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🗺️ Apps and Itinerary Mapping

1. Polarsteps: a travel planning app that tracks your itinerary and lets you share your best travel memories (and location) with your friends and family.
   
   
2. Roadtrippers: a popular travel app that allows you to plan, navigate, and discover your perfect road trip adventure. With Roadtrippers, you can map out your route, find interesting attractions along the way, and create custom itineraries to make the most of your journey.
   
   
3. Trava: a free travel agent app that creates customisable trips and maps out your itinerary for you.


4. Travel Map: a travel mapping app that lets you trace your route and share it with your network.


5. Backpacking Trip Planner: an all-in-one travel planner to budget for your trip, and know everything you need to do before leaving, including a backpacking essentials checklist, visa and admin’ requirements, itinerary mapping, and more.


6. Maps.me: a mobile mapping and navigation app that provides detailed offline maps and routing capabilities. It allows you to download maps of specific regions or countries onto your mobile devices, helping you explore unfamiliar areas without relying on an internet connection.
   
   
7. Google My Maps: create your personalised map to record your itinerary and trip highlights.


8. Rome2Rio: find the best way to get from one destination to another. Get information on various travel options, including flights, trains, buses, ferries, and driving routes, allowing you to compare prices, durations, and schedules. Rome2rio also provides estimated costs for each mode of transportation and offers suggestions for multiple route options.

🛸Booking Flights & Accommodation

1. Skyscanner: search by month to find the best deals to book your flights
   
   
2. Bookings.com: a great platform to find reviews and quickly spot the best hostel for your needs
   
   
3. Hostel World: a booking platform specialising in hostels around the world
   
   
4. Home Exchange: an app that allows you to switch homes with other travellers so you can sleep in a new place for free.
   
   
5. Couchsurfing: sleep for free at other people’s verified homes.
   
   
6. Sportihome: A website that’s like Airbnb but that exclusively caters to people interested in sports.
   
   

💸 Trip Budgeting & Managing your Finances

1. Budgi: An app to record your spending while travelling.
   
   
2. Travel budget worksheet: a free google sheet template to estimate your trip budget.
   
   
3. Tricount: an app to easily share expenses with other people.
   
   
4. Tripcoin: a travel budget app to track your expenses in multiple currencies.

🚜 Finding Volunteering Opportunities & Remote Work

1. Worldpackers: an online platform that connects travellers with hosts around the world who offer accommodation in exchange for work or volunteering.
   
   
2. Workaway: a paid online work exchange platform to find opportunities with verified hosts worldwide. It’s free to browse opportunities.
   
   
3. WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms): an international organisation that connects volunteers with organic farmers and hosts around the world. WWOOF offers individuals the chance to work on organic farms in exchange for accommodation, meals, and the opportunity to learn about sustainable farming practices.
   
   
4. Best remote job boards to make money while travelling: We Work Remotely, Remotive, RemoteOK

📋 Best Travel Insurance for Solo Travellers

1. Safety Wing: a global travel medical insurance provider designed for digital nomads, remote workers and long-term travellers.


2. World Nomads: best-in-class travel insurance for long-term travellers.


3. Chapka Assurance (France): one of the best travel insurances for French travellers.

Trip Planning Resources: Staying Inspired and Learning on the Road

Travel Blogs & Magazines