Life as a Travel YouTuber (brutal truth)

[@BackpackerBen]

■ Liking my videos increase their reach on KZbin, appreciate your support guys. Any more questions comment below and I will answer them

[@aronjohns4662]

Liked 👍

[@johnafrica7979]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@andyelliott8027]

When I landed in Sydney the customs official said to me " Where have you come from?" I said "England", he said "Do you have a criminal record?" I replied " I didn't realise it was still necessary!" .

[@dee74raz]

@@PJL7095 Bald contacted him and they both decided to do videos with each other. Drew Binsky did something like that when he contacted a local Russian KZbinr who was living in Siberia to do a collaboration.

[@Wander_Ventures]

Any plan to come back to North-East India anytime soon, Ben ?

[@harvey22]

Ben, your "helper" is the bomb. What a sweetheart! Love to see her in your videoes.

[@JamieD_]

I came across you from bald and bankrupt and been binge watching all your videos…. What a humble nice guy you are…. I love the addition of cat you both look so good together. Keep them coming mate your smashing it

[@BackpackerBen]

Appreciate it Jamie mate

[@deidradahl2802]

@@BackpackerBen Is that pretty girl, yours?

[@TaniaEstes]

The girl is a keeper! She's cute as a button! You two make a lovely couple

[@davidfuller7792]

Ben, you should marry cat, or Bella from Cambodia.

[@clarkmeyer7871]

Ben, Your idea of offering travel to people. Excellent idea! Going on a “Backpacker Ben” Adventure would be awesome… you can’t lose the “Backpacker Ben” name my friend, that’s who you are and it describes so much your travels. Keep up the great work Ben! All the best, Clark

[@BackpackerBen]

Appreciate it Clark 🍻

[@aronjohns4662]

You and cat are great together Ben! She’s awesome

[@BackpackerBen]

she's ok ;)

[@dumpsterdivinguk]

@@BackpackerBen 😅🤣😂

[@jokerall]

She is cooler than you. Maybe you not realise that yet

[@dee74raz]

@@jokerall It’s his girlfriend in reality. She appeared in his Egypt 🇪🇬 video where he mentioned taking his girlfriend along.

[@bobby6427]

Did you actually just randomly meet her on the beach really?

[@tommywolfe2706]

Ben and Bald just did some traveling together and posted videos of their shared experience (respectively, each has their own videos) and they are in fact, totally different. Obviously, same places, traveling together, but the demeanor and energy is wildly different. IMO Not saying one is better than the other, but just to let the person who asked how Ben's videos are different, there is an excellent example. I also enjoy watching 2 people try to shoot a video in the same spot. You guys must have God level patience with each other. Cheers Ben! Love your video!

[@gooddayswithmohanbilaye]

I also like his vlog with Benjamin Bald and Bankrupt ❤️

[@GermanoEllinas]

So is it, i watch them both and everyone of them have thair own way of showing, i love it.

[@andyp7027]

Ben, so glad I found your vlogs… the one with Bald was my introduction and now I have watched them all… love them, keep them coming… Legend

[@BackpackerBen]

Thanks Andy mate

[@WildWildBasch]

This was an amazing Q&A. It is sad that Egypt also falls on your top worse countries. My experience there was similar. Hope to cross paths with you on the road Ben! Greetings from a Portuguese traveler.

[@jerry50bmg65]

Ben does a stellar job. Thanks for the content! And thanks to Cat for the most important support.

[@BackpackerBen]

Our pleasure!

[@tigran2197]

Thank you for the truth anwsers. I want to start my own KZbin channel and I was inspired by you Ben and other KZbinrs like B&B, Simon and Harald. Everything have advantages and disadvantages :)

[@BackpackerBen]

Very true mate

[@DikWhite]

I once went to Plymouth with a friend from London whose parents lived there. We had a great Saturday night out, but it was so long ago that I can't remember where. 🤣 Yep, Indian food is the best, I fully agree. On a trekking trip we had a cook with two pots and a prima stove alongside us, the food he cooked up was unbelievably good.

[@BackpackerBen]

plymouth is great in the summer! and yessss India is king for food

[@dumpsterdivinguk]

i am 45 and have just started my youtube channel you are never to old to create content m8 your videos are great dont let your age be a factor.

[@BackpackerBen]

of course mate! it is good fun starting one so best of luck to you :)

[@BackpackerBen]

I am just referring to the tiring factors that comes to being a travel youtuber, wears me out

[@dumpsterdivinguk]

@@BackpackerBen yes thanks m8 i love it

[@garrydolley]

To create memories and to look back 20-30 years later, and to see all I've done, and to show my kids and grandkids, is also why I started making KZbin videos. I'm only on vlog #1, in Mexico City, but I hope to have many more!

