If you are looking for a location in Switzerland offering great nature and a interesting hiking options away from the main attractions like the Jungfraujoch or Matterhorn, the Creux du Van is worth a look.
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This section of our international travel guide covers all you need to know to find a travel health insurance fitting your personal needs. We describe the minimum coverage you should look out for and give advise on common pit falls waiting in the fine print. Once you know what to look out for, it is easy to judge the many offers available.
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The third part of our international travel guide tells you how to book your rental car for your holidays.
When it comes to car rental, almost every need can be satisfied. Available cars range from regular cars, camper vans and recreational vehicles towards highly specialized four wheel drives. Below we give you a short overview on the different car categories you can choose from.
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This section of our international travel guide explains how to buy cheap airline tickets in a two steps process.
First, you identify possible travel routes to reach your destination. For example: Are you looking for a direct flight or do you plan a stop over. Once you decided on these details, enter your flight details into several search engines or airline booking systems and compare the prices.
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In this part of our travel guide we explain how to take a leave of absence or a sabbatical without jeopardizing your career. We assure you: Everybody can and should do it. Only taking a time off, exploring different cultures and especially being out of the tread mill allows you to see things differently.
Unfortunately, being back from a three months trip to New Zealand and Australia, we are amazed how many people ask us: "How did you manage to take off for such a long time? I will never be able to do that!"
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This guide will teach you how to make your dreams about self directed international traveling come true.. We give detailed guide lines for every single step of the planning process. Completing this list ensures you can fully enjoy your travel.
We believe in active traveling - see our about page for more details - and that we can enjoy traveling the most when only planning the basics for our trips. This allows for a maximum of flexibility and limits unwanted surprises.
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If you know where to go, New Zealand allows you to watch seals, sea lions, penguins and even dolphins in their natural environment for free. And best of all. If you are really lucky you even get to swim with dolphins and seals.
We also list some non-free locations as these might - depending on your travel plans or weather condition - increase your chance of watching animals.
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You have a vivid imagination and you wonder what creativity can turn scrap metal into? Then you have to visit the Steampunk HQ at Oamaru. At the time of writing we have been travelling New Zealand for three weeks and besides beautiful nature and wildlife, the Steampunk HQ is the one thing standing out. Even if you are not into Steampunk go there and see were your inspriation takes you. Outside of the museum an airship and a train are on display. Feeding them with a 2\$ coin gives you a glimps of what to expect inside.
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After buying/renting several cars in the different countries we have been visiting, I figured it would be about time to have a short checklist to go through when picking up the next car in Australia.
Therefore as a reminder to ourselves and whoever might find this useful, you should be looking at the following:
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I usually prefer the country side when it comes to cities but Sydney is a wonderful. The climate is pleasent, it offers a lot to explore - even nature wise - and the people are friendly and helpful. Only in Sydney people walked up to us and asked if they could give us directions as we were looking at the city map. After covering Singapore the last week, today we explain how to explore Sydney on a three day stopover.
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