Indie Traveller

Independent, down-to-earth travel guides and personal trip stories for adventurous backpackers.

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Written By

Marek Bron and team

Travellers

Team

Focus

Backpacking

Popularity

51 / 100

Running Since

2012

Posts

400

Several a week

Last Updated

Oct 2026

About Indie Traveller

Indie Traveller was founded by Marek Bron in 2012 as a personal travel blog and has since grown into a multi-writer site of practical, DIY travel guides. The site is run by Marek alongside an editing team and several regular contributors who each cover regions they know well. The directory measured roughly 400 posts and around 450 pages, and the site publishes frequently, with nearly six new posts a month. Content is grounded in real trips and first-person experience, and articles commonly include many original photos with credited captions while occasionally using licensed stock imagery.

What makes Indie Traveller distinct is its straight-talking, backpacker-minded voice that reads like advice from a well-travelled friend. Long, hands-on guides mix first-person stories with day-by-day itineraries, motorbike loop writeups and regional deep dives, think modular Thailand routes, Northern Vietnam loops, and a recent three-thousand-word slow travel guide to Caye Caulker. The site is active and prolific, posting almost weekly and keeping destination coverage focused on Southeast Asia, Central and South America, Europe and a few African countries. We enjoy the practical tone, the level of detail, and the clear regional expertise from contributors who live or frequently revisit their beats.