Holidays in Malaysia offer a myriad or things to do and see; strange creatures dwell amongst the exotic plants of the jungles of Malaysia, and off the idyllic coastline there’s another kind of exotic garden to explore: long, colourful ribbons of coral reef are amongst the best places to go in Malaysia. There are fantastic bays like Emerald Bay; more than just a tropical island, this region has impressive mountains and remote communities living unique cultural lives. But it’s also a tropical island holiday, and so holidays in Malaysia allow for both exploration and languor.

Malaysia’s humming and buzzing capital, Kuala Lumpur, and the jungles and reef ringed islands of Malaysian Borneo are so vastly different that holidays in Malaysia are guaranteed contrast. Most international flights arrive in Kuala Lumpur, so even if you’re steering clear of the city life and heading into nature you still get to be surprised by the comparison. The main airport of the Sabah and Sarawak regions is at Kota Kinabalu, so most visitors start their exploration Malaysian holiday there.

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Day One: Assuming some of the first day of your holiday in Malaysia will be taken up with setting in and poking around your hotel, take an afternoon/ evening stroll into Kota Kinabalu and look around the markets and restaurants and wander along to the ferry port. This is a port town rather than a beach town so leave your beach towel at the hotel.

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Day Two: Bring your towel on the second day of your holiday in Malaysia and retrace your steps into town and the ferry port where you can get a ferry out to the islands of the Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park. Visitors can stay overnight on the larger islands but Pulau Sapi, or Cow Island, one of the smallest of the five, is the quietest, and ideal for a day trip to swim, snorkel, hike though the rainforest, have your toes nibbled by tiny fish and your lunch stolen by an exotic monkey or giant monitor lizard.

Day Three: Trekkers who don’t mind a bit of uphill work can conquer Mt. Kinabalu in two days — it’s the 20th tallest in the world and worth factoring into your holiday in Malaysia – but one day is enough to sample the pleasures of the Mt. Kinabalu National Park at its base, including the orchid gardens, Poring Hot Springs, and hopefully one of the park’s biological pleasures — a fleshy, flash smelling rafflesia plant, on which grow the world’s largest flowers. Some resorts will be able to help you arrange transport up to the mountain and the jungles that spread all over it, and the easiest way to go is as part of a group.

Day Three: Fly to Sandakan. While Kota Kinabalu has the scenery, Sandakan has the wildlife, most fascinatingly the Orang utans at Sepilok and the turtles of Turtle Island Park, and one of the main reasons people want to take their holidays in Malaysia.

Day Four: The marine sanctuary of Turtle Island is an overnight stay. They can only accommodate very small groups, but in the evening you’re there to welcome the mother turtles on to the beach as they lay their eggs, then able to release some of the babies from a clutch laid 60 days earlier. The accommodation is pretty basic, the food isn’t breathtaking, but getting a kiss a baby turtle on its shell just after it’s dug its way out of its nest before it scuttles down the beach to the sea is something indescribable and well worth planning a holiday in Malaysia around.

Day Five: The amazing and ancient turtles aren’t the most famous local inhabitants of this region: the Old Men of Borneo, as the locals call them, are. Living under difficult conditions, the orang utan’s habitat is shrinking, and as man encroaches we need to give them a little help. They get that at Sepilok, a conservation centre where orang utans are brought to be rehabilitated before being released into the wild. Visitors to the park get as close to them as they’re able to anywhere, when these furry jungle men come in for a feed and put on impromptu shows on the ropes and platforms around the feeding platforms. Animal lovers take note — it’s possible to volunteer at Sepilok, but you need to commit quite a bit of time and organise it well in advance.

Day Six & Seven: Divers won’t want to travel to this region without diving off Sipidan Island, which has some of the world’s best dive sites, but explorers may be more interested in visiting the Mulu, Gomantong or Niah Caves, renowned karst structures, Kuching for a bit of the lively culture of the place and the orchid garden, or for a unique cultural experience, a traditional longhouse community, so these last days of your holiday in Malaysia should be used up according to personal interest.

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Admiring the spectacular and breathtaking views during a Kilimanjaro trek or succumbing to the magic of an Everest Base Camp trek demands a lot of training and preparation but the reward is well worth it.

