5 Must See Places In Bhutan

I once asked a friend of mine who had just travelled to Bhutan to tell me what he thought I should see if I ever went there. He said ‘there is nothing I can tell you about anywhere in particular, you should just see the entire country!‘.

With such a unique destination, you will need the best holiday travel insurance package you can afford. This is not meant to be a warning to put you off travelling to Bhutan; it is just plain common sense.
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5 Cycling Tips For Vietnam

Vietnam offers so much to every tourist. If you have the best travel insurance package, and had carefully planned your trip you are certain to have a memorable visit. These days, even cyclists can experience another side of Vietnam that is often hidden from other travellers. Cycling offers you the opportunity to visit out of the way villages whilst at the same time allowing you the freedom to move on country roads that allow you to get from one destination to another.

Usually, the small villages between the major towns are the ones that stay in your memories as you are bound to meet warm-hearted villages who will welcome you into their everyday lives without a second thought.
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5 Destinations You Don’t Want To Miss In Vietnam

It is hard to imagine that Vietnam was once a war-ravaged country with a people brought to its knees by the savage fighting between North and South. These days there are only subtle reminders of those times and the image of Vietnam is now emerging as one of a peaceful, friendly people who share their warm hearts with anyone who cares to visit their beautiful country. Planning a trip to Vietnam is now an easy matter and apart from the usual formalities such as visas and travel insurance, there is nothing else to stop you from enjoying this wonderful destination.

Vietnam offers a wide variety of cultural, artistic and culinary delights, especially in the southern regions, that it will be difficult to you to fit everything into a tight schedule. If you can manage it, said a leisurely pace and give yourself time to explore the country from north to south, using trains where you can, cycling in the cities if you’re up to it, and strolling through the dozens of markets that seemed to spring up at every turn.
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Top 5 Beach Experiences in Thailand

Australia is reputed to have one of the strongest beach cultures in the world, but many Australians still choose to travel to Thailand to experience their beaches. Although there have been some suggestions that Thai beaches are not as safe as Australia’s, and many tourists suggesting that ordinary travel insurance will not be sufficient, this is largely an exaggeration.

Of course, the main difference is that Thai beaches do not offer the same rolling surf that can be expected in Australia. Instead, you can look forward to peaceful tree-lined tropical beaches, with pure white sand and friendly locals that will make your stay a magical one.
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Top 3 Food Experiences in Thailand

If I had a dollar for every time someone said to me ‘make sure you have enough travel insurance when you go to Asia’, I’d be quite rich today. In the main however this is good advice, but as far as food goes you should have no trouble when you travel to Thailand.

People travel to Thailand for many reasons. The shopping is fantastic and cheap, the people are wonderfully friendly, warm and generous, and the food is to die for. In fact, if you’re looking for a complete culinary experience you would be hard-pressed to find a more accommodating destination than Thailand.
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Travel Health Overview – Altitude Sickness

Most of us plan very well for our trips away from home, and for overseas trips in particular. However, there is one condition that almost always takes people by surprise – altitude sickness. This is very much a disease of modern times – in the past, it wasn’t possible for us to ascend a mountain quickly enough that we would not be used to the lowered oxygen levels of high altitudes. Now planes and cars have made this a very real worry – but unfortunately it isn’t possible to tell who will be worst affected by it! We look at the recommended level of travel insurance cover for places prone to causing altitude sickness, and how you can identify and recover from it.
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Travel Health Overview – Deep Vein Thrombosis

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is one of the scariest of all travel-related diseases. It can affect relatively healthy people, taking relatively short flights. People in their twenties have been known to develop DVT, as have people that are fanatical exercisers and have never had a cardiovascular problem in their life. There is no vaccination for DVT – however there are certain precautions that you can take to protect yourself against it. There are also certain precautions that you can take against the financial loss you might suffer if your trip is disrupted by having to seek medical treatment for DVT, such as travel insurance. We take an in-depth look at the condition.
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Summer 2009/10 Travel Health Alerts

Nobody wants to get sick on an overseas holiday! Much as travel insurance has freed us to truly enjoy other countries, including their rivers, food and people without the risk of coming home tens of thousands of dollars in debt from medical bills, prevention is always better than cure. The health landscape worldwide is constantly changing, as new strains of disease evolve and find resistance to current treatments, so it is important to check out current events in the world health arean before you leave the country. Today we look at what you should be aware of, for travel insurance and vaccination purposes, if you are travelling overseas during summer 2009/2010.
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The History of Travel Insurance

Sometimes it seems that insurance cannot be more than a hundred years old … after all, before 1900 there were few people that owned cars, most built their houses by hand and did not take out an enormous bank loan for it, and there was almost no overseas travel (after all, many people had to walk for a full day just to get to the nearest town!). In fact, insurance in general (and even travel insurance) has been around for literally thousands of years. We travel from ancient Mesopotamia to the 21st century, exploring how insurance has changed.
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Is Insurance a Form of Gambling? The Ned Flanders Approach to Travel

For those of us that have grown up with the concept of insuring important or expensive things, the idea that it is a form of gambling is usually quite foreign. After all, there is a world of difference between the glazed eyes and bad decisions that fill pokies venues, and the sensible mainstream idea of insurance. Actually, insurance can be likened to gambling – but only in a very abstract sense. Today we explore the Ned Flanders approach to travel and travel insurance … and why for most of, his ar-diddly-arguments just don’t hold up!
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