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Two backpack-toting brothers just mapped out 31 places where your dollar stretches further than you think.

Alex and Marko Ayling, the duo behind the Vagabrothers YouTube channel, spend just over fifteen minutes running through a rapid-fire list of the cheapest places on earth to travel right now. The video, titled “31 INSANELY AFFORDABLE Budget Travel Destinations to VISIT NOW,” clocks in at 15:03 and moves country by country, pairing each stop with a quick read on cost of living, food, transit, and what’s worth seeing. It’s less a highlight reel than a checklist for anyone planning a gap year or a long-haul backpacking trip on a shoestring.

• The Vagabrothers, Alex and Marko Ayling, built the list around three core regions: Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
• Thailand, Bali, and Vietnam anchor the Southeast Asian leg of the list as the destinations with the lowest daily travel costs.
• Croatia gets singled out as the budget-friendly pick in Europe, alongside a run of Eastern European countries known for cheap accommodation and food.

The Southeast Asian Backbone

The video leans hardest on Southeast Asia, and for good reason — it’s the region where the Vagabrothers’ daily-cost math works out best. Thailand opens the list, framed as the classic entry point for budget backpackers thanks to cheap street food, affordable guesthouses, and a well-worn travel infrastructure that makes getting around simple. Vietnam follows with the same pitch: inexpensive local transit, ubiquitous street-food stalls, and enough natural and historic sites to fill weeks of travel without draining a bank account.

Bali gets its own slot as a magnet for backpackers and surfers specifically, with the brothers pointing to low-cost accommodation and a laid-back scene that keeps daily spending down even in areas that see heavy tourist traffic. Anyone weighing an Indonesia trip against the video’s advice can cross-reference it with a firsthand look at Exploring Indonesia or dig into a longer Bali travel vlog for a sense of what those savings actually buy on the ground.

Thirty-one countries, fifteen minutes — the Vagabrothers treat the whole list like a checklist, not a highlight reel.

Eastern Europe’s Value Play

Once the video leaves Asia, it pivots to a cluster of Eastern European countries the brothers frame as the continent’s real bargain zone. Croatia leads that group, singled out for its coastline, historic cities, and natural landscapes that come in at a fraction of what travelers pay in Western Europe. The pitch throughout this section is consistent: skip the euro-heavy capitals and head for the countries where accommodation and food costs stay low even during peak season.

That regional strategy lines up with advice repeated across budget-travel content more broadly — the further a destination sits from the traditional Western European tourist circuit, the more a traveler’s money tends to stretch. Viewers weighing a longer European itinerary against a tighter budget can find more of that reasoning laid out in 15 Things They Don’t Tell You About Traveling In Europe.

Latin America Rounds Out the List

The Vagabrothers close the geographic sweep in Latin America, treating it as the third pillar of the affordable-travel triangle alongside Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. The region gets credit for combining low daily costs with dense cultural and natural draws — colonial cities, rainforest, coastline — without the price tag attached to comparable experiences elsewhere. For travelers curious how those numbers play out in practice, a real-world breakdown like Travel to Costa Rica offers a ground-level comparison point.

Stretching the Budget Once You Land

Beyond the country-by-country rundown, the video spends real time on tactics: hunting down cheap accommodation, eating where locals eat instead of tourist-zone restaurants, riding public transit instead of arranged transfers, and steering clear of markups built into tourist-trap attractions. Those same principles show up in dedicated budget-travel guides like How to Travel on a Super Tight Budget and How I Afford to Travel, both of which lean on the same core idea: the savings come less from where you go than from how you spend once you’re there. The Vagabrothers’ angle is simply to hand viewers a starting list of 31 places where that math already works in their favor.

By the ten-minute mark, Alex and Marko are already deep into the back half of the list, stacking countries like Bulgaria, Guatemala, and Nicaragua on top of the marquee names — which is really the point of a video like this. It’s not built for lingering on any one place; it’s built as a reference reel you pause and rewatch when you’re actually booking the flight.