Budget Travel In Hawaii

For millions of people around the world a trip to Hawaii is a dream. For many it will remain a dream only because they think that Hawaii is too far to get to, too expensive, and reserved only for the rich and famous. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Okay, admittedly, Hawaii is far away – from everywhere. The island archipelago is the remotest on the planet. But that doesn’t mean you have to spend thousands of dollars to get there. From Japan or the Philippines you can find prices as low as $300 each way and from the U.S. mainland, budget travelers can find flights for as low as $150 each way if they think ahead, watch for flight specials, and travel during the off season. …

Cyber Security on the Road – Protecting Your USB

Many travelers use their smart phone or laptop while they are on the road, but for most of us, there comes a point when we need to use a USB. USB is short for Universal Serial Bus, but most of us call them thumb drives. A USB lets you transfer documents from one computer to another or save documents or files from a computer you don’t take with you such as a home computer or even a computer in a cyber cafe.

What a lot of people don’t know, however, is that by using your USB in a cyber cafe, you are exposing yourself to viruses and malware that can infect every other machine your thumb drive comes in contact with.
To be specific, a USB is actually the port that the thumb drive plugs into. The drive itself is a small flash drive which can be in varying sizes from a few MB to 4 GB (big enough to hold films and plenty of photos or songs).

Obviously, you can’t run a virus scan on every machine you use your flash drive on, so the question comes up, how can you protect your drive when you go to a cyber cafe? …

How to hunt for antiques during your holiday

When you travel, it’s normal to take pictures or buy some souvenirs for your friends and family back home, but that is not the point of your trip. The point is to see new places and experience new things, but if you have the chance to pick up some mementos and trinkets, that’s even better.

Simply buying stuff from a tourist center is not very original, but finding some real treasures can be a bit complicated when you find yourself in a unknown place. Finding an interesting antique is great, but where you can find them? Collectors are born with a nose for antiques, but here’s what you can do to find some forgotten little treasure too. …

Cheap Travels in Incredible Paris

The Eiffel Tower seen from below

Travelers always talk about how expensive Paris is, but the truth is that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to have a great time in this beautiful city. Sure, you can pay all the high fees to go to the museums, have 500 Euro meals, and stay in ultra luxury boutique hotels…but that’s not the only way to have a great time in Paris.
For those who don’t want to spend a lot of money or who are traveling on a budget, there are plenty of options.

First of all, be aware that spring and summer are the high season in Paris and because of that, you will pay more during these seasons than if you choose to travel during the autumn and winter months. The downside is that the ‘off season’ weather can be cold, rainy, and grey, but of course, you can also get lucky and have gorgeous sunny days at half price or less. …

Saving Money on Phone Bills While You Travel

Every traveler knows that it’s great to hear the voices of friends and family back home once in a while. In the modern technological times we live in, it’s also nice to be able to login to facebook, check email, and look up destinations, hotels, or hostels while you are on the go. The smart phone has given us the capability to do that, but many travelers aren’t aware that if they use their regular calling plan to do so, they run the risk of racking up bills that can add up to thousands of dollars.

Be smart when you travel with your cell phone. Something as simple as a trip from Seattle to Vancouver can end up costing you nearly a thousand dollars if you send a few emails, make a few calls, and surf the web for an hour or two! To avoid this kind of costly mistake, read the following advice and take simple precautions. …

Travel While You Work – Work While You Travel

Most people dream of traveling more than they do, but the main thing that keeps them locked in one location is the fact that they need money to travel. After all, travel is expensive, right?

Well, sometimes. In fact, travel doesn’t have to be an expensive option if you go about it the right way and in some cases, travel can even pay you as you go! You might be thinking to yourself that this sounds too good to be true, but in fact there are quite a few jobs that offer you the chance to get paid while you travel internationally.
Here are just a few careers you may not have considered that allow yo u to see the vast landscapes and diverse people of the planet while you are getting paid.

One of the first jobs that comes to mind for most people is working as a tour guide. It’s not as hard as you think. …

Harnessing Social Networks for Great Travel

Most of us who travel a lot are looking for great ways to save money on transportation, accommodation, and doing cool stuff in unique destinations like taking tours and seeing important cultural and historic sites. Not to mention finding the best places to relax and enjoy the view.

Whenever I go to a destination, I am looking for things that are out of the ordinary, things that will enhance my travels, and things that will save me money. It is only recently that I’ve come to understand that social networks offer a great opportunity to find travel bargains as well as give me information about wherever it happens to be that I am going.

Using social networks to enhance your travel experience is an idea that a lot of people never think of. It’s a funny thing, because most of us use social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube all the time but when it comes time to travel suddenly we start to think that big broker sites or travel agent conglomerates are our only option. …

Adventure Travel on a Budget

If you’re like me, when you think of adventure travel, the first thing you think of is how expensive it will be. It’s true, if you are thinking of climbing Mt. Everest or taking a solo sailing adventure across an ocean, the chances are that you are going to need some high end gear, spend a lot on logistics, and probably have lots of expenses you never expected too. But, it doesn’t have to be that way.

If you are helicopter skiing or doing any gear intensive travel, there really isn’t an easy way around the expense unless you are good enough or charismatic enough to get sponsors. Let’s face it, the vast majority of us aren’t either of those things. We’re just people who like to get high from the sense that comes with having a great adventure.

Adventure travel comes in many flavors- from the gear intensive to the gear free, though, there is one thing all adventures have in common. A sense of risking life and limb. Right?

The degree to which you are willing to take risks is really a bit of a factor in how much money you will have to spend. When I hitched across Canada with $4 and no gear, that was an adventure.

I was risking life and limb by accepting rides with strangers and by the possibility that I would be stuck on the prairies with no blanket or get attacked by a bear in the Rockies if no rides got me to the next point. How much did it cost me? …

Travel tips for women travelers

Whether you are a man or a woman traveling alone, keeping safe is the most important thing you should worry about. But the sad reality is that women traveling alone are more likely to get in trouble than men, in certain places at least.

While in many parts of the world equal rights is a reality, in some place women are expected to behave in certain ways that might not appeal to many of us who are used to doing whatever we feel like doing. So here are some tips that will help you make sure that things run smoothly during your travels. …

Singapore City Guide

If you want to boast that you managed to visit an entire country in only a week or so, you should go and visit Singapore. Actually, there are several reasons why anyone would want to visit Singapore. It is a city-state, granted, so it lacks much of the geographic diversity inherent to other countries, but its culturally diversity can easily compete with any other country on the planet.

Singapore is a neon city mixed with healthy doses of Chinese, Indonesian, Indian and Malay influences, a city that never sleeps, which has been jokingly described as the only shopping mall in the world with a seat in the UN. …