Altitude trekking holidays are physically demanding and require a good level of fitness. Before deciding on a trekking adventure it is worth assessing your current fitness level and deciding on a training programme. Here are some tips on how to prepare for an altitude trekking holiday:

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Trekking training programme – nothing is too little when preparing for an altitude trekking holiday, go swimming, run on a treadmill, aerobics, get outdoors and walk during 4 to 6 hours, climb a mountain, walk up hills, climb stairs.

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Research the trek – a good thing to do is to research about the trek beforehand, read guides and articles, research the trek online, contact other people that have done it or if you are part of a climbing holiday organiser, ask them for information!

Vaccinations - depending on the destination of the trekking holiday, you will need to get vaccinated. Make sure you are aware of the vaccinations required before you embark in this adventure holiday.

Altitude sickness – Altitude sickness, also known as mountain sickness, affects people at over 6,000 feet and even the most experienced and fittest climbers can develop complications when trekking at altitude. To prevent suffering from altitude sickness, the best way is to ascent slowly during a period of days giving the body the chance to acclimatise to the altitude. Some early symptoms include headaches, nausea, fatigue and drowsiness.

Although preparing for a trekking holiday seems a big effort, once you are out there climbing and admiring incredible views, everything you have done to prepare yourself for this holiday adventure will be well worth it.

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Denmark has several public holidays in 2010. Below you will find a list of the various occasions and the date they are held. Most are held in the first part of the year and than there is a long dry spell until November and December.

January 1, 2010 is Nytaarsdag or New Years Day and all business are closed on that day.

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February 14, 2010 is Fastelavn or Shrovetide, which is a celebration with children dressing up in costumes and beating up a barrel with a stick. Fastelavn is celebrated on the Sunday before Lent. Businesses do not close on this day.

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April 1, 2010 is Aprilsnar or April Fools’ Day and in like so many other countries, this is a day for pulling pranks on your friends and colleagues. Everyone seems to get on the act, even the media and politicians.

Paaske or Easter consists of 4 days and all businesses are closed during this time. Businesses are open on the Saturday between the 4-day holidays.

April 1, 2010 is Skaertorsdag or Maundy Thursday, commemorating the last supper.

April 2, 2010 is Langfredag or Good Friday commemorating the Crucifixion of Christ

April 4, 2010 is Paaskedag or Easter Sunday commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus

April 5, 2010 is 2 Paaskedag or 2nd Easter Day and comes on the Monday following Easter Sunday.

April 30, 2010 is called St. Bededag or Great Prayer Day and is to celebrate the various prayer days and is always on the 4th Friday after Easter. All businesses are closed. It is a tradition to go the local bakery the night before St. Bededag and get “varme hveder” or wheat rolls to eat with melted butter and jam. On April 29th you will find long lines at your bakery getting these treats – join in, because not much else happens on this holiday.

May 13, 2010 is Kristi Himmelfartsdag or Ascension Day is held 40 days after Easter Sunday.

May 23, 2010 is Pinsedag or Whit Sunday, which is held 50 days after Easter and celebrates the birth of the church.

May 24, 2010 is 2nd Pinsedag or Whit Monday and is part of the Whitsun Holiday. Businesses are closed.

June 5, 2010 is Grundlovsdag: or Constitution Day and celebrates the signing of the Danish Constitution in 1849. All businesses are closed.

June 23, 2010 is Sankthansaften or Midsummer Night and is celebrated with bonfires all over Denmark; it is not a public holiday, where businesses close.

November 10, 2010 is Mortens Aften, which is a unique celebration to Denmark. The Danes will eat goose or duck for their evening meal in honor of the legend of Bishop Martin of Tours. The story goes that the missionary hid out in a goose shed to avoid being consecrated as a bishop. But the geese started cackling and gave away his hiding place. So he declared that every November 10, geese should be served as the main meal in order to get back at them for their deception.

December 13, 2010 is Saint Lucia Day and is heralded by parades of girls dressed in white and carrying lit candles. This is based on a Swedish tradition, celebrating the martyr, Sancta Lucia, who distributed food to the beggars before the New Years Fast.

The parade is led by one girl, Lucia Queen, wearing a crown of candles and the girls all singing the Lucia song. It is well worth attending a church service this day to be part of this celebration.

