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The following tips will help make your trip safe and enjoyable:
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- Tape your name, phone number, address, to the inside of your luggage.
- Photograph contents of luggage.
- Use a doorstop from the inside of your hotel room to lock the door in addition to all the other locking devices.
- Take along a portable smoke detector.
- Don't drink the water.
- Photocopy the first two pages of your passport and your visas and keep them in a separate place.
- If you enter a country that requires a visa, be prepared to show evidence you have enough cash to support yourself, plus your return ticket to prove you will be leaving.
- Find out well in advance of your trip what vaccinations are required.
- If you need to carry medication, carry a copy of your original prescription and make sure all medicines are in their original packaging.
- Do not expect to rely on credit cards or ATMs as they are not globally accepted yet.
- Make sure your passport is valid for at least six months after your expected return.
- Take out extra travel insurance and leave a copy of the documentation with someone at home.
- Never carry every piece of identification you have in one place.
- Don't answer the door in your hotel room without verifying whom it is. Check with the front desk to verify whom it is if they say that they are hotel staff.
- Use the main entrance to the hotel at night and check carefully around you before entering parking lots.
- Check to see that any sliding glass doors and windows are locked as well as any connecting doors to other rooms.
- Rather than carrying papers with all of the important numbers (passports, travelers' cheques, credit cards, phone numbers to call for lost or stolen cards, ID, etc.) send yourself an email with all of the information prior to departure.
- Take a picture postcard from the hotel you are staying at. If you don't speak the language, the cab driver will know where to take you when you show them the card.
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