Budget Travel Guides for Students on a Shoestring

If you're a student traveler, it probably goes without saying that you're on a budget. Here are my favorite budget-oriented travel guides.

Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet is an ideal resource for student travelers - the site offers far more than guide books; check it out for travel tips, discounts, personal travel websites and more.

Although all their books are budget conscious, Lonely Planet has a special series called Shoestrings Guides which they tout as "Lonely Planet On a Shoestring – big trips for small budgets – the only guidebook series exclusively for backpackers, by backpackers."

Some of your About Guide's favorites:

Africa on a Shoestring
South America on a Shoestring
South East Asia on a Shoestring

All Lonely Planet Shoestring Guides

Rough Guides

Rough Guides started as a travel guide book company catering to budget travelers but has graduated to (according to their websiste): "...supplementing the 'rougher' information about hostels and low-budget listings with the kind of detail on restaurants and quality hotels that independent-minded visitors on an any budget might expect, whether on business in New York or trekking in Thailand."

Rough Guides give some down low low-down info that you will appreciate. Check them out here. Rough Guides also offers e-books (downloadable). Check periodically for free sample chapters of e-books!

Rough Guides

"Europe From a Backpack"

According to their website, these folks "...publish travel writing for the 'Budget, Independent, and Youth Travel' market." Hey, that's you! Take a look.