Travel Resources for Round the World Trip Planning

Welcome to GloboTreks’ Resources Page. I created this page to highlight some of the best resources I use on my travels and travel blogging business. I vouch for every single one of them since I get the most value for my money or they make my travels cheaper and better. Hopefully, you’ll get the same results from them.

The Ultimate Guide to Become Location Independent, Pages

The Ultimate Guide to Become Location Independent

This is the guide I wanted to have when I quit my job to travel the world long term. In its 200+ pages, I share all the tips that have allowed me to live and work from anywhere in the world.

Nomadic Matt Travel for $50 a day book

How to Travel the World on $50 a Day

Written by Nomadic Matt, one of the biggest names in travel blogging, this book is full of tips and resources that will help you travel the world on a budget.

Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel media company. Think of any country and they will have a guide about it.

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World Nomads

World Nomads

World Nomads is my favorite travel insurance company. It is available to people from over 150 countries and covers for overseas medical, evacuation, baggage, and adventurous activities. They once helped me save $500+ from an emergency hospital visit in Italy.

SquareMouth

SquareMouth

Excellent site for budget insurance policy comparison. They have a pretty good filter to help you narrow down your policy based on your needs. I've also used SquareMouth to get my travel insurance, and it has also saved me from having to pay emergency medical care.

Frequent Flyer Master

Frequent Flyer Master

Learn to travel for free by using airline and credit card miles. This guide teaches you how to earn miles and how to redeem them for high-value awards, how to fast track to airline elite status, and much more. This is the real deal!

Bookaway

BOOKAWAY

The great thing about Bookaway is that it helps you book online all types of local transportation; be it by bus, trains, mini-vans, ferries, private transportation, and even flights! This site not only connects you with local operators, but it also offers the cheapest price possible.

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Best Booking Sites + Travel Resources 1

TRIP IT

Imagine checking one place for all your travel details and getting a heads up as things happen throughout your trip. TripIt can organize your travel plans no matter where you book. Simply forward your confirmation emails to [email protected] and in a matter of seconds, TripIt will create a master itinerary for every trip.

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Budget Your Trip

Budget Your Trip has average travel costs for thousands of cities around the world, all provided by other travelers. You can also register to organize your spending by category and location with graphs, maps, charts, and tables.

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Skyscanner

Skyscanner has become my favorite go-to search engine since they often show the cheapest airfares, especially if your flight involves budget airlines that Kayak might miss.

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Kayak

Great starting point for searching cheap airfares, especially if you are based in or departing from the US. Their explore tool is quite handy to help you find cheap flights to anywhere from your departing city.

Google Flights

Google Flights is now one of the main airfare search engines out there. Their calendar view makes it easy to pick the best price with the most convenient dates.

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Momondo

This one is great for international flights. Like Skyscanner, it is also often the cheapest site. While I love the site, I always double check their fares with other sites as sometimes Momondo can show high prices.

Secret Flying

Secret Flying is great to stay on top of error fares and insanely cheap airfares. Error fares happen when an airline pricing system causes an error, and if you book your flight during this error, you can end up saving hundreds or thousands of dollars.

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Airfarewatchdog

Airfarewatchdog

This site monitors airline ticket prices to alert you when deals occur; many of them unadvertised in other search engines. Signing up for their newsletter is recommended.

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Airbnb

I love Airbnb!! It is great to rent apartments/homes or rooms from short to long term. They have a large inventory and are often the cheapest compared to similar sites.

Booking.com

The largest accommodation booking site in the world. They have a nice loyalty program that makes accommodation even cheaper. I really like their free cancellation policy on many of their listings.

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Hotels Combined

This site is great to find great deals as it shows and compares listings from top travel sites like Booking.com, Agoda, hotels.com, and many more. It's a great overall search.

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Agoda

It has a good inventory and often with lower rates than other sites, especially when it comes to find accommodation in Asia.

HostelWorld

HostelWorld has the largest hostel inventory in the world. I use it quite often and this is my go to app if I’m looking for cheap hostels. Also, sometimes they have listings in certain countries where the other booking sites don’t have anything.

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Expedia

While I don’t think is as good as it used to be, they still surprise you with a really good hotel or airfare deal, so it is worth checking. They also have a good rewards program.

Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing helps you connect with people abroad to sleep on their couch or extra bed for free. But the site is not just for that, it also helps you meet people and explore new cities with a local. All of my Couchsurfing experiences have been great!

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Hotwire

They have their “secret hot rate hotels” list, which gives you hotels for a much lower rate without telling you specifically which hotel is until you get it. It’s not scary since hotels tend to be good. They also have regular hotel rates.

