Everyone knows that whilst backpacking, the chances are that you are going to lose a camera, get bitten by a monkey and need a costly vaccination, or worse, lose your whole rucksack, passport and all. However awkward this can seem at the time, if you’ve fixed good travel insurance before you departed home turf, then at the very least you can be sure that you should get some recompense. Believe us, taking legal action against a monkey for grievous bodily harm will not work!

Here at South East Asia Backpacker, we have sifted through all the flyers, pamphlets and websites to find you the perfect travel buddy; World Nomads Travel Insurance for backpackers. From white water rafting on the Mekong river in Laos, to cliff climbing Rallay in southern Thailand, rest assured that you will be protected when you buy a policy from World Nomads Travel Insurance.

The moment you hop into your tube and become aware that your dry bag and all it contains has floated off down the river, you can claim online, irrespective of the time. With 24 hour claims, all you want is a Net café and your problems will be unravelled. And, if you get besotted with the backpacker lifestyle, just give World Nomads a call and your amazing flexible policy can be lengthened without effort.

We all know hikers love a freebie. If you travel with World Nomads, then they provide all of their customers with free iPod language guides – especially convenient when you have to know how to say “one enormous lager please”, or “waiter, there’s a cockroach in my som tam” in every country and language of Southeast Asia

One last thing! World Nomads will also send you handy SMS security updates to keep you up to date on all things travel safety.

Laura Davies is at present a student at Sheffield University, doing a summer internship with ‘South East Asia Backpacker Magazine‘ a print and online resource for anybody travelling the region on a tight budget. Helping travellers like herself to enjoy back packing around the Orient and to find the most suitable budget-friendly travel insurance with which to protect themselves.