How To Plan A Budget Trip 

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How To Select a Place to Visit

Deepak Sharma, Inhale Trips Writer, July 05, 2021

As the nationwide lockdowns or travel restrictions are about to end, travel enthusiast people are almost about to start planning for taking new trips and treks. So, having an expert travel team, we at Inhale Trips, have decided to help you to plan your next trip in four easy steps. So that you can plan a better budget trip. You just need to be logical while planning for a trip. When it comes to budget trip planning, you can’t waste your time on unnecessary things like waiting at the train station throughout the day, including unwanted places in your bucket list etc. Here we go

Step 1 : Decide Your Available Days

As most of us are doing jobs or some other work. So, first of all we need to decide how many days are available for traveling. Because you can’t take risk for your job in these tough times. So, better is, enjoy your trips only on available days. Whether it’ll be one day or four or five days.

Step 2 : Travel at Night or Not?

This is one of the most important points. Because it can increase your time to enjoying the destination rather than wasting time on day traveling. But it is associated with your safety and security in night traveling or there may be your personal reasons too. And anyway, nowadays everyone travels at night, whether it is a boy or a girl.

Step 3 : Distance You Can Cover in Available Days 

Distance depends upon the conveyance you have available or the public transport you are gonna take like train or bus. If you want a memorable and lovely road trip by car and you have just one day, you can’t cover more than 250-300 km from one side. And in case you are willing to go from train or bus your distance will be more open in one day and you opt for night travel. Now you can cover upto 600-750 km in one day if you travel one night before your exact Trip-day. Distance may increase as per days available to you for travelling or trekking. Here we are not discussing flight cuz we are talking about budget travelling.

Step 4 : Make an imaginary circle on google map

From your current location to the distance(in km) you have decided to cover, create a circle on the map. For instance, you live in Delhi. And you can cover 250-280 km as per conveyance available for you. Now make an imaginary circle, like Chandigarh is 250 km in North, Rishikesh & Haridwar are 250 km in North East, Dehradun is 280 km in North East, Gwalior is 360 km in South, Agra 240 km in South East, Jaipur is 280 km in South West. And you may cover Jim Corbett National Park in North East of Delhi and Neemrana Fort Palace in this circle. And this will look like below image

Step 5 : Find a place from that circle. 

Now find a place from this circle or on points you have joined together to make the circle. Because all the destinations covered in the circle are only potential trips as per days and transport available to cover that particular distance. If you have spare time, you can cover 2-3 locations together.

Step 6 : Checking the Availability of Trains or Buses With Timing

And this is the final step and everything depends on this step. Because even if you have finalized the destination, but there is no bus or train available or the seat is not available, then the whole planning will go waste, so it is also important that the timing of the train or bus should match your time. For instance, you want to reach your destination in the early morning, for this you will have to take the train/bus at night. In case, there is no train available at night, your plan would be spoiled. So, basically this step is fully associated with the 5th step. You can’t finalize your destination without checking the train or bus schedules and availability of seats.

I hope these steps will definitely help you in planning your next trip. In case we missed out something or you have any suggestion that we should add in this article, please tell us by commenting below. We would really like to mention you in our post with your suggestions. We feel thankful by getting feedback from our readers. Till then, best wishes for your future trips.

This article was originally published in July 2021 and updated in _______  2021.