Budget Travel, Made Easy

  Singapore, the tiny island nation located in South East Asia, is an extremely popular vacation destination. The origin of the island's name can be traced back to an ancient legend, which states that the island was named by an early explorer, who accidentally landed on the island and discovered that it was inhabited by a strange beast. This exotic beast was the Merlion, which had a lion's head and a fish's tail. The explorer then named the island after this strange creature and called it 'Singapura' which means lion in Sanskrit. The Merlion has since then been immortalized in a statue located in Singapore’s Harbor and is popularly used as the symbol of this city state. Apart from being a favored vacation hotspot, Singapore is an important hub for much of the world's business and commercial activity and it hosts one of the busiest ports in the world. Singapore competes with Hong Kong for the title of the 'financial epicenter of Asia' and most of the worl...

Aruba is a gorgeous resort island that extends over 19 miles (30 km) in the South Caribbean Sea. Aruba, together, with Bonaire and Curaçao forms a group referred to as the ABC islands of the Leeward Antilles, the southern island chain of the Lesser Antilles. This chain is situated a mere 14 miles (25 km) north of Venezuela and is the smallest and western most island of the Dutch Antilles. The origins of Aruba can be traced to the Spanish colonizers, who claimed the island for Spain in 1499; though the island was taken over by the Dutch in 1636. Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986 and became a separate, autonomous member of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Aruba, today, has no administrative subdivisions and forms one of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along with the Netherlands, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten. The citizens of Aruba like those of these territories hold Dutch nationality. Aruba with its miles of golden sand beaches, pristine az...

  Cape Town is the oldest city in South Africa and is reputed to be one the most beautiful cities in the world. This city is located in the south-western part of South Africa on the northern part of the Cape Peninsula and is separated from the rest of the continent by a range of mountains, of which Table Mountain is perhaps the most famous. This unique setting of Cape Town has bestowed it with much natural beauty and the city hosts several natural landmarks like Table Mountain, Lion’s Head, Signal Head and Chapman’s Peak, which offer gorgeous vistas of the City Bowl. Other prominent natural sights in Cape Town include the stunning beaches of the Cape Peninsula, Cape Point- a spot on the Cape Peninsula where cold and warm currents meet and Robben Island, which is located in the midst of Table Bay and is known for its gorgeous scenery.   Cape Town which like many other South African cities endured a difficult and turbulent period during the tumultuous Apartheid years is toda...