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Whether you’re packing for your first traveling journey or your 100th, it’s always best to keep these quick travel tips in mind.

1. Shop Around: Check with as many vendors as possible for the best in flight deals. Make sure you look for the best rate possible when you’re looking to order airline tickets. Try travel agents or online travel sites, you’re sure to find the lowest rate available at that present time.
2. Keep It Up to Date: Make sure your passport is up to date. The last thing you want to happen is watching your friends board the plane while you’re stuck at home squandering the amazing travel deals you found for yourself and friends. They will not let on you the plane with an expired passport.
3. More Money, More Problems: Make sure you know how your currency translates in the country your going to. This will help you from being ripped off in any way.

4. Know the Ins and Outs: Make sure you know what you’re getting into. A lot of countries overseas have different customs than your own and the last thing you want to do is offend people without knowing what you’re doing. It may hurt your experience in the country without ever knowing what happened; ignorance isn’t always bliss.
5. Keep Your Friends Close and Your Personal Information Even Closer: keep your personal information like identifications cards and passports with you at all times. Often, tourists will be targeted for pick-pocketing. Make sure the items are safe and secure.

Now you’re ready to be on your way, safely and adventurously!

The Northern Mexico states Durango and Coahuila have been added to the list of Mexican states that U.S. travelers should not visit.

The U.S. State Department made the alert after four recent American killings in those areas, in late 2009 and in early 2010.

But not to worry, you still need to get to Los Cabos anyway!

We know you’ve always wanted to go to Morocco but you’ve just never made the time or had the dough, but we have a great travel steal of a deal for you this morning.

From just $1,100 per person you can enjoy eight nights in Morocco with a stay at the Casablanca Hotel along with a tour that sees stops from  Marrakech to Volubilis’ Roman ruins. Now we have your attention!

With two-thirds of their scheduled flights cancelled Monday to Thursday, Lufthansa airlines faces a possible strike from their pilots which could mean many disruptive travel plans on your end.

The airline company is still in talk with the pilot’s union to avoid a complete pilot walk-out but a skeleton staff has already been assigned to handle customer service and ticket counters.

A complete walk-out would be terrible for the airline that has already seen a steady decline in traffic since last year.

India’s colorful neighborhoods of Bangalore are a common travel spot for tourists.  Getting a closer feel for local life is always the  best way to take in a culture.

A steal of an Egypt travel deal is up for grabs.  Enjoy six nights in the country with round-trip airfare from $1459.

You’ll spend the first three nights in Cairo’s Oasis Hotel and the next three aboard the Ramses King of the Nile cruise ship. Isn’t it time that you finally saw the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx in person?

You’ll be sailing the blue seas aboard Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas and enjoying five long night on this Mexican cruise.

Departing from Tampa with stops in Costa Maya and Cozumel, this cruise starts at just $391 per person which includes all your meals and non-alcoholic drinks, entertainment and travel insurance.  Sound like a great deal?  That’s cause it is!

Have you been delinquent about Valentine’s Day plans?  Well then, we have just the thing for you!

How about three romantic nights in Puerto Rico with round-trip airfare from just $617 per person?  You’ll be staying at the Ricon Beach Resort where romance won’t escape you.  Book now or you won’t get out of the doghouse until 2012!

After a vacation, how do you share your travel photos with your friends and family?  Do you make everyone sit in the dark basement with a projector or are you more into Snapfish printing?

With more and more photo sharing sites popping up, we thought we’d share with you the best free photo sites.

1. Flickr
2. Facebook
3. Google’s new Buzz through Gmail
4. Zooomr
5. Picasa
6. Photobucket
7. PhotoShop Express
8. Epics3
9. Polaroid Studio
10. TwitPic