Travel Tips

Chili Blue Backpackers Top 6 Travel Tips

1. Read Backpacker Etiquette a little something from our exerience to help make your travel safer .
2. Check the latest travel advice for your destination and subscribe to receive free e-mail notification each time the travel advice for your destination is updated.
3. Take out appropriate travel insurance to cover hospital treatment, medical evacuation and any activities, including adventure sports, in which you plan to participate.
4. Before travelling overseas register your travel and contact details online or at the local Australian embassy, high commission or consulate once you arrive, so we can contact you in an emergency.
5. Obey the law. Consular assistance cannot override local laws, even where local laws appear harsh or unjust by Australian standards.
6. Make copies of your passport details, insurance policy, travellers cheques, visas and credit card numbers.Carry one copy in a separate place to the originals, leave a copy with someone at home and email a copy to yourself.