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...

Bitter vine (Mikania micrantha)

Sembung rambat or bitter vine ( Mikania micrantha ) is a plant species in Asteraceae, crawling or wrapped around trees, perennial that grows up to 27 mm per day in tropical climates, branched stems where heart-shaped or triangular leaves are arranged in pairs and a plant can cover more than 25 square meters in a few months. M. micrantha has square-shaped stems or longitudinal bones, light green, many branches and has fine hairs. The stems have segments for lengths of 75-215 mm, each segment has a pair of leaves, new shoots and flowers. New roots grow when the segments come in contact with the soil. The leaves are in pairs and facing each other. Strands do not have hair, heart-shaped or triangular with jagged edges, length 30-125 mm, width 15-60 mm. Petiole is 1-6 cm long and has fine hairs. The flower panicle grows from the armpit of the leaf and the tip of the stem, having 3-15 mm long stems. Each flower head has 4 minor flowers. The crown is greenish-white, tubular and measures ...

Cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica)

Alang-alang or cogon grass ( Imperata cylindrica ) is a plant species in Poaceae, annual grass, sharp leaf, long buds and scaly, creeping under the ground, very adaptive and grows in all climates which often become weeds on agricultural land. I. cylindrica has a sharp pointed tip of the bud and emerges from the ground, height of 0.2-1.5 m but in other places it may be more, short stems, rising up to the ground and flowering white or purplish, often with wreath of hair under the segment. Leaf strands in the form of long ribbons, lancet-tipped with a narrow base and gutter-shaped, 12-80 cm long, very coarse edge and jagged sharply, long hair at the base with broad, pale leaf bones in the middle. The flowers are panicles, 6-28 cm long with long-haired and white-colored ears for 1 cm which are used as a tool to blow off the fruit when ripe. Cogon grass breeds quickly with seeds that spread quickly with the wind or through rhizomes that quickly penetrate the soil. Alang-alang does...

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