is magical

I have always been fascinated by the big blue Ocean. As little girl I was always begging my parents to take me to the beach (we lived in Canberra… so it wasn’t an afternoon activity), after my first assisted dive on the great barrier reef at 15, I knew that this …

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Healthy Mexican Steak with Veg Salsa – on a camping stove

Cooking in hostels is always a challenge. Cooking something healthy and delicious is even more of a challenge… one might even call it an experiment. You have to deal with limited utensils, stoves that either burn too hot or not at all, lack of spices and oil and other people …

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Hello, I’m Helen, AKA The Lite Backpacker – an Australian with an English accent (thanks to having one English parent) on the 30 side of my 20s. Like so many Australians, at 18 I packed up my backpack and headed to Europe, flittering from museum to bar for nearly a year. When I came home I thought I had gotten the “travel bug” out of my system as well as putting on an unhealthy amount of “backpacking weight”. Instead, within 6 months I had booked my next trip, with a vow of finding a way to enjoy travel food without the weight gain. Read More about “About Me”…

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