[@dhinakarroy4907]

Ben's videos are less of sugar coating and more of raw traveling, it's rare to see such content nowadays.

[@BackpackerBen]

Cheers bro

[@wilsonryan2011]

Are you not dating Cat? IF not, you should be. She is stunning and seems super cool. What's the deal with that?

[@irish.marketer]

I like videos like this more than the actual travel videos. Interesting to know about the difficulties of travelling etc.

[@BackpackerBen]

thanks for wqtchign mate

[@khanua6073]

4:12 mum's smile while thinking about her kids

[@raidensnake9471016]

Yep, noticed that too the first time I watched the video 😂

[@ValentinaMitchell1]

Great video! Interesting! I’m so glad I’ve found your channel. I’m looking forward to watching your older videos.

[@BackpackerBen]

Glad you like them!

[@ValentinaMitchell1]

@@BackpackerBen thank you, Ben! Just finished Lands End, Blackpool and Scotland, I’ve added all your videos to the watch list, so I check out each one! Good day mate!

[@BackpackerBen]

Love it 👏🏼

[@franktreml3145]

Do you think you might do more UK travels like the one you did with the Bald man when you went to Rimme in Wales? That was a funny one and Brits would never normally see these places!! I enjoy your videos. I am watching from Andalucia, Frank x

[@dee74raz]

There are loads of places like Rimme everywhere in the U.K.

[@johnwilliams2768]

The future, quite simply more videos with Kat! Please.

[@xploit811]

All the best for your potential Travel Business Ben, you will ace it for sure with your friendly personality.

[@BackpackerBen]

Appreciate it mate

[@Charlie666-]

With you on Egypt went there years ago misses got hissed at relentlessly got hassled like you wouldn't believe never again 😂

[@BackpackerBen]

awful mate, never had such stress and issues ever

[@johnafrica7979]

I’d never go! Heard awful things

[@aronjohns4662]

What happened? Everyone seems to have a bad time

[@Charlie666-]

@@BackpackerBen went to Morocco after and it was night and day much nicer really friendly.

[@BackpackerBen]

@@Charlie666- I will check morocco out next year no doubr

[@farmerboy8659]

Nice video . Thanks to Mr. Bald . Remembering Mr. Bald traveling with Harold in India and always try to catch anybody traveling . The honesty and keeping it real is a plus . I don't know about groups traveling , people tend to be a real pain in the???? . Baby sitting people will wear thin very quickly . In my miss-spent youth at 19 in 1971 I went with a group of around 300 people to Hawaii . It did cure me of ever doing that again . The Travel Agency stay at Penthouse Suite along with the celebrity . Yes six buses was needed to transport us from one area to the next . If I was Ben I would hook up with some Rich Indian friend and go from there . The Import and Export with India coming along with China to be the countries of the future . Good luck in whatever Kat or Cat is very funny along with your humor , Thanks .

[@TS-pq8km]

Thanks Ben I have watched several of your videos over the last few months and have found your approach refreshing. Frankly I am tired of the "this is a wonderful place" type content and look for balance and more unusual content. By unusual I mean not the big sights but more the quirks reality of a city as observed from the equivalent of a local coffee shop or better still the back of a motorbike Heading back to Bangladesh and India probably in the next few months. I'll enjoy watching your videos from these places as I work on my plans. Your idea of providing travel to small groups is a great one. Best of luck

[@Berry-fr5wj]

Good luck with your new venture , it would be good to see how it evolves as it is a good idea, all the best and thanks for all your content, you are a natural

[@BackpackerBen]

Cheers mate

[@portwayn]

You are really nice guy Ben!Love your YT chanel👍👍I've been to 79 countries and yeah!Egypt is the worst😬On the best countries you didn't mention New Zealand🤔This is the best from my experience!Japan is second..

[@BackpackerBen]

Thanks! 😃 didn't go new zealand

[@ELTExperiences]

Looks like you are a really decent and honest chap. Since Bald and you travelled together, I have been following you. If you ever have the chance to travel to South Korea, I’d love to help you travel around that country. It’s beautiful, very hospitable, and I lived there for three years.

[@BackpackerBen]

Yes I’ve been absolutely loved it

[@baksongyung37]

Need a second trip to Egypt where you visit Dendera, Abu Simbel, Red/Bent Pyramids and Dahab/Sinai imo.

