Travel

A collective blog featuring travel journals, diaries, and stories from around the world by hundred of authors. Individual blogs are broken out by region, or visitors can browse through the latest journals or a sample of travel photographs. The user forums provide additional resources for those looking to answer questions or ask for travel advice.

Travel Pod is touted as "the web's original travel blog" and does contain an impressive collection of entries from every country on the planet. Individual journals can be rated by the community and a number of travelogue writers have amassed a good following. The most impressive feature of the site is the large set of user-created multimedia content, videos as well as photos, available for viewing.

This site's greatest asset are the created from the input of thousands of real travelers around the world who have supplied insightful tips, reviews of restaurants and hotels, suggestions of things to do, and potential dangers to avoid. With a growing set of guides for over 20,000 cities and locations, any traveler is likely to find useful advice for their destination.

Geared as an impartial resource for the vacation traveler, this site provides information and reviews on hotels and vacation rentals.

Real Travel features an advanced travel blogging tool that allows members to create and share journals featuring route maps of their itinerary, sidebar summaries, keyword tagging, space for feedback comments, and automatic email notification for friends and family.

While the site does not currently contain the shear number of articles present on some other travel journal sites, that is because Travel Blogs maintains an editorial review prior to posting a new author's travelogue. Nevertheless, the visitor will find a large number of blog entries detailing a adventures from throughout the world.