17 Great Websites for Student Travelers | Travel Insurance Review

by Damian

You’ve just finished your exams and it’s time to hit the big time. For three years your major in Philosophy has given you parties and lots of girls with glasses and a coffee habit. But now you’re graduating. There’s no job out there, and you kinda like the easy lifestyle so the best option is to go travelling to ‘find yourself’ or in other words, spend another year not doing much and burn out your parent’s credit card.

But, as you’ve spent the last three years with Michel de Montaigne , you don’t know how to do this. So, we’ve put together a handy post to give all you students and grads out there a chance to travel the world and have an excellent time doing it.

Couchsurfing.org Even these days, the web is full of biased hotel reviews and destinations that are truly magical and amazing and are life changing. You then find out the only magic about the hotel is the one that is holding it up or that the customers have not died of dysentery after two nights of their food. Fortunately tripadvisor shows these problems with customer feedback reviews – what you really want.

ScubaDiveTalks In the same way that couch surfing is for sleeping, digihitch is for hitchhiking. I know what you’re thinking: horror movie – stabbed in the outback and left for dead – but there is a whole community out there dedicated to hitch hiking – if this doesn’t make you feel safe, then you might as well stay in the basement!

Expedia.co.uk Travelling on the whole is boring. Getting there is the fun bit. The bit in-between is dull with long periods of sitting down and dozing – actually a perfect way to train you for an office job – but in the meantime you need some fun in your life. Got to Apple and download some tracks, podcasts, apps and games for your iPod. Can’t afford this level of tech? Sell some more blood or a kidney!

BestSunscreenBlog Don’t lug all your books around the world – that mean that you’ll only be able to wear one pair of underwear through the whole trip. A kindle, with connection to their store means you can read a whole library on your techhie wonder all in a rather grey and rather lacklustre design. But it’s worth the 15 days working in the cracker factory with Jose.

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