If you are an avid outdoor traveling enthusiast, check out ViewRanger. It is a complete offline mapping, navigation and guided trail GPS app for Outdoor travelers. It designed mainly for Hiking, Mountain Biking, Cycling, Horse Riding, Nature watching and other outdoor activities. It is available as a mobile app for your smartphone with complementary web [...]
If you are planning a trip to multiple cities, then it is best to have a travel plan created and organized. There are various websites that let you form such a plan. But if you are a Google Chrome user, you can quickly start planning your trip through the browser app of a website called [...]
You will find many online ads with people having put up their homes for rent for vacationers. But contacting private homeowners directly to rent a home often results in complications such as confusions about the mode of payment, not having enough pictures, or not having the appropriate descriptions. Here to help you out is a [...]
Imagine it is that time of the year again and you find yourself sitting in your travel agent’s office, trying to decide which travel deal to go with. While your travel agent might do a good job of offering you the best deals locally, for international deals it is best to have somebody local make [...]
If you are planning a road trip for the summer, check out Roadtrippers. It lets you easily plan a trip from one location to another on a Google map. Simply choose your starting point and destination and it automatically calculates how much money you will need for fuel, length of the trip and approximate travel [...]
Anyone who has planned a trip will know how difficult it can be. You have so many things to organise, book and pay for. As well as the lodgings, you also have to plan for activities (tours, places to see), as well as where you’re going to eat. All in all, planning a trip can [...]
Tixik is an online travel planning tool that has a different interface than most other travel planners. It presents information like hotels, tourist attractions, transport, etc in an organized way, all on one page. You may begin by searching for cities, and they have a pretty efficient search tool. It will pull up cities with [...]
Finding a place to crash when you are visiting a new city is an important and difficult decision. What you need is a tool that provides you with numerous options along with detailing each place. You need descriptions as well as pictures. All of this is exactly what a web service called “Crash My Pad” [...]
It is good to tour the world but probably not the best idea to be prominent as a tourist as it allows people to rip you off in more than one way. HowNotToBeATourist is a great guide that shows you how to look, act, live like a local citizen of the city you are visiting [...]
Travelling with your friends is always a fun thing to do. Making travel plans with them however, is not. If you are planning to go on a trip with your friends, check out Travelstormer, a web app that can help plan your travel with friends efficiently. Travelstormer is a brainstorming tool that can help a [...]
Have you ever taken a flight to another city but missed meeting a friend who lived nearby? If yes, then there is a new web service that will help ensure it does not happen again. The service is called Twalaba. Twalaba is a free to use web service that lets you see where your Facebook [...]
Road trips are a great alternative to costly flights but they can be pretty mundane and overbearing if you don’t know how to enjoy them. One great way to do so is travel through scenic drives and MyScenicDrives can help you find one that wouldn’t require deviating from your route. Simply enter your starting and [...]
Nobody knows a place better than the locals. Vayable understands that and connect travelers with knowledgeable locals who can offer unique experiences that will truly let you see their city. Vayable is also a travel marketplace that allows you, as a local, to sell unique tours and experiences to travelers. A traveler can browse offers [...]
All of us have been in situations where we miss our bus or train stop because we fell asleep or were too engrossed in our music or book. TravAlert is an app that saves you from missing your stop by setting an alarm specific to your destination. Once you download the app for your iPhone, [...]
Rome2rio is a newly launched Google Maps mashup that aims to simplify the hunt for accurate directions by plane, train and cars between two destinations around the world. Enter the from and to cities and then get all kinds of route information. It can search for 670 airlines worldwide (also showing the airfares that are [...]
Are you trying to decide which location should you choose for your next vacation? What will help more than brochures and travel pamphlets is an actual, more ‘real’ view of the places you plan on visiting. This view can be received through Webcams Travel. Webcams Travel is a free and simple to use website that [...]
Traveling is the only way to learn to truly learn different cultures. And while immersing yourself in a different culture is fun, you might run into miscues with people while travelling. To avoid this, you should check Fasten Seat Belts. This website provides info on cultural norms and values for travellers to understand differentcultures and [...]
Imagine trying to explain the recent trip you took to multiple countries. It can become very difficult to define all paths and details to your friends. In order to do this efficiently you can use a wonderful online source titled “TravellersPoint Travel Community”. It is an online service that lets you create a map of [...]
The most inexpensive means of intercity travel are buses and trains. Checking for intercity bus and train routes can become a tedious task because numerous transportation companies are involved and you have to check all of them. For a more convenient solution, check out bus and train route planner “Routefriend.” Routefriend is a free to [...]
What would you do if you wanted to keep a check on airfares to your favorite flights? Suppose you wanted to go to Hawaii through a certain flight but was waiting for the airfare price to drop. You might have to check the website of each airline every day until you noticed a drop in [...]