Backpacker vs Bushwalker - What's the difference?
backpacker | bushwalker |
A traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially , such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services.
(Australia, New Zealand) A hiker or backpacker.
* 1997 , Peter Prineas, Henry Gold, Wild Places: Wilderness in Eastern New South Wales ,
* 2007 , Claire Smith, Heather Burke, Digging It Up Down Under: A Practical Guide to Doing Archaeology in Australia ,
* 2008 , Chris Healy, Forgetting Aborigines ,
As nouns the difference between backpacker and bushwalker
is that backpacker is a traveler whose luggage consists of a backpack; especially, such a traveler who uses hostels, public transport, and other inexpensive services while bushwalker is a hiker or backpacker.backpacker
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(en noun)bushwalker
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(en noun)page 66,
- In the following years the Kanangra country became the object of a mild form of cult worship as bushwalkers discovered its many delights.
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- There are numerous stories of bushwalkers spending several hours up a tree waiting for a wild pig to go away.
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- The anthropologist Lisa Palmer has written about an analagous but different situation in her study of non-indigenous bushwalkers' in Kakadu. She writes very eloquently about the conflicts that have emerged in Kakadu where the Bininj/Mungguy have attempted to limit ' bushwalker access to the stone country in particular.