December 24, 2010 is Juleaftensdag of Christmas Eve, the day that most Danes celebrate Christmas. You can find out more about a traditional Danish Christmas below.

December 25, 2010 is Juledag or Christmas Day

December 26, 2010 is 2. Juledag or Boxing Day and stores are not open, except for grocery stores. Most of the stores will open on the 27th and have the Christmas sales than.

December 31, 2010 is Nytaarsaftensdag or New Years Eve. Most businesses close midday – stores are open until 5 or 6PM. A few stay open later.

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One of the things I hear most often cited as a source of conflict with couples, especially during the holidays, is the in-laws.

Every family celebrates the holidays differently. That means each partners comes to a relationship with family members that inevitably place demands for time and attention, when both are running dangerously low. Also, running notably low, patience. So, the least bit of strain from outside a relationship coming in the form of pressure from in-laws can seem like an unbearable pressure. How do you keep your Honey’s family from being the straw that broke the camel’s back?

1. Sit down with your significant other and have a long, honest talk about what the holidays mean to the two of you as a couple. If you don’t know what traditions are important to you, you will have no compass to know if you are getting off course. Think about what you want to teach your kids about Christmas and what activities are special to you. Write a list of the things you chose to make your couple or family holiday traditions. For example, my husband, oldest son and I had this talk over the weekend. We decided we want a holiday season that is more about experience then gift giving. We mapped out one holiday related experience a week from now until after the first of the year.

2. Now make a list of all the activities and functions your respective families have each year. Highlight those that are perceived as attendance mandatory. See if any of the items on your list overlap, or is there something on your list that might be proposed as an alternative or a place you can include family. One way we did this was by opting out of the Christmas morning Santa grab-fest with my husband’s family, but inviting them to attend the zoo lights festival with us on Christmas Eve. We all agreed that would be a tradition that all parts of the family might cherish for years to come.

3. Talk with your family in advance about what you can do and what you cannot do. We had this talk with my family after Thanksgiving dinner. We made a special attempt to be clear about our expectations around what we want for the baby. We do not want a pile of presents. We came to the table prepared with suggestions about alternatives for gift giving that involved ways to spend time together.

4. Make sure you and your Honey have time alone during the holidays to decompress. A holiday date can be very romantic. This is a no kids – no family event! One very romantic evening can go a long way to defray the stress of the season. My husband and I planned a romantic dinner in a restaurant where the local Christmas lights parade goes by. Little one is staying with his big brother. They are planning their own little date!

5. Be prepared to stand firm with your boundaries with family. Practice makes perfect. Keep putting your foot down. If the time you have set aside for family interaction is Christmas dinner, don’t budge when Mom calls and demands that you bring the kids to Christmas Eve services. Smile, be sweet, but be firm. You’ll be glad you did.

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One may think that a vacation is a wonderful and exciting time in your life. That is correct… if you are looking at it from the outside. You may have images of dancing on white sandy beaches to calypso music.

As a mother, and the one who has most of the burden in the planning process, it may not be. You may find yourself pulling out your hair and totally overwhelmed.

Well I am here to tell you that you need to have more fun and I have discovered the best tips for planning family summer holidays I learned from my mother and I am going to share 5 of the best tips with you.

Tip #1: The Plan:

Planning a trip is multi-faceted. You need to consider so many different aspects.

It is no longer about you, when you have children. It really is what will the kids enjoy, where to they want to go, what will work for them?

The place, the climate, the mode of transportation and what to bring are all on you.

Tip #2: Where:

What type of location will work for the whole family? Are there preferences to warm vs. cold weather?

When choosing a place you will need to think about how far away it is.

Can the children withstand long distance traveling?

Usually, for young children, short distances are best.

Tip #3: How:

What are your preferences? To fly, train, boat, car etc.

Tip # 4: When:

The dates that you choose to go on vacation can be complicated. You will need to factor in the school calendar, if you have school age children.

Tests, homework and extra curricular activities will have a bearing on your travel plans.

In addition, your husband’s work schedule, meetings, conferences and tight deadlines may need to be factored in as well.

Tip #5: De-stress from the planning process

While planning and researching for your trip, try to imagine this as a break from the normal routine.

Do not think of this as a task, or part of your to do list. Consider no laundry for a week, no carpooling, no running errands and say good-by to cleaning.

