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Sometimes language is everything. Many people today talk more than one language and English has become an almost obligatory subject for all travelers wishing to travel the world. But not everyone speaks English and always need to be understood. In order not to lose his head waving or be tied to the dictionary, here you will find a few tricks to get by while traveling abroad.

Besides being an important feature of culture, language is the way we communicate with others. There are many things that a traveler must know to be quiet on a trip abroad. You may need to learn some words in another language, but the rest is common sense.

Hotels
If you are not fluent in the language at all of the country that receives, it is useful to contact a travel company that speaks our language. In general, the package tours of this type are employed in the country of residence and take us out a great burden. Spanish is a language highly publicized worldwide and it is not difficult to find hotels or hostels that talk. So if you found a tourist service with which you can communicate, ask to be picked up at the airport and save yourself a trip by taxi complicated.

Transportation
If you must transport you on your own, you should find out in advance what special services are the most desirable tourists or foreigners. In a large city can use the metro and drawings guide you through without asking for directions. If the city has no subway or train service, you can use taxis.

It is important to know in advance that in some cities or towns taxi drivers take advantage of the situation of the tourist to collect premiums or come off the most logical route, taking a longer one. To avoid this you should find out before the regular price of this means of transport and always carry a map of the city to follow the path of the taxi and found to be correct. It is also very useful to have the destination address written on paper to tell the driver where we’re headed.

Restaurants
Although it seems somewhat smaller, the local food sometimes involve major complications in one trip. The food issue is very delicate, especially in countries where the water is not potable and should care for our health. In this case you should always opt for international restaurants or have been within the hotels. To order our request we must know what it is about the menu, an almost impossible task if you do not have an interpreter on the side.

Each country has a local cuisine, with traditional local ingredients and flavors. Before visiting a country you learn something of their culture and cuisine, so you know what to expect and you can order with no element of surprise, with a small menu that you will have written it before you travel.

Another option is to tell the waiter that we do not know what to ask and wait for suggestions. If you are someone who likes to try new dishes without fear of making mistakes, you have to select something at random, always asking if it is salty, sweet and spicy. For this you should learn how to say these three words in the language of your destination.

Be your own guide
Whenever possible, try way around on your own. If you do not need to take a bus or taxi, is easy to wander through a city. Just keep the craft to carry a map and mark the locations you want to visit. It’s easier than it seems.

To orient yourself, it is important to locate some important buildings known to everyone and, of course, the hotel where you stay with a phone that can call in case. With these references, until you can orientate himself, without help from the map.

Directions
It is likely that occasionally have to rely on others to get to a point in the city, a monument, a museum or a bus station.

The best thing to do is always carry a notebook where you write (or ask them for you) to visit sites and their addresses. Since it is likely that you will make it difficult to speak fluently in another language, you simply show your scorer and will take you to your next item on the itinerary.

Small dictionary for travelers
Although you way around flat pad and some indications, it is better to learn some words in another language to be more calm and unwind you again easily. It is common for some travelers did not take the trouble to learn a few phrases in the foreign language and not only have trouble making them understood, also cause a bad impression. Then a small dictionary of phrases you must learn:

* Greetings: It never hurts to learn another language to say hello. It is always the first thing they say when dealing with another person and creates willingness in the other if you want to help.
* Acknowledgements: These are the phrases used by tourists. Whether in a restaurant, a business, or to ask for directions in the street, you should always thank properly.
* Disclaimer: Just in case, better to learn to apologize for any eventuality that may happen.
* You are overseas: There will be many situations where your trip abroad where some tries to talk with you. In these cases, it helps you learn to say: Sorry, do not talk … they will know that you do not speak the language and try to make you understand what they say otherwise.
* Rates: Whenever you travel you need to buy and talk to a merchant. So you must learn a simple phrase: How much? If you drive with traveler’s checks also should know how to say do you accept traveler’s checks? The same goes for credit cards and dollars.
* Food: We have seen that can be very difficult to order a dinner. Therefore, it is worth learning the names of some foods and, most importantly, some qualities: sweet, salty, hot, cold, heat, water and salt. Others will surely want to know based on your culinary preferences.
* Directions: If we’re going to approach a person to ask for directions, you must learn to say how I get…? Or Where is…? naming sites to visit. If you do not know the names of the sites and have written in your notebook, you ask, “Where is that place? Always pointing your paper.
* Toilets / WC: I had not thought of before? Make your needs may become a problem. For rest assured, there are two phrases that you learn; the first is “Where are the toilets? And the second “I can use the toilets? The latter is used across the sites that are not public, or in an emergency.
* Other useful words: There are other words that a tourist should know, some of them are: hospital, pharmacy, tourist office, bus stop, airport, police, aid, etc.

