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Doing Home exchange

We have never done it personally because you have to own an apartment or a house but we know several travellers who have tested the concept (the best known site for this is HomeExchange). It is a very good way when you are a homeowner to discover a new place at a lower cost with all the comfort of a house.

Work in echange of accomodation

For example, during our world tour we translated a website for a Lodge in the Ecuadorian Amazon in exchange for a week's accommodation (as this lodge was clearly not in our budget range at the time, it was a win-win situation). So even if this were done spontaneously, there are also many websites that could help you find these kinds of arrangements:

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  Wwoofing: A site that allows you to find job offers on farms in exchange for housing and food.
  
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  Helpx: A more generalist (and unfortunately a little old-fashioned) site of classified ads for unpaid work offers in exchange for housing and food.
  
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  Worldpackers: Same concept as Helpx with a more modern site and a very large community.
  

our lodge in Ecuador