Priceline

Different from Hotwire, Priceline allows you to bid the price for a hotel stay, allowing you to save money. I don’t use Priceline as often as I wish, but sometimes it has some pretty sweet deals.

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Intrepid Travel

Currently my favorite tour company. Intrepid offers really good small group tours all around the world that use local operators and leave a small environmental footprint. I’ve had a great experience every time I travel with them.

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G Adventures

This is also one of the first companies I check out when I’m interested in adventure tours. I have traveled with them several times and I never get tired of saying how great their tours are and how detailed their service is. They are very similar to Intrepid Travel.

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Exodus

Another experienced adventure holiday company specializing in cultural, walking, cycling, photographic, wildlife holidays & family holidays. Compared to Intrepid and G Adventures, their demographic is more on the 30+ age range.

Eurail

If you are going to visit Europe and plan on taking a lot of trains, get a rail pass. You will save money a lot of money. I’ve used a rail pass three times and saved hundreds of dollars each time. They ship passes worldwide for free.

Get Your Guide

One of the best sites to find budget-friendly day and multi-day tours in hundreds of cities from around the world. They have many "skip the line" tickets for some of the most popular sights.

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Busabout

While they offer adventurous trips in Asia, Africa, the US, and Canada, they are most famous for their trips in Europe, especially their hop-on-hop-off passes across the continent.

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Gregory Z40 Small Backpack

Gregory Zulu 40 Backpack

Gregory is my go to backpack brand. The Z40 backpack is streamlined to be really light and resistant. For me, 40L is big enough to carry everything needed for long-term travel, yet still light to carry. It has well-padded shoulder, sternum, and hip straps, as well as a comfortable and ventilated back padding. Seriously, this backpack is really good!

Wandrd PRVKE Camera Bag

Wandrd PRVKE Bag

I LOVE this award-winning daypack. I use my PRVKE to carry all my electronics (camera, lenses, laptop, external hard drives, and even my drone!), basically, everything I need to run this blog while on the road. It is customizable to safely store and easily access your camera gear, laptop, and even your passport (placed on an anti-pickpocket spot). Highly Recommended!

TropicFeel Monsoon

Tropicfeel Sneakers

This is the ultimate travel shoe made with recycled and eco materials (PETA approved as vegan). The Monsoon model (above) is made out of 3 recycled plastic bottles. These super light sneakers have the quick-dry technology to be water shoes, are comfortable to be walking shoes, have the outsole of hiking shoes, and are casual enough for the daily life in the city.

Sony A7rii Camera

Sony A7rII

My goals is to produce good quality pictures to share vividly my travel experiences. With the Sony a7rii, I’ve been able to significantly improve my photography’s quality. It is a full-frame mirrorless camera, with top-notch photo and video quality.

DJI Mavic Pro Drone

DJI Mavic Pro

I love taking aerial shots whenever possible, and the DJI Mavic Pro makes it as easy as it could be. The drone is light, small, and easy to maneuver, so not only you get great shots from above, but it's also fun flying it!

Matador QuickDry Towel

Matador QuickDry Towel

A quick NanoDry towel is essential for any traveler, especially backpackers. There are very useful when staying at hostels, going to the beach, and even camping, since they take virtually no space, dry quickly, and are lightweight.

Check out this page for a more detailed list of what I carry with me in each backpack and my most recommended travel gear.

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Superstar Blogging Course

This is a 10-week course that focuses on the technical aspects of creating a blog and developing it successfully. It covers everything from A to Z, including monetization. It helped improve my blog!

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Bluehost

Excellent hosting company with easy to use 1-click automatic WordPress installation and excellent customer service. This is my recommended hosting if you’re just starting. It is cheap, fast, and really good.

Wordpress

The #1 Blog Publishing Platform. It is free and easily customizable with an immense library of themes (I recommend, Astra). This blog uses WordPress for its framework. It also works well with Bluehost's hosting.

Astra Pro Theme

Your blog needs a theme as its framework to organize all its content in well designed posts and pages. Astra is a free and premium theme that's light, easy to customize, and beautifully coded. This blog uses Astra Pro.

Elementor Pro

Elementor is a website builder plugin that will make any theme even more beautiful and visually stunning. The flexibility to design anything is endless! This blog uses Elementor Pro and it works perfectly with Astra Pro.

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Make Traffic Happen

If you're taking blogging as a serious career, then you must make sure it is an SEO friendly blog that brings in traffic to generate an income. Make Traffic Happen helps you do all of this with their SEO and speed optimization tips.

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