Be A Successful Traveler

Traveling can be successful if everything is prepared well. There are some preparations of how to make a traveling successful.

            You will need several things:

1. Passport

2. Visa

3. Airplane Ticket

4. Money

5. The important numbers

6. Guide book

7. Clothes

8. Map

            The tips are:

1. Make a passport in the immigration office. It is one of the most important things to bring when going abroad. It is used as the identity card that is valid in countries around the world. Bring it wherever you go abroad. Don’t leave it in hotel or a place where you stay there.

2. Bring visa if the destinantion is a country that needs an entry license for tourists to come in. Except, for the countries who have an agreement with the tourists’ own coutry to let their people visit freely. It will not need the visa. (Addapted from http://travel.okezone.com)

3. Buy the airplane ticket accord to the schedule that has been planned before. If necessary, buy two tickets for the departure and return. By having two tickets will save you to be able to go home.

4. Change the local money with the currency of countries that will be visited. Because, all countries have their own currencies.

5. Note some important numbers on the phone or a piece of paper and keep them in pocket. If you have friends stay in a coutry that will be visited, it will be very good you keep their numbers. Saving the police number is important too.

6. Reading a guide book that contains whole information such as weather, food, living cost, tradition, etc about the destination country may be useful before visiting the places abroad. It will be better if travelers know the things that should be done and should not be done because countries have different tradition. Also, the culture shock can be avoided by reading a guide book before traveling.

7. Choose suitable clothes with the destination country because several countries have four seasons. So, choose the clothes that would be brought based on the season that is happening there. For example, the suitable clothes in winter are boots, coat, trousers, gloves, socks, sweater, and bobble hat.

8. Get map of the cities that would be visited. Then, bring it wherever you go in the city that is being visited. It will be useful to find way when getting lost.

References:

Okezone. (2012). “Pelesir ke Luar Negeri, Butuh Visa Enggak Ya?”. [Online]. Available: http://travel.okezone.com/read/2012/08/24/407/680368/pelesir-ke-luar-negeri-butuh-visa-enggak-ya    [24 Desember 2013]