I want to travel by myself. What preparations should be made?

Self-help travel is becoming more and more popular because of its individuality and flexibility, including self-help travel which is very hot now. But most people who don't have a self-help tour have no bottom in their hearts, so it is difficult to take the first step. As an early self-help traveler, I have summed up some experiences, especially the poor tourism environment in the west. Of course, self-help tour is not equal to outdoor sports. No professional knowledge is needed, and there is no requirement for people. It should be said that the main problem of self-help tour is to prevent being cheated, to prevent spending too much money and to protect yourself. In short, the best self-help tour is to achieve the goal of your own travel, with less accidents and less regrets, no matter whether this goal is reasonable or not.

1, personal safety

Personal priority is also the most important issue for relatives (don't always think about yourself). Now people's costs are getting higher and higher, and their own safety is equivalent to keeping their families safe.

1. 1 The key is not to get too excited. Keeping calm can help you tide over the difficulties. According to experts' research, due to the influence of inertial thinking, people will turn a blind eye when new environment or danger approaches. When you find death, he suddenly-just for a moment, let you go to heaven;

1.2 Young people's self-confidence is bursting to the extreme, be careful! More safety margin should be set aside. I once met a student in Huashan. He ran across the plank road at the top of the mountain and found it safe. What does this mean? ! If the moss on the wood slips on you, or something distracts your god, your 100% vitality will suddenly become 0, or even 50% and 1% will be gone!

1.3 fear the power of nature, which is more obvious in the west. Many outdoor accidents in recent years are obviously the result of ignoring natural forces. If you pay attention, then "danger" seems redundant, but if you let your guard down, danger will suddenly appear. It can be measured as follows: Is there any danger such as collapse and landslide here (Brother Lu San); Whether you can get out of danger in time when you are injured or abnormal (Yu Chunshun); Can you escape (Sanqingshan incident) when it becomes opaque here ... If you don't have this ability, don't make a move.

1.4 Listen to the local people's safety suggestions and see the lessons of the accident. Even if you have your own abacus, you should understand it carefully. Don't bite the bullet and say nothing. Arrived at Nanping at 4 pm one year to stop tractors and vans from entering Jiuzhaigou. The locals refused in fear. I despised these locals at that time, only 40 kilometers! Only when I walked through the "spectacular" wasteland did I understand.

1.5 Every time you go to a place, be sure to call or telegram home, the place and the plan. This will only reassure your family, and there will be a range of what happens. Although your family seems to be very supportive of your trip. Actually, they don't know how worried they are!

2. Property safety

Self-help tours often haunt public places such as stations and streets, and robberies occur at any time.

2. 1 The protection targets are wallet, satchel, pocket and backpack in turn.

2.2 Have a sense of "safe distance". When a stranger enters this distance, you should feel uncomfortable.

2.3 Pay attention to the back of the opponent's friend (the back is the key), and please "cover the flank" according to the military platoon terminology. I stopped a thief right behind my friend in Yili. Local people say that more and more people are eating white powder. ...

2.4 The way to hide money has been explored for a long time to prevent searching, robbing, stealing, cutting and dragging. We tried underwear and lost it when it was convenient; Soles, but shoes will leave their feet or get wet; Trousers, afraid of being torn in the wild. Finally, I think it's better to have a close-fitting waist pocket, which is wrapped thinly outside the underwear. It is safe and convenient. Outdoor shops have professional sales, ranging from 20 to 45 yuan, but don't forget when taking a shower.

2.5 Don't drink the wine of strangers.

2.6 Most people who come to you are not good people, but most of them are sincere people. What time is it now ... you can't trust strangers who come forward to help you enthusiastically.

2.7 netizens can have a good time with their peers, but don't believe it until you really know it. Does his online speech have a long enough history? Do you know his ID card, address and company occupation?

2.8 In crowded places, such as stations, backpacks should be clipped on your feet or seated. Habitual thieves usually distract you and get it from each other. The bag you obviously met may be missing.

Step 3 be alive

3. 1 self-help tour suggests that the accommodation requirements should not be too high. Generally speaking, accommodation is a bed. It is safe, clean, quiet and convenient. I believe most people can accept that star-rated hotels have low cost performance.

