Traveling creates lot of fun and excitement. People would spend their summer vacation visiting places and having an adventure tour to various places. Nothing can beat the exciting feeling of seeing new things and meeting new people. When you start your journey pick up your entire luggage’s and make sure to carry a map with you. When you are visiting new places map plays an important role in showing the directions of a typical place where to go or the surroundings of a particular place.

Today, modern maps show the world in ways that allowed a reader to leave home and return. Many museums today have collections of old and new maps. Maps are been preserved by museums, as they are an important part of a place's history. Map experts spend their lives learning about maps. The knowledge that they get are based on hundreds of hours spent on carefully examining maps. This is why even a simple damage to a map that might not even be noticed by a regular reader can prove important to an expert.

But map printing is not as easy as you think. The location of buildings, houses, landmarks and the like should be exact and clear. Even the color of the map should be appropriate. Woodcut, engraving and lithography are the different techniques used in producing maps. Woodcut is a relief printing process. It is the oldest printing technique. Early on this technique was used for printing designs on playing cards and religious prints. Engraving, on the other hand, is the oldest intaglio technique. This has been done to decorate metals for ages. And lithography uses the repelling properties of grease and water to print from polished slabs of very fine textured limestone.

So, don’t neglect or throw the map after use. Keep the maps in a safe side, so that you can use it next time when you visit some beautiful island of Bali, Indonesia and some other places.