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Travelling tips

General travel tips
  Keep your valuables secure, pickpockets will take any chance they get to grab your belongings. Many pickpockets are professional and will be invariably well dressed to look like business people or tourists. Pickpockets prey on easy targets - try not to keep your wallet in an easily accessible pocket.
  Try to learn a few simple phrases in the local language. If you find that hard or do not understand the dialects at least learn to recognise them when written down. Knowing what the sign is for a bus stop, cafe, phone, police or hostel could be very helpful, particularly when arriving somewhere you have never been before.
  While travelling from place to place keep your luggage locked, if you can't see it do not leave any valuables in it. Take all important belongings with you regardless of mode of transport, a lot can be replaced but passport, photographs and memory sticks filled with experiences are priceless.
  Don’t drink too much! Thieves will target those who are drunk, distracted or lost. It is very easy to become off guard after a few drinks, and you don’t want to put yourself at risk. Stay in the central bars with friends and if necessary catch a taxi home for safety. 
  Be aware of your surroundings at all times, stay with people you know and inform them if you plan to go somewhere by yourself and what time you intend to arrive back. This will keep your friends from worrying and give them a head start if anything does go wrong.

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocean; South America lies to the southeast.  North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), about 4.8% of the planet's surface or about 16.5% of its land area. Its population is estimated at nearly 529 million people. It is the third-largest continent in area.

 

 
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Websites - America

UK embassy in America
http://ukinusa.fco.gov.uk/en/
US visa
http://www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new/visa/index.html
Discover America
http://www.discoveramerica.com/uk/
US embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions
http://www.usembassy.gov/

Helpful numbers - America

Emergency services
911
Dialing codes
00 + 1 + Area Code + Tel #

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