3.2 Be careful of the black shop. Look at the number of guests and you will know the quality of the guests.

3.3 Whether it is a star-rated or well-known shop, always maintain a high degree of anti-theft awareness. Relatively speaking, high-class hotels in remote mountainous areas and big cities will be better, while small towns that have already opened in the urban-rural fringe should be much more careful.

3.4 Looking for a store: In a suitable place, put down your luggage and let your companions look after you, and go out for a walk. Negotiation will not make people feel that you are asking him;

3.5 Ask the price at the front desk. Don't rush to set the price after the price difference is not far. The first thing to do is to ask for a room and check it yourself. The front desk pointed out the problem and the price went down.

3.6 Check the orientation: whether the window faces a noisy place, and ask about the nightlife outside, especially karaoke bars, food stalls, roads, markets, boiler rooms, etc. And whether it is near the stairs, whether the toilet is too close or too far-silence is extremely important for staying.

3.7 Check the bathroom: the bathroom is the most substantial reflection of the sanitary condition of a hotel. If it meets your requirements, others should have no problem. It seems that private shops have paid more and more attention to the appearance of toilets in recent years. ...

3.8 Whether the floor is added or not, firstly, it is unsafe, and secondly, someone walks by, which will definitely affect your rest.

3.9 See if the sound insulation meets your privacy requirements.

3. 10 checklist. Looking through the quilt cover and pillowcase is also a health check. Of course, this is for people with high hygiene requirements.

3. 1 1 For suites, be sure to check the faucet and toilet, which often won't open or open.

3. 12 There is no habit of bathing in western mountainous areas. You have to ask whether there is hot water supply and the supply time. After you come back to entertain yourself, you don't know that the hot water supply time has passed. At present, many small hotels are equipped with solar energy and electric water heaters, so pay attention to using them before other guests. Usually at the third place, you may have to wait for the next boiler to heat up.

3. 13 door locks and window locks should be checked to see if there is any problem with the lock prevention. Small problems can be repaired by the shopkeeper after going out during the day.

3. Whether14 electrical appliances are normal or not is not very important. You can check the TV effect, air conditioning and refrigeration (not needed in the west at night) and so on.

3. 15 public toilets. Western public toilets are generally concentrated outside, and they are all dirty, and there is no lighting at night, so you should try them first during the day, otherwise you will be confused in the cold wind in the middle of the night, and the headlights don't know what to step on.

3. 16 Remember after check-in-escape route is a compulsory course abroad!

3. 17 sleep: check the door lock before going to bed, and there is the possibility that the window may climb in from the next door or outside. It is necessary to support it with a chair. Precious things must be pressed under the pillow or belt. There's nothing wrong with getting used to it.

3. 18 Clean slippers and pots in the store with disinfectant. The simplest is potassium permanganate, and the most expensive is intravenous drip.

3. 19 get into the habit of putting things on the desktop, not in drawers and wardrobes, to avoid leaving them behind when you leave.

3.20 If there are many appliances, you can bring a small mop. Note that the two-pin flat plug is the most common one, and other types of plugs should also be considered for conversion.

3.2 1 Do a routine check before going out and closing the door, and turn the quilt pillow over.

3.22 Don't forget to check the bathroom when you leave: cold-proof clothes, toiletries, etc.

3.23 Point out your charger, and don't forget to put your charger and battery in the corner socket when you leave!

3.24 Western Family Inn (including Tibetan music, etc. ) are quite good choices. They are as safe and hygienic as living in a friend's house, and they can experience the local lifestyle at close range, which is the main content of the tour.

Step 4: ok

There are many skills to solve the problem of riding a bus because it has the characteristics of China.

4. 1 You don't need to buy a ticket immediately when you arrive at the long-distance station, because the management method of the station in China is: the state-owned land is released, and the parking fee and the head ticket fee of the shuttle bus are collected, which is no different from this. At present, the stations are all contracted, so there is no need to be superstitious about state-owned!

You can find it around the station. There may be cheap buses that don't enter the station, and the regular buses that just left the parking lot are basically gone. There are official tickets, and bargaining also saves station management fees.

4.3 You can also find a driver directly in the station, which often leads to unexpected gains.

4.4 Don't get on the bus as soon as the delivery man pulls you, it depends on whether the bus is full, or you may have to wait for soliciting after paying the money and sitting down.

