Remember, you should always do research for your trip before leaving. This will make things a lot easier than you can prepare what you want.
Assemble everything you need. This includes your passport, visas, driving licenses, health certificates and other travel documents. Verify what you need, what they cost, how to obtain and remember to make copies if necessary.
More information on precautions to avoid health and security risks for students. This is particularly important if you travel alone or you are a traveling woman.
Pack well. If you’re planning a backpack in all continents, take only what you need, pack lighter and smarter travel more easily.
Choose where to go. The most popular destinations are London, Rome, Paris, Mexico and the United States. If you want something different, you can choose more exotic places like Russia.
Learn how you are getting, whether by plane, train or bus. Most major travel companies offering cheap flights for students, so be sure to check.
Cheap tickets are not the only way to save on your trip. You can find affordable places to stay, too.
Last but not least, learn more about how to stay in contact with your family abroad. Try to find emergency contacts abroad, and select a communication option for you.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Do's and Don’ts of Traveling
What to do:
1. Get a map of the place, talk to people who live there or have been there and search the Internet and reading travel books, magazines and newspapers and all you have to do to acquire sufficient knowledge about the place
2. Make a clear idea of where you stay. To answer this question, you must do two things to know. Information on the location of places to see the site and secondly, The facilities available in the vicinity, such as markets, medical and transportation. This will help identify where you want to choose a hotel.
3. The choice of the hotel, once again do some research on their services, reputation and cost. Then also consider the cost of transport to travel to nearby attractions.
Don’ts:
1. Do not forget to do the necessary research.
2. Do not rush the choice of routes: for example, most offer rates out of season or after hours and even if you buy return tickets also. Do not miss the discount offers.
3. Do not forget that the more travel, the higher will.
4. The solution of major airlines: Most major airlines have very high rates, so do not settle for them. Small businesses often offer better prices with little or no commitment in terms of quality of service.
1. Get a map of the place, talk to people who live there or have been there and search the Internet and reading travel books, magazines and newspapers and all you have to do to acquire sufficient knowledge about the place
2. Make a clear idea of where you stay. To answer this question, you must do two things to know. Information on the location of places to see the site and secondly, The facilities available in the vicinity, such as markets, medical and transportation. This will help identify where you want to choose a hotel.
3. The choice of the hotel, once again do some research on their services, reputation and cost. Then also consider the cost of transport to travel to nearby attractions.
Don’ts:
1. Do not forget to do the necessary research.
2. Do not rush the choice of routes: for example, most offer rates out of season or after hours and even if you buy return tickets also. Do not miss the discount offers.
3. Do not forget that the more travel, the higher will.
4. The solution of major airlines: Most major airlines have very high rates, so do not settle for them. Small businesses often offer better prices with little or no commitment in terms of quality of service.
10 Best Travel Tips
SECRETS OF TRAVEL
- Smile and be open and honest with everyone, they will be your next solution.
- Come from a good family, this will make number one easy.
- Be the first to visit a place.
- Fear is your friend.
- Money is everywhere on the planet, you will have money.
- Change all the time, adapt.
- Common sense
- Do not try to change people, do not feel sorry for people.
- Share your knowledge with everyone that ask, however offer prudently.
- Recognize angry people and walk away fast, no regrets.
- Do what you like and not the guidebook or other people.
- Save the world, people with a desire to stop problems in the world, Starvations, religions, or self appointed saviors of the planet, they are normally self-appointed victims, they will volunteer to be victims in another country, they are searching for problems.
- Alcoholics or drug users.
- People that do not read.
- Lazy.
- People that talk about sex, not the same a people that talk about pretty people.
- People that disobey the laws.
- Shoppers
- Impatient people or people that complain about weather.
- Say Hello, to all other travelers. You never know when you need help.
- Theft. Out of site, out of mind. Do not show people what you have. People steal what they can see. EXAMPLE: Walking around with a camera. Put it in a backpack.
- Always take a taxi, or bus, etc from bus station to hotel.
- Store you passport, travel check information in you e-mail box. Scan
- Carry a Padlock, Place it on a door. Put eyelet screw on door if possible or when needed, use your own lock.
- Do not look rich, dress, jewelry, tourist clothes, expensive backpack.
- Take long pants on all bus rides. Take lots of clothes.
- Take lots of pictures, its all that will remain.
- Let me look at the mattress please.
- Do you have free water?
- Do you have free breakfast?
- Do you have hot water showers
- Do you heat with Electricity? Solar? Gas?
- Is the hot water 24 hours a day?
- Do you have the hasp, so I can put on my own lock?
- Are the showers free?
- Can I bring friend into the hotel, or my room?
- Do you have cable TV? HBO, Cinecanal?
- Do you have a book exchange?
- Do not drink beverages, other than water. $3
- Electric Hot Plate to cook, $2 Day
- Guidebook for rooms. $2 Day
- Water purification drops. $1 Day
- Take overnight bus. $1 Day
- Rent rooms in hotels with free water. $1 Day
- Travel, or share a room with a friend $1 Day
- Wash you own clothes .50
- Eat only 1 sit down meal a day and eat in market for the others.
- Stay for one month in each location and negotiate a price of room for 1/2 normal price.
- Teach English
- Waiter or Waitress
- Pick Fruit
- Cook food at hostel for a month
- Reception of desk.
- Massage Therapist
- Dive master
- Tour guide, or selling tours
- Graphic on computer. Trade for room
- Travel Agency.
- Walking around with camera around neck.
- Cleaning people steal from your hotel room.
- Putting things in the compartment above the seat in the bus.
- Walking from the bus to the hotel with you backpack.
- Whenever you put a backpack of any sorts on the ground next to you.
- From other you trust. If they have traveled a long time...?
- Walking away from the automatic teller machine.
- By Police
- People that do not lock their doors when they go to toilet.
- People that say, "The are very honest here, they would never rob me."
- Getting hit by cars.
- Having sex with the locals.
- Walking home very drunk after midnight.
- Walking through groups of drunk people.
- Tours, with bad guides. That is the job of a guide to protect you.
- Getting involved with religious concerns.
- Getting involved in political causes.
- Complaining to the police.
- Electricity in showers.
- Military coup situations / or demonstrations.
- I know someone who was safe, therefore it is safe.
- I got off the bus, and they offered me a place...
- All the travelers are trustworthy...
- The guidebook is terrible, nothing is right.
- They are a peaceful people....
- It never happened in the past...
- My friend told me...
- Their website said they were the cheapest Spanish school in South America
This one was quite funny. The person was paying 3 times what they needed to pay in Quito, Ecuador. I luckily kept my mouth shut. - They are poor because the rich keep them poor.
- I will give the stuff to the owner of hotel to hold.
- Go to all the hotels that cater to you country, or owned by you country.
- Travel very fast, and only stay in a city two days. Go on all the tours.
- Go to see the tourist sites, and not the people
- Eat Pizza a lot, or Spaghetti. Go to Vegetarian restaurants.
- Drive a car, and never take the bus.
- Never leave the resort.
- Get a guide that speaks your own language.
- Bad haircuts
- People complain about you country, and culture
- The pizza cheese sucks
- People try to convince me all the time to change. Example: Be a vegetarian, or to convince you to not like your country.
- You will find out how lucky you are.
- You have to see all sorts of human bodily functions
- A future husband or wife will want you to live in one location.
- Subscribe to Newsletter on information you want to learn.
- Listen and ask questions but do never try or say a person that has visited a country knows less than a person that has not.
- Read the Encyclopedia on the place. Facts are better than guidebooks.
- Find free WebPages like Geocities where people post honest information.
- Find Logs or Blogs on subject.
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