London - While on vacation in the country, certainly Travelers should prepare a variety of equipment. As well if you want backpacker to Europe. Here are 7 tips that you backapacking in Europe runs smoothly and exciting!

Many countries in Europe are attractive holiday destination to be. No wonder that many a traveler who backapacking roam the continent. Here it is 7 surefire tips for backpacking in Europe:

1. Create an itinerary vacation to Europe

Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Paris in France, London in England, and many other cities in Europe that can be visited. To avoid confusion where are you going, before leaving for Europe, should you make the itinerary beforehand.

Specify the start of the state, the city, until the destination you want to go. In addition to ease travel, itinerary can also help you control spending and vacation time. Read a guidebook, or browsing to arrange your itinerary.

2. Wear appropriate clothing season

You need to know that Europe is a country with 4 seasons, namely winter, summer, spring, and fall. Winter in December to March and for the Nordic countries in September to May.

While the summer each year occur in July through the end of August. Spring in March to June and the fall occurred in the middle of September to early December. Do not take it the wrong clothes!

"Bring comfortable clothes and shoes from the home and adjust to the season. So, no need to buy on the street. Mahal," said traveler and author of 'The Veil Traveler', Asma Nadia

3. Use cheap transportation

When you want around Europe, traveler can take advantage of cheap transportation. Ranging from trains to aircraft budget you can choose.

"Do not ride the night train, the train is more expensive than lunch. Fact cheaper plane budgets," said Asma Nadia.

However, for a budget airline you should really read the conditions.
If you want more easily, a traveler could use City Pass tickets. His name is often different in each city. But essentially, this is a ticket that can be used to ride public transportation as much and the price is cheaper.

So, you can use public transportation as much. Travelers can choose a ticket for 12 hours, 24 hours, or a few days.

4. Bring a copy of important documents

Personal documents are very important when you are vacationing inside or outside the country. Therefore you should photocopy of ID card, passport, and other important documents to carry while traveling. You can also store them in softcopy format so it does not disappear 'physical'.

5. Search for cheap accommodation and places to eat

While on vacation in Europe, you'll want to look for cheap accommodation and places to eat. So that your money can be used for other purposes.

Asma Nadia add, when looking for accommodation in the city center should not because it is usually expensive. Can also choose a cheaper dormitori. It costs about 10 Euro per person (USD 125 thousand). For security reasons, better female traveler to stay at dormitori.

"If you want to find a cheap culinary tourism, portions also do not have a lot. Makannannya If Muslims and fear are not kosher, just order a vegetarian menu," said the mother of two children.

6. Bring the information search tool

Information search tool should not miss while you explore Europe. Tools in the form of maps, compass, and a guidebook. In the all-digital era like now, all of these devices can also get to easily from smartphone apps.

Not only that, you can also carry a small address book for a bacpacker. Excerpted from the website Bakpak Guide, with a small address book contacts you can record all the people you meet while traveling. In addition, the address book can also be a copy of important phone numbers.

7. Wary of pickpockets!

Do not be lulled by the beauty of Europe. Be careful, you could be a target of pickpockets. Try to not get caught alone in a very crowded.

Keep all your valuables in a safe place and remain attached to the body. For example, you can deviate passport, plane and train tickets, money, other personal documents in a waist bag that is always tied around your waist.

It is not advisable, when over-exposing your luggage. If the situation were riding a train or bus, secure your luggage bag with a padlock.

Hauts Plateaux - probably never crossed your mind to dance with the dead. But in Madagascar, dancing with the corpse had been buried and exhumed his grave is a ritual, Famadihana name. Horrified!

Famadihana is a unique ritual that you can see in the Hauts Plateaux, Madagascar. Quoted from Lonely Planet, Thursday (05/02/2013) This ritual routinely performed 7 years Malagasy tribe people who live there.

First of all they will dig, wrap the bones with cloth and mat, then tied with a rope. When the family member will shout for joy to welcome the ancestral bones package.

This tradition is also referred to as 'Ritual Play Bone'. So called because in this ceremony Malagasy people will unload graves of the ancestors.

They dug, and wrap the bones with cloth and mats are tied with string. When the family member will shout for joy to welcome the ancestral bones package.