4.5 Ask if your sitting posture is correct. If there is only the last row left, if there is no emergency, it is recommended not to take this bus-sitting in the back seat is much more uncomfortable than sitting in the middle! The back seat of the sleeping car is Fortis. Please be clear when buying tickets.

It seems that there are fewer and fewer suitable cars now. Sitting in the middle is more comfortable, and the driver is relatively safe directly behind.

4.7 For personal safety, you can pretend to call relatives and friends when you charter a car, and let the driver read his license plate number. If it doesn't respond, it means that the car is not his own.

4.8 In order to prevent buying piglets, try to choose the car with the destination license plate. In addition, cars with destination license plates have better prices to avoid returning empty cars.

4.9 For personal safety, don't choose the upper auxiliary and windows. It seems that there is only intermediate assistance left, so choose the escape route.

4. 10 sleeper auxiliary vehicles usually spend the night. For the sake of property safety, the rear auxiliary car is not good, the front door is not good, and the upper auxiliary car is good (which is contradictory to safety). Precious things should be pressed under your feet, and any movement will be noticed.

4. 1 1 Take valuables with you when you get off the bus.

4. 12 The arrival of the hard-seat car on the train and 3-4 o'clock in the middle of the night are the time for committing crimes, and people should be on duty according to their ranks. I am on the train in Qinghai. In the middle of the night, the thief touched the sleeping man's pocket. Even the innermost of the three hard seats can't escape. Usually out of their own pockets. Go to the luggage rack and touch the luggage one by one. When the model catches us and says it's mine, they will stop and touch the next piece of luggage. When they get to the station, they will run for it.

4. 13 The opening of the backpack on the train luggage rack should be inward, and it can be fixed with a long rope or belt, even if it is troublesome for you.

4. 14 Admission fees are charged for passenger vehicles in airports, railway stations and other squares. If the square is small, there are more choices to go out and find a good car.

4. 15 if you want to take a taxi to get the invoice, there is a clue that you forgot or left in the car.

4. 16 I feel that China is in the transition period of old and new legal management. Stealing is better than robbing, so you must take good care of what you carry, don't hang it on your hand, and don't take it with you by motorcycle.

4. 17 public security is not good, and it is becoming more and more difficult not to stop cars in the west. According to the previous strategy, it is not advisable to pull up a car on the side of the road naively. ...

4. 18 Buying a map in a city is not easy to be deceived.

Step 5 eat

5. 1 Believe in the hygienic habits and culture of diet. There is a great difference between east and west, and there is also a great difference between north and south. Don't measure it by the standard of your own living area.

5.2 Eating raw garlic is a good disinfection method, and southerners may have to get used to it.

5.3 Want to eat the most unique local way: ask the local young people, especially the girls who sell goods in the store. They usually go there with good taste and high cost performance. Of course, the environment may depend on your adaptability.

5.4 Try not to pay for those famous snacks, such as those on the map of Chengdu and those on the pedestrian street in Guangzhou-those are for foreigners! Spending money used to be secondary. The key is to misunderstand China's famous dishes.

5.5 If you have to fill it while eating, the effect will not be good for one hour. In addition, when going out to eat, there is generally no habit of checking things comprehensively, which is easy to forget.

5.6 Water is very important. If it is not so desolate in the wild, you can usually buy it. If you prepare water temporarily, you can use iced tea, pulse and other empty cans of water. It is said that you are not afraid of water.

5.7 Military kettles may not be enough. If there are many people, you can use a large-capacity gasoline kettle.

5.8 If students want to save money, they can buy boxes of instant noodles to accompany them, and also buy famous brands such as Uni-President and Master Kong. Other local brands are really poor, and the taste is particularly poor under difficult conditions, which is not delicious.

Step 6 prepare for the trip

6. 1 Know more about local self-help tours before going out, and know well when spending money. Now the internet is the best and richest information channel, and other magazines and newspapers can be said to be meaningless. But we must guard against two tendencies: first, information is absolute, and we must find the cheapest and most distinctive place; Second, there is no informationization at all, which is euphemistically called unrestrained, but it is not known until it wastes money and time.

6.2 Credit cards are generally inconvenient in the west, and many prefecture-level cities do not have computer networking, let alone the mountainous areas in the west. It is recommended to bring more cash.

