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.

Thomas Sutikna lives with Homo floresiensis

BLOG - On October 28, 2004, a paper was published in Nature describing the dwarf hominin we know today as Homo floresiensis that has shocked the world. The report changed the geographical landscape of early humans that previously stated that the Pleistocene Asia was only represented by two species, Homo erectus and Homo sapiens . The report titled "A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia" written by Peter Brown and Mike J. Morwood from the University of New England with Thomas Sutikna, Raden Pandji Soejono, Jatmiko, E. Wahyu Saptomo and Rokus Awe Due from the National Archaeology Research Institute (ARKENAS), Indonesia, presents more diversity in the genus Homo. “Immediately, my fever vanished. I couldn’t sleep well that night. I couldn’t wait for sunrise. In the early morning we went to the site, and when we arrived in the cave, I didn’t say a thing because both my mind and heart couldn’t handle this incredible moment. I just went down...

Black potato (Coleus rotundifolius)

Black potato ( Coleus rotundifolius ) is a species of plant in Lamiaceae, herbaceous, fibrous roots and tubers, erect and slightly creeping stems, quadrangular, thick, and slightly odorous. Single leaves, thick, membranous, opposite and alternate. Leaves are oval, dark green and shiny on the upper side, bright green on the lower side. Up to 5 cm long, up to 4 cm wide, slightly hairy and pinnate leaf veins. Leaf stalks up to 4 cm long. Small, purple flowers. Star-shaped petals, lip-shaped crown, dark to light purple with a slightly curved tube shape. Flowering from February-August. Small tubers, brown and white flesh and tuber length 2-4 cm. Kingdom: Plantae Phylum: Tracheophyta Subphylum: Angiospermae Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Lamiales Family: Lamiaceae Subfamily: Nepetoideae Tribe: Ocimeae Subtribe: Plectranthinae Genus: Coleus Species: Coleus rotundifolius

Wild durian (Cullenia exarillata)

Wild durian ( Cullenia exarillata ) is a species of plant in the Malvaceae, a tall tree with smooth, greyish-white bark, peeling on older trees, a straight trunk, horizontal branches and often with a series of knob-like tubercles for flower and fruit attachment. C. exarillata has young branches and the underside of the leaves is covered with golden brown peltate or shield-like scales. The leaves are single, alternate, glabrous, glossy green on the upper side and covered with silvery or orange peltate scales on the underside. Hermaphroditic flowers are tubular and also covered with golden brown scales, 4-5 cm long and cream or reddish brown in color. Flowers have no petals, formed of tubular bracteoles and tubular calyxes, 5-lobed. Fruit is round, 10-13 cm in diameter, covered with thorns and clustered along the branches. Many seeds, reddish brown, 4-5 cm long and 2-3 cm wide. The seeds are enclosed by a fleshy, whitish aril. The fruit splits open when ripe and dries to release the s...

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