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Travel Sense & Tips

Your trip can be trouble free if you take a few precautions before you leave, and use some common sense on the road. We've outlined some practical tips to be aware of...

Photocopy all valuable documents, including passports, travel tickets, identity cards, travellers' cheques etc. and keep them separate to the originals.  Tip: if travelling with a friend, hold on to each others' photocopies Maintain regular telephone / e-mail contact with home. Give friends or relatives an itinerary of your travel destinations Take out travel insurance. Sure, you might never need it, but the small outlay of money will give you much peace of mind Find out about any unusual or harsh laws in the countries you intend to visit. Pay special attention to drug laws, as certain countries (especially in South East Asia) have a mandatory death penalty for anyone caught possessing even small amounts drugs. These countries have been known to carry out this threat in the past. Always refuse to carry and packages for others to these countries if you are not sure of the contents.

Official advice

Contact your country's foreign affairs department, or foreign office for the latest travel recommendations. This advice is especially important if you are going to a country with an unstable political environment, or has been involved in recent war. Here are some government web sites providing sound advice:

Department of Foreign Affairs (Ireland): http://www.irlgov.ie/iveagh/  Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK): http://www.fco.gov.uk/  US State Department Travel Warnings: http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: http://www.dfat.gov.au/consular/advice/index.html