[@BackpackerBen]

I won't be returning

[@WestGoesEast]

An interesting watch and insight into your youtube journey. I've been plugging away for a year now and it's a slow progress! Guess I need that steady flow of content like you mention in your film. Look forward to watching more of your stuff!

[@BackpackerBen]

Appreciate it mate! Keep it up

[@blacksabbathmatters3365]

Sweet Jesus. What a beautiful woman.

[@xadleimanyusuf9981]

I come to ur KZbin channel when you were in Ethiopia… I find ur content always interesting.

[@sharkymoon422]

Nothing typical about you, in fact go the other way, ya a very special dude when traveling, unique, I’ve met lots of folks and you are different. Nice video Ben

[@BackpackerBen]

I appreciate that mate

[@Herpetile]

My biggest question is how do you afford the travel? On top of rent at your home spot and just the basic cost of life, seems like you would need to be working something really regular save for a long time then go or something… trying to figure it out for myself

[@RobWalker1]

did you guys meet on Tindr, and then did the video when you met on the beach as a set up scene?

[@fauziaahmed825]

wow Amazing ben, it's good to know your actual viewpoint which is again very important to the truth. you travel for passion, not for the sake of it and it shows, its so amazing that you thinking about starting your own travel agency, it's a great idea good luck with it. we might have a chance to meet you on one of the adventures.🤩

[@BackpackerBen]

Thank you :)

[@oceejekwam6829]

Sorry I missed the opportunity to ask a question. My question would be. If you more money to travel would you have changed where and how you travelled? Anyway "keep on rocking!"

[@BackpackerBen]

smooth and easy places no doubt

[@davidfuller7792]

I love your videos and I hope to travel the world some day

[@mkmwonderempire5377]

Greetings from the birth place of tink Cool, Manipur🇮🇳.❤️you Ben.

[@goxsha791]

You are very lucky, traveling while you are young is probably great. Traveling when old (TWO) is really much more exhausting, especially these days when your flight just leaving can be a crap shoot. When I was young, a long long time ago, I found the hottest women in England. Great video once again.

[@dee74raz]

I always found the Mediterranean girls good looking

[@aronjohns4662]

Awesome Ben 👏 enjoyed that! I’d love for you to come America! That would be an awesome series

[@BackpackerBen]

next year defo

[@LetNewAdventuresBegin]

We love how you share real travel…not just the good stuff

[@rorypineapple6353]

Interesting👍! I’m not an experienced traveller yet but it was always my dream to travel the world and create videos of my travel stories on my KZbin channel of my journey😁 plus I am also going to “advised against travel” countries soon🤭🍍

[@dee74raz]

A potential Drew Binsky? 😁

[@rorypineapple6353]

@@dee74raz Maybe👀🤭🍍

[@BackpackerBen]

Go for it!

[@MustafaAli-lb8dq]

Hottest women? Ben looked at Kat and she looked so happy 😊

[@yourfather32]

Can’t overcome the huge similarty between cat and my ex wife. They both look very, very alike. And yes she was portuguese as well🤟🏻

[@johnafrica7979]

Wow a travel tour company 🤩 awesome idea Ben! That would be a success I’m sure

[@BackpackerBen]

HOPEFULLY MATE

[@Yeosprings]

Wouldn't say 30 is old for traveling. Hell Bald is late 40's and hiking for miles to reach army bases. 😁 Kat even gives me Alina vibes thinking about it. 😄

[@BackpackerBen]

this is true haha

[@alextinlin4347]

Hi Ben, you’ve probably been asked this before loads of times, but what camera do you use for your vlogging? Love your channel by the way!

[@groundbeef662]

Trips with BPBen sounds great, tell us more

[@Ahd-z3c]

All the best for you you doing amazing videos

[@NorthernAnt]

Would you do a travel company in the UK, say if you travel around the UK?

[@JBwhattodo]

Travel company! Exciting! A mate of mine did motorbike/camping tours in India Himalayas in the early 2000s he soon gave up as too many moaning British wankers 🤔 My question would be where did Kat (cat?) learn her English? 🙏

[@BackpackerBen]

Blimey I didn’t think of them 😆 she learnt in Portugal, school I guess

[@Lionking1190]

Yep, we learn at school in Portugal then you need to keep practice and talking to people or you will forget otherwise. ☺️

[@tokingreens]

You need to go to Portugal and Spain mate.

