Hi, I'm Natasha with Anyone Can Travel. Our goal is to help you travel more.
We've put out different travel vlogs and travel guides to inspire you and give you information about specific locations,
but today we are going to do something different and answer a question from one of our subscribers.
They have asked how we plan our trips to make the most of our time while traveling.
So we'll talk about planning trips and using Google Maps, a free tool, to plan your travels
One of the first steps when planning your travel is research
and there's so many ways to do this. I'm not going to tell you there's a right or a wrong way.
You have numerous resources from books to Pinterest to Instagram and TikTok and YouTube and
you can see there's a lot. So whatever your favorite is you can use.
My preference is pinterest and youtube. And I also find it interesting to be inspired from movies and TV shows
to see what kinds of filming locations some of my favorite TV shows and movies are filmed at.
So we've been able to visit a few different filming location and that's been really fun to see it in real life.
Once you have your destination picked out and maybe a few locations that you'd like to see you can start planning your route.
While I'm searching for locations I will save them to Google Maps.
Google Maps is a free tool and it's great because everything that is in Google is in Google Maps.
So you're able to create lists and save your places that you want to see, the sites and attractions, to Google Maps to that list.
What's great is it's a map so its very visual. You know you may have a list of places you want to see in France, but
France is a huge country, right? You can't just drive twelve hours in a day to go from Mont. St Michel all the way down to Nice.
I have no idea if that takes twelve hours or how long or what, but they're on the opposite sides of the country,
so you know that's just not feasible to make the most of your trip if you have a short time and want to see the most bang for your buck.
So here in Google Maps you can see I have all of these saved and starred locations scattered across the map.
That I used for other trips, but today we're going to use Bosnia & Herzegovina as an example
because we had a wonderful viewer comment this amazing comment with tons of locations in Bosnia & Herzegovina.
And they all looked beautiful and amazing and I am excited to plan a trip back.
So I've saved a lot of these locations already as you can see, but saving locations is super simple you just click on this little flag
and it will ask you what list you'd like to save it to and you're able to just add it to that list and there you go.
It's a very visual representation of all of the areas you want to see, so you can plan what regions and what activities you can see which days of your trip.
And Google Maps has a bunch of other free options that are great. You can share your list with other contributors,
so others can add locations, they can help you see when planning the trip and collaborate.
You can also just let them see it. They don't have to be able to edit if you don't want them editing anything or changing anything.
Google Maps is obviously also a map so when you're trying to navigate you have your locations already saved
and it's easy to find and use as you're driving, taking public transportation. Using Google Maps is especially useful when planning a roadtrip,
so you can see exactly how long it will take you to get from destination to destination.
And if you're in a foreign country the Google Maps app will allow you to download certain areas
you can't download the whole map, but you can download specific areas for each day that you're traveling,
so if you don't have data or you have slow data then you're able to use that without data and it makes navigating so much easier.
So that is how we plan a trip. If you have any suggestions for how you plan trips then let us know in the comments.
We'd love to hear. Also if you have any questions about traveling maybe flights, hotels, packing, really anything let us know. We'd love to make another video.
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