Years of experience in welcoming travellers from all over the world have made Asia the perfect host, and like all good hosts, it offers something for every taste. Whatever you’re looking for on your gap year there’s a good chance you’ll find it in Asia; from whitest of white knuckle adventure rides to some of the best volunteer projects in the world.

Asia is perfect for gap year travellers; the serene beauty provides a soothing backdrop to a career escaping break while the rugged mountains and million mile an hour cities offer the perfect slice of adventure for those full of youthful energy. Here are a few words of advice on the how, why and where of gap year travel in Asia and start planning your own trip.

Check out the Gapometer to mark Asia on key gap year criteria.

*****        Gaptastic

****         Great for gappers

***           Worth a look

**             Too much else to see

*              Never mind the Gap

Volunteering

In an age of mass media the beauty of this place somehow continues to surprise, yet too much of the Asian continent continues to experience severe depravation. According to the Asian Development Bank, Asia’s poor account for two thirds of the total in the developing world and a huge number of volunteer projects have sprung up to help ease the problem.

There are lots of different projects in areas like community work and teaching or maybe even link one with a conservation project or two. Asia should be as famous for its wildlife as its landscapes; animals like pandas, elephants, tigers and sea turtles can all be found here. The WWF has listed 6 places in Asia amongst their list of 19 priority places, leaving no-one in any doubt as to the area’s significance.

***** The perfect place to use your gap year for good

Travelling around

With a year on your hands you’ll want to spread your wings and really explore a place, and in Asia that’s both easy and rewarding. There are now easier ways to get around Asia than the famous overland expeditions of the 70s (though if you’ve got a camper van spare give it a go). Travelling varies from country to country so make sure you plan thoroughly. Most central countries, like China and India, offer extensive rail and road links. South-East Asia, with the exception of Myanmar, is probably the easiest and cheapest place to explore in the world. Don’t forget to bring a good book for the journey though!

For people who get coach sick there’s always the option to use up a stop or two from a Round the world ticket. Low cost airlines are getting in on the act so look out for new destinations. For those who want to do most of their travelling in Asia, check out companies that offer an ‘air pass’ which for one price, allows you to dot around all over the place.

**** Plenty to see and no reason not to explore

Money

Money and budgeting are big considerations when you’re planning to spend a year away from home, so the cost of getting to and living in a place is all important. There are big differences between countries in this respect; the more expensive countries to explore in Asia are Japan, Taiwan and because of its size, China. If you want to visit these countries perhaps consider earning money by teaching English while you’re away. The affordable countries include Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Sri Lanka while cheap countries such as Thailand, Nepal, India, The Philippines and Indonesia offer truly budget travel.

Living costs are a large part of your budget so plan carefully. While you’re on a volunteer placement this will normally be sorted out for you but when you’re travelling independently remember that budget hostels doesn’t necessarily mean rubbish hostels. In fact they can often be the most fun! The same is true about food; the best food in Asia is found on the street and it’s incredibly cheap. Some of the best meals in Asia cost less than 50p! The great thing about Asia is that you don’t need to pay for your entertainment because it’s all around you!

***** Plenty of bargains to be found

Earning as you go

Earning while you’re away is essential for many people. For travellers who do need to earn a few pennies, Asia is a good place to choose for your Gap year travelling. The continent has the biggest demand for English teachers and there are placements in a range of destinations including some of the world’s most exciting locations. Getting qualified is one of the best money saving investments travellers can make. For a relatively small price you can get qualified in double quick time and at least have it as a safety net in case you spend a little too much souvenir shopping! You’ll get access to TEFL contacts all over the continent and can easily include a little teaching in your itinerary.

***** There is nowhere better to earn money while travelling

The wow factor

Asia has the wow factor in bucket loads. It’s the most popular destination for westerners and millions of people can’t be wrong. The cultural and natural diversity of the continent offers the perfect backdrop to a gap year with enough going on to keep you entertained at just the right price to keep you solvent! The old favourite still has plenty to offer a new generation of travellers.

***** Everyone should go at least once. It’s the law

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http://www.i-to-i.com/travel-asia.html

The art of music, combining sound and lyrics, has been used by rogues, muses, and many drifters around the world to describe their adventures.  For this reason, for most vagabonds, music plays an important role in their lives.  Using sounds and stories that can travel through time, is instrumental for weary drifters, the music created can be used to uplift even the loneliest trip.

For roaming vagabonds, great music can help the traveler’s long journey go by a bit quicker and enhance their adventure.  A good tempo will always add some momentum to the spirit and faith of a long journey.  There can be different types of music for different types of trips; a long sad journey can be uplifted by adding favourite music that fills the soul with positive notions.  The traveller will sometimes find themselves in tune with the beat of the music and even entranced in the stories told in the songs.  The more creative vagabond will sometimes discover a new song to write and even sing about their own adventures.

