Top 5 Tips For Planning Your Overseas Travel This Year

Lunar New Year celebration has come to an end. After the week long break, we finally have to get back to our daily routine. For avid travelers, this is also the best time to start planning your overseas travel this year.

Hang on guys! I have put together some useful tips here just to help you spark a great idea on where and when to travel this year.

Fengshui guidelines

Believe it or not, according to Fengshui or Chinese Geomancy Master So, if you were born during Autumn and Winter in the Year of Pig, it is best to trigger your lucky star this year by traveling South Eastern side of the world. Otherwise, you should plan your travel to the Northern hemisphere.

You can check out other Fengshui guidelines according to your year of birth and month of birth. For strong believers, this could be the crucial factor to decide your travel plan.

Travel Trend

Whether you love to travel to somewhere fashionable or ‘in’ places this year to expect high crowds and high hotels and flights demand, or to avoid those places for more valuable and relaxing experience, the choice is always yours.

Trendsetting destinations such as Japan and Korea are highly popular these years. Whereas Paris and Venice are always a dream destination for travelers.

Current state of affairs

Check out news broadcasts and Google news online to find out if any travel city has any emergency situation currently.

Recent news announced that foreign visitors are again banned from entering Tibet this month until April for the sensitive uprising anniversary.

Also happened recently is the Korea KCC authority’s block over public access of porn and gambling websites. Not to mention the blockage of Facebook usage in China.

Knowing these online restriction can get you ready for other alternative solutions such as subscribing VPN service before travel to those countries. With VPN, you can watch Netflix from abroad or access Facebook in China without restrictions as well as overseas online shopping with added privacy and security.

Other threats to take note includes virus outbreaks in US and frequent volcano eruptions in Indonesia.

Seasons of year

This is no brainer for frequent flyers. If you want to experience the seas of white cherry blossoms in Japan, fly in March and April. Or else, visit Japan or Korea in October and November for the red Autumn leaves colors.

If you love sun bathing in Haeundae Beach, visit Korea during Summer. Or else, join their ice festival during Winter in January.

That said, typhoon and snow storm may hinder you from visiting these countries during Summer and Winter.

School holidays is also another deciding factor if you are traveling with your children. If you are traveling with your couple, try not to fly overseas during school semester breaks as huge crowd is always expected.

Not to mention the peak season locally such as the world’s largest human migration happening each year in China during Lunar New Year festive season in January and February.

Decide Your Budget

After all, your set aside budget is the single most important factor for your holidays planning this year. If you plan to visit Japan, you need a budget of as high as if you travel to Europe.

For the same amount of money to visit Sydney, you can visit both Bali and Phuket, or maybe even Siam Reap.

From a different perspective, you can either choose to stay longer in China or visit Japan briefly for the same budget.

With these tips above, I’m sure by now you know where you are going to travel this year. I know mine… – Travel Feeder