A 26-year-old explains how he travels the world on no more than $30 a day

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Will Hatton, backpacking in Venezuela.

In January of 2008, Will Hatton booked his first trip abroad for his 19th birthday - to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania.

"I just wanted to do something different. I hadn't done anything remotely exciting with my life. I wanted to go up a mountain but I didn't have any climbing experience, so did some research and found for Kilimanjaro you don't have to have any mountaineering skills," says Hatton, who had been unloading trucks for a grocery store in his hometown of Brighton, England.

That trip was the start of seven years of travel, covering everywhere from Morocco to Laos to Vietnam to Israel to Central America. He's done it all on a strict budget.

You can follow his adventures on his website, The Broke Backpacker, or his Facebook, The Broke Backpacker.

After spending two years in Asia spending an average of $12 a day, and planning an 18-month trek to Papua New Guinea with a $30-a-day budget, here, he explains what it's like to travel the world on the cheap.