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Reader question: Please explain this headline: Ten travel destinations that won’t break the bank. My comments: That’s ten places to visit for you. Ten places you can easily afford to go to, that is, without having to break into a bank and steal some money. That’s exaggerating it quite a bit, I know. Perhaps more likely, you don’t even have to break your piggy bank – I’ll explain that in a minute – in order to pay for the tickets. I read some tourist complaints online over costly travel during the October holidays. One of the bitterest gripes is over gate ticket prices at some of the better known sites. Total price for tickets (including for the main gate and smaller gates within – housing and displaying smaller shows and exhibitions) at one such site amounted to just a little less than 2,000 yuan, according to one report. That’s US300, almost enough for one of these bargain trips abroad. Indeed, as domestic destinations are more expensive to go to, not to mention that they’re overcrowded, more and more people are finding a better deal going abroad. Oh, the piggy bank. The piggy bank is the little ceramic container that serves as a savings bank for children (or adults when times are extremely hard). For children, they put their dimes and nickels into the tiny box to save for a rainy day, i.e. for buying an ice cream or a new school bag. If they do use their savings in the piggy bank, though, they have to break the darn thing to do it, because there is no key to unlock a piggy bank. You have to literally break it to pieces in order to have your money back. | 