6.3 I have no experience in savings and credit cards. A friend suggested postal savings. If you use a credit card, you should use an ATM. It is said that it is quite complicated to withdraw money from different counters (what if the card is swallowed by ATM? )

Please refer to my packing for details about packing. Honesty is natural, but it is oneself who suffers from common faults.

6.5 Be prepared for long-distance travel, and pay more attention to the position of straps and buckles, as well as the joint of soles. It is necessary to reinforce them with wire-not everyone uses it.

6.6 The "Weather Online" website has the weather within 6 days at the county level, which is quite accurate. I prefer to check its satellite cloud and rain map, which can not only understand the situation more accurately and comprehensively, but also judge the general weather trend after 7 days.

6.7 It is necessary to check the weather before going out, which not only determines how many electrical appliances you bring, but more importantly, you can arrange your trip according to the weather. Bad weather has a great influence on the discount of landscape. If you have long outdoor activities, bad weather will make you feel miserable!

6.8 The weather in snow-capped mountains and mountainous areas is more extreme. For example, if it is cloudy, it will be cloudy, rainy and sunny. If you pass by, you will usually encounter worse weather.

6.9 I found that if it snows heavily all day, there will usually be no clouds in Wan Li the next morning, which is very beautiful-when you see the heavy snow, you should pray for a little more snow, a little more snow. ...

6. 10 Travel clothes: If the travel is basically outdoors, the clothes should be easy to take off and add, and the climate in the west is changing drastically, so the clothes should be reasonably matched. My experience is that clothes only wear three layers: underwear or long-sleeved shirts inside, fleece or down in the middle, and windbreakers or coats outside. The heat decreases layer by layer and the cold increases layer by layer. The snow-capped mountains in the west will take off the inner layer at noon, and the light-colored long-sleeved shirt can block strong ultraviolet rays and has pockets;

6. 1 1 clothes in the bag: fleece is equivalent to western sweaters, and the same warmth is lighter and smaller than sweaters; Plus down has been able to withstand most of the cold temperatures. Pants can generally wear a pair of thick underwear and outer pants. It is highly recommended to wear small knee pads, which are equivalent to another pair of thick trousers to keep the flexibility of the legs.

6. 12 out of novelty, more and more outdoor routes are open to self-help tours, and self-help tourists should fully realize their dangers. Before making a decision, we should measure whether our equipment and knowledge can meet the relevant outdoor requirements. It's best to have many experienced tour guides, or wait two years to see how many people have been here. Generally speaking, the outdoor route is not necessarily better scenery and richer humanities, but more into the wasteland!

6. 13 professional outdoor equipment is expensive, which may be low cost-effective for self-help travel, but as a very economical one, I still want to recommend it: more practical professional windbreaker and hiking shoes (both above 500). If you don't often go to big cities, you can consider configuring these two products, but let Shanyou accompany you to buy the domestic outdoor products market to prevent counterfeit goods from running rampant.

6. 14 Don't mistake Nike and Adidas for buying equipment. These are leisure brands rather than outdoor brands, which simply cannot stand the test of pure environment! It is not as good as the domestic brand-free enhanced type.

7, plan and content

China is a country with the most complicated geography, the richest landforms, the deepest culture and the most nationalities in the world. Many years ago, a foreign friend saw my travel photos and said, "There are so many scenery in Switzerland"-the main purpose of foreign travel is convenience and order, which needs special explanation. The scheme and content are very personalized things, for reference only!

7. 1 First, try to find out what you like to play: scenery? Humanities? Different places have different characteristics, and Christine's choice will definitely disappoint you.

7.2 Don't expect too much! In today's information explosion, the best side of scenic spots has been very clear on the Internet, which is rich in content and easy to stimulate people's imagination. When I went there, I saw only the physical objects of heaven, mountains, water, water and people, and I was inevitably disappointed-there was no strategy for traveling. As long as you know what you like best (for example, my favorite is the blue sky on the plateau, majestic mountains and vast land), you can gain a lot by feeling nature in peace.

7.3 Select postcards and introduce the factors of photography. Postcards are processed by photography, and they are shot in the best season, the best weather and the most suitable light and shadow. If you don't distinguish between techniques, it's easy to be fooled, such as my photos of Lalu Wetland.

7.4 Filter out bragging factors of old donkeys and freshness factors of friends. And choose the ones that meet your requirements, so that your money won't be wasted!

