4 months after coming back, here is the full tale of our World Trip! We used Polarsteps as our journal, writing down all our adventures for our friends and family. We now have printed a book (332 pages) with some photos and graphics. Just a small teaser:
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LookBackPacker’s statistics
The aim of this Travel Blog is to share useful information through my personal experience, to help and inspire people into their own adventures. LookBackPacker.com is now gaining trust on search engines and its general internet presence is increasing, with an average of 1743 visits and 1136 visitors per month in 2022!
As of today…
Born in 2017, Look Back Packer’s blog was built around my Asian project: travel 6 months alone in South East Asia.
Since then, I’ve been feeding this blog with my past experience, including the 4 years I lived in South America. In 2019 I organized a photo exhibition in Lyon, and in 2021 I auto published a book about the Asian trip.
But the blog has really reached its audience in 2022, when we decided with my boyfriend to do a 1 year World Trip!
Look Back Packer is now a recognized blog with partnerships (Igraal, Bookaway, Ivisa, 12GoAsia) and these nice key figures I’m happy to share with you!
Users feedbacks:
Best month: January 2023 with 2733 pages viewed by 1948 visitors
Stats since the beginning of our World Trip
In 2022, where do the visitors come from – TOP 10
The most popular posts on Look Back Packer – TOP 5
Look Back Packer’s Youtube Playlist – TOP 3:
58674 views on
25354 views on
13485 views on
Look Back Packer’s Instagram – TOP 3:
5875 views on
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Budget for a World Trip
We travelled for 14 months and gathered all the prices thanks to TravelSpend application: Here is the detail of how much did we pay the planes, accommodations, activities, transportations, food… You will know all about what you should expect to spend on a World Trip!
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The best travel Apps
As we just finished a long and wonderful World Trip of 14 months, it’s time for us to share with you my favorite and best applications to travel (or at least my top 8):
Apps to travel and earn money and time:
IGraal.com offers you to get cashback if you buy online on various website, including Booking.com or Hostelworld (from 4 to 8% of your reservations).
We get 150€ using it during our World Trip! With the link I share you will also get a special offer if you join through this link.
Ivisa.com is a platform where you will find your Visa information for all the countries.
You’ll have the link of online application, and it will also help you with the paperwork.
Bookaway is becoming the reference in term of planning your trip, it’s a website and Mobile App. You can check the timetable and book your tickets online for the bus, train or boat !
We used it a lot in Philippines, but you can find it almost everywhere now.
Apps you need for a World Trip:
We used it almost everyday during our World trip to tell our story and share our itinerary with our beloved family and friends 
We used it to follow our budget: every spending is classified by category and the App gives you the total, average, graphics… 
Always useful to check the opening times and days of the sightseeings, the shops around you, the rating of a restaurant… 
Unmissable if you want to go hiking but also when you don’t have any data nor wifi connection, as you download the maps in advance.
Tools I used to build this website:
To build dynamic maps and integrate them in the blog 
To make nice videos of your itinerary by car, bus, boat… 
Easy app I used on my phone to build the videos you can find on Youtube 
To build this nice website (with Oblique theme) 
To get the details of my trekkings
My social medias:
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End of our World Trip
Time to go back home for Christmas! Looking back on those 14 months travelling, I prepared this last post with key figures, map, articles, video and our best of!
BUS
673h (25 nights included!)
CAR
92h
SCOOTER
50h
PLANE
88h
BOAT
10h
TRAIN
6
TUK TUK
50
RUINS
55 sites visited
MUSEUMS
13
GUIDES
30
TREKS
20
HIGHEST
4850m
HOTEST
Puerto Morelos (Mexique)
COLDEST
Huaraz (Peru)
LUGGAGES
25kg
HOTELS
150
BIKES
10
SNORKELS
6
PHOTOS
23500 pictures
VIDEOS
100
ITEMS LOST
16*
Posts
Summary
*Lost items: A credit card, a Swiss knife, a drone, a perfume, a speaker, a rain coat, a pink backpack, 3 T shirts, 3 socks, a towel, a charger, a toothbrush
Our itinerary
in Latin America:
in Asia:
Our Best Of
click on the pin of each country:
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Discover PolarSteps
To share our travel around the World we’ve found this amazing App which follows you automatically and propose to tell the story of your trip step by step!
