Holiday is coming! A backpacking tips for dummies :)

For those of you who are still student like me or for those of you who feel quite boring with your work, maybe you can't wait to have your vacation. Do you have a plan already? Well... backpacking is an interesting way to spend your holiday. It's fun, exciting and relatively cheap.

But before going on backpacking, we have to consider several things to prevent our holiday for being a disaster.

Here is some backpacking tips that I can share. But since, using Angie's expression, I'm just a rookie myself, these tips are quite basic... some of you might be able to add some more useful tips. But nevertheless... here are they

Where to go?
This question is very personal. I mean, it really depends on how much time and money do you have, and which places that you want to visit.

If you have decided which place you want to visit, then the next step is to get as much information as possible about that place. The most basic way is to look on internet. Most of the tourism places have their own website that can give you information about all the things that you can see and do there.

But I prefer to check on website that offers travel advice like www.lonelyplanet.com first. A site owned by the official tourism bureau sometimes exaggerate things. I mean, ok it's good to see the oldest church in Venice. But if you have quite limited time, you might want to see other places instead. And also lonely planet offers you some travel itineration according how much time that you have. In that way, you will not miss the most attractive object (except, of course, you already have your own preference)

Also a good idea is to bring a travel guide book. In that case, you can make your trip more flexible. You can always alter your plan at every time instances.



Last but most useful is to ask people who've been there or still there. They usually have a lot of tips and information that are really applicable for you.

So ... that's all for the early preparation. Now I should go back to my crazy Gruendlage Kuenstliche Intelligenz. Huaaahmmm... Booooriiiiing.... :)