Weekend getaways have really picked up in all parts of India. Everyone needs a break now and then, and to spend your weekend in a small hill station which is only a few hundred kilometres is what you really want. Everyone can’t afford a helicopter ride to any state of their choice, so car or bus is the natural mode of travel for these weekend trips.

Nearby Mumbai (in the state of MAH) there are small hill stations like Lonavala, Khandala and Matheran which are very scenic. They are far from the main town so you can carry your Volcano Vaporizer because you are definitely not going to find one there. Near Nagpur there are places like Tadoba and Nagzira which are worth seeing.

For people living/working in Kolkatta there are places like Darjeeling, Jaldpara, Kalimpong and a national park in Sunderbans.

Beaches like the Goa beach is world famous. People visit here from all parts of the world. There is a lot of travel to this part of the country when people have slightly longer weekends like about 3-4 days.

This has to be one of the most desired travel location in the world. Tahiti and Bora Bora islands is one of the most popular spots of honeymooners mainly from USA, Australia but also from all other parts of the world.

Stockholm was the place we did a review on last time with tourist spots and hotels - http://www.strand.stockholm.radissonsas.com/. This time we are focussing on different deals we could find for Tahiti travels.

French Polynesia has many different small islands where you can spend time with your wife on your honeymoon. Manihi, Rangiro, Bora Broa, Moorea, and Tahiti. Bora Bora amongst all these gets the vote for the most romantic and beautiful island of all. It has an airport built in 1940s and is located on a palm fringed motu 20 minutes away from Vaitape.

Packages start from $2000 and above per person in a good hotel for a 5 night stay. It can go as high as $25000 for a top class hotel with the best of rooms.

Preparation for Strategic Planning

Much of the time for managers are consumed in realizing and reacting to problems. It is very difficult to stand and give a hard look to the problem. At this pint of time, the skill to see broader perspective is very important. Strategic planning process helps in some of the following ways.

The real benefit of it is the process itself and not the plan document. There is no perfect planning. So, learn from the process and enhance what to do in the next round. It is a series of smaller moves, which clubbed together keeps the organization do things in the right direction. Planning usually are not as bad as one things or as good as it is opted. Hence, start simple, but start.

HDFC Bank has come out with a travel card with which you can prepay a certain amount to the card and use it in a foreign country. The best part about thesse cards is that you can fill in foreign currency from your home land so you can lock in the foreign exchange rate you are going to pay.

Now for example you want to fill up 1000 usd, you can do that with todays exchange rate .. so when you use it even after a month you wont be losing out on exchange rate fluctuations since you will have 1000 usd in your account.

Another good thing with these is you cannot use these online, so they wont work even on sites which accept credit cards online. These travel cards are very useful while traveling and act as a good addition to travellers cheques.

If you have traveled to the Baltic Republics for a holiday, for example a Latvia Holiday or a Lithuania Holiday, you can then make your way to their neighbor country, and enjoy the Russia Holiday. Let’s take a short look at Russia’s history.

Russia was built in the 12th century. It was a much smaller country back then. It was not known as Russia but Muscovy, and the country was formed in the golden ring area, which is present day Moscow.

Russia was actually built by Peter the Great. A tall and great man, Peter the Great invaded and conquered all the lands that lay between Moscow and the Pacific Ocean. This is why Russia is a big country.

It is always nice to know little things about the place that you will visit in your trip. It will make your trip more memorable.