This reference offers useful information and practical advice on everything you need to consider for your time out - whether before university or between jobs. The first part of the book leads you through all the planning stages right through to the eventual home-coming. There is practical, up-to-date information on safety, health, airports, embassies, passports, food, insurance, working abroad and hitch-hiking. In the second part of the book the author presents the top 50 backpacker destination worldwide - one per spread.