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So I'm looking at coming over to canada and travelling around BC for about 2 or 3 weeks during your summer, I will have a mountain bike with me and will need to transport that around with me.
What are your suggestions for cheap methods of transport around BC and what would let me see most of the scenery that I can without spending too much?
Hire Car, campervan, Bus?
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It might not be the cheapest but travelling in your own vehicle is the only realistic way if you want to see a lot of places in BC and take the bike with you. If you want to take a bike on the Greyhound bus, it has to be in a box meant for bicycles, and there's a surcharge for that, $30 no matter how short the trip is. The bus just doesn't go to some places and in others, such as where I am on Vancouver Island, it only goes once a day. That makes scheduling travel a bit complicated.
Whether it's worth hiring a camper is hard to say. They aren't cheap to rent but having one would allow you to camp, which is cheaper than staying in any other kind of accommodation. Campgrounds, which are everywhere, range in price anywhere from free or close to it to $50 for the most expensive ones, averaging around $30 a night. Motels won't be any less than $70 a night, usually more. Of course, renting a smaller vehicle means you can still camp, but then you will need a tent and all the eqiupment. Camper vans usually come with it all built in. And while many people camp all over BC with tents, being inside a vehicle at night is safer, with fewer worries about wildlife getting at your food.
It might not be the cheapest but travelling in your own vehicle is the only realistic way if you want to see a lot of places in BC and take the bike with you. If you want to take a bike on the Greyhound bus, it has to be in a box meant for bicycles, and there's a surcharge for that, $30 no matter how short the trip is. The bus just doesn't go to some places and in others, such as where I am on Vancouver Island, it only goes once a day. That makes scheduling travel a bit complicated.
Whether it's worth hiring a camper is hard to say. They aren't cheap to rent but having one would allow you to camp, which is cheaper than staying in any other kind of accommodation. Campgrounds, which are everywhere, range in price anywhere from free or close to it to $50 for the most expensive ones, averaging around $30 a night. Motels won't be any less than $70 a night, usually more. Of course, renting a smaller vehicle means you can still camp, but then you will need a tent and all the eqiupment. Camper vans usually come with it all built in. And while many people camp all over BC with tents, being inside a vehicle at night is safer, with fewer worries about wildlife getting at your food.
What is the best way to spend $900 sight seeing the Northern Territory top End from Matranka to Darwin?
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What is the best way to spend $900 sight seeing the Northern Territory top End from Matranka to Darwin? I have my own camping gear.
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your biggest expense would be petrol. You can eat cheaply. Bring one of those small gas stoves that use the gas cans, they are great. You can camp cheaply at Mataranka. Mataranka Homestead next door to the thermal pool or Mataranka Cabins and Camping next door to the more natural Bitter springs thermal pool. In Katherine you can camp cheap at Katherine Gorge and hire a canoe and paddle up the gorge and there are lots of walking trails that are lovely. Kakadu has cheap camping in the National Park campgrounds, toilets and showers, lots of great walks to rock art etc and a trip on the Yellow Waters Billabong is around $50 or less and well worth the money. If you by pass Kakadu you can turn left on the highway and go into Litchfield National Park, again cheap camping with showers and toilets, great walks and swimming. Once in Darwin you can pitch the tent at Hidden Valley Caravan Park or Book in to a Backpackers for $20 a night. There is lots to do and see in Darwin that are free. I will be camping in Kakadu over the easter break, have fun, we will.
your biggest expense would be petrol. You can eat cheaply. Bring one of those small gas stoves that use the gas cans, they are great. You can camp cheaply at Mataranka. Mataranka Homestead next door to the thermal pool or Mataranka Cabins and Camping next door to the more natural Bitter springs thermal pool. In Katherine you can camp cheap at Katherine Gorge and hire a canoe and paddle up the gorge and there are lots of walking trails that are lovely. Kakadu has cheap camping in the National Park campgrounds, toilets and showers, lots of great walks to rock art etc and a trip on the Yellow Waters Billabong is around $50 or less and well worth the money. If you by pass Kakadu you can turn left on the highway and go into Litchfield National Park, again cheap camping with showers and toilets, great walks and swimming. Once in Darwin you can pitch the tent at Hidden Valley Caravan Park or Book in to a Backpackers for $20 a night. There is lots to do and see in Darwin that are free. I will be camping in Kakadu over the easter break, have fun, we will.
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