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Useful things or supplies to take in a trip = = The first aid kit is very useful especially when you travel on a bus, on in your car. You never know when you or a person might have an accident. (Richard Vargas) || A laptop is quite useful when you travel abroad because you can get in touch with your famlily, friends, and people at your office. Besides you can perfectly upload your favorite photos or videos on facebook. (Richard Vargas) ||  || Be careful with your luggage when you arrive at the airport or hotel, even though a bellboy help you. You don't know people very well and you can't have a lapse of concentration because somebody might steal you. (Lady Medina) ||  || would need a carry-on bag. You can perfectly keep it with you in the airplane compartment. Your principal suitcases could be late, lost or are bound for other place.(YEIMI NIETO VERDUGO) ||  ||   || Sometimes a dictionary can really help you when you are abroad. If you don't know a word, your dictionary might help you a lot. (Richard Vargas) ||  || [Gustavo Herrera] ||  ||   || It's neccesary to carry a very use useful dental brush kit. Keep smiling and give a very goof first impression to other people. Never forget brushing your teeth and make sure the kit is always with you ||  || important to take along more than one pair of shoes. Probably there will be some situations where you will need to jump over the mud or go to a job interview, or would you feel comfortable going to an appointment after having stepped on poop on the street? I don't think so. That's why it's good to carry formal ones and informal ones. (John Soler) ||  ||   || (Sunscreen: a cream or lotion rubbed on to the skin to protect it from the sun.Repellent: a substance used to repel a specified thing.)Sunscreen and repellent:These elements are so important when traveling because you need to think about your skin care.If you want to enjoy wherever you go it�s necessary you keep in mind your health.Don�t wait until the last minute to apply them because they won�t be effective.(Andrea Rodr�guez) || ======Do you like taking pictures in your trips?! or when you practise some xtrem sports like to climb, and you can´t take pictures during your activitie, because you can´t find your camera in the bag. Now we have the best bag ever! you can move fast and easy. Also have a lot pockets when you can find your camera and the lens. No matter what did you do! For any activitie you can use! Just go for it!! (Laura Jiménez) ====== ||  || Later you travel for the same place and the pictures that you took. Are depressed, the colors, the quality you dont like it!! You feel depressing too. Dont worried about it! Now The Nikon is the best option that you can find! Nikon have the best quality ever, full color, a lot options for your pictures. (Laura Jiménez) ||  || If you don't have all your documents organised when you are in immigration, you are going to be in hot water [Natalia Romero]. || ||   ||
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 * [[image:http://www.solostocks.com/img/juego-de-maletas-tipo-trolley-6281343z0.jpg width="466" height="463" caption="Take a carry on bag"]] || [[image:http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQwEKhMJch-Lg08LWhsCYVsNBSJQiU2eFqPd6jMm-H5hOu7UsHEjfGvQw width="175" height="187"]]
 * A little handbag, just to pack up some pair of clothes, personal things and staff.You never know when you
 * [[image:travel-hassles-and-experiences/toiletry_bag.JPG caption="Toiletries: articles used in washing and taking care of one's body, such as soap and shampoo."]] || [[image:travel-hassles-and-experiences-ch510/Dictionary.gif caption="Take a dicitionary with you when you travel abroad."]]
 * Toiletry bags are a necessity when you travel. They are great for organizing personal hygiene for your trip.
 * [[image:http://www.vitalsignspgh.com/sole/images/haiti_shoes.png width="615" height="260" align="center" caption="Different kinds of shoes are really important when you travel. Just be sure of knowing the purpose of your trip and pack accordingly."]] || [[image:http://es.ideas4all.com/ideas/0000/0388/cepillo-de-dientes.jpg caption="external image cepillo-de-dientes.jpg"]]
 * SHOES: No matter what kind of shoes we like and no matter what place are we going to to visit, it is
 * [[image:travel-hassles-and-experiences/sunscreen.gif width="196" height="203"]][[image:travel-hassles-and-experiences/natural-insect-repellent.png width="301" height="221"]]
 * [[image:travel-hassles-and-experiences/sunscreen.gif width="196" height="203"]][[image:travel-hassles-and-experiences/natural-insect-repellent.png width="301" height="221"]]
 * [[image:travel-hassles-and-experiences/51r-haS-6cL._SL500_AA300_.jpg]] || How do you feel! When you see the pictures in the magazine are very exciting. About landscapes, people, architecture, people, cultures, food from one place that you don´t know.
 * Are you tired of fumbling on your bag for your documents and tickets? Not being ready is something that ticks you off. I suggest you carrying a **waist bag**. It's important that you keep all your travel documents,tickets, credit cards, keys, cash and other essential items organised and closed to your hand.
 * || If you want to travel by car, i'ts important to wear an efective pair of glasses to protect your eyes against the Sun. (Richard Vargas) ||  ||
 * [[image:http://www.regalopack.com/tienda/61-100-thickbox/monedero-de-playa-con-cordon-para-colgar.jpg width="158" height="175"]][[image:http://www.regalopack.com/tienda/61-99-large/monedero-de-playa-con-cordon-para-colgar.jpg width="212" height="209"]] || [[image:http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSpcSRHtTmwmdHpouevxalkeN0PPc9wpmq16OMpZ7K5rikn4N1y1w]] ||  ||
 * It's essential you use a beach purse on your vacations, this thing is not only so handy but also necessary if you want to swim at the beach. You can keep your cash and other important documents inside it.(Lady Medina) || when you travel wherever you absolutelly need to carry a video camera just because you can take ever expirences that you have it,for instance, if you carry a video camera in a colombia tour, you will keep all of the amazing landscapes that colombia have. || carr ||
 * [[image:travel-hassles-and-experiences/jacket.jpg]] ||  ||   ||
 * If you going to travel taking a jacket is very wise. For instance, if you going to cold weather the jacket is going to be your ally. If you going to hot weather is never a bad idea to take a jacket, it can help you at nights and to come back to your home town. (Daniel Peña) ||  ||   ||

