Home | About  
Welcome to TourTag.com! Our site provides information related to navigation, membership club, passport & visa services, travel agent, luggage & accessories.

Posts Tagged ‘Traveling’

Advice for Traveling in India

Friday, April 4th, 2008

If you are planning to visit Khajuraho temple and make a tiger tour which includes historical monument like “Taj Mahal” and tiger safari for Indian wildlife then find an online travel agency which deals in ecotourism. These online travel agencies offer both tours in one package. When you arrive in India take these precautions:

Drink quality mineral water. Buy brands like Bisleri, Pepsi and Kinley from Coco cola. Or else drink boiled water. Eat hot fresh food at qality restaurants and avoid road side shacks or dhaba. You can safely eat fesh fruits with peel. Keep cash at hand when you travel to interior where banking facilities may be limited. The urban localities have an advance infrastructure so traveling is not difficult at all if you have made your bookings in advance. English is quite popular in India and Indians understand sign language very well, but learning bits and pieces of local dialect especially Hindi is going to make your trip more enjoyable. Keep medicines for emergency while traveling to interiors or villages and of Indian jungles since modern medication might not be available there. Keep tag on weather and the climate of the places you wish to travel to for this vast land has varied climate and somewhere you will need warm cloths to fight of freezing cold and other places might be warm and humid.

Traveling for the Holidays on a Greyhound Bus

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Greyhound is a bus line service that takes people all  over the United States with more than 2,000 bus terminals.  This is a great option for those that want to travel for the  holidays and not drive there themselves. You will find the  lines at the Greyhound terminal to be less hectic than at  the airport and you can simply get into your seat and relax  for the trip. Greyhound also offers amazingly fares so you can  definitely save money over driving your own vehicle or those  expensive airfares. The routes that are offered by  Greyhound are continually updated in order to meet the  needs of consumers so take a look online or call their  headquarters to see what they can offer you. They offer  comfortable seats that recline, heating and air conditioning,  and lights so you can read after dark. Don’t expect meals  to be served though. You will need to bring along your own  food and drinks on the bus. Since there are no assigned seats on a Greyhound bus  you will want to arrive at the terminal early when you travel  for the holidays. You want to make sure you get a choice  of seats. If you are traveling with companions you want to  make sure they have seats close to you as well. It can be  a mess for a single parent traveling on a Greyhound bus to  have to spread her children out. You can always hope  some people will be willing to change seats but you can’t  guarantee it.  One issue that many people are concerned with this is  security issues aboard Greyhound buses. They haven’t  updated their security measures since 09/11/01 like  Amtrak and the various airlines have. The use of metal  detectors on the buses have been randomly installed but  they aren’t guaranteed to be in place. This means there  may be people traveling on the bus that have weapons with  them. This is a risk that some holiday travelers find to be  too creepy to use this mode of transportation. In light of this, Greyhound has been working to improve  their image and to gain more confidence from consumers  traveling for the holidays. They are working on offering  quality bus terminals in case you have a long wait before  yours departs. Many of these bus terminals also have a  rental car agency inside so you can get to your final  destination without having to inconvenience someone else  to come pick you up. They have also started random security checks at various  Greyhound bus terminals in large cities. Those purchasing  a ticket have to show photo ID and their luggage is subject  to a random search. They are also working on providing  video cameras to record what takes place on the bus.  While there haven’t been any major issues with security  while people travel for the holidays on the buses, they want  to ensure the public that they are doing their part to make  sure it doesn’t.  For many holiday travelers though, riding a Greyhound bus  ensures that they can get to their destination without any  stress and without having to drive themselves. The cost is  very affordable. You need to make sure you understand  that riding on a Greyhound bus does take longer to get  there because they only go the speed limit and they will  make stops at various bus terminals along the way.