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Affordable Travel

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Affordable travel plan with smart shopping techniques and tips is the best thing do when planning a vacation, since you may save a lot of money and will enjoy from your choices of travel vacation. First you will have to decide whether you want to travel independently or with a tour group and a bundled package.

As an Independent type of travel, you will not be tied up in someone’s itinerary. Tour groups may seem very expensive, but the benefit of group tour is by ensuring you a reputable travel that will take you to all the hot spots, with experienced guides to fill in on cultural and historical points you might miss as an independent tourist. In bundled packages, this type of travel plan offer good deals, with airfare, accomodations and car rentals for a given price.

Once you have decided which travel package or type you want. Turn your attention to a day to day concerns. Getting there and back always have a price tag. Here are some affordable travel tips you may consider:

  1. Identify your day to day expenses, so it might affect your budget if you don’t take your expenses into account. Consider all your comfort level requirements. You may shop in a local marketplace for lunches you can pack. Remember restaurant bills can add fast and downed your budget. You may buy a coffee maker and brew your own coffee while planning your next destination.
  2. Always pack light. You can pack everything you need in a month’s stay. The advantages of travelling with a suitcase is when you land in an airport of your destination yiou may go directly to the customs and declare it with no hassles.
  3. Buy a guidebook that may help you. Generally, guidebooks are full of travel tips that may add to your affordable travel program. This guidebook may hint you in on travel passes, discount cards and car rentals. If visiting a museum there are also guidebooks which outlines major museums with full of information that will enhance your travel.
  4. Cheap accommodation. If you are an Indepandent traveler consider in looking a convents as your accommodation. You will find lovelly, safe accommodations at about half the cost of hotels.

There are many ways to save a lot of money, making that dream vacation an affordable travel proposition. It just takes a little of your time. Courtesy of DC Marine.

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Welcome to Maldives Islands!

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

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The Maldives or Maldive Islands otherwise officially known as ” the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a group of atolls stretching south of India’s Lakshadweep islands between Minicoy Island and the Chagos Archipelago, and about seven hundred kilometres (435 mi) south-west of Sri Lanka in the Laccadive Sea of Indian Ocean. The twenty-six atolls of Maldives encompass a territory featuring 1,192 islets, of which two hundred and fifty islands are inhabited.” This is what the wikipedia tells us in brief.

Maldive’s  inhabitants were Buddhist, who probably originated since Ashoka’s period in the 3rd century BC and possibly Hindu before that.In 1153,  Islam was also introduced. The Maldives was under the rule and influence of the Portuguese (1558) and the Dutch (1654) seaborne empires. In 1887 the island  became a British protectorate. A century after, in 1965, the Maldives obtained independence from Britain  and finally  in 1968 the Sultanate became a Republic.

The Maldives boasts about its many superlative qualities. In terms of population and area, the Maldives is the smallest Asian country; similarly it is the smallest predominantly Muslim nation in the world. With two meters from sea level, it is also the country with the lowest highest point in the world.

Because of its location, the development of tourism contributed to the growth of the country’s economy. the isalnd was rarely visited by any group of foreigners, but the first tourist resorts were opened in 1972 with Bandos island resort and Kurumba Village. Nowadays, tourism in Maldives is the country’s biggest foreign exchange earner. It has contributed to twenty percent of the nation’s GDP. As of 2006 update, there are 35 tourist resorts in operation and a record of 467,154 tourist arrivals.

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