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"Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer"

Are you planning for a family vacation? Have you fueled your vehicle for your next road trip? Do you want to send your parents abroad for tour? In any case, you are in the right place

Not everyone will enjoy back packing or start their journey on a fly, there are few who would like to plan their travel well before they start. For those people, I am listing down few apps that ease their task

Travel can be split into below phases:

- Pre Planning phase: When you have not decided where to go?

- Planning phase: When you know where to go and planning how to?

- Travel phase: When you are in travel already

- Post travel phase: When you have returned from the travel

Pre Planning phase

Based on the below points we can decide where to go

- How much time we have say 2 days, 3 days etc.

- How are we planning to travel via car (own/rent), bike etc.

- With whom are we planning to travel?

Holidify: This app/website gives you the luxury in

: finding the places near you,

: if you have a place in mind it also assists you with the attractions around it,

: it even suggests places based on duration (weekend gateway or long trip) and Region (From me, From Bengaluru or South India, North India)

VisaVisaVisa: This app is very useful if you are planning for a trip abroad as it lists out the countries

: which requires Visa to travel

: which has Visa on Arrival option

: which does not required Visa from the passport originating country

With the above apps the pre requisite for the trip is set i.e. places to visit can be easily finalized

In addition to the above, there are more apps or websites without which this list will be incomplete i.e. tripoto, klook, tripadvisor, lonelyplanet etc.

Planning Phase

Once we know where to travel, we will have to plan the below

- Mode of transport (book flights, train or vehicle for travel)

- Accommodation (place for stay)

- Packing (essentials, documents etc.)

Momondo: If we are looking for one stop destination for booking cheap flights, this will help us to book one for sure. This can also help us in getting the accommodation booked for our stay

Airbnb: This is just a quick solution to find your stay for your travel. I have personally used it when i had travelled for London few years back

Packpoint: By entering the details below, this smart app lists out all the essentials/items we need to carry for our trip along with the weather forecast for the date entered

- Place of travel, date of travel, length of stay and type of travel (business/leisure)

- Selecting the activities we would like to carry out during our stay

In addition to the above, there are more apps or websites without which this list will be incomplete i.e. Skyscanner, Hopper, Oyo rooms, Couch Surfing etc.

Travel Phase

Once we started our travel, in order to have smooth transition from one place to another if we have not opted for own vehicle, we need the below to make our life ease

Rome2Rio: This app will help you to travel from one place to another in any country, especially when abroad this will help you a lot. This was personally tried from my parents and brother during their trip of Singapore and Malaysia

Xe Currency: This will help us to know the live currency conversion rates and help us to get the best rate during our travel abroad. It is always advisable to cross check the rates once before conversion

Maps.me: Offline maps is must in our adventurous trips, we cannot relay on mobile signals and internet all the time. This app helps us to save the mobile data during trips abroad, as we can download maps using free wifi at the place we stay

Translator: If we are travelling abroad or within the country whose official language is not known to us, translator will come to our rescue

Weather: Its also very important to know the weather conditions of the place we visit (for entire duration), so that the attractions we visit can be planned wisely and enjoy the trip for the whole duration

Tip: It is always good to learn few words like Good morning, How are you doing etc. in their language to build the rapport with local people during our travel

In addition to the above, there are more apps or websites without which this list will be incomplete i.e. google maps, uber, survival guide, audio guide etc.

Post travel

"No one has ever become poor by giving"

So, once we come back from travel we can share our travel story globally in any platform convenient to us

Tripoto: This is one stop destination for all our travel planning. It has all details for us to plan or even organize a trip for others. We can share our travel journey here to help millions of travelers across the globe

Snapseed: This is one of the best photo editing app available in android play store. We can use this is to enhance (good finishing touch) our pics taken during our trip and share them in various social media websites like facebook, instagram etc.

Group expenses: Without settling the expenses occurred during travel, it is not a complete experience. So, this is the small and good app on play store to share the expenses amongst the people who are part of that memory/travel

In addition to the above, there are more apps or websites without which this list will be incomplete i.e. Wanderlog, Polarsteps, Tripit

Note: This article is purely based on my research, reading and personal experience and its not funded by any of the app/websites above

Please feel free to add more apps to the above list by commenting below so that it helps fellow travelers and me as well