For one week, say hello to enjoying the children and spending quality time with your husband.

Simply follow the steps outlined above and you will find planning family summer holidays a great deal of fun. Now, I hope I was able to help you change your perspective and make use of different strategies.

We eagerly look forward hearing your stories of success as you have fun in the sun or wherever you go. Peace.

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When choosing a package holiday, make sure you check some these details before booking. They may seem like obvious points, but can be overlooked in the excitement when making your package holiday.

1) Flights – Make sure the flight times are suitable for you; this mean both outward flight (to your holiday destination) and inbound flight (the flight home again). Sometimes the times of the outward flight look good, but the inbound flight times are in the middle of the night. This may not be so important if you’re travelling with adults, but this can spoil the holiday if travelling with small children.

2) Accommodation Distance from Airport – It’s possible that the airport is on one side of the island, and your holiday accommodation is on the other; meaning you have to travel for a couple of hours on a bus. Again, this may be OK for adults, but cause a problem for those of you with young children.

3) Resort Type – Is the resort you are staying in suitable for your holiday party. You may not appreciate being surrounded with rowdy couples if you’re trying to get a 2 year-old to sleep.

4) Board – What “board” are you expecting to get. Some holidays are self catering, which means no food is laid on, although you should get basic kitchen facilities. “half board” means you’ll get you breakfast and dinner included in the price, but will have to pay for your lunch time meal. And “all inclusive”, which means all meals, snacks, soft drinks, and some alcohol is included in the price. All inclusive can look much more expensive than self catering, but you do know how much your holiday is going to cost

5) Heat – make sure you know how hot it will get at your destination, going to Greece in August might seem like a good idea on a cold January Monday morning, but can you really handle the heat

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Do you have a visit to Walt Disney World planned for this Christmas season? Are you visiting during the week before Christmas and New Years? If so, then this article is for you. Having enjoyed several Walt Disney World holidays in late December, my family has found that the Christmas/New Year’s holidays at Disney can be magical, crazy, crowded, and if you do some careful planning, very, very fun.

At no other time of the year, is careful planning as important as it is during the Holiday Season. So my motto for the best way to plan a Disney vacation is always to plan, plan, and plan some more. While there are a lot of things to consider during a Christmas visit to Disney World, in our years of having visited during the week between Christmas and New Years, there are two very important things that we have found you definitely need to keep in mind…and plan for.

First is the weather. Let me just say that Florida is not ALWAYS sunny and hot. In fact, traveling at any point during the winter months can provide you with a very cold…and uncomfortable…surprise, if you don’t check ahead. We have visited during the winter and been blessed with sunny days, temps in the 70s, little humidity…weather that is just delightful.

BUT, we have also had days where the temperatures never made it out of the 50s during the day, and were in the low 30s at night and in the mornings. And if you combine this with some humidity/dampness and a bit of wind…well it’s actually winter-coat wearing weather!

So if an affordable Disney family vacation is your goal, then check the weather forecast before you leave home. If you need warm clothes, and did not pack them, you do NOT want to pay Disney park prices for sweaters, scarves and gloves.

The second thing to consider when planning a trip during the week between Christmas and New Year’s, is that this is THE busiest week of the year for the Disney parks. It is typical for one or more of the parks to actually close for periods of time, during several days during this week. Disney typically does a staggered type of closing schedule where the parks are first closed to non-Disney resort guests, then to Disney guests who have not already been to that park earlier in the day, and finally, to everyone.

So keep this in mind, especially if you are not staying on Disney property: go early to make sure you get into the park of your choice. Have a plan to visit your most important must-dos (especially those that are very popular) first thing, and make very good use of Fast-Passes. Expect the big attractions to have all Fast-Passes gone for the day by lunch, and to have lines of several hours. Be flexible, and go with the flow. And have a sense of humor.

If you decide to leave any of the parks, make certain that you can live without necessarily getting back in. While crowds often lessen somewhat in the evenings, on nights like New Years Eve, that is not likely to happen. If you plan to ring in the New Year in one of the parks, then expect to make a very long day of it.

Having said all of this, the holiday season at Disney World is my family’s favorite time of year. It can be a magical and wonderful way to create family memories….just be prepared!

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