How to create a good travel music playlist

• Start off by looking at your own collection.  Sort through all the song titles and artists from your collection and find music written and played specific to destinations, travel, and tempo.  A few songs for example are “Going Mobile” by The Who, “Drive” by Blind Mellon, “Jet Airliner” by The Steve Miller Band…
• Take the list of songs and add them together in a play list.  This is done depending on your source of music collection.  If your using a computer this is easily done using a media player, if you have CDs or other old school technology, you will have to copy, burn, or record the specified songs onto its source .
• Once you have a playlist recorded, burned or copy, give it a cool name to label it.  Use a theme related to travelling, such as “Vagabond Vocals”, “Gypsy Guitars”, or simply “My Travel Tunes”
• A good player such as a MP3 player, cassette player, CD player, DVD player, record player, will need to be carried with you on your trek.  If you are walking or cycling, a portable player might be more convenient.  Most cars, trucks, and recreational vehicles will have a player in them.  The type of player is up to the specific vagabond…whether you are old school or up with technology that depends on the individual.
• Today a portable computer devise is ideal, it will not only play music, but also the modern vagabond can watch music videos and more.  The portable computer may require a set of speakers for better sound quality and loudness.
• The musical travellers can play their own music using the instrument of their preference or just use their wonderful voices.  The preferred instruments for travellers are, like the music players, the portable types such as harmonicas, spoons, guitars, trumpets, whatever pleases the musician at heart.

When roving around, good tunes help the bad and irrelevant news from being heard..Turn on the Vagabonding Music and have a good trip!
The following link is a compilation of music found on YouTube that can help the vagabond with her travels.  Everyone has their own taste in music and there is a large variety of it to choose from.  This music has been chosen by theme related to travel and destination.

SAN FRANCISCO —May 6, 2009 — launched today, Pro Memberships from Viamigo.com help professionals – interpreters, tourism boards, tour operators, guides, schools, hotels, parks, cruises and more – to market their services to global travellers.
Pro Members are featured, can post up to 10 offers, and get a web link for just $149 per year, discounted by 20% by going to this site right now: http://Viamigo.com/tour-guide/travel

Travellers’ find in Viamigo authentic, localized experiences and insider adventures by connecting them with “personal tour guides” everywhere around the world.
The travel professional now have a web platform to introduce their services and provide insider information travellers. – How to get away from the popular tourist attractions and experience the secrets of a city and remote natural areas normally only enjoyed by locals. Traveller’s profit from their knowledge by having the kinds of experiences one often only reads about.
Version 1 of the site has been covered widely, by media such as Travel Weekly, the LA Times and Aurther Frommer blogged about the site.
“We got feedback from our professional members, from travellers and even media, and we incorporated their suggestions into V2,” says Viamigo founder, Jeffrey Goldsmith. “I personally went to trade shows like ITB and spoke to the industry, including tourism boards, a growing handful of who are members. They told me what they needed.”
Now the site offers travel professionals a way to blog, which can increase their search engine placement and put them in the top 10.
Tours can now be embedded in other sites for no cost – for example the travel section of a magazine or the website of a tourism board.
Key features for Pro Members:
• Create up to 10 offers to travellers.
• Allow a web link from all offers to the member site.
• Featured placement.
Key features for travellers:
• ‘Real’ places and people who offer experiences to travellers, from private guides to business interpreters to balloon rides to museums..
• Direct contact between travellers and people at their destination.
• Categories include wine, walking tours, diving, gay and lesbian interests, safaris, language immersion, fishing, food, shopping, history, local culture, bird watching, housing rentals and any kind of travel adventure

you might imagine.
From professional tourist guides, diving instructors, and archaeologists to connoisseurs of every sort, all are posting what they know, first-hand knowledge that make travel experiences more enriching.
“Travellers need more than online booking from the travel,” adds Jeff Goldsmith. “And that’s why travellers use Viamigo every day.”
About Viamigo
Viamigo is a privately held company based in San Francisco. The Viamigo web platform is a simple way for global travellers to find adventure and culture, by connecting with travel professionals. From private guide to fishing boat captains, culinary experts, licensed mountaineers to gallery owners, Viamigo helps travel professionals to market their services to global travellers who wish to visit both the most popular and the most remote corners of our planet.

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Spirit has announced that it is “partnering with other air carrier providers to continue to serve our customers.”  No details have been provided as to which airlines Spirit is working with or whether the airline would only be able to fly a partial schedule in the event of a strike. It is an unusual step taken by an airline during a strike. It is unknown if in fact, the pilots of other carriers will support Spirit or if they will actually stand with the striking pilots.

The airline is engaged in final talks this week with its pilot representatives in Washington, D.C. at the National Mediation Board.  Although there appears to be progress in their talks, it remains to be seen if a strike can be averted.

Pilot contract negotiations have been going on for the last three years.  Spirit pilots earn less on average than pilots working for other discount airlines.  Spirit counters that it has offered its pilots double digit percentage salary increases but that the pilots are being unreasonable in their demands.

June 12th has been identified by Spirit pilots as “strike day” and has warned Spirit customers via billboards in Spirit’s three major hubs (Atlantic City, Detroit, and Ft. Lauderdale) of possible flight cancellations as of that day. This too is an unusual step, and it will be interesting to see if this changes the behaviors of their flying customers.

