Traveling is such a liberating pursuit. You get to see the places firsthand and the experience, of course, is far better and unique than simply being told by a guidebook.
The trend of travel today reached even more people desiring to get to their dream destinations. But searching for the must-sees and must-dos for a trip, in prints and various websites, is only doing half the job. The challenge comes more from how to put together the searches into one doable travel plan.
Travelers wanting to come up with a feasible travel plan look at an average of 20 different sites between 1-3 months. Surprisingly, some of these sites do not offer you with all the adequate and comprehensive information that you need.
Given a busy work-life schedule, opening and reading these websites and articles into several tabs is quite hectic and impractical. Another question is, while all these information is essentially still available online, all distributed throughout the space, the feeling of an authentic trip is missing. Think about your favorite traveler and going on the same trip he or she took- adding and subtracting your own needs and priorities. That's when mygola becomes largely useful.
How mygola solves the pain of travel planning
Mygola helps you create completely custom trips on the world's largest collection of beautiful curated itineraries. You can create the first cut of your trip plan in minutes. There is no need to go into different (and otherwise useless) sites because it will do the hard work for you.
Mygola has taken on the challenge to dramatically simplify your travel planning experience by connecting the dots for you. Simply sign up with your email or log in using your facebook or twitter account and you are taken into a simple and meaningful start page.
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| The first page you see after logging in. Lets you make some quick choices on how to go about exploring the site. |
Once in, you can type in the destination you want to create a travel plan for and all relevant information will show up in carefully selected articles from reliable websites, with photo thumbnails to go with them.
You can specify your search according to theme (Party, Shopping, Adventure, Food & Wine, etc), number of days, and particular places, which you can see in the filters at the top. Once you have told mygola your first level preferences and destinations and hit search, you are presented with meaning results- real trips taken by real travelers- all custom to your needs.
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| The default search result page. You can apply a number of helpful filters on top arrive at the search results. |
By clicking at the photo thumbnails of the specific place shown up in the search result, you will find a more specific itinerary.
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| The overview section of any itinerary. The text block at the bottom is the introduction to the itinerary. There is a navigation list on the right which shows the number of days and the destinations within those days, and the experience within the day. |
You can click the
destinations from the navigation list in the right to let you decide whether to include that place as one of your interests; if you'd definitely like to visit them or are they more of a maybe. Or skip them altogether.
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| The most granular view. This shows the individual points of interest and experiences. Below are meta-date like address, telephone, websites, foursquare pages, etc. , and the description of the POI. On the right, there are "definitely" and "maybe" buttons you use to add a POI to your list favorites. |
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| The view of the planner. The cards can be dragged to occupy more of the time, can be moved between days and different times of the day. Vacant positions can be filled by recommendations. |
Why you should use mygola
While mygola allows you to pick your interests in specific destinations and have it laid out in an organized daily travel plan, the entire browsing is designed beautifully that feels much like a magazine.
It enables you to create a custom plan travel while taking care of distances, business hours, and a number of other constraints to ensure that the final itinerary is very feasible.
The website involved the points of view of real travelers and travel experts around the world to gather all information about things that poses extensive problems, particularly on the travel planning stage, and finally came up with a service to fix these.
It started a travel Q&A 3 years back, which saw much success. In the process, it helped million travelers (including myself) plan their trip to 100+ countries. This experience prompted the mygola team to build this new travel planning service.
Take for example this Day 1 travel plan of my trip to Hong Kong last January which I organized using mygola.
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It lets you see where exactly in the
map your destination is found, how many kilometer it will take, and by clicking
the place- all the pertinent information you need to know.
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One reason for using mygola that worked to my advantage was that I only needed to supply the keywords and all necessary information,options and recommendations were given at hand. Now, those keywords are readily provided by simply clicking on the specific theme and filters. Plus there are travel tips written that you would have not read or found in other websites.
All content offered in the service is curated by real persons, a massive community of travel experts throwing high quality content for other travelers.
Mygola is for all do-it-yourself travelers wanting to get an efficient travel plan by providing an intuitive toolkit. It gives you the best searches there are in the travel world and puts in the necessary information so that you get the perfect balance.
Photo Credits:
mygola team @ mygola (dot) com
