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Backpacker’s Blueprint | Backpacking, Travel & Architecture Guides

This website is for those who want more depth to their travel. We are architecture, history and culture with a backpack and a passion. You will find travel guides, stories, tips (and even guides ((coming soon)) for explorers who want more depth from their life. I am Architect Jack Thompson, a qualified architect from the UK, this is Backpacker's Blueprint where we go deeper. 

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Backpacking in India: Culture, Architecture and History

Backpacker's Blueprint YouTube Channel
Vijayanagara: Building the Lost Empire of Hampi (Part 1)
An Architect Explores India’s Most Impenetrable Fort: Chitradurga 🇮🇳
12th-Century Hoysala Engineering That Baffles Modern Science. Discovering Belur & Halebidu Temples
Exploring Mysore: An Architects Time in the heart of Karnataka (Mysuru)
I went to Madurai to See Meenakshi Amman Temple... And It Was A Disaster
Hunting Chola Architecture: From the Giant Temple to the Illusion
I Flew 10,000km to See an Empty Room in Chidambaram
Why India’s "Perfect City" Failed
Pondicherry; Why is France in India?

Travel Guides

Solo backpacking through India; exploring its culture and architecture as a living archive of empires, beliefs, revolutions, and daily life.

 

From ancient stepwells and Mughal tombs to colonial relics and concrete temples, each place reveals something deeper about the people who built, shaped, and survived here.

 

At Backpacker’s Blueprint, we are on a mission to bring thoughtful, accessible architectural storytelling to curious backpackers, travellers and explorers around the world. Why? To help travellers understand where they are through the rich layering of history that we can find in its architecture. Follow along and subscribe to discover places like India, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Peru and many many more through their layers of complex structure.

TRAVEL GUIDE INDIA (SOUTH)

South India

TRAVEL GUIDE SRI LANKA

Sri Lanka

TRAVEL GUIDE INDIA (NORTH)

India

TRAVEL GUIDE PANAMA

Panama

TRAVEL GUIDE HONDURAS

Honduras

TRAVEL GUIDE BELIZE

Belize

TRAVEL GUIDE COSTA RICA

Costa Rica

TRAVEL GUIDE EL SALVADOR

El Salvador

TRAVEL GUIDE NICARAGUA

Nicaragua

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North America

Backpacking North America Map
Backpacking South America Map

South America

Europe

Backpacking Europe Map
Backpacking Africa Map

Africa

Asia

Backpacking Asia Map
Oceania

Oceania

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