PLAN YOUR TRIP IN A DIFFERENT WAY

The new mobile technologies have been reached in all areas of our life, but travel would not be less. Even in those routes that are initially to escape for the modern world, for example, the pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela in this Holy Year. For example, for this destination has just launched the game Geocaching on the Road to Santiago as it passes through Castilla Leon, a new way of being a pilgrim.

In this game, and after registering as a tourist, a pilgrim receives a travel notebook where you get the first coordination of your first goal or cache, and has to find thanks to the GPS. In each of these goals you will have a distinct stamp to mark the chapter and certify that they have found the cache with their ability, making a much more active tourism.

In addition to games of this type, there are also applications on our mobile devices ranging from geo-location, to listings of hotels and subway maps of major cities. Many are extra, but prices will not be a major expense, and usually not more than five euros.

For starters, there is a free application of iPhone. If your destination is the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia or the United States, you can choose Urbanspoon, a comprehensive guide that is a useful ally when it comes to finding restaurants. But if you’re more interested in sightseeing, highlight HearPlanet, thanks to the GPS terminal determines which sites are worth visiting in the vicinity of where we are.

But if you go to a country with different languages, how do we understand? For that we have the applications of the company known Lonely Planet guides, iPhone City Guides and Phrasebook . The latter application includes phrases in the language we choose, and even have the pronunciation so that we are prepared to make ourselves understood in any situation daily during the trip.