= **Describe a travel nightmare**

When I traveled to Ukraine in 2007 I had a big hassle since my luggage got lost. I did not know what to do because at that time I did not know anything about Russian language so I got stressed. I asked a lot of people for help but they did not understand what I said. I guess they thought I was nuts or something like that. After going around the airport I finally found the lost and found office. Here I met a very nice guy who helped me out. So, he was the only person who spoke English.I had to fill out a format to spot my bag. Then, I had to explain what I had in my luggage. The person in charge of the office helped me to exchange dollars into Hrivnas, which is the Ukrainian currency. Then everything went alright because my luggage was sent to my appartment in Dinipropetrosvk, the city I was living in Ukraine. The only thing I have to complain about is that these guys at the airport, I think they were police officers, fumbling around my things. They disorganized everything. I am afraid they were looking for drugs, or "Narcotics" as it is said in Russian.



If you want to know a little bit more about Ukraine [|click here](Richard Vargas)

I had a difficult situation when I was returning from Villavicencio to Bogota, the car in which my family and I were coming back was damage, so my father tried to repair the car but it didn´t work. While we were looking for a solution a man passed around and he offered us his help. The car worked again, but only for a few meters. Then, my father decided to call to a tow truck and we went to a gas station to repair the car. Finally we had to went home in a bus. (Andrea Rodríguez)

I traveled to Santa Marta in 2007 with a round ticket trip. (Arrived the date to return to Bogota) I went to the counter to make the checking when the clerk said me that my reservation was expired (it was at 11 am and I was at the airport at 5 pm) and I had to buy a new ticket but in another airline because everything was full, so I was totally annoyed about that because when I made the reservation I confirmed the flight time, I complained about that and insisted to get a solution, the clerk listened to me and said me I had to wait. I stayed in the waiting room for 30 minutes without getting an answer from them, I just thought that I had to work the next day. Finally the airline employees said me I could take the flight, so I ran because the plane was about to leave. Really it was a terrible travel nightmare for me. (Lady Medina)

