• December 14, 2011 /  Travel Guide

    The Slow Travel

    After the popularity of slow food which was a trend against fast food in Italy in 1980, many people response to this slow lifestyle, agriculture and travelling which is called “slow travel” – travelling slowly that will bring you the real happiness in your holiday.

    Green Backpacker

    : Slow Travel starts from packing your luggage. The keyword is stop bringing trash or pollution to community. Use a fabric bag for shopping, bring a personal bottle for decreasing plastic bottle consumption. When staying at the hotel, use electricity cleverly for example, don’t change a towel every day.

    Open your heart

    : When your luggage is ready, you heart must ready too. For experience new things on the way, you should take off your headphone, turn off your mobile, stopping online, don’t chat on blackberry, talk to a stranger next to you and you will know how many things in this world to learn.

    Decrease your speed

    : Walking and riding bicycle will make you see those little things better. Using public transportation also make you learn about simple life and fun.

    Taste local food

    : To complete your slow travel, try slow food such as local food, seasonal food, organic fruits and vegetables. They don’t have to transport, reduce global warming, spread income and they all fresh and delicious food.

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  • October 5, 2011 /  Travel Guide

    Travel for the first time

    I actually can’t remember where I travelled for the first time in my life, but the first trip I remember is the one with my family to America. I was 7 and my parents took me and my sister to Disneyland. We really enjoyed it. It was like a dream come true. Cartoon characters were real in front of you. It was also the first time we saw real snow. Skiing, staying in the fancy hotel, etc, everything was perfect. Since then my family traveled a lot. That made me love travelling. I love travelling by myself with my family or friends. I don’t like to travel with a travel agency with a guide took tourists around in a rush. You can’t really enjoy anything with that kind of travelling. My first own trip was when I travelled to France. There were many travelers in the line waiting to go up to Eiffel Tower. So I decided to walk up stair to go to the top of the tower. It was so far and narrow. I couldn’t stop for long. There were people walking up and down all the time. I was very exhausted, but when I reached the top it was very impressive. The view was wonderful. It was worth the exhausting travelling.

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  • September 22, 2011 /  Travel Guide

    Be a guide : Travel and get money!

    Many people dream of being a guide. Travel around the world and get money, who doesn’t want that? However it’s not easy to be a guide. It requires many qualifications to be a professional one. First you must have knowledge in many fields, history, geography, etc. Not only that you have to understand them well, but you also have to be able to communicate in an entertaining way, easy to understand. Moreover to travel to many countries, a guide must speak foreign languages. The more languages the guide can speak, the more advantages he has. English is not enough anymore. The most important thing is service mind. Customers pay and want the best from you, the best transportation, the best food, until the best weather which no one can control. Travel a thousand miles away from home can make someone more stressed than normal. A guide has to handle many kind of customers at one time with smile. It’s a stressful job. If you don’t have any patience, you’re not right for this job. You have to be good at management. Not only customers that you have to deal with, you also have to deal with the driver, the place you travel, the restaurant, the hotel, etc. So service mind is the necessary qualification of being a guide. If you have all qualifications, you can be a guide. You can travel around the world and get money, a job that millions of people dream of.

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  • September 22, 2011 /  Travel Guide

    Travel with the right guide book

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    There are many guide books available in the bookstores. So it’s maybe hard for you to decide which guide book you should buy Everyone wants the one that worth the price and offer content that they want to know when they travel. So the first thing to realize when you’ll buy a guide book is what you want to know. If you like to see how those places that you want to travel look like, don’t want so much detail, you should buy a guide book with all pages in colors. You’ll get a rough idea about places to travel, things to do, foods to eat and can find more information later. If you don’t care about pictures, colors and attractiveness of the guide book, you’re interested only in useful information, you should buy a guide book which contains information not only about traveling but also other useful tips when you travel there, such as banking, emergency telephone number, how to negotiate when shopping, etc. Buy a guide book of a city instead of a country is also efficient, if you travel to only one city. It’ll give more detail about that city and this city guide will cost less than the whole country one.

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  • September 20, 2011 /  Travel Guide

    Travel alone : Be your own guide

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    Travelling is easier these days. Internet can help you in every ways. Places to visit, Things to do, Foods to eat and drink, everything that you used to need a guide from travel agency or a guide book is not necessary anymore. You can make you own guide book by one click, google it. Information is available in tons of websites and with more than one dimension. You can get real opinions from many travelers who traveled there or ones who live there. Websites like tripadvisor has millions travelers around the world share their reviews about stuffs everyday. So you can create you own guide book by listing you own favorite places and activities. You can travel to any countries without buying a package from a travel agency which always includes things that you don’t want to do. No need to buy a guide book which contains unnecessary content. Moreover it costs much less. But be your own guide comes with some disadvantages. It takes a lot of time. Maybe you can’t travel to some places because it costs too high if you travel alone, not with a bunch of people. Anyway It depends on your style. No matter how you travel, the most important thing is to enjoy it. Bring good memories home.

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