useful tips for travellers and tourists

1	While you are planning your travel to foreign countries, read the items banned for taking inside carry-on or check-in baggage. Download the forms to be filled while on-flight and before landing for immigration purposes. For example, the authorities are serious about food items being brought from outside their countries.
2	Study the pedestrian rules while walking and crossing the streets. Obey the traffic rules and cross the road only with green signals.
3	In places where photography is prohibited, do not take photos, just because nobody is around. The CCTV may be watching you.
4	Always carry photocopies of your ID, Passport and Insurance and other information details as you visit places.
5	Acquaint yourself with the city maps and other tourist places of interests. When in a crowd, safeguard your documents and wallet, while commuting. You can record the places as you travel in a bus/metro as indicated in my diary extract, which will be useful. Always carry a diary with you, while travelling.
6	Do not walk for long on roads, which are just covered with snow, as they will be slippery and unpredictable.
7	Do not introduce yourself to anybody, whom you do not know.
8	If you have a camera and trekking in new places, take photos at turning points, which will help in retracing the same path for returning.
9	Study the daily temperature variations and choose our timings to go out.
10	Eat outside food which you can digest.

Rangararajan Ramaswamy Bangalore 01.01.2014