Cool apps make your trip easier

Before traveling, prepare the plan carefully. The things that must be prepared are collecting accurate information about the place to be visited, looking for culinary information to be loved, estimating the budget, arranging travel and transportation routes, ordering resting places, arranging clothes and equipment to be carried.

Maybe these preparations sound dizzying, but now we don't need to worry that many cool apps will ease these tasks. Here are some applications that will help you on exciting trips in various regions.

Maps and directions

Maps and directions will be very helpful if you are visiting a foreign area. Some of the good applications you use are Waze and Google Maps. You will be free to explore various places without fear of being lost. Waze has been used in 185 countries and Google Maps serves more than 200 countries.

Transportation

Public transportation is one way to save expenses. Trafi and Moovit are two popular applications for public transport routes in a city or country. You can also install transportation service applications such as Go-Jek or Grab if you visit Southeast Asia.

Hotel booking

Applications to find and book hotels or inns are very important in travel. Some popular applications are Agoda, Booking.com, Kayak, Airbnb and Traveloka.

Luggage management

Often find it difficult to determine what clothes or items to carry on vacation? This application comes as a solution. Installing the PackPoint Pro or Travel List application - Packing Trips will arrange clothes and equipment that must be carried based on the duration of the trip, destination and activities to be carried out.

Culinary

The journey will be perfect by tasting the typical culinary in the destination visited. Zomato, Menoo!, Open Rice and Burpple will help you find a variety of delicious foods and drinks in various regions.

Traveler social media

Couchsurfing is very helpful for backpackers and building friendships with new people. This application is a community of tourists from all over the world and allows you to get information about travel plans, find fellow travelers and make it possible to get friends who provide their homes as free lodging.

Javan broadhead planarian (Bipalium javanum)

Cacing palu or Javan broadhead planarian ( Bipalium javanum ) is a species of animal in Geoplanidae, hermaphrodite, living on the ground, predators, often called only hammerhead or broadhead or shovel worms because of wide heads and simple copulatory organs. B. javanum has a slim stature, up to 20 cm long, up to 0.5 cm wide, head wide up to 1 cm or less, small neck, widening in the middle and the back end is rounded, all black and shiny. Javan broadhead planarians walk above ground level by raising their heads and actively looking left, right and looking up using strong neck muscles. Move swiftly, track meander, climb to get through all obstacles or make a new path if the obstacle is too high. Cacing palu track and prey on earthworms and mollusks. They use muscles and sticky secretions to attach themselves to prey to lock in. The head and ends of the body are wrapped around and continue to close the body to stop prey reactions. They produce tetrodotoxins which are very strong...

Swietenia mahagoni and Swietenia macrophylla, the differences

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Thomas Sutikna lives with Homo floresiensis

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