According to Malagasy tribal beliefs, Famadihana is the embodiment of love for the deceased family. At that time, all family members will come, no matter where they live now.

In fact, the family is living abroad are also back for the celebration Famadihana. All members of the family who came to bring a lot of innate, such as meats, soups, sweets, drinks and much more.

Almost all family members happy with this bone removal. Why not, according to the Malagasy tribal beliefs, the dead are not completely dead. They are still able to communicate with relatives who are still alive. Through this festival, they seemed to communicate again with the deceased.

Although this is a form of affection, a traveler's view would shudder when I first witnessed firsthand Famadihana.

Like a big festival, the ritual Famadihana, had the intent provides various kinds of food and drink, do not miss the musical entertainment. The entire guest dancing, singing and partying in Famadihana. They also cut the animals whose meat distributed to all invited guests.

Famadihana ceremony began with the national anthem. Family elders and city officials were invited to the funeral from the new national anthem and speeches began.

Often a band involved in this event. There are also several musical instruments such as harmonica, violin, guitar, and trumpet.

The crowd celebration much like the market. Busy people to walk and stand for the taste of food and beverages.

But, especially for relatives, they will approach the bundle bone, then singing, laughing and slowly unwrapping. Calmly they watered wine to the pile of bones and close it again. Once the package is closed, the bones were buried back into the ground, and brought to the accompaniment of dance.

Interested in coming? You can see it between July and September. This unique ritual is usually held in the month.

Fun, free event visit anyone, including foreign tourists. With a smile which implied a clear, they are welcome every traveler who comes.
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Fishing is one of the exciting activities when traveling. In this world there are five places that are considered best for fishing mania, started fishing from a helicopter, to fishing in the Amazon.

Here are the five best places in the world for the angler:

1. While fly fishing in Aspen, USA

A luxury hotel in Aspen, Colorado, the U.S. gives a new sensation in fishing. Named Little Nell Hotel invites guests to while fly fishing. Concepts that they offer to fly a helicopter into a remote lake in the Rocky Mountains region.

Do not worry about the safety, because there are instructors who are ready to help you. But make sure that you are strong stamina to do the hotel ini.Tamu got lucky fish can instantly enjoy their catch for dinner after learning cooking secrets from the hotel chef.

2. Lobster hunting in Wales, UK

Known as 'black gold' in the ocean, lobster is one of the most exclusive animals and valuable. There is one of the best places in the world to hunt lobsters, which are located in the Coastal Orme in north Wales, UK.

Marine biologist, Carl Davies explains the lobster is fished with put in a trap. "During our trip hauling lobster pots so many guests can look closely and have the opportunity to hold the lobster. Lobster Not just occasionally, other marine animals also caught." Davies said.

Not only that, you also can see other wildlife such as sea birds, dolphins, the wild life count bottles in Orme.

3. Locate Nemo fish in Florida, USA

In addition to cycling and playing, fishing was also able to get closer bond between parent and child. Take a vacation to Disney World in Florida, USA. Disney World has a river filled with bass fishing. Fishing families who came were treated with background Cinderella Castle.

In 1960, more than 70,000 bass fingerlings released at the Magic Kingdom's Bay Lake and Seven Seas Lagoon were allowed to breed freely for nearly 20 years. If lucky, the angler can catch fish that can weigh up to 6.5 kilograms.

4. Adventures in the Amazon, Brazil

There is a ferocious fish in South America known as the Peacock Bass. With green and gold colors are striking, aggressive nature and large size, this fish into one spectacular thing that can be fished humans.

"Peacock Bass fish is undoubtedly the most aggressive fish in the world," said Steve Townston, director of the Black Water Explorer expedition.

5. Looking for shells, Ireland

Nestled among the mountains on the windy west coast of Ireland and 16 kilometers along the fjord, you can find various kinds of shells. Delphi Lodge guests near this region can be cruising along the waterway using speedboats, stop farms historic oyster and shellfish along the edges.

Oslo - Not only many historical haunts, apparently Europe also has an amazing natural phenomenon. Of the beautiful Aurora space to the desert in the middle of the green forest, this is the fifth most magical natural phenomenon in Europe!

Europe is a continent with diverse destinations lengak. You can spend coming to the Mediterranean region for sunbathing and playing water at the beach is gorgeous, playful to the Alps to ski areas, or go to a lot of cool buildings in the UK.