[@Logan_travel]

My Iraqi friend showed me your tiktok video today. Going to be watching tons of your videos right up my street they are. I recently started with my son doing some videos. Hoping to go india soon with him. Do you have any advice on making some good videos in india that could get popular? I just watched all this video. What countrys do you have in mind to take people to next year. I like going unusual places too. I went North Korea in 2019

[@ihab_shamil]

Best backpacker ever! 🔥

[@BackpackerBen]

Legend 😎

[@calamitycarl]

i'm from plymouth too. Big up!

[@BackpackerBen]

haha small world!

[@Paradigm_shift0]

Love from Manipur, India Bro..keep goin with your Bae😅

[@jahras6419]

Didn't realize Curtain from This Country was doing travel shows now! Sweeeeet!

[@BackpackerBen]

huh?

[@moshai15]

Yay! Philippines made it to your list. :D

[@TheDudeoflifee]

I Wonder Why Everyone had a bad time in Brunei 🇧🇳 Many travel KZbinrs like drew Binsky said it was either boring or horrible even though it’s a tropical place

[@BackpackerBen]

soooooo boring!

[@earthtrotterjones7835]

New to your channel and watching in random order but maybe this has been asked a 1000 times you and Cat are just friends or date 🧐 if that’s private no worries love your videos just trying to figure it all out lol

[@macciow8680]

10.32 mate the girl is mad at those remarks, she's interested in you

[@lonesonyengkokpam563]

I love when he say India have best food in the world ❤️

[@BackpackerBen]

oh yes ;) just makes me sick haha

[@lonesonyengkokpam563]

Lol 🤣

[@sanjaykori51]

Love from india 🇮🇳 buddy... I also started my KZbin travel Channel as passengerkori... Recently... 🙏

[@leetheDorsetSpur]

good stuff Ben and great to see you have a plan. But mate 30 is a baby. The time flies and soon your a middle aged old fart so make the most of everyday all you ever have in the end is memories keep making them cos we also enjoy seeing them being made.

[@BackpackerBen]

ahhaha very true mate, I will keep it up

[@vwitty5189]

Be Cool Be Casual but with Maximum Alertness is the main Formula but if you don't Follow this important Rules during Global Travel then question mark Scenes might happen to you but you knew how to Deal with the Human Psychology with such a Accuracy ways.

[@dee74raz]

Are you the Dalai Lama? 🧐

[@mandeeqahmed9225]

I love your content awesome personality and good looks. Coolest English boy on utube I was following when you were in Africa ❤️👍

[@BackpackerBen]

thanks mate!

[@sebborg7460]

MELBOURNE REPRESENT!!!

[@goingmouch3753]

Ben mate….love to see ya go back to NE India, it looks the nuts ..plus the way you present is funny as fk

[@BackpackerBen]

who knows ;) maybe

[@stevenmorley1639]

Butter my Arse ! 😊, love it.

[@johnafrica7979]

Hey Ben please share your most desired country to visit in Africa

[@BackpackerBen]

KENYA

[@tammymorrison7709]

💖💖💖💖

[@BackpackerBen]

😎

[@retiredpg5133]

Was that a twinkle in Kat's eyes when you mentioned having kids?

[@BackpackerBen]

ohhhhh god

[@raybanner2736]

If Baghdad were so safe there would not be checkpoints every block.

[@BackpackerBen]

that's why it was safe

[@aronjohns4662]

looked safe to me!

[@raybanner2736]

@@BackpackerBen Why did you not interview the families living in the dump?

[@VirgilZandig]

I went to Kurdistan for a week. Outside of Japan, I don't think I've ever felt safer while in a foreign country and walking around at night. In Erbil, shopkeepers leave their merchandise out at night and just cover it with a tarp.

[@raybanner2736]

@@BackpackerBen So the officers at the checkpoints we're just looking for things like CBD gummies and other minor contraband?

[@sunny56dx]

Still following you since Pakistan series.

[@BackpackerBen]

Thanks bro

[@goingnowhere4487]

Executive P.A not receptionist. Payed the same as a receptionist but with a fancy title

[@just_one_opinion]

KATT smiled at kids....HEHEHEHE SUPER!

