(Review) Hanoi a peaceful ancient bazaar city

Taking two days discovering the cuisine, culture, and people in Hanoi was the excellent travel experience. Hanoi is not as busy as Saigon, but if you like to explore the cultural city with impressive history and lots of delicious, this is the city you should not miss.

Decoding Japan by questions

Which time to travel to Japand; why is everything in Japan so adorable, etc. Those are some questions that travelers often wonder about this beautiful country.

Thailand Flower garlands and coloured lanterns Festival 2014

Coming to Thailand in November this year, you will have the opportunity to admire one of the world's most beautiful scenes voted by Lonely Planet; when the sky and water will be lit by thousands of coloured lanterns at Loy Krathong Festival.

Dong Xuan Market, a busy trade center in Hanoi, Vietnam

Known as a big and crowded trade center in Hanoi, Viet nam, Dong Xuan Market is an attractive attractions for many travelers all over the world. The market has lots of diversified goods with cheap price for each item.

10 places to travel in November

November with the cool weather is the ideal time for traveling. Here are 10 places that you should visit in this month.

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Monday, November 11, 2013

10 stuffs that you might forget to bring along with your trip

(Gotravelings.com) These small stuffs are usually be forgotten, and without it, you might get in troubles.

1. Bathroom stuffs.
Toothbrushes are always prepared in almost all hotels. Photo: Flickr.

Try to list all bathroom stuffs such as: toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving creams, mothwash, etc. If you don't see them in hotel room, you should ask the receptionist. Or in the long flight, guests are also provided a package of toothbrush and toothpaste. If you don't have mouthwash, you can use carbonated drinks or alcohol drinks instead.


2. Glasses and eye supported stuffs.

Forgetting glasses or eye supported stuffs are often happened to travelers. However, they are not easy to be replaced new like toothbrushes or toothpastes, and you might get into trouble when lack of them.

If coming to Asia, in the big cities like Beijing, it is not too difficult to find new suitable glasses. You can also book before you come, and request for urgent buy, but you might have to pay higher price. To avoid this issue, you'd better wear glasses, or eye contacted lens before you go.





3. Charging stuffs.

Nowadays, on your list of traveling stuff always have charging stuffs for your mobile-phone, computer, digital camera, etc. Before you are panic when finding that you forget to bring, you can borrow your traveling partners (if going with you).

The best solution is to borrow from the hotel reception. This issue is not too difficult to solve because electric shops are now everywhere, even in the airport also have free charging place. If you are type of person who always forget charging stuffs in almost all of your trips, you have to prepare a small bags for all the battery charges, and put it into the baggage as soon as possible.

4. The adapters.
Adapter is a necessary stuff when traveling. Photo: Flickr.

The professional international travelers always bring the adapter as a necessary stuff for almost all their trips. However, many people are easy to forget this small but important stuff before they packing.

It will be very hard for you when lack of it. Luckily, you can easily buy the adapters at the airport, or borrow from the hotel. If not, you can also use your flash driver to plug into the television to charge your phone battery. Do not forget to turn on the TV when charging :D.

5. Umbrella or rain coat.

To save your money not to buy a new cheap raincoat or umbrella, you can ask people around you to lend you a big plastic bag. Then make a hole at the bottom of the plastic bag and put it through your head. The smaller plastic bag can also be used as a plastic hat to cover you from the rain. It is not a really fashionable raincoat, but at least it is very useful in the light rainy day.

6. Cosmetics, cleansing tone, and perfume.

For lots of women, without cosmetics on their face is "disaster". After a long flight, you might realized that you have already forgotten your make-up stuffs at home, and it is very difficult to find the same ones.

You can try the new products at the cosmetics stores, ask the sellers to use the trial products, and do not forget to thank them before getting out of the shop. However, you have to take notice about the ingredients of the products if you are easy to get allergies. If you forget the cleansing tone, you can use milk soap to clean with fragrance water or olive oil to remove the cosmetics out of your face. If you don't have perfume, you can easily ask to try perfume at the fragrance shops. They always have the small bottle to give customer to try their products.

7. Cash

Todays, forgetting cash issue is not too difficult to solve when ATM machines are everywhere. If you travel abroad, ATM is always a best way to withdraw cash. However, do not abuse it too much because you will be charge extra money for withdrawing. Therefore, you'd better prepare before.

8. Prescription drugs / medicines.


If you travel while you have to sickness have to treat daily by doctor prescription, and you forget it at home, what should you do? You have to quickly contact to your doctor to get the prescription again, then go to the trusted pharmacy to buy. In another way, if you have travel insurance, you can call them for help if cannot contact to your doctor.

Bring necessary medicine when traveling. Source: Internet

9. Underwear.

Seemed to be the necessary stuff, underwear is often forgotten at home; and this is the no-replaced stuff. Therefore, you can go to fashion shops or underwear stores to buy new ones. You don't have to buy the expensive one, but washing the new underwear by soap and dry it into your hotel room. If you have dryer, you can use it to fasten the time.


Going to the underwear shops is the fastest way for you when forgetting them at home. Photo: ppunlimited.

10. Headphone

You only realize to forget this necessary thing when you want to listen to music, or watching movie on the plane. If you are on this situation, don't forget to ask the attendant to lend you a free headphone. Many airline don't provide free headphone when being offered, but they might sell it at the cheap price.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Money and Travel

What credit cards do I need to take with me?
 
