I have done it a lot with traveling in the U.S, usually using Expedia, but now i’m looking to travel to Europe and Japan/Asia. Looking for times to go to these places, and good sites, or if i need to bundle or break up hotel/flight. THanks!

What’s your budget? Are you a student or grandparent or..? Are you trying to keep money-spending to a low or do you have a tonne of money to spend on this trip? Expedia actually isn’t very good if you’re looking to get a decent price. You will end up paying a lot of money on something that you can find much cheaper elsewhere.

If you go to Europe, fly to London and get a connecting flight with another airline (recommendations are Easy Jet, Ryan Air and Germany Wings) instead of trying to fly directly from your hometown to the city of choice in Europe. This will save you a bundle.

Check out STA or travelcuts.ca to get some great deals on flights. Don’t book bundles. Again, this will significantly increase your price. Check out Lonely Planet guides to your country/region of choice (any book store will sell them). They have some excellent deals on hotels and hostels. hostelworld.com is also good and if you don’t want to stay in a hostel, they still have hotels and others there for you.

Also check out Airline-Booking.com for great Paris Travel Deals!

I would like to travel Taiwan sometime, but wonder if it possible to cut hotel and flight budget.
Can anyone give me information abuot cheap hotel, flight and where is good place to go?
If anyone can give some websites for forums to get more information will be perfect.

You can try at http://www.forumosa.com which is probably the largest english forum discussing Taiwan living and issues as well as some travel stuff.

You can try http://www.eztravel.com and see if you can purchase any tickets etc.

If you want some good information about places to go and things to do: check out http://www.taiwanfun.com and look around at each location.

You can try your luck at lonelyplanet.com but I think you will get better info here or at forumosa.com.

some suggestions to start out your search:

Taipei 101, (Taipei)

National Palace Museum, (Taipei)

Taipei zoo, (Taipei)

Yangmingshan National Park, (Taipei) *good view of some steam vents from the volcano, and many walking trails with pretty flowers all year.

Jhi-Bei Mountain Village (between Taipei and Ilan)
*an interesting mountainside village that has a great view of the ocean. Small windy walking streets. Parking is hell for cars, bus this one if possible. Lots of mini lanes and teahouses and it was a former gold mining town. You can see the tailings and nastiness still in the water down the road where the mine shafts were. The town is nice but is pretty steeply built. That it has survived so many earthquakes, typhoons is actually quite a feat in itself!

Bei-Tou Hot Springs, (Taipei)

Shr-Lin Night Market (Taipei) *try the street food. Yum!

Taroko Gorge (Hualien) *rent a scooter if you are brave and travelling with 2p or alone. take a small 10 person or less bus if you arent. Or share the cost of renting a car with some other travellers for BEST experience. The BIG 30p+ buses are a problem on the tiny roads here in my opinion, and the roads are very sketchy in parts. But it is amazing.

Sun Moon Lake (Nantou) *on a weekday. Don’t go on weekends unless you can handle crowds.
Kenting National Park and Beach areas. *also better on weekdays. Weekends are ugly crowds.

for other answers check:
http://www.taiwanfun.com
http://forumosa.com

Personally I think you will find Taipei (for modern development and an overall view of what western Taiwan looks like..) and Hualien (for natural beauty in the inner canyon and mountain ranges of the Pacific Rim) to be the best parts of your tour in Taiwan.

The Central MRT station is arguably a good tourist landmark as well.

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The universe is considered able to borrow energy, leading to virtual particle creation, but I have not heard of Particles borrowing energy, especially from the future.

"Particles affecting each other without a medium between them" is referring to quantum entanglement, but I’m afraid I don’t really know enough about that to clarify it.

So as a conclusion, I don’t believe that these theories taken together could explain any form of precognition.

But the underlying issue is that the agent never alerted him about the use of her personal miles.

"If you mean the air miles used to purchase your friend’s plane ticket originally belong to the travel agent, yes it is allowed. For many airlines, the dirt cheap air tickets do not earn air miles too, not every ticket is entitled to air miles. For travel agents, using their own air miles to book a ticket for a customer at a low price is one of their ways to make a profit and there is nothing wrong with it."

This is completely wrong. By taking money and then using his or her miles to book the ticket, the travel agent is selling awards, which is explicitly in violation of the terms and conditions of nearly every single frequent flier program operating throughout the world today. Not only is this practice bad for the seller — the airline may choose a number of penalties for the account holder, including the forfeiture of miles or the closure of the account altogether — but the buyer of the ticket can be penalized as well.

The airline, under the terms of the frequent flier program, usually has the right to terminate the award ticket if they determine that it has been sold in violation of the program’s rules. This means that your friend, if it’s discovered that he purchased an award ticket, may either not get to go on his trip at all, or if they discover it when he’s trying to come home, he may be forced to buy a walkup one-way ticket back home, which could be extremely expensive.

(If either of these things occur, then your friend will only have recourse against the travel agent in trying to get his money back — the airline’s terms are clear that the ticket can be unilaterally cancelled.)

It doesn’t matter whether the ticket would or would not have earned miles based on the fare code — when a person buys a ticket from a travel agent, I venture that they’d have a reasonable expectation that they were buying a revenue ticket, and not just buying an award that runs a risk of being cancelled from under them if the airline questions where the award came from. For that reason, I’d highly suggest that your friend speak to this agent and ask for a refund — barring that, I’d personally consider filing a chargeback with the credit card company, if a card was used, based on misrepresenation of the item purchased.

From there you would of course need to find out what the regulations in that specific country is for guiding there. Each country is different, ranging from no requirements through to some rather tough requirements (such as in Botswana).

The next thing is to decide exactly what kind of guiding you want to do. Do you want to work at a lodge and just do game drives for that lodge, or do you want to do mobile safaris where you drive around a country visiting different lodges or do you want to do camping tours (where you will also need to know how to cook and so on.) What level of the market are you interested in – do you like to work with big groups, like bus tours where you deal with 30 odd people, or do you prefer to work with private trips where you only have one or two couples.

Doing some tour guide training course, specific to what you hope to do, will help a lot, but it is not everything. Most likely you will need to have a current first aid certificate as well. And most of your field knowledge you are going to need to teach yourself. Start with a good field guide to African Mammals (Kingdom Field Guide to African Mammals if you can afford it) and birds (get a regional one, not one of the ones for the whole of Africa. Sasols in Southern Africa, perhaps Stevenson and Fanshawe in East Africa).

When you are becoming a guide, keep in mind that nobody wants a bunch of facts, people want to hear the story. You need to know the facts, but don’t just sound like an encyclopedia on drive, tell them what is going on. If you get that right, you’ll become a valuable guide.

Your personal presentation is important – both for your potential employer and for your guests on safari.

I am just asking because everyone in the states know that the Gulf coast region is really getting hammered with the oil and tourism is almost completely dead now. It is also political because Obama isn’t making British Petroleum move fast enough for some people.