The Virgin Travellers' Handbook: The Definitive Guide for Students and Career Gap Travellers Planning a Gap Year [Paperback]

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'Get studying this guidel - The Sun 'Info-crammed' - London Evening Standard 'This excellent handbook shows the loopholes, tricks, contacts and danger spots...there is a host of advice...' - Buzz 'Tom writes with an enthusiasm that is captivating' - Young Travel Writer of the Year Award 'For thousands of would-be back-packers, Tom Griffiths has become the trusted voice of experience' - Manchester Evening News

'This excellent handbook shows the loopholes, tricks, contacts and danger spots...there is a host of advice...'

'Tom writes with an enthusiasm that is captivating'

'For thousands of would-be back-packers, Tom Griffiths has become the trusted voice of experience' (Manchester Evening News)

'An invaluable source of advice and ideas for travellers'

This reference offers useful information and practical advice on everything you need to consider for your time out - whether before university or between jobs. The first part of the book leads you through all the planning stages right through to the eventual home-coming. There is practical, up-to-date information on safety, health, airports, embassies, passports, food, insurance, working abroad and hitch-hiking. In the second part of the book the author presents the top 50 backpacker destination worldwide - one per spread.

This definitive guide to planning your gapyear has been completely revised and updated for 2002. It has all the information you could possibly need about every aspect of your planning and your trip, from deciding where to go, what to pack and who to go with, to coping with emergencies, a comprehensive guide to travel health and different types of accommodation. It even includes a guide to coping with anxious parents! There is also an invaluable guide to 50 top backpacker destinations from Australia to Tanzania.

Written by Tom Griffiths, MD of the Gapyear Company and leading authority on gapyears, the book gives you everything you need to know before you go, backed up with the experience of the author in travelling the world. His infectious enthusiasm for taking a year out will persuade even the most reluctant traveller to get moving!

Proven to get you started, this book is a complete guide to help all those interested in taking time out. In partnership with gapyear.com, the largest gapyear community in the UK (a website I co-founded in 1998), this should be the answer to all your questions!

I very hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it...

Have fun, travel safely!

Tom

Tom Griffiths is the MD of the Gap Year Company, the first port of call for any would-be traveller. Voted Young Travel Writer of the Year in 1997 by The Times, his enthusiasm and experiences of travel make for an enlightening read.