how & where to travel in London or the near-by area,eg Paris if i only have 500 pound?exclude accommodation?

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Wow...you're in for a treat! Wear good walking shoes because London is a superb walking city. Bring a good map of the city and begin. Be a happy tourist and first hop on one of the major red double decker tour buses which afford you a perfect overview of London and you can "hop on and off" as often as you please...some for two days! I love www.theoriginaltour.com ! Highlights (see www.londonwalks.com): National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, Tate Modern Museum, London Eye, Covent Gardens (great shops n restaurants), St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, see a play!, Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Tower of London.
Know London has many beautiful parks which can be your oasis when needing a rest. Kensington Gardens in one of the world's wealthiest areas - See Princess Di's Kensington Palace and shop Kensington High St. and wander up Church St. for boutiques and such. Nearby: Royal Albert Hall, Science Museum, Natural History Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum. Hyde Park connects to Kensington Gardens. Explore Chelsea for boutiques as well. St. James Park - beautiful, sole restaurant inside. Green Park - high tea at the Ritz, Fortnum & Mason, Picadilly Circus (think Times Square). Shopping streets: Oxford, Bond, check for weekly markets...BUY "TIMEOUT LONDON" weekly magazine. Boat trip on the Thames - a must. Don't forget - you can take the EUROSTAR Chunnel train to Brussels or Paris for day trips (2.5 hrs +/- each way!) Hope this helps. Have a fantastic time! :)

paris is not near by I have not visited it but then I only like egypt and pakistan probably cheeper to visit egypt that paris

Get destination guide at "quick quick guide section" and also see for various cheap tickets, hotels, Hostels, Motels and also EURO pass (Rail section)

You could go to Gibraltar or Malta.

£500 is a bloody fortune - and you're excluding accommodation?!! For £500 plus accommodation I could do New York for a week. If you want a real adventure check out the cheapjack airlines - Ryanair and EasyJet both do it - and get a flight to somewhere in North Africa. Marrakech for choice, if not, Tangier.

If you book well in advance travel in the UK is cheap, book on the day and its more expensive

Cheapest Way around is probably Coaches - the megabus starts at £1.50 each way
www.megabus.com
www.nationalexpress.co.uk

Trains are a bit hit and miss with cheap fares, you need to book well in advance and tie yourself to a specific train, but you can buy more expensive tickets for any train on the day..

Finally there are the low cost airlines
www.flybe.com
www.airsouthwest.com
www.easyjet.com
www.ryanair.com
www.bmibaby.com

The cost of a flight varies between £20 and £100

Take the tube to the center of London, when you get off, go outside and there is a tour bus outfit that you pay 20 pounds for the day, there are 3 different routes and you can see loads of London sights. You can get off the bus tour around and then go back to stop and get on another bus, the buses are open topped Double deckers so if the weather is good it's nice. Other than that, to be honest, London is extremly expensive, I would save your money. Don't know how much to go to Paris but probably around 100 pounds. You could also visit London toursim sites on internet. But I did the Bus thing and found quite enjoyable and worth the money.

Paris is not in the nearby area, it is quite distant really, There is this thing called the Channel, a body of water to cross. You can go to and from Paris from London via the Channel Tunnel, but that will cost you about 100 pounds.

However, to travel around London, you purchase an underground Zone ticket. For several pounds, you can go in and out all day and see everything there is to see. There is enough to look at that you can spend months exploring London, and still never see everything.

Good Luck.

You will spend that just going to the toilet in London. Try Andalusia in southern Spain. You can live for a month on 500 down there.