Some years ago, I had a travel nightmare when I was visiting Carmen de Apicala with my family. My family is a little big and always we like to travel together. We had a problem when we were coming back, because we didn´t have tickets to come back and for that reason was more difficult to find transportation for all my family. That day we had to wait almost 5 hours and after all these difficulties, finally we found transport to return but so expensive and very uncomfortable. ( Nathaly Acosta)

I remember when I was a child, I traveled to medellin with my parents in a colombia tour. In the bus where we were traveling there were a couple with a kid, suddenly when the bus arrived to medellin everybody left the bus, then the bus continued wiht the tour to another city, while everybody was enjoying of landscape of medellin three minutes later the couple noticed that their kid was not in there with them, so the girl was very scared because that situation chokes her out, then the man began to call everybody, police, firemen, and the tour agency, because they realize that they forgot their kid in the bus since the kid was sleeping. After when the father called to the agengy they located the bus, and the driver realized that the kid was sleeping in the bus during along time. After the couple took another bus and traveled to cali to meeting with their kid again. (Mario Alexis Herrera).

I couldn't remember it, but an event came to my mind. When I was a child, my mom, my sister and I went to Chiquinquirá on a pilgrimage. We were at the Church when suddenly my sister got lost. My mom and I were extremelly worried. There were a lot of people therefore it was so difficult to find her. No matter how carefully we looked for her, anybody gave us good news. Happily, one of the people who traveled with us found my little sister. It was a distressing experience but thank God we are together now [Natalia Romero].

My nightmare experience was in January of this year. I went to La Vega-Cundinamarca with my mother, my brother and my grandmother. We went in a holiday monday because We wanted to know that town. Since the begining the trip was a crap because the transportation was stucked, when We finally got there after the 2 longest hours of my life, We started to walk around the town however there was not a lot to see there and at the lunch time We tried to look for the nicest place trying to get delicious food although the food was terrible. But the worst part was about to come. We asked in 3 different places to get the tickets to return to Bogota but there were just available for the last bus at 10:00 pm, so We decided to bought them and to wait. The traffic had been stucked all the day and along the road and our bus arrived to that town at 12:00 am and We had to took it to finally arrive to our home at 2:30 in the morning. (John Soler) Laura Jiménez One the best thing that I lived was when I went to Guanabara III is a place from Amazonas in Brazil where I had the oportunity for learn and meet about the native culture (Tikunas) their manners, Rituals, food, language and all of them. That experience change my live, because all in there was diferent for me. Like to the latrines, when you need a shower or wash the dirty dishes. normaly you never think about it. But in this place and in this comunity, if you want to go to shower. The river is the only solution the same with the dishes or with the clothes. Before I felt scared. Because the Amazonas River has a lot terror stories. And this experience teach me that I don´t need to live with facilities, luxuries, things fashion Because **when you thinking about it. You forget to live.** And I love that experience!

My nightmare was in January the last. We had a bad experience when we traveled to Cavo de la Vela in Colombia. We were on the beach and my sister went to the ocean to swim. She was swimming at the sea when a jellyfish attack herself in her leg. She started crying and we noticed that in her leg she had a nasty rash. In Cavo de la Vela is not a hospital, so we needed to go to Rioacha’s hospital. In the hospital they could attend us fast. At the hospital the doctor gave her a medicine and we return to the hotel at night with any problem. (Yeimi Nieto Verdugo).  I was in the bus to Girardot, and it was a nightmare. I had a stomach-ache and i had to go to the bathroom very often. Of the hours i traveled i spent one hour in the bus bathroom. I was so happy to finally arrive to Girardot. (Daniel Peña)