Cheap places to go on holiday

Any place can be cheap depending on how you travel. For people who are on a tight budget staying in youth hostels or camp sites, and cooking by yourself (youth hostels usually have free kitchens for guests) is the best way to go.

It's not possible to give general recommendations about a 'cheap destination' as the most expensive part of a budget trip is often the transportation (flight, train, bus) to the destination. It is fallacious logic to seek to go to poorer countries to save money as, for Westerners at least, this means travelling more far and ending up paying a lot for the flight to reach the destination.

Giorgi recommends Georgia (selflessly of course, being Georgian), but there are no cheap flight from most European countries to Georgia, so that can never be considered a budget trip.
 
Any place can be cheap depending on how you travel. For people who are on a tight budget staying in youth hostels or camp sites, and cooking by yourself (youth hostels usually have free kitchens for guests) is the best way to go.

It's not possible to give general recommendations about a 'cheap destination' as the most expensive part of a budget trip is often the transportation (flight, train, bus) to the destination. It is fallacious logic to seek to go to poorer countries to save money as, for Westerners at least, this means travelling more far and ending up paying a lot for the flight to reach the destination.

Giorgi recommends Georgia (selflessly of course, being Georgian), but there are no cheap flight from most European countries to Georgia, so that can never be considered a budget trip.

I don't mean all that, of course, you are right! Traveling in Georgia when you are already in the country can be very cheap for lovers of budget travel.
It even depends on the economic situation of the country. Infrastructure and security have been tailored to tourists since it was a government plan since 2003. But on the other hand, due to the weak economy the prices are low according to the level of the country. Georgia is trying to integrate into Europe, so the standards are changing, but this is done artificially through foreign funding, which, in general, does not increase the economic situation in direct proportion. :really:
 

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