Zicasso provides trip plans based on your information. You can enter your destination, date, any preferences (hotel type, guided tours, events, and many more) and Zicasso will provide you with three proposals. You need to have a free account to get the results.

Link: Zicasso

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This is a nice idea to get / offer a cheap bed when travelling: AirBed & Breakfast. The service needs a free account, where you can check for events. If you found one (or add a new one), you can post for or offer a bed. You will meet with people like you and no anonymous hotel.

Link: AirBed & Breakfast

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Travature is a unique online travel community where you can compare airfare, research new destinations, review the best and worst restaurants and hotels throughout the world, share trip photos, and discuss your travel experiences on a personal level with other people just like you.

Link: Travature

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Another travel-oriented community site is citiport. There, you will find different cities / places with ideas what to do and how to get there, presented by locals.

Something similar, but not quite as same is Hi Everywhere!.

Link: Citiport

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If you want to come to Central America and move around in the region more quickly than with cheap but slow busses, try TACA Regional. They are represented in Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama with their local airlines, and serve many countries in the region.

I found a nice blog post from Iva about Latin American airlines, informative and full of ideas.

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I like this page - 360º panorama views from different places. Great stuff, and if you’re a traveller, put up your 360º pics on the page, tag it with some location information and let’s go!

Link: Panyoe.com 

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This is only possible in Japan: an artificial beach (length 300 meters!) with swell, surf board rental and roof. If the beautiful sand, the warm water and the always nice wheather is an argument, than maybe the artificial volcano with smoke and fire. The artificial beach is called Ocean Dome and is on Kyushu Island, 1.500 kilometers south of Tokyo.

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I read a nice post about the mostly by tourism untouched Carribean coast of Central America - from Belize to Panama. The Carribean - synonym for mass tourism - can be still a lovely place. Forget Cancun, forget the Dominican and Jamaican Resorts, check the true side of the Carribean.

At Condé Nest you will find a great online guide (”the coast of utopia“) with lot of tips, hints and ideas what to do and what not.

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A user-generated content site for travelers, by travelers. Keep track of your travels, share your trip photos, reviews, and blogs with friends and family, as well as research destinations before you book a trip.

Similar to wayn.com or epic trip.

Link: Driftr

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Hi Everywhere! is kind of a social network / platform for local guides who offer their help and knowledge to people new in a country. It’s for free and simple to use:

1. Post your travel plan to the site
2. A local guide books your request
3. You both met
4. You both write and post pics on the site!

Check it out, it’s great! You will learn far more about a city and their people with a local guide than on your own.
Link: Hi Everywhere!
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