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=== Flight - Wordwide ===
=== Flight - Wordwide ===
Use a well known airliner for continental flights and low price domestic airliners for shorter hops around the continent or country.
Use a well known airliner for continental flights and low price domestic airliners for shorter hops around the continent or country.
* [http://www.airninja.com/ airninja.com] - Instantly figure out all the low-cost airlines covering a flight or region, perfect for city hopping
* [http://www.airninja.com/ airninja.com] - Instantly figure out all the low-cost airlines covering a flight or region, perfect for city hopping [http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20120307-pro-travellers-reveal-their-top-tech-tools]
* [http://www.hipmunk.com/ hipmunk.com] - Map-based interface with color-coded bar graphs to find the ideal flight
* [http://www.hipmunk.com/ hipmunk.com] - Map-based interface with color-coded bar graphs to find the ideal flight
* [http://www.expedia.com/ expedia.com] - Search for single or return flights, deals
* [http://www.expedia.com/ expedia.com] - Search for single or return flights, deals
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* [http://www.airbnb.com/ airbnb.com] - Global community for sharing a space to stay
* [http://www.airbnb.com/ airbnb.com] - Global community for sharing a space to stay
* [http://www.homeaway.com/ homeaway.com] - Similar to AirBnB [http://www.legalnomads.com/2012/02/guide-to-marrakesh.html]
* [http://www.homeaway.com/ homeaway.com] - Similar to AirBnB [http://www.legalnomads.com/2012/02/guide-to-marrakesh.html]
=== Other ===
=== Other ===
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/detail/ Eric Fischer] - Heatmaps created out of geotagged photos, useful to figure out the (more interesting) side streets
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/detail/ Eric Fischer] - Heatmaps created out of geotagged photos, useful to figure out the (more interesting) side streets

Revision as of 01:01, 10 March 2012

Really just notes for my own references of travels I've done or planning to do.

Tools

Travellogs

Adventure ideas

  • gadventures.com - Offers tours and adventures in all regions of the world, good for inspiration

Exploration

Flight - Wordwide

Use a well known airliner for continental flights and low price domestic airliners for shorter hops around the continent or country.

  • airninja.com - Instantly figure out all the low-cost airlines covering a flight or region, perfect for city hopping [2]
  • hipmunk.com - Map-based interface with color-coded bar graphs to find the ideal flight
  • expedia.com - Search for single or return flights, deals
  • orbitz.com - Option for multi-city flight search
  • travelocity.com - Combine multi-city and airline flight, save money
  • kayak.com - Flight search, map explore feature to discover price differentials, car rental search

Flight - Norway

Only search for flights on Tuesdays after 15:00, the airlines are then done updating the prices after the weekend rush and competing airfairs

Resources

  • worldnodmads.com - Advice on safety, insurance, questions and answers, other handy tips
  • reiseplaster.no - List of vaccinations for different countries, norwegian

Packing

Hostel/Hotel

Apartment

Other

  • Eric Fischer - Heatmaps created out of geotagged photos, useful to figure out the (more interesting) side streets

Travels

Next travels

  • Things to remember for next London trip Ask Slashdot [4] [5]:
    • Check some dj shops: Phoncia, BM Soho, Rough Trade
    • Bletchley Park, Enigma codebreaking + early computing
    • Science Museum
    • British Museum
    • Hummus Bros [6]
    • Just Falafels [7]
    • Adadgio Teas Regent Street
    • Mildreds Vegetarian Restaurant, Soho [8]
    • Spuntino, Soho - Eat around a big bar [9]
    • Cycle around Camden, Hampstead Heath, West End, Oxford street
  • San Francisco trip:
    • The Long Now museum - mechanical computing
    • Apex Electronics, Sun Valley - Surplus electronics store
    • TechShop - tinkerer's perfect playground
    • Amoeba Music - Large independent music store
    • Highway 1 - road close to the coast, lots of cliffs, best south of Carmel [10]
    • Pick-a-peck - marinated carrots, asparagus, and green beans [11]
  • Norway things:
    • Svolvær wedged stone [12]
  • New York trip:
    • Gray's Papaya - Hot Dog specialists
  • Wisconsin trip:
    • House on the Rock [13]
  • Trip to Japan, Tokyo (English friendly japan):
    • Find a good apartment near a metro line
    • Akihabara, lots, lots of electronics shops videos of some of them
    • Tokyo tower
    • Shinkansen ekspress tog
    • Kyoto
    • Osaka
    • Green tea icecream
    • Eat on other than first floor, quieter, better food [14]
    • Midori Sushi, apparently best sushi restaurant ever, queue [15]
      • Shinjuku
    • Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
    • Komeda Coffe - Lots of small dishes, nice atmosphere
    • Nekobukuro - Pet cats for a fee
    • Nagashima Spaland - Amazing park with lightshow at night
  • South America trip:
    • Rio De Janeiro
    • Chile, Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert
  • Trip to France:
    • The Great Dune of Pyla - Gigantic sand dune at the coast stretching 3 km [16]
    • Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix - Mountain in the Mont Blanc massif, cable car from 1035 m to 3842 m [17]
  • Trip to Spain:
    • Caminito del Rey - Old walkway used for maintenance of a hydroelectric power plant, epic heights and deterioration [18]
    • Basílica De Montserrat, Barcelona - nestling in the towers and crags of the mountain
    • Mercat de la Boquería - Large public market in Barcelone
    • El Teide, Spain's highest mountain [19]
  • Trip to China:
    • Beijing:
      • (Tourist traps) Forbidden palace and Tiananmen square, the temple of Heaven and the beautiful Beihai park, the Great Wall at Badaling [20]
      • Old Hutongs of Beijing - back lanes of the city
      • Made in China a.k.a. Grand Hyatt - Perfect Pekin' duck, reservation recommended [21]
      • Shanghai’s Wet Market on Lianhua Lu in the Minhang District [22] - Guide service [23]
  • Trip to Canada:
    • Biosphère in Quebec - unique and spectacular structure [24]
    • Vancouver - Lovely city
    • Try Poutine - French fries and cheese curds [25]
  • Trip to Switzerland:
    • Zermatt, hike up to Hörnli Hut, 3260 m, try the Goulash [26]
    • Karwendel, lovely valley on the border of Swiss and Germany [27]
  • Next trip to Amsterdam:
    • Cycle around the old town and the outer sticks
  • Trip to Croatia:
    • Zadar - City on the Adriatic coast [28]
  • Trip to Latvia:
    • Riga - Check out LIDO, marked, old town
  • Trip to Kuala Lumpur:
  • Utah trip:
  • Colorado trip:
    • Uncompahgre Peak [31]
  • Trip to Bulgaria:
    • Buzludzha, abandoned momument on top of mountain range [32] [33]
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