More than that, Europe had had a natural phenomenon not to be missed. Get ready to discover the wonders that are difficult to find in any hemisphere.

Here are 5 coolest phenomenon in Europe:

1. Aurora, Norway


Perhaps, you are already familiar with the Aurora. It is a natural phenomenon in the form of radiant light burning in the lining of the ionosphere, caused by the interaction of the magnetic field with charged particles emitted by the sun.

In essence, this aurora-shaped light green, red, purple, blue up in the sky at night. Very pretty! Aurora occurs in the northern hemisphere. In Europe, you can see it in the region of Scandinavia or northern Europe during winter.

Visit the site of Norway, you can see the Aurora in the coastal region in the western part Norwergia. The place is still natural, no tall buildings and residential areas. Therefore, it was clearly visible aurora. Nevertheless, the appearance of the aurora is difficult to guess.

One tour operator in Norway, Hurtigruten may invite the traveler to hunt aurora. Package price offered is around U.S. $ 735 or about USD 7 million, for a 6 day trip to see the aurora. Interested?

2. Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland



It is a natural phenomenon called a glacier and is one characteristic of European countries particularly Switzerland. The glacier is a large sediment and ice formed on the surface of the soil for long periods of time. Aletsch Glacier is a glacier located in the Alps, Jungfrau, Switzerland and the most powerful in Europe!

From the official site of UNESCO, Aletsch Glacier is the longest glacier in Europe and big. Just imagine, this glacier has an area of ​​nearly 128 km2, a length of 23 km, and a depth of 900 meters. As a result Aletsch Glacier crowned the World Heritage by UNESCO in 2011 ago.

Not surprisingly, a traveler who visited Jungfrau Aletsch definitely took time to Glacier. Here you can play the snow, take the cable car, take pictures, or skiing. Do not forget to wear a thick sweater ya!

3. Dune du Pilat, France



Who would have thought, it turns out France has a desert! The desert called Dune du Pilat which is located in La Teste-de-Buch, Arcachon Bay, approximately 60 km from the city of Bordeaux, France.

Dune du Pilat is actually a sand dune. Height reached 107 meters and is the highest in Europe. For setting foot in height, you have to climb hundreds of steps as written in the official website of Gironde.

The view from the summit is guaranteed to leave you spellbound. Just imagine. From the top of Dune de Pilat, you can see the beautiful blue ocean in front of the eyes and lush green forests behind you. Feel the soft sand!

Length of this desert reaches 2,700 m by 500 m wide, and 6 million m3 of sand here. This is one attraction for the world traveler. Dune du Pilat never empty of tourists. Take pictures here, certainly unforgettable.

4. The Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland



The Giant's Causeway is a volcanic rock piles due to volcanic eruptions millions of years ago. Uniquely the stones neatly arranged like a stone block and located at the seaside. It makes the Giant's Causeway as one of the most unique beaches in the world.

Discover the site of Northern Ireland, the Giant's Causeway was named a World Heritage by UNESCO since 1986. The beach is also part of a national nature reserve in Ireland.

Giant's Causeway was a prima donna in Northern Ireland. Obviously, tourists who come here certainly unbelievable shock. How not, the stones are arranged in a neat and towering. Not to mention the beautiful blue sea and the birds often perch on bebatauannya.

But apparently, there is a separate myths about the Giant's Causeway. Irish people believe, there is an ancient Irish giant from making its way towards Scotland and want to destroy the country. However, the sleeping giant and then another giant of Scotland emerged.

His intention to kill the giant Irish, just a giant of Scotland instead of fear. They fled and shut the Irish giant. Well, the high rocks at the Giant's Causeway is exactly what is believed to be a barrier created by a giant in Scotland.

Believe do not believe, this beach remains crowded with tourists. You can walk on top of the rock and see the stones neatly arranged. Although there was no white sand, marvel at the Giant's Causeway is able to hypnotize you!

5. Samaria Gorge, Greece



Chasm is not always sinister. On the island of Crete, Greece are named Samaria Gorge national park that has beautiful ravines. Travelers can explore the base ravine and enjoy the charming natural beauty!

