Guided vacation for the seven-day National Day holiday is priced up as the major agencies in town quoted last week. The price for a routine tour to Japan is RMB1,400 yuan more expensive than usual, and that to Hongkong is 1,000 yuan more, and the Europe tour has increased by one to two thousand yuan.

     However, trip planners can try some new routes that are shorter in time or focus on some areas of the destination to make a more economic vacation. For example, the Island Tour for Taiwan could be replaced by the West Taiwan Trip that only takes the Sun Moon Lake, A-li Mountain, and National Palace Museum in Taipei, deleting other Taiwan delights. The six-day West Taiwan Trip is priced at some RMB8,000 yuan, 2,000 cheaper than the routine one of ten days.

     You can also try the North Kyushu Tour if it's not your first visit to Janpan. The five-day trip omits the busy metropolises of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka and consentrates on the hot-spring resorts in the north area of the Kyushu Island, allowing a more relaxing Janpan experience.

     What one has to know is, considering the visa time, overseas routes to America and Canada have been closed now a month earlier, and only one week is left to sign up for the Janpan-bound tours.

     Buy bus tickets on line
     Tickets on-line booking and purchasing was started on 26 Aug. for buses starting from the