Make Your Holiday Trip Worthwhile

Often that not, before you knew it, your holiday are over. You will be wondering now that you had spend your hard earn money, the holiday trip seem to be thing of a past now. With that, it makes you ponder if you should embark on your next holiday trip when one feel more tired and poorer.

TIPS ON HOW TO MAKE YOUR TRIP WORTHWHILE?

Pre-Trip 

– Plan your trip, create your own itinerary.

Yes, with internet information now easily available and sites such as Tripadvisor giving you some inside tips, planning your own trip couldn’t be much easier. I know I shouldn’t say this since I am in the travel trade, but hey it is a fact that most people nowadays seem to do away with the help of a travel agent. To make your trip worthwhile, the key is to PLAN YOUR OWN TRIP.

Read up Lonely Planet or other guide books that you can find in bookstores or library. Alternatively, a rule of thumb is to Google the tourism board of that country or in countries such as Australia & New Zealand, there are usually a list of websites that are maintain by the different states. Bundles of information could be found there.

– Watch YouTube.

Search for the places that you intend to visit and start watching it. However, note not to watch too many of the clips too or else you could spoil the ‘Mystery’ factor of visiting the place. The key here is to watch in moderate (NOT TOO MUCH), tips on going to that place. You do not want to watch the entire collection of videos or else there wouldn’t be any point to fly there. That brings us to what some people would said: ” You need not travel to the particular city, just watch it on YouTube.” However, seeing is believing. Experiencing the moment is certainly priceless.

– Get yourself excited before the real trip begins & start the countdown!

Visualize yourself at that place. Imagine the things you will be doing during the trip, this goes back to doing adequate research on the holiday destination.  Download the application on your mobile to start counting down to the trip. Wake up to each brand new day and look at the countdown application to see how many days you had left. That gives you added motivation to work through your day knowing your holiday is approaching!

During The Trip 

– Take in the sight & leave out the photos 

As they said, leave footprints but not photos. Oops, it should be ” Take nothing but memories!”

Go on to make some local friends, soak in the atmosphere and capture the images seen in your mind instead! The best way would be to make some local friends during the trip. Only through this, you can get the local contact details be it their email, home address, social media account like Facebook, Instagam. Add them as friend so that you can share the beautiful photos you had taken with them or in their country. Tag them in those photos on social media and make a connection with them via online space. In that way, should you want to go back in future, you know who you can rely on. For instance, I had met a friendly local taxi guide in Taiwan and who knows, my next trip to Taiwan, he will lead the way throughout.

After Trip 

– Create Photo Album 

Put in the effort and select the photos which you had took during the holiday trip to create photo album. Yes, I know with technology, one can simply now transferred the pictures taken to the thumb drive/ hard disk and cast it aside. However, if you choose to make it into hard copy photo album, you will reminisce the fantastic memories you had during the trip, making it worthwhile. Moreover, when you are bored, one can take the hard copy album and view it. It certainly adds value and meaning to your holiday trip.

– Create YouTube Video 

After all, video says a thousands of words and it will be much easier to sum up your entire holiday in a video. Create the video and relieve the moment you had during the trip. What’s better than you can watch it easily on your mobile using YouTube Apps.

– Write a blog article 

If you want to make your trip even more worthwhile, write a blog article! Recall the nice memories while making each penny of yours go a further mile!

Last but not least, save enough money and TRAVEL! Because humans are curious animal and we LIVE LIFE ONLY ONCE!  Happy travel!

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