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Top Backpacker Tips for Marrakesh

Top Backpacker Tips for Marrakesh - Hostel Travelers

When you are traveling to Marrakesh, you need to read first Gomio’s top backpacker tips for Marrakesh. Find out where you can get some local food for a fair price, what to take care about, and what you should not miss!

Top 15 Travel Songs for Hostel Travelers

Top Travel Song For Hostel Travelers

Everybody loves listening to some music and suddenly, without purpose, some special songs are turning into travel songs. Songs which were played by the guy with guitar in the hostel, or the song you listened to while walking along the beaches of California. You may have some flashbacks sitting in your car and listening to read more »

Backpacking and staying in Hostels is fatal

Backpacking and staying in hostels is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness...

Travel is fatal! You should seriously think about it twice if you really want to backpack the world, staying in Hostels, sharing stories and culture, connect to people with different backgrounds than you, speaking several languages, trying food from different countries, and so on! Be careful, there is a chance to loose “prejudice, bigotry, and read more »

Hostel Discounts on all Hostel Bookings

Hostel Discount on all Hostel Bookings on Gomio.com

Enough in enough! The winter is cold and the summer far. We know that you are already dreaming of your next backpacking tour, your next destination to meet people, to get to know more cultures, try some delicious food, and so on. We are thrilled to announce our Hostel Promotion for you to save 5% read more »

12 Grapes for your luck

Eating 12 Grapes for your luck in the new year

Do you know any sweet tradition around New Year’s Eve? In Spain people celebrate new year’s eve with cava (spanish kind of champagne) and 12 grapes! By midnight, each time the clock chimes, you have to put a grape in your mouth – and eat it. By the time the clock has finished chiming, you have to have read more »

Sorry, but the end of the world has to wait, I still have travel plans!

Sorry, but the end of the world has to wait, I still have travel plans!

We don’t have time for the end of the world as there are still enough places we need to visit. Please come back later, thank you! Sorry, but the end of the world has to wait, I still have travel plans!   What if the mayan calendar was just a reminder to use your time read more »

5 Things to Do While You’re Still Young

5 Things to Do While You’re Still Young

Whether or not you think that you’ll “settle down” one day, there are certain experiences that just simply aren’t possible at every age. So don’t forget to live your youth to the fullest, and don’t miss out on some of our best things to do while you’re still in some of the best years of read more »

The Values of Backpacking and Hostels

The Values of Backpacking and Hostels

Believe it or not, while you may consider backpacking as a fun adventure or wild whim to explore the world and shake up your routine with inspiration, you’re also picking up invaluable life lessons from the road. Backpacking teaches important values that formal education could not possibly translate through any combination of lectures, assigned readings, read more »

Hostels on Instagram

Backpacking Instagram - Hostels at Instagram

Snap, Snap, Snap! Gomio is now on Instagram, we call it “InstaGomio” – Follow us http://instagram.com/hostelsgomio and share your Social Travel Photography with the world!          

Hostel KEX Reykjavik, an Icelandish Retreat

Kex Hostel Reykjavik Iceland - from a biscuit factory to a social hostel

Iceland, in itself, has quite a bizarre air about it. The land of fire and ice whose lineage traces back to the Vikings, whose summers shine with 24 hours of daylight, whose winters wane into almost complete darkness, and whose reputation remains as one of the most spectacular sites to gaze at the ethereal sweeps read more »