Tips When You are Already Travelling

1. Try to remember the land marks while you are travelling. In this way whenever you are lost or you want to go back to that place, you can easily remember it.

2.    Always bring a guide map with you.

3.   Put all your important items like passport, money, camera inside your waist bag.

4.   Make sure that your waist bag should be tight enough so that it cannot be easily grab by anyone.

5.   Place your waist bag always in front of you.

6.  Always put a lock on your bag, back pack or shoulder bag while travelling at night.

7.   Don’t forget to have a contact number and address of the place you are staying just in case you encounter any problem you can call right away.

8.   Bring a copy of your passport and IDs always so you can present anytime when you are asked by the police or anyone in authority.

9.   Always bring your own water and vitamin C with you so that you won’t be dehydrated and easily get sick due to travel stress.  Children chewable vitamin C is best even if you are an adult.

10 .  Easily gets travel or motion sickness, always bring and drink travel sickness medicine an hour before travelling.

11 .  Don’t be ashamed to ask for directions from locals but make sure to ask someone whom you can trust to give you the proper direction.

12.  Be sensitive on the way of dressing, culture and traditions of the locals.

13. Learn some simple phrases of the local language to help you get by while travelling, like buying things, proper greetings, taking taxis and local transportation.

14 .  Know the exact rate of things and fares from one place to another to avoid overpaying.

15. For bargaining of prices when you buy something, always let the locals do it for you.

I’m Lost, HELP!!!

When I was in Hong Kong, one day, friend of my father invited me to visit their house and it’s an hour to be in their place. They had given me the instruction to get a train and they are going to pick me up in the train station.

As I went to the train station and waited for my train to arrive, all the instructions that was written in the station was in Chinese characters. So I was confused and I didn’t have any idea to which direction did I have to take. As soon as the train arrived, I quickly jumped in and watching the direction and destination I found out that it was an opposite place to where I am going.

By then, I decided to step down into the next stop and change another train. At first, I was ashamed to ask to anybody regarding the direction of the place where I was supposed to go. So you can just imagine from Hong Kong to New Territory, I changed train four times. I was embarrassed and ashamed to myself when I shared these to my host who waited for a longer period of time because of that long journey.

So when you travel alone, don’t be ashamed to ask for direction or make sure you have a map with you. That was my big lesson that I learned.

    

A Daring Travel to the Mountains

One day, I brought a youth group to the mountains on a paved road. Aside from that, it's also a bumpy one. The vehicle that I drove was an 18-passenger type. Aside from the passengers, we also brought our sound system equipments and musical instruments. 

When we were near to our destination, which was on the top of the mountain, the road was going uphill and zigzagging. I did shift to first gear while we were climbing. At first I felt nervous while I drove the car but my instinct to do a daring and courageous act, which made me to move on to my destination.  

At about 100 meters away from the top of the mountain was the hardest part of the road, with 60 degrees uphill and with two 180 degrees curve before reaching to the top of the mountain. Upon reaching the top, everyone made a deep sigh of relief. Unknown to me, all of us were very nervous.

All of the village people were surprised that a full packed vehicle were able to climb to the top of the mountain. For them, it’s their first time to see a driver like me who have the strong courage and determination.

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