Our friends at Let’s Go, the renowned student and budget travel guides, have come up with a fabulous and timely gift guide to help you choose the best treats for the student (or budget) traveler in your life.

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Whether your budget is huge (a round-the-world ticket, anyone?) or tiny (is a deck of playing cards more in your price range?) the Let’s Go Student Travel Gift Guide has some great ideas for your favorite backpacker. Check them all out here, and send someone packing in style!

Happy Holidays! You may be in the midst of some serious travel planning, whether you’re jetting off to a tropical escape, hitting the slopes for a snowy adventure, or taking some time to visit family and friends. Holiday travel can be stressful, and we’ve got some helpful holiday travel tips to ease the process.

You might be a seasoned traveler who zooms through security with barely a pause, or a travel novice who rarely leaves your own zip code. Either way, airport travel around the holidays can be hectic enough to throw anyone for a loop.

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Check out these holiday travel tips for frequent fliers who don’t normally need tips from ConsumerTraveler.com, and minimize the hassle.

Five Things You Absolutely Must Know: A Holiday Travel Survival Guide comes from our friends at Elliott.org, and helps arm you with strategies to deal with hectic holiday trips.

This article from CheapTicketLinks.org helps you figure out the best and worst days to travel around Christmas – just one or two days can make a huge difference and save you hundreds of dollars per flight.

Happy holidays everyone – travel safely, enjoy your trip, and most importantly, relax!

Jerusalem remains a popular cultural destination, widely regarded for its historical sites—such as the Dome of the Rock and the Wailing Wall—and art institutions, including the 20-acre Israel Museum, which features archaeology, European and Israeli art. The Israel Museum also houses the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient texts from the Hebrew Bible.

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Israel

A long and narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and Pacific Ocean, Chile (once known as Tchili, meaning “snow”) is a country in South America bordered by Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. In 1541, Pedro de Validivia, a Spanish conquistador, founded Santiago the capital of Chile.

Today, Santiago is home to over 5 million people and boasts some of Chile’s most beautiful natural attractions including Torres del Paine and the southern Lake District where tourists and locals can go hiking or biking past lush forests and impressive mountains. Among the popular historical landmarks for tourists is Easter Island (Isla de Pascua), a World Heritage site which is famous for its monumental statues.

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Pebble Beach is a beautiful place in Monterey which is cherished and well taken care of by the local community. For golf lovers, there is the famed golf course, Pebble Beach Golf Links and also the well-known AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. People who just want to relax soaking in the ’serene beach feel’ can further explore the facilities at the Spa at Pebble Beach. So this certainly is a beach for leisure and fun!

Pebble Beach, California

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