Spirit’s pilot union has announced that Spirit’s pilots are willing to go without paychecks if that is what it takes to get paid in a manner that reflects their true value.

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Miami is considered as global city of huge reputation in finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts and international trade located in south eastern Florida, in the United States. It is the fourth-largest urban area in the United States with over 5.59 million residents. And above all, it is an international hub for entertainment industry in television, music, fashion, film and the performing arts and best place to travel by any mean.

There are many methods by which you can assure cheap car rental for yourself when you are on the tour of Miami. The best place to look out for affordable and cheap car rental in Miami is online websites. On a website, a traveler would easily come across a good number of car renting agencies offering exciting offers and schemes. Not only would the services provided at the car renting agency be cheaper but also be in varied range and price catering to each and every class and section of tourists and travelers.

In case, if you have planned to reach Miami on flight there is an option that you can struck a cheaper car rental deal through the travel agent who has booked airlines ticket for you. As it is normally a practice in air- ticketing that a travel agent providing air ticket remains in constant touch with car rental agency to provide its clients additional service. This way you can attain discount on the car rental service.

After selecting the car rental agency it is time to take decision on the make of the car. It is always advisable to choose between the category of compact or subcompact cars which are better option than full size sedan or minivan when you alone on the tour. The economy car not only saves you valuable dollars on price but is good bet when it comes in terms to save money on mileage and gas expenses. While traveling with friends, it is quite rational to travel in Sedan or Minivan. The other important tip for cheap car rental is the rental duration as tour planned in the end of the week you will find comparatively far cheaper than on working days.

The other important point when you are going for car rental from an agency either on a cheaper price or an expensive one is to check out the reputation of the company you are buying a car rental from. And above all never buy from a company that you have come across for the first time. It is possibility that you may be overcharged while buying online from the credit card that may further make the process of lowering down the price irreversible for you. You can even using Car Rental Discount Codes as provided by professional organizations like American Medical Association can bargain for cheaper rates.

Researchers have confirmed that little children are affected largely by what they listen in music and watch on television or in movies. However, even the most preeminent parents are frequently amazed by the amount of violence offered to little children these days even to those who are awfully young. It is being said that the initial few years of a child are truly vital for proper mental growth and also development. This is really true as a lot of psychological researches and also other developments have confirmed it. For this reason, many advanced learning or educational equipments have been initiated by teachers and other educationists, to guarantee the parents, a mentally strong child. This is the reason it is exceptionally vital that guardians control what kind of music children listen to and also what TV shows and movies they watch. Providentially, one method of doing so is by deciding on the children’s dvds, family travel and travel dvds.
Amazingly there are lots of good children’s dvds, family travel and travel dvds available that educate good values and also use respectable language. Whilst one might not be clever to completely cut the effect of media on these DVDs completely, as a minimum one can be convinced that young children are provided with something good to view, which will act as a counteract to balance all the violent behavior they get through in the most part of mainstream media. There are many child affable children’s dvds, family travel, travel dvds offered by different companies, but it does necessitate a thorough searching to get them. Nevertheless, when you think how much a kid can gain from watching these, then these are unquestionably worth the Endeavour.
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Guaranteed sunshine and swimming temperatures – with round-the-clock fun, relaxation and endless activities on a bleach white beach— are the main reasons Canadians continue to accept the deeply discounted deals offered on Mexico’s Yucatan, Baja and Pacific coastlines. But that’s just the beach.

Inland, the intriguing colonial cities of Guadalajara, Magdalena, Tequila, Morelia, and Oaxaca are eye-popping delightful, with the vibrancy of more than 60 indigenous cultures. According to the media members in the Canadian chapter of SATW (Society of American Travel Writers) this winter Mexico is hot, it’s cheap, and fascinating. Information is online at www.visitmexico.com, highlighted with a snapshot like this:

• Sunwing specializes in Mexico with flights from 18 Canadian gateways to the beaches of Cancun, Riviera Maya, Puerto Vallarta, Cozumel, Los Cabos, Huatulco, Ixtapa, Acapulco and Riviera Nayarit, with each of these destinations giving you an all-inclusive vacation. More information is available online at www.sunwing.ca.

• Intrepid Travel takes you to Mexico in quite a different way. Intrepid has a total of 15 itineraries, many in combination with the neighbouring countries of Central America. Durations are 10 to 46 days. Most exciting is the 15-day “Mexico Unplugged” itinerary where you will travel overland from Mexico City to Playa del Carmen taking in exotic Oaxaca and Palenque. This experiential combination is ideal for the curious traveler as it delivers a taste of timeless culture and history with snorkeling, beach, cuisine, tequila and cervesa. More information is available online at www.intrepidtravel.com.  

• Barcel? Hotels & Resorts are located in beach settings, but right next door to the original home of Aztec and Maya. Opt for an all-inclusive stay with experts in this aspect of Mexican culture and get to know the modern touches alongside ancient civilizations that have left us with a beguiling legacy. Look for Barcel? properties in Cancun, Cuernavaca, Huatulco, Ixtapa, Los Cabos, Manzanillo, Puerto Vallarta, and Riviera Maya. More information is available online at www.barcelo.com.