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Experts Reveal: Best Travel Apps for Your Next Trip

We today live in a world, where living in oblivion is a great crime done to oneself. You can neither grow professionally nor personally that ways. In this regard, now than ever before,the theory of survival of the fittest comes to play.If you are smart, and you make the most of the resources around you, you may reach heights that could not be fathomed.

And as far as things like pleasure, contentment and satisfaction are concerned, they too come only after the complete exploration of the inner as well as the outer possibilities of whichever task you are engrossed in.

So keeping the above points in mind, let us connect it to the joy of traveling to India. There is no limit to the vast horizons one may explore; the infinite wonders of this universe will always remain a little too many to uncover.

However, with the help of some amazing creations of human mind, the process seems a little less baffling. For instance the following apps, have enhanced the traveling experience of all travelers by leaps and bounds-

Airbnb

Download this app and find a lodging to rent across 190 cities, 34,000 cities. The app helps you find affordable and rather exciting accommodations to choose instead of hotels at your destination. Taking the idea of couch surfing ahead, the app has acquired a wide acceptance. You can list or find lodgings in no time. It is a reliable, hassle-free way of connecting with the travel community across the world. So, this app is a must have in your phones after you have taken flights to India or any other destination.

Google maps/ Rome2Rio

Easy way to navigate new routes, roam around a new place all by yourself, Google Maps is one app which probably is already there in your smartphone (inbuilt feature). If not before heading to your next trip, install it and get familiar.

And if, you’ve tried and tested this particular app, and are looking for something more, Rome2Rio takes you a step further. This multimodal trip planner, not just helps you map out and locate places, but also provides you the cheapest route to follow to your destination. This app is an aid for the travelers from USA to India.

World Around Me (free)/ TravelSmart (free)

The next app that your should probably be installing is the cool WAM App. This app helps you find nearby ATMs, eateries, galleries etc. All you have to do is, hold the phone at your eye level, and turn the camera to the surroundings. Select the category you are searching for, and there appears your results, with complete details. You can vary the range for search from 100 metres to 50 km.

While we think, having WAM is sufficient, but if you do have high storage capacity, another free app won’t harm. Install Travel Smart; this one’s specially designed to help you find details of local medical aid centres, emergency numbers, drug stores, along with a drug dictionary, and uniquely helpful first aid language translator.We hope you don’t get the need to use this one, but for the unfortunate times it can be your saviour. You might find this app helpful to know about the natives of the place after taking flights to India from the USA.

Spotify Music

Install the app to enjoy free music on your trip. This Swedish commercial music streaming platform gives you access to millions of songs with different genres to choose from. Launched in 2008, the application is available in almost whole of America, West Europe and Oceania. However, you will have to understand the invite and subscription system well prior to using this awesome app that can turn out to be an awesome travel companion for you.

Duo Lingo/ Google Translate

It would be a good idea to have some language improving apps in your phone as well before you venture into a new expedition. While the popular Duo Lingo app is the most recommended. It is however not a last minute deal kinds.The app helps you learn new languages in a very easy and comprehensive way via regular practice and test qualifiers. If you’ve booked your flight tickets in advance, why not start some easy language sessions in advance too.

For those, who are looking for easy translator apps, that may come handy while making conversation in a land where there is no common language of communication, google translator is the one.You can easily find a word or phrase translated in the required language (if it does come under the 58 languages in their data base). Listening options is also available, however to a limited 23 most popular languages used internationally.

AccuWeather (free)

One of the most widely used app around the world, AccuWeather, serves its purpose real well. And if you are making a journey to a place altogether in a different hemisphere, of which you have know idea about the seasons and weather; don’t wait install the app immediately. For instance, if you are in US and have just booked for a last minute travel to India, check on the weather conditions and quickly pack accordingly. There can be great weather contrasts between two different places in this tropical country, and in this regard AccuWeather comes handy, as it provides the minutest weather forecasts which is ‘hyper-localized.’

XE (free)

Another app that will help keep you sorted and avoid confusions with money matters is the XE. This is a must have. The app provides you access to live exchange rates. You just have to tap on the currency you want, insert the amount and get comparisons upto 10 different currencies used across the globe. Another good thing about the app is that it can be used on offline mode too.

Apart from the above mentioned 5 apps, there are a few more quite commonly used apps, that do facilitate a traveler’s purpose. These are Jetlag Genie or relatively new Entrain; Skype; Wi-fi Finder; Pack-Point etc. Each of these greatly enhance the pleasures of traveling. So if you wish to be a smart traveler, do consider to have these Apps installed in your smart phone before you head to your next Trip. And if you happen to be visiting India, a little more wiser use of that smartphone would be to search through the internet for some best flight deals to India from USA, and while you do so at the background keep Timer Auto-Camera app for installation, for selfies won’t suffice to capture the enigmatic beauty of that place.

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