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Travel money tips: Best way to carry money for your travel abroad
When we are getting ready for our international holiday, we are often stumped with this question on how we should carry “money” to be spent abroad. It isn’t surprising that we get confused, given the number of options we have and the different forms that “money” takes these days! After traveling around many countries and […]
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Day 3: Scuba diving into the waters off the Boracay coast, Philippines
We got up at 8:30am. Today, we had to first en cash our traveller’s cheques. So we got fresh and proceeded to the Bank of Philippines Islands (BPI), which processes the traveller’s cheque here in Philippines. Thankfully, we got the cheques encashed without much hassles and we proceeded to do some adventure activities in the […]
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Plan your international holiday on a budget
Quite often I have been asked how I manage to plan out a vacation on a tight budget, buy cheap air tickets, book budget accommodation, etc. At this age of internet, information is available for free about anything in the world that you can plan out your vacation in detail, even before you actually get […]
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Day 7: A climb to the summit of Stok Kangri at 20,135ft
Finally the big day arrived. It was by far the earliest wake up time for me surpassing the 12:30am set in Colombo couple of months earlier. It was 12:am. Temperature inside the tent was 8 degrees thanks to me keeping the tent door open after all that had happened last night. We slowly got out […]
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Holiday destinations in India (month-wise)
Often in our busy life we think of taking a break and going on a holiday. But when it comes to deciding on where to go, we get confused. India, being a very large country does not have a “best time of the year to visit” for all of its holiday destinations. In this article […]
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Day 12: Watching a volcanic eruption in Bromo, Indonesia
The day started in the taxi on our way to Mt.Bromo, an active volcano in Indonesia which is just a 3hr drive from Surabaya. The road was a little bumpy, much like the Indian roads but was not bad though. I had a good sleep in the taxi till the time we stopped. It was […]