Blogging the World

In my opinion, reading travel blogs are some of the best ways to research a place before you visit. You get to read a personal account of someone who travelled somewhere with the idea in mind that they would find the best way to experience that place. I find that most travel blogs are actually realistic, but some do assume you have a lot of money and are looking for luxury rather than reality. This is why my favorite travel blog by far is Lonely Planet.

            Apart from focusing on backpacking and saving you money while experiencing the country as close to the way locals do, they also publish books. When I went abroad, these were my lifelines. Researching the country we were heading to beforehand was made ten times easier. These books can tell you everything, where to stay and what to expect, what and where to eat, prices you can expect to pay, how to bargain, the list goes on and on. The blog has a ton of information on nearly every country so researching before you even buy one of their books is a breeze. Its recent posts cover pretty much anything related to everything travel that I find to be not just informative but entertaining as well.

Even if you’re just browsing, Lonely Planet is a great resource for information on countries in general. Whether they are safe or politically stable and if you should even go there and what a viable alternative would be. I find it not only the best travel site on the Internet, but all around the best resource for a educated reasonable and realistic world traveller.