Places I’ve been to

Visiting Bataan’s best beaches will make you experience your like in Boracay

Baguio has been one of the most tourist spot destinations because of its magnificent places you can go to. Also experiencing the cold temperature like your in other country.

Tagaytay is also famous for having a cold temperature just like in Baguio. It’s still have a very unqiue place where you can go for site seeing.

Places I want to go

Since the beginning, Boracay has been really famous to a lot of people considering the people in other countries because of its white sand. I also want to experience the same experience have when they went to Boracay.

I want to go to chocolate hills because I want to witness with my own two eyes how these chocolate hills changes its color.

Hundred Islands epitomizes the best of Pangasinan, riddle by 123 islets spearing out of the cerulean sea. I want go there so I can also count the islands.

Tips

As we are approaching the date of departure for a vacation we have been planning for nearly a year, there are a lot of things on our to-do list that have yet to be accomplished. While planning a vacation, you will definitely get advice from people about how to plan or pack for a vacation, whether you ask for it or not. Here are fifteen tips that you might not think of when getting ready to leave for a vacation.

1) Clean the house

This may seem unusual as you won’t even be in your home for the time you are gone. But speaking from experience, there is not a lot worse than coming home from vacation to a disaster of a house. Make sure you clean your home before leaving to prevent stress when coming back to reality.

2) Make sure all your credit card companies and banks know where you are traveling and the dates

Unfortunately, I have been on trips with people who have not called their credit card companies or banks before leaving the state they live in or even the country. Let’s just say it didn’t work out for them as planned. Typically, you will get declined eventually. It may work the first one or two times, but do not try to press your luck with this type of thing

3) Plan things from a guidebook

Often people will tell you to research online about the place you are going to before arriving at your destination. The technology the way it is today, people often don’t think to look through a written, published guidebook. However, while we were planning for our vacation this time, I found it really useful to make a stop in the library for the latest edition of a guidebook and found places that would be great to see while on vacation.

4) Pack at least one outfit in your carry-on

Again, this is one where I have learned from experience. While on a mission trip to Boca Chica, Colombia, a member of the team got her bag lost while we were transporting things (not her fault at all, it just happened in the shuffle while our large group was traveling). Good thing she has a positive attitude because she didn’t get her bag for at least three days. And in a hot, humid environment with no extra clothes, I am sure she was uncomfortable. Don’t let this happen to you and make sure to pack at least one outfit to get you through an extra day or two if your bag gets lost.

5) Use space saver bags or a compression sack

I didn’t even know they made these until I was reading a few travel blogs the past few months. Compression sacs seem like the best option while packing, especially for indecisive packers.

6) Bring versatile footwear and accessories

Don’t waste precious room for various clothing items on shoes that take up awkward amounts of space in your luggage or extra accessories that just add to your weight limits. Bring items that you can wear with multiple outfits and in all kinds of weather and occasions.

7) Roll your clothes when your packing and put your socks in your shoes

Until I saw my sister pack for deployment for the National Guard, I never rolled my clothes or put socks in my shoes. Sure, your clothes will get wrinkled a bit, but most hotel rooms have irons to fix that problem, or you can purchase wrinkle releaser.

8) Put all toiletries in a plastic bag, separate from everything possible

It is never fun to have shampoo or lotion all over your stuff as soon as you open your bag. Avoid this by putting things in Ziploc bags. Be sure to bring extra Ziploc bags for the return trip, just in case some of your toiletries spill in the bags on the way there.

9) Don’t pack things you can buy there if they are not necessities

You get into packing trouble when you make a list of things that you “might use.” For example, you wouldn’t necessarily need to bring more than one razor (depending on how long you are traveling for.) Don’t pack things you “might” use if you can buy those things at your destination.

10) Put paper clips and duct tape on your packing list

Have you ever been traveling and in the middle of your trip had broken luggage? Sadly, this happened to me when we went to Maui, except my luggage broke as soon as we got off the plane. If you find yourself with broken luggage, having a paper clip to clip through what is left of the zipper or duct tape to tape through broken parts will make traveling a lot less stressful.

11) Bring a sunscreen stick rather than a bottle for sun protection

The sunscreen stick- an amazing invention for kids and travelers alike. These sticks are great for packing while traveling because it isn’t a liquid, aka you can bring it in your carry-on, and it won’t take up a lot of space in your bag.

12) Pack extra plastic bags

Bring plastic bags for wet or dirty things that you wouldn’t want all over your luggage or all over your clean clothes. Bring more than you think because you never know how dirty or wet things may still be when you are leaving for home.

13) Bring your own snacks

Snacks in the airport are ridiculously overpriced. Why spend precious traveling money on expensive snacks in the airport when you can pack them in your carry on. Just be sure you don’t pack bigger than 3oz bottles of liquid.

14) Bring an empty water bottle

Fill up an empty water bottle in a drinking fountain rather than paying for a costly bottle of water in the airports.

15) A special tip for parents

If you have children, put every outfit for each day in its own Ziploc bag. That way, they can pick out what outfit they want each day and everything they need is already put together, rather than trying to find things they need while they are antsy to do things.

Guide Maps

Having a guide map will make your experience more enjoyable because you’ll know where you want to go to a certain spot after you arrived at your destination.

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