[@SpursBen7]

Now u tell me u slowing down when u hit 30 nice 1 im nearly 40 😂😂 I booked Iraq Lebanon (hoping to sneak into Syria) Bangladesh and Australia because of your vids. Egypt sad u had a bad experience Aswan was beautiful. Cairo I must have got very lucky met a taxi driver honest as they come. Thanks to your vids they give me ideas ive been to Ecuador, Egypt, Vietnam and Laos this year big thank you. Keep up the good work 👍👍👍 I watch your vids whenever travel

[@BackpackerBen]

35 ;) I will add 5 years

[@SpursBen7]

@@BackpackerBen Good man 😂👊

[@mikatimonen5449]

I did only do 50 countries past 36 years. But then I visited some places many lot of times so many that I felt like home. Like Tallinn, London, Paris, Nice and Copenhagen. Did stopped doing budget travel when I was 40. Now I travel less but do luxury travel instead. I still do like to make breakouts from luxury resorts to see how normal people live. Hotel staff are surprised but appreciate that I do that. Do you plan to turn making luxury travel YT reports when you get older? I guess there is an audience for that. Like me. I would pay extra for premium content so you could afford the hotels that cost 500+ pound/n hotels. I would like not to see you talking to rich guests but staff and locals outside the resorts. If I was a youtubers I could have been doing good content. You could be luxury traveller Ben watching behind the scenes. I guess staff and locals opened up to me as they see I treat them as equals. Not some always rich or noveau riche but from working class that just got a good job through hard work and can afford luxury travel, barely.

[@marcusskidmore7290]

keep it up mate.

[@BackpackerBen]

Thanks, will do!

[@crispo5080]

Flying the Devon flag!

[@BackpackerBen]

😎

[@eprohoda]

Bakpacker,cool channel,

[@teddyissak2720]

How can you afford going to all of those places ? Your YT channel doesn't generate that much.

[@BackpackerBen]

don't be nosey

[@teddyissak2720]

@@BackpackerBen It's just an honest Question

[@KC-in9px]

@@teddyissak2720 His real name is Lord Benjamin, the Earl of Blackpool. I thought that everyone knew that?

[@joshnewland1266]

Kat is definitely a keeper Ben!

[@dee74raz]

It’s his girlfriend. She appeared in his Egypt video where he mentioned his girlfriend.

[@joshnewland1266]

@@dee74raz oh I thought she was the Goaly.

[@raidensnake9471016]

Do you know why he deleted the Egypt videos? They're nowhere to be found on his channel!

[@UrduTravel]

👍👍

[@ludfx4yyc403]

💡👍

[@CesaresChannel]

When do you plan to come to Belarus? 🇧🇾

[@BackpackerBen]

Probs not mate I’m in Ukraine so it’s tricky

[@dinobay9597]

Your the legend of dangerous travel that i ever see

[@BackpackerBen]

cheers Dino!

[@beerbuff1052]

Ben, is your sidekick Indian?

[@ragatwin]

I traveled Egypt in 1994 .. Cairo… was insane ..as a man sexually assaulted by men .. dead animals .. beaten up children.. black market corruption .. forced to buy alcohol from one place to sell to Egyptians .. list goes on !

[@tudiojepegii7198]

I liked you with the bald and bankrupt, nice personalities, vibes and charism Please make together some new content. Together youre better Than Michel Palin, with this bbc crew. Keep up the good work! , Greeting from TudioJepegii

[@BackpackerBen]

thank you mate

[@nikjpr]

Its not about watching or not watching your videos if someone does not like it. It feels like you are mocking third world countries. 90%(majority) of your comments are negative or full of sarcasm. You already know that these countries are under developed , people don't have even basics of life, why you go there ? Show some respect man !

[@rurysaurus]

very nice mate

[@BackpackerBen]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@sjwilkin]

Anyone fancying setting timestamps for the questions?

[@BackpackerBen]

No

[@amitashetty5956]

Nice Q& A session . You &kat had a fight before shooting this video? Coz you looked serious.Sorry to hear that you fell in love and out of love with an Indian girl in 6 weeks and i guess she made you eat so much vegetarian Indian food ( Rajasthan is more popular for vegetarian food) that you thought it was love no dear it was just good Indian food 😉 Ii know as I am from india . All the best with everything you do & hope you find love when you r not looking for it ❤

[@dee74raz]

Don’t worry he’s got a girlfriend already. She’s in his video 😁

[@BackpackerBen]

Was never in love with the Indian girl 😆

[@amitashetty5956]

@@BackpackerBen oh my bad, anyways kat & you make a cute couple.

[@franklin7793]

hello ben, may i ask will u consider to visit china oneday?

[@moazzamg1279]

I miss you please everyday video missing you 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@jamtlandhomesteaders2710]

Good Luck in the future Ben!, Your girlfriend Kat , is really sweet, she is a 10+!

[@BackpackerBen]

Thanks bro 😎

[@danwilson8991]

Do you ask most people you video if you can video?

[@dee74raz]

Yes 😁

[@JB50713]

Doesn't pick Portugal for the hottest women.....How was the couch Ben!? Lol

[@BackpackerBen]

😂