If you are not traveling with the tour operators, and develop their own itinerary of his travels, then every journey begins with your planning. In fact, if you want to get out of your city to the other relatives or friends, stay, see the sights and back - this one, but if you plan to visit 3 or 4 new sites in a short time and using public transport, it is quite another. And then at the forefront of Internet resources. They will help us determine what type of transport to get us the most convenient at any given destination.
Bus
Since I did not fly airplanes and fly (perhaps yet), I will describe what I know, namely buses and trains. Most of my travels happened in one country - Ukraine, and there in this country, "where the infantry and the armored train has passed does not will rush," we will take the bus. Site of bus schedules - bus.com.ua . Very easy to use resource, despite the fact that he is not without its blunders. I would like to recommend to carefully examine it. The site is simple, without unnecessary frills. On each page are explanations that much and where to enter what button to push. Spending 10-15 minutes Clicking on the links help, you can easily learn to navigate the portal to continue to use it on full automatic.
Home looks like this:
In the upper left hand corner, enter our points of departure and arrival. Click, and:
I draw your attention to the fact that the site is understood as the Russian and Ukrainian languages handles requests from the grammatical errors in the name of the village. Moreover, he searches for even the first few letters. In the center - the details of your request, below you will be able to change the source or destination travel in the upper left corner - important clarification (access route for ordering tickets.) Click on the flight we have chosen:
If the route is available for order, you will see this form, and if not - then just the route with prices and stopping places. The two can credit to the left and right upper corners are very important and interesting. The left just need to read if you're going to book tickets online (link on the left as you can see information about the bus stations that support the service), and right - it is an explanation of your possible bonuses and current orders portal. All items in the order of intuitive and equipped with qualitative description of what and where to mark or type.
This is the most basic things on this site. Fans of more in-depth surfing can visit the resource itself and analyze the bones. I would be glad if someone in the comments I will add. Now, experience and warnings. I personally have tickets through it did not order, I buy them live 
Yes, and I prefer to buy tickets directly - all some experience. But my friends ordered the tickets, has repeatedly and successfully. Departure Station - Lugansk. The percentages listed in the column "Frequency", deserve attention and show the reliability of the flight - so keep that in mind.
I'll tell you that I do not like on this site. This duplication of information and dispersal. Flights belonging to the same route, but running different carriers or on different buses can be displayed in separate positions - pay attention to it. If in a few bus stations, the data will be displayed for only one, and the rest to be found by selecting the links at the bottom (although sometimes vice versa). Sometimes a request can not be processed or to issue an empty response - in this case, repeat the request or check the website later, do not panic too soon.
In general, it is very decent resource that deserves a place in your bookmarks
Train
On a site that I want to say I was a long time ago. At the beginning of their journeys and the active development of the Internet - the year 2003-2004. Crush it in my soul, and never once let me down. Name Portal - poezda.net . People, respecting minimalist design of the site will appeal.
On the home page you can see the schedule for the selected city (not always working correctly, you must re-examine a standard search) and find the "Train for the route." I recommend to visit the "Railway Forum", which is read. Let us return to our search: enter the departure station, arrival station, date, click on:
In contrast to the previous site, everything should be entered in Russian, and without error. In addition, the drop-down lists in the name of the stations, too, should be studied and applied in the search (for cities with several passenger stations).
Press again the "Search" in the upper window and see the results:
On this screen is worth looking in more detail.
№ - it shows a full per-minute train route with stops;
Departure-Arrival - takes us to the "Schedule of the station";
Calendar - opens a page motion graphics.
The timetable is important to specify for each train, because there are those who walk only on certain days, or, conversely, do not go 1-2 the specific day. In order not to be trapped, it is necessary to carefully check all the versions.
The site is very minimalistic, but it is not full of ads, pop-ups and other "joys." If you have not found the desired flight, but think he is, then ask the council on the forum or check it for similar topics. Users is quite friendly and will help Council.
No other services of this portal, I did not enjoy, so I can not tell. Those who want to experiment - click and leave impressions in the comments, I will take note.
Well, that's basically all Mapped out the route, identified key breakpoints found than can get up and leave, bought a ticket and go!
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Tags: Interesting , Review , Useful
March 16, 2009 at 11:36
Once longed to book tickets on the train and take a trip! Thank you so exciting to tell about all this!
March 17, 2009 at 9:15 am
If you wanted to, but still such a thing, you have to be ordered and shipped
March 17, 2009 at 11:48
Will have to wait for the summer ...!
March 17, 2009 at 12:10
A good recording interface! Available, understandable, interesting, useful.
March 17, 2009 at 21:57
We'll have to ...
Thank you