It is better to know before
It is not necessary to know beforehand what you will see in each city, but it is important that you set a travel route and means of transport used to get from one place to another.

If you still do not know and travel aimlessly, it is possible that you encounter some difficulties. A simple output when the Internet to find out how to travel. On the Internet you will find lots of information in your own language.

One trick to avoid trouble
you are ready to travel abroad. You have all your papers: the itinerary, information, words annotated maps, brochures and the hostel management. But you forgot one thing. Do not forget that the papers can always lose and everything you need is paper, you’ll be in deep trouble. Therefore, an email account can be opened on any computer.

In this email you will send all the information you have and which is essential. Now you can travel to any setback quiet and you’re sure all your information is well guarded.

Who ever has not explored the world through Google Earth. The spy program that allows the planet to satellite view, provides possibilities that exceed the original idea of looking at the roof of our house like. Google Earth allows us to make real finding, or explore places we’ve never visited, but we can understand better thanks to the precision of the program.

From visit cities and sites that do not know guess what, beyond the postcard images, finding curious formations to natural or man-made, so well seen from the sky. Some users exploit the full potential of tourism in the program, using the search engine to find a spot on the map, but also to find itineraries assembled by users or browse images uploaded to Panoramio and geolocated.

Even in Google Earth, begin to appear places or to places of interest that are not on a map or a guide. For any search, we must activate the sidebar (there is a button to activate / hide the bar), and then we can target what we need, simply by entering a zip code, or even the exact coordinates of a point on the planet. For a thematic tour, many cities, regions and countries that use Google Earth to promote themselves. An example is the official website of the Egyptian Tourist Office, which created a bird’s eye view tour the country by posting a virtual tour in Google Earth. The tour ranges from the heritage sites in Egypt, some with 3D views, and sites with descriptions and related links. Even some events have mounted your route on Google Earth, as the Tour de France, with its various stages. They are the users themselves that indicate the routes.

What’s more, Google combines service with street view images at 360 º for worldwide locations. To find them as we sail, we need only activate the layer “Street View” in Using the Layer panel. A virtual way to feel we’re there, although we have not yet removed from the home computer. For if we lack ideas, we can consult records of the strangest views of Google Earth, a collection of giant figures, signs or buildings and giant man-made, and that seemed designed for Google Earth.

We continue with our tour of Montevideo, we started in our previous article. Continuing our tour of the Old Town Square are the Constitution that states in the center of the Fountain of the Angels.

Independence Square
Plaza surrounding this important buildings designed by that is considered the first Uruguayan architect Don Tomás Toribio. They are the Cathedral, inspired by guidelines of the Late Neo-Renaissance and neo-Renaissance Town Council held in Toscano. Finally, and following in the Old Town area, we can highlight two works of architect Zucchi. They include the Teatro Solis and the Independence Square. Located at the inception of the Avenida 18 de Julio, the place geographically separated urban contemporary old Montevideo.

Constitution Square
Independence Square is surrounded by buildings and monuments that synthesize the heart of the city. Proof of this are: the Monument to General José Artigas, the work of artist Angelo Zanelli. Beneath it is the mausoleum where his remains. It is worth mentioning too: the Palacio Salvo, a symbol of Montevideo, which was built by architect Palanti, the same who made the Palacio Barolo in Buenos Aires. It also highlights the “Gate of the Citadel, the remains of the castle and the Palace Estevez, which until not long ago the Government House.

Without doubt the city’s attractions do not end here. It is worth mentioning that pays his beautiful Rambla de la Plata River, the neighborhood of Pocitos, or Parque Rodo where the mythical Estadio Centenario. But this is a matter for the next chapter of Montevideo.