Halal Holiday Hackers #1 Muslim Travel Girl
We are now nearing the middle of a chilly October. While the Autumn rays occasionally crack the clouds, the brown leaves, howling winds and six o’clock sunsets remind us that summer is a distant memory and the freezing misery of British winter is on our doorstep. Joy.
In a somewhat futile effort to brighten these increasingly dark days, we’ve decided to launch a series on Muslim travel bloggers. As these lucky people manage to live their lives on the move, we’ve decided to name this blog-based endeavour Halal Holiday Hackers. Expand. Well, because they’ve cracked the code that allows them to spend their days jet-setting from one country to the next. We’re still trying to decipher it, unfortunately.
Trust us, this series isn’t designed to make you insanely jealous. Instead, we want to show you how there are countless halal friendly destinations, hotels, and packages for the ummah. Well, it might make you a bit jealous, but it should also give you a lot of inspo for your next trip.
We’re kicking the series off with Muslim Travel Girl, an A-lister of the blogging scene and someone who can actually offer you some serious hacks. As in, the save-you-lots-of-money kind. Leeeet’s go.
Muslim Travel Girl was started by a UK-based frequent flyer called Elena. When you picture a travel blogger, you tend to envision a person rich enough to never worry about money, despite the fact they seem to be on holiday and not at work 100% of the time. You know, the kind who says stuff like ‘quit your job and follow your dreams!!’ or other platitudes that would leave most people bankrupt within a month. But not Elena. She talks about money all the time. Or rather, she gives you tips on saving it.
Muslim Travel Girl is full of tips and hacks that will help you pinch pennies on your hols while still vacationing like a king/queen. For example, there’s a post on the cheapest flights to Oman this Autumn; there’s another about saving on a continental breakfast at a swanky hotel; there are even a few where she sticks to the travel blogging traditions, like reviewing hotels in Doha or ranking daytrips from London.
And as you can see dotted throughout this post, she’s got a pretty solid Instagram profile, too.
The MTG website says it helps ‘Muslim millennials travel in style without breaking the bank’. If you’re a Muslim millennial who likes going on holiday and not returning to find yourself several hundred quid into your overdraft, then you better head to MTG now.
Apologies in advance if this post has given you a serious case of FOMO. But it’s a small price to pay for all the hacks and inspiration that this series will give you for saving money, trying new things in faraway places, and keeping it halal while on holiday.
Two years ago, Ammar Asfour launched a project called The Eye in Islam. It would see him visit Muslims in six different countries over the month of Ramadan.
The Wandering Musulman is the name of a blogger exploring Islam in different parts of the world, to see how it relates to culture, to food and to people.
This week on Halal Holiday Hackers, we’re looking at Muslim Travelers, a couple whose creative travel tips really betray their not-exactly-exciting name.
