Poor health when travelling can ruin what should be a trip of a lifetime. Avoidance of potential problems by equipping yourself with the right knowledge definitely helps to avoid some nasty surprises. Before you travel make sure your vaccinations are up to date and relevant for the country you visit (Travel Vaccination Country Guide), and while you are travelling make sure you know how to manage your health. Our partners Nomad Travel and Outdoor are experts in travel health and have put together some very useful advice.

Even the most prepared explorer can expect the unexpected when it comes to international travel. Leap Local's 2010 competition judges, team members, and other industry experts share their knowledge and hard learned mistakes in Leap Local's Travel DOs and DON'Ts.

Join us every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday on Leap Local's facebook fan page as a new travel tip is unveiled, or check back here every few weeks to see the more comprehensive list as it festers and swells with relevant and completely irrelevent, but amusing information.

DON'T be a TRAVEL DON'T

WANTED - (Not the model but the photographer) - We have been searching for the person who captured this image for months and months. We want to hear this photographer's story about the day they witnessed a British tourist insult Tokyo with a bare bottomed dip in a sacred moat.