This work is about investigating the trajectory of self during a backpacking trip. The goal is to identify the paths to an understanding of identity transformations and the identities they identify as backpackers. For this, it was considered as decisions of late modernity. From this, a theoretical path was traced by the Social Representations Theory. For the recognition of modalities as the subject on display during the trip, it is important to make an analysis of the consumption, the anthropology of the body and the culture. Theories allow you to view, to a certain extent, the backpack trip. In order to undertake this research, a number of authors were used, most notably Serge Moscovici, Anthony Giddens, David Le Breton, Daniel Miller and Colin Campbell. This research used the methodology of the qualitative interview in depth, having as an adjunct the methodology of autoethnography. Thus, one can contemplate the theories in the light of the testimony of backpackers who have dissemination channels of their travel experiences in the media. It was verified, therefore, that the backpacking trip has values such as freedom, independence, adventure, self-knowledge, encounter with the otherness, detachment and the possibility of rupture of ingrained representations. However, for all aspects being able to arrive to a conclusion it needs that the backpacker presents a critical and participation in the destination in which it fits. It has been found that the people who identify with this position of subject - backpacker - are willing to live a trip in this direction. Thus, it has been found that a backpacking trip can be a way of making one aspired to the plasticity of identity to the example that is immersed.