From site Explore Crete, Samaria Gorge is the longest gorge in Europe with a length of 18 kilometers. Traveler favorite activities here is the basic down ravine and anesthetized by painting natural scenery like the pretty. Not only that, you also can find a variety of animals and plants here.

You can explore the forests of pine and fir trees for exploring Samara Gorge. There are houses Samaria and antelope are typical here. Exploring the Samaria Gorge, as takes you to a different world. Fresh air, lush green forests, and courteously Samaritan community are able to make you fall in love!

That's 5 most magical natural phenomenon in Europe. Get ready unnerved even froze at the sight of this phenomenon from close fifth. Prepare your backpack and explore Europe!

Travelers who spend a long holiday weekend in East Java, shall enter Sempu Island in your itinerary. There, you will marvel at the beauty of the beaches that paired with green trees.

Sempu Island is a beautiful island, stunning, and made ​​us stunned by its beauty and its natural beauty. Sea water waves as if to always invite us to accompany him.

The island has a lagoon which is similar to the lake. Lake named Segara Chicks are formed due to the rigors of pounding waves to the reef. Then these waves form a hole in the reef.

One of the fun activities while traveling is exploring the uninhabited islands. Lots of interesting things and challenges to be met. Before that, read these tips first so that your trip is safe and comfortable.

Indonesia has a lot of stretch of uninhabited islands. Despite the lack of information, not a traveler who ventured into these islands. Why, a lot of surprises to be seen, from virgin beaches or other natural wonders.

The following 7 tips adventure on uninhabited islands:

1. Prepare supplies sufficient

Do menggangap lightly about supplies when exploring the uninhabited islands. Although you can get food from nature, but it's good to prepare supplies from home.

Water is the most essential supplies. 80 Percent of the human body consists of water, so the water will be a source of energy and prevent dehydration. Bring a bottle of drink in moderation and do not be wasteful as well drink. Prepare also supplies such as ready meals, snacks, and others. Guaranteed, you'll hassles when supplies are insufficient.

2. Bring a compass or GPS

Compass or GPS will help you on the way to the uninhabited islands. GPS gives the coordinates and the position you stand, and can show the contours of the surrounding environment.

While the compass, a reference direction to run. You can tell which direction the sun rise or set, which can be a way out of the woods. If your GPS error, the compass becomes your grandstand. Smart to learn compass ya!

3. Leave a message to family or relatives

Never flier if you do not tell your family or closest relatives. This will backfire for you. By telling the family or close relatives, they can figure out where you're going.

Later, they can be a life saver for you. If you no news, like being lost, they will find help and give your location to rescuers. It's all for your safety.

4. Prepare a survival equipment

In addition to a compass or GPS, you'll want to set up other survival equipment. Equipment such as lighters, flashlights, knives, until raincoat. These tools facilitate the trip and allows you to survive in the wilderness.

Be very useful flashlight as lighting at night. You can use a lighter to burn twigs and warm. Raincoat will shield you from the cold pouring rain. Also, do not forget to prepare a backup battery for the flashlight or cell phone.

5. Bring personalized medicine

Prepare a special place in my backpack to put drugs. These drugs act to keep your immune system. Even if you include people who are rarely sick, there's no harm in preparing medicines to prevent themselves from the disease.

Some diseases that usually attack the traveler is heartburn, dizziness, abdominal pain, cough and flu. By sabab it, prepare a medicine that can relieve the symptoms. Also, please bring a certain brand drugs that have become your preference.

6. Save energy

It's good, you save energy for exploring the uninhabited islands. Do not be too busy running around, joking, or playing on the beach. Save your energy for exploring the forest or grassland.

In addition, you'll want enough sleep in the tent. Do not run out of power on the road, if not out of the woods. Enjoy the journey, not the way in a hurry.

7. Leave a mark

When exploring uninhabited islands, there are certainly a lot of the road. Tracks such as jungle or bush you will pass. When down the road, you'll want to leave a trail that can be a clue to go home.

Many ways to leave the trail. You can create a trail of scratches on the trunk or tie a rope to a piece of tree branches. If you get lost, this trail will take you to the exit.

That's 7 tips for adventure on the uninhabited island. Prepare physically and mentally, and enjoy every step of the way. Remember, do not throw garbage anywhere !