Travel Plans

Vacation, where should it? Surely it often, you have trouble making travel plans, or better known as the itinerary? If that's what you're experiencing, then we shared the same destiny, hehe. Of the several trips I've ever done, making itinerary was very difficult, especially if we are going to visit the place is still rare information about the purpose of the trip. If you have this condition, usually we would think "ahh, well, I was looking somewhere else then," or "well, what can we do? Looking for information on it was difficult once ". If you are experiencing this, I would strongly advised, as I do feel that way.

Until the end, I tried to analyze, exactly where my difficulty lies anyway? Is so difficult? Can not "creatures" I conquered? Does it only happen to me alone? Are other friends have no trouble as I have? Hmm ...

From some of the questions above, I get some enlightenment, at least it comes from my personal experience when I was about to do a backpacking trip. And some of these are:

Duration of trip
The duration of this trip is very important to know in the early you make travel plans or itinerary, because knowing the exact duration of the trip, supporting factors such as journey time of departure and time of return, type of accommodation, the total cost, and others can carefully calculated.

Cost
How much does it cost?

For most backpackers, cost is a very crucial thing. And not infrequently, they begin the ritual to make travel plans or itinerary with cost as a basic reference. They are usually called the budget traveler.

If cost is crucial for you, many ways to outsmart, can by clicking-family inventory relatives who were in the goal area, so you can at least ride to stay there, thanks if fed too, hehehe, or can also join into one or some traveling community. If you are fairly good reputation in the community, there will likely be allowed to stay at home aboard one of the members of that community to be high enough. Therefore, connect better and always improve your reputation in their eyes.

When

After determining the duration of the trip, the next question is, when is the right time to make the trip? Can it be done when the holiday weekend? Or have to take time off ration? Or wait a day off (red dates) close to weekend as Thursday, Friday, Monday or Tuesday? Consider also difficult to simply leave you asking for permission to superiors. The farther your departure day, ask leave permission will usually be easier.

Where to aim

Purpose of the trip will greatly affect the cost we have to spend. The further a greater journey also the costs to be incurred. But sometimes, for the distance is not too far away too, can be very expensive, whether it's because of the location is exclusive, fuel shortages, lack of transportation, and so forth.

List of activities that can be done
Of the various places that we have set above, then we construct what about a list of activities we can do, from each of these tourist sites. Remember the more sophisticated or more safety devices involved in the activities undertaken, the fees imposed were generally become more expensive.

Example:

1. Driving around the island, also known as island hoping. The cost would be much more expensive if we charter a boat (advanced) compared with fishing boats in general yes spurious.
2. Caving in the cave, down vertically as high as 50 meters. When using an official carrier caving with all standard equipment (safety) used to cost about 500,000 rupiah. While using the fake operators with caving equipment pickup, certainly much cheaper, but there is no guarantee your life. Never mind the spurious equipment, sophisticated equipment, if we neglect could invite unwanted disaster, but at least we have reduced the risk factor by selecting a professional operator, so that our security is guaranteed.

Timing
Timing is tight, what delicious loose timings? Timing is the incorporation of the duration and the time scale is more detail, by the minute. I usually use a set of minutes for each activity performed during a backpacking trip. With the right timing, it is hoped, all the calculations that we do during a backpacking trip would be optimal, or at least, in practice approaching travel plans or itinerary we have created before.

It is not allowed, but wherever possible, avoid making timing is too tight, as this can make you not enjoy the trip at all. Remember also, we are not military, but we are a backpacker.

Always exaggerating estimated 10-15% of all the time that you have compiled. For example, travel time from point A to point B takes about 1 hour 40 minutes (100 minutes). With 10-15% overestimate of time, make a 1 hour 50 minutes to 1 hour and 55 minutes. This was done to anticipate the circumstances unforeseen during travel, such as public transport over time, punctures, rain (when using the motor), jam, and others.

Contact Person

Who are the people that can help you during the last backpacking trip? To find out the contact person of a place is not easy work, do research on the internet with more intense. Sometimes this can be the toughest point in the process of making travel plans or itinerary. But if you are fulfilling their research properly, the result will pay you more than you spend effort before. So the travel plans you've made will be optimal.

Transportation
Transport what fits ya approx?

Type of transportation needed during a trip will greatly affect the cost required. Consider yourself, are you more comfortable with the uncomfortable condition but it is expensive? Or conditions less comfortable but cheap? Cool term "There's money, there's stuff".

Parameter expensive, inexpensive, convenient, less comfortable and so almost certainly very relative to each person. Depending on the financial condition and habits of each individual. Not always expensive it really means "expensive" for the poor financial condition. Let us take an example, suppose our own experience.

When we vacation island to a little market which is located quite far from the mainland, for example Karimunjawa. Somehow, at the time of going home again, it was bad weather conditions. Waves reaching five meters. So the ASDP not allow the ship to sail, especially with transporting passengers. But it turns out (for example), in addition to transport authorities to allow the sea to remain in operation, such as aircraft.

In terms of price, it is definitely much higher than the price of tickets ship. But we had to get home, because the next day there will be a meeting of shareholders, and we are obliged to attend because we are the moderator, of any price, as long as it makes sense, it would feel cheap right?

In conclusion, whatever we feel, whether it is expensive, whether it's uncomfortable all depends of the difficult conditions that we are facing and must be dealt with immediately.

Some of the factors that you can consider, with regard to transportation are:

Lifeline (land, water, air)
Transport class (economy, business, executive)
Type of transportation (public, semi-public, leases, personal property)
Transportation travel speed (fast, moderate, slow)
Transportation costs (low, medium, high)
Operating time. When using public transport (24 hours, 12 hours, or only at certain times only)
Total fleet. When using public transport (relatively many or relatively few)
Spec transport (two-wheel, three-wheel, four-wheel, etc.)

Sources of Information

The source of information is divided into two, namely, free and paid. Sources of free information we can get on the internet as easily as, for example, through forums, blogs, social networking, official website, and others. While the paid such as buying a book on your traveling to a place. There are books that specialize on one place, there is also a range of standard information a tourist destination. Adjust your needs.

"So if we are confused to start from, or lazy thinking about, what?", Do not worry, if indeed you are stuck, you can cheat from others and adapt to the goals you want to visit. Still, it requires a bit of improvisation, because it could be travel plans or itinerary person does not comply with some goals that we wish to visit.

There's another way if you are really lazy by using third party services such as tour and travel organizer. Stay see, wherever their destination, and then customize to your needs. But this is certainly not economical when we view from the financial side, but like it or not, that's the price you pay when really lazy finish your homework.