Take your major credit cards, such as, Visa, Master Card and American Express. Make sure they are really credit cards and not just debit cards with a credit card company’s logo on them. Many locations require a credit card and will not accept a debit card, so they may have limited use on your travel.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

7 Tips for Traveling Lightly

Find out how to keep your luggage manageable while you’re on the move

Monday, March 7, 2011

Funny: 20 Annoying Things to do with Travel

 
1. The sound your wheely suitcase makes when it goes over bumpy surfaces. Why is it there always has to be corrugated steel surfaces in train stations? And the streets abroad are always cobbled…people can hear you’re a tourist before they’ve seen you.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Tips treat abdominal pain while traveling

To treat familiar gastrointestinal disorders such as bloating or diarrhea, then travelers have to "arms" in his notebook some travel tips.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Small tips for travelling to Thailand

Thailand is one of the beautiful countries in SE Asia. Here, there are many wonderful places that you should not miss. Thailand is also the place for shopping and eating. However, you have to pay attention to some things when taking consideration to go to Thailand.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Handbook travelling - Part 1: Prepare journey into the wilderness


You are the peoples who are preparing for an expedition, exploring the unfamiliar frontier.
You are preparing for a trip to an ecological zone that you know so indefinite.
You are about to plunge into the deep forest mountains because the mission was entrusted.
Have you fed up with life's hustle and bustle of the city, tired of mechanical civilization's amenities ... you want to find the peace between the natural?
Do you want to become a modern Robinson Crusoe?
Or for a reason, you are going to live a long time in areas with wildlife, without people.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

SAVING MONEY FOR TRAVELING - HOW ?!

Do you indulge in traveling and investigating various cultures around the world? If the answer is yes, we will provide you some tips which help you to save money for your indulgence.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Backpacking Travel Tips

Backpacking is not so strange for everybody, especially the young. If you want to have a full week resting, why don't you try this type of travel ?

You can go with the other person or in group. However, the important thing is not about how many people joining but the common interest of traveling and discovering.


4 "NO"

To make your traveling a real backpacking, it has to be guaranteed at least 2things "NO TOUR" and "NO GUIDER". To be more professional, we can add "N

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Australia - When to travel ?

Weather

Australia’s size means there’s a lot of climatic variation, but without severe extremes. The southern third of the country has cold (though generally not freezing) winters (June to August). Tasmania and the alpine country in Victoria and NSW get particularly chilly. Summers (December to February) are pleasant and warm, sometimes quite hot. Spring (September to November) and autumn (March to May) are transition months, much the same as in Europe and North America.

 
As you head north, the climate changes dramatically. Seasonal variations become fewer until, in the far north, around Darwin and Cairns, you’re in the monsoon belt with just two seasons: hot and wet, and hot and dry. The Dry lasts roughly from April to September, and the Wet from October to March; the build-up to the Wet (from early October) is when the humidity is at its highest and when the locals confess to being at their most irritable. The centre of the country is arid – hot and dry during the day, but often bitterly cold at night.

When to go

Truth be told, any time is a good time to be somewhere in Australia. When it’s cold down south, it’s magnificent in the north and the Centre; when it’s too hot and sweaty up north, the southern states are at their natural finest. There are also the numerous festivals and other public spectacles that are on show every month, from the summertime food-and-wine banquets and large-scale concerts, through mid-year arts celebrations, to end-of-year footy finals, horse races and yachting contests.
 

The seasons in Australia are the antithesis of those in Europe and North America. Summer is December to February; the weather and longer daylight hours are tailor-made for swimming and other outdoor activities across much of the country. Summer is also school holiday period and consequently high season for most places. Unless you want to compete with hordes of grimly determined local holiday-makers in ‘Are we there yet?’ mode for road space, places on tours, seats on transport, hotel rooms, camp sites, restaurant tables and the best vantage points at major attractions, you should try to avoid Australia’s prime destinations during the peak of school (January) and public holidays. During these times, you’re also likely to encounter spontaneous rises in the price of everything from accommodation to petrol.



Winter is June to August, when temperatures drop with the latitude. This is officially designated the tourism low season for most of the country, but not the Northern Territory, Queensland and top of Western Australia. Winter in this northern stretch offers respite from the humidity of the wet season (which runs roughly from October to March, with the heaviest rain falling from January onwards; the Dry lasts from April to September) and the temperatures are highly agreeable. It’s also when roads and tracks are most accessible up north. Autumn (March to May) and spring (September to November) both enjoy a lack of climatic extremes everywhere.

DON’T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT…


A willingness to use 'mate', 'no worries' and 'she’ll be right' liberally

An appetite for seafood, steak, beer (other than Fosters), barbecues and fresh fruit

A travel insurance policy covering skydiving, bungee jumping, diving, skiing, abseiling and white water rafting

Warm clothes because winter does actually occur in Australia…well, down south anyway

Extra-strength insect repellent to fend off merciless flies and mosquitoes

Sunscreen, sunglasses and a hat to deflect fierce UV rays

A towel and bathers/togs/swimmers/swimming costume/cossie/trunks/Speedos/budgie smugglers…for the beach

Good maps for outback meanders and binoculars for the wildlife while you’re there