Try it now!
Auto Geolocated
Photos, videos & text
Main sightseeings
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Video library
Discover now the videos of my trips! Can be short magical moments, but also nice movies “best of”! They’re all stored here and on my
Youtube official playlist
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World Tour with CoVid!
Yes we are young, we are (almost) free, maybe a little crazy, ok, but we won’t wait more: CoVid seems to be unstoppable so instead of being stoped by this flew, we’ll go with the flow!
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Turning into Digital Nomad
Next step for a travel addict like me is to find a solution to work whenever you want, wherever you are! So I decided to launch an old project: JennysCom.com web design.
Jenny’s Com’
With a Master degree in Web (2009) and a strong experience as Web Project Manager (10 years), I can handle any website creation on an international level!
Way before the CoVid situation, I was already used to work remotely in french, english and spanish. “I only need a computer and internet connexion, so why not trying to travel while working?!“
Thinking about what may need my future clients, I built several WordPress templates to fit to all kind of requirement. Users can visit their future website like in a showroom and my job will be to set it up with their own content!
More info www.JennysCom.com
Demos on Youtube Playlist
Next departure:
[wpcdt-countdown id=”5909″]Check our plan!
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New book!
In 2007/2008, while I was travelling through Asia, I wrote to my mom every single day of my journey. With the current CoVid and quarantine situation, I decided to look back again to those old emails and to turn it into a book.
Two years after the photo exhibition, I’m proud having edited those memories, to protect it from disappearance!
The first pages are available only here:
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Photos exhibition
FR. Parce que revenir sur les chemins parcourus est parfois une façon d’avancer, Jennifer vous propose un voyage au travers des siens. A 33 ans, cette jeune aventurière revient en France après près de 4 ans d’expatriation, et partage avec vous paysages fantastiques et personnages singuliers. Ces moments de vie figés au travers de son appareil photo – un appareil compact amateur – souvent seul compagnon de ses voyages.
ES. Porque volver a los caminos ya recorridos puede ser una forma de avanzar, Jennifer, propone un viaje a través del suyo propio. A la edad de 33 años, esta joven aventurera de origen francés, regresa a su tierra después de 4 años en el extranjero, para compartir con todos nosotros paisajes fantásticos y personajes singulares. Esos momento de vida inmortalizados con su cámara de fotos y un compact disc, fueron sus compañeros de viaje.
EN. Because looking back to where you’ve been is sometimes the best way forward. Jennifer offers you a trip through her journey as she looks back. At 33 years old, this young adventurer came back to France after 4 years of expatriation so she can share the most beautiful landscapes and singular characters with you. Shot with her camera, a compact amateur, usually her only companion.
When?
Where?
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Asian Project
Discover here my new challenge, my original plan, estimated calendar, how to follow me and the posts about this travel in Asia…
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[Who & Why]
Hi! My name is Jennifer, and I’m a travel addict…
We often say “never look back, just look ahead”, it’s not good to think about the past and you should think about the future instead of going back to your old memories. I think the contrary: ALWAYS LOOK BACK! Look the pass where you come from to arrive here where you are, be who you are, knowing who and what you know.
Look back and keep going, knowing that everything happen for something, maybe just for you to be at this point today, now, here, reading this.
I hope you will enjoy this blog, it’s a testimony of the trips I’ve made when I was living in Latin America (1 year in Panama and 3 years in Chile), 6 months backpacking alone in South East Asia, and the 14 months World Trip I shared this time with my life partner, Julien.
I wish to share some tips but most of all my experience, and it’s a pleasure to go back to those great moments!
Enjoy and don’t hesitate to share or to leave your comments!
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Traduction
J’ai choisi d’écrire ce blog en anglais pour le partager le plus largement possible, mais vous avez la possibilité de le traduire – avec Google qui n’est pas parfait mais bon… – en cliquant sur “translate” dans le menu !
1st step
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Traducción
Escribí este blog en inglés para compartirlo lo más posible, pero tienen la posibilidad traducirlo con Google – no perfecto pero bueno… – en el menu!
2nd step
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