7.5 At present, scenic spots are being developed all over the country, and the introduction and illustrations are always attractive. The official introduction is "beautiful scenery, outstanding people", and even more ridiculous is "the whole country is unique". For example, my Houshan is "the only mountain in China that is 100 meters high and has a circular bunker of 15 square meters on top". The result is certainly disappointing, so I'd better go.

7.6 Plan content: horizontal comparison, highlighting key points and characteristics. When choosing content, you should also ask yourself why you want to go, and cancel it if there is no basis. Such as "it's a pity not to go, but it's a pity to go to the scenic spot", which wastes money. Don't let fame affect your choice! (Jiuzhaigou is an exception) The famous scenic spots have been destroyed for a long time, and the scenery is not as good as before. You can hurry to the existing ones.

7.7 Planning: Make more arrangements in valuable places, adjust your plans in places you particularly like, and perhaps change to places you are more interested in during your trip-study the information carefully and make plans without being too detailed. The most unwise thing is to have a full meal at once. I didn't feel it until now. In fact, when traveling becomes a part of your life, where can't you go more than once?

7.8 Pay attention to the order of scenic spots. Try to arrange the scenery from bad to good, so that the bad scenery in front will not be bad. But on the other hand, it may be that the passable scenery is also eclipsed;

7.9 Time: If a trip takes a long time, it is best to stagger the excellent scenic spots. In addition, with the delay of travel time, you spend a lot of energy and slowly lose interest in the beautiful scenery around you, not to mention homesickness.

7. 10 season: quite a few scenic spots are very sensitive to the season, such as Bird Island in Qinghai: there are so few birds in July that you can't see them clearly with binoculars, and bird droppings fall on your head at any time in the peak season in May; Grassland: flowering season from May to July; Valley: 10 Autumn is its true face.

7. 1 1 a good place in China, you should go as early as possible. The local government is bent on asking for money and always collects money. Under the sudden impact of the market economy, the values of simple and servant ethnic minorities are lacking, and they are not traditional ethnic groups at all.

7. 12 Ethnic minorities are naturally fond of singing and dancing, so it is recommended not to spend money on the theatre. Look at the performers who have performed on the stage many times, except for the moment when they took out their money, their eyes were shining and their faces were dull. If you eat and live in his house and invite them to dance together, you can see the true national customs of narcissism.

8. Shopping

After so many years of travel, my personal advice is not to buy any souvenirs.

8. 1 In the era of commodity circulation, good things can basically be bought at home.

8.2 In the era of mass production, things in workshops and production lines have no collection value.

8.3 If it's really good, its culture will spread to the whole country, and maybe the country of origin will make you persevere.

8.4 Simple receipt of handmade products. Pay attention to handwork. If there are multiple identical ones, compare them. If they are exactly the same, they must be products from the production line.

9. Save money

9. 1 student id card. Make full use of tickets, basically half price. In addition, the average person is still polite to students, and it is easier to get help than the average tourist. For example, a hitchhiking driver usually knows that you are a (poor) student, and there may be a free ride.

9.2 Go through the back door. Many "parks" in the west just set up a door to collect money, and there are many secret passages.

9.3 Take a few more steps. In the west, the price is not high, the more you eat and live on the roadside and at the station, the more expensive it is. Just a few more steps into the house and the price will be so low that you can't even think about it. This method is more effective than bargaining.

9.4 Talk more. You have to bargain more for shopping and accommodation. The methods are: you just asked someone, you have already spent money in a designated store next to you, a friend introduced you, you have been here before, and so on. And you use all the information in the raiders to pretend to be a smooth operator.

10, not afraid of hardship

Hardship itself is probably a landscape of your trip!

10. 1 develop a strong physical and mental quality, go deep into your own goals, and you will dig out things that others don't pay attention to. Those are the things that belong to you!

10.2 Go to the city, don't walk around the station, walk a few more steps, see and understand the lifestyle and reasons of the local people, and you will have a lamp in your heart, which is safe and affordable, and it is worth the pain.

10.3 It's hard to keep a diary, but it's more precious than photos. But now you can use DV.

10.4 has the ability to travel short distances. For example, you can buy a short-distance fifth-class ticket all the way to the Three Gorges (very easy to buy) and have a good time. What about the Little Three Gorges, the Little Three Gorges, the plank road ... If the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is opened, I will definitely buy hard seats or station tickets one stop at a time to play there.