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Up close with the hill tribes of Thailand, an unusual adventure in the new Asia catalogue 2012 of Caravan travel. Through Bangkok by bicycle, Cook pasta with the Akha in northern Thailand on the ox-cart to the rice farmers from Sukothai, visits to several hill tribes in the “golden triangle” and motor-boat on the Kok River through wild nature landscapes with its new adventure series “Hautnah”, the Ludwigsburg-based caravan travel organizer gives its guests an extremely individual and direct access to the most beautiful corners of Asia. Can be posted the 12-16 days long “Hautnah”-tours offered in the now released Asia-catalogue for the first time by caravan from two people and on various dates from November 2011. Also in the neighbouring countries of Siam such “Hautnah” lead for the first time-experiences. For example a cooking class in Saigon include the Viet Nam programme, exploring more caves in the National Park TAM COC by sampan boat, pointed Hat making in the family business in hue, village life in the Red River Delta and a visit of the Floating market of CAI be. When the combined travel Laos / Cambodia, including a day of adventure in the elephant camp, an introduction in the Silk weaving in Luang Prabang, the spiritual capital of Laos, the visit in a restaurant street children project in Vientiane or the production of rice in the province of Battambang are on the agenda. There are even more “close” contact in Malaysia with an overnight stay in the family in Selangor, a boat tour to the villages of the Orang Asli in the jungle, when you visit the Brocade weavers, batik print and Kitemaker in Kota Bahru in the North as well as in the sea turtle Center near Cherating. Other new highlights in the Asia program of Caravan travel are a ten-day luxury train journey through South India under the heading “the Golden Chariot” from Bangalore to Goa, with return flight from Mumbai, a 14 day TRANS-Himalaya-all bike Safari through Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh, and a very special Indonesia treat, that connects the two islands of Java and Sulawesi.

So, you should be suspicious if it compares online quotes and in a similar situation is an offer for a beautiful apartment, which is being offered for a ridiculously low price. Perhaps it is indeed “too good to be true”. And this is certainly a good first step, not to get into the trap of rental scammers. Many portals on the Internet, there is the opportunity to submit reviews to the apartments. A good method and the second step is here to take your time and study the reviews, to assure the credibility of the lessor with respect to the described apartment. But even here caution is necessary and you should rely not blue-eyed solely on the reviews.

Also here is not a reliable rating system? Therefore, an important indication of the trustworthiness of a landlord on the date of registration of the lessor is to pay attention. A landlord for several years in the portal is represented, that is in itself a sure guarantee that it is not a scam. Otherwise, its display would be deleted already. As a third step, you can beat the scammers to own weapons. With the image search function in the Google search engine, you can see where these images under similar or identical keywords are still used.

There are among others the original image source and can confirm whether the offered object under the same conditions and prices is offered, or is there any striking differences. In the latter case, you should be very careful with a booking. Fourth step would be to contact by phone, because email, you would have enough time to think about the answers to critical questions. On the phone but breaks some scammers. For example, one could ask in an apartment by the sea how called the nearest beach, where you can rent a Sun umbrella. This gets an idea man at the same time, how well the landlord on-site knows. A trusted landlord was asked this already thousand times. The landlord in the stalled or brooding, comes you should be careful. Also you should make sure that you can afford the down payment by bank transfer and not with hard track financial providers such as Western Union, money transfer, etc. But also a transfer to a non-EU account, when you rent a cottage country in the EU, is not common practice. As the fifth step we suggest to ask that the House really exists, to clear the concerns out of the way the landlord directly to a proof. Here, for example a copy of current statement, proof of owner or similar will help. Every honest landlord has full understanding of this concern and will do its utmost to make concerns out of the way. But fortunately honest landlords are the majority on the market of the apartments and you should certainly not all shear over a ridge. Even if our recommendations for rental apartments on these five steps to make sure no one hundred percent security – because it will always be “black sheep” is the risk of “nightmare holiday” significantly reduced and made more difficult the implementation of fraudulent intentions. Barbara Mayer