Dodo.com is a travel-focused portal with stories, tips, ideas and people to find and met. You can also share your fotos and videos as well as browse travel diaries. Some of them are of poor quality I thought, but some are well written and worth the reading.

Link: Dodo.com

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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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Ok, this is not Costa Rica, this is not sunny, warm weather, and it’s not about surfing. But: snowkiting is a pretty adventuresome way to travel, shown by 3 extreme sport guys in North Dakota. Check out their site, it’s fun.

If you try to do it, pray for wind from the right direction … and enough snow.

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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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We know what crowded beaches mean to surfers. But check this crowd in a huge pool in Japan - including artificial waves…

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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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