Backpacking is fun but at the same time, highly demanding and puts forward challenges that can be hard pressed. It takes you to unknown places, puts you in between people speaking a completely foreign language, make it difficult to understand the culture right away, making cheap international calls and more. An experienced backpacker is however always prepared and in modern times, technology has been a great help. A smart phone today can do a whole lot of things and here are some apps that you want to carry along with the essentials you put in your backpack!

1:- me

Now, this is crucial if you are trying to step into a terrain that is most like to cut you out of mobile network. MAPS.me lets you download the map data for specific regions and use it even when you are offline. You can still use your phone GPS and navigate through narrow lanes and crooked forest trails, be it in the Himalayas or Morocco! You can even mark (star) locations that you want to refer to later. That’s helpful if you are trying to remember something.

MAPS.me comes for both android and iOS phones.

2:- Google Translate

Enough cannot be said how Google Translate can be a life saver, especially if you find yourself in places where people speak a completely different kind of language. Better than seeking out someone who can understand and communicate in your tongue, Google Translate helps keep things low and you can even go on to greet people and order food that you are completely aware of! As with MAPS.me, Google Translate allows you to download language dictionaries for offline use.

Again, you can have it on both your Android and iOS phones.

3:- Viber

You are away from home, but you still need to get in touch with people back home or in your office. Viber makes a fantastic way to communicate by offering cheap international calls over and above video calling. So, not only do you have peace of mind but your friends also know the kind of adventure you are having by being a part of it for some minutes!

Viber is available both for Android and iOS.

4:- Prey

Tragedies always come unexpected and for backpackers it is always advisable to stay prepared. Regardless of which part of the world you are trying to explore, an app like Prey will help you keep track of your devices, in case they get lost or stolen. You can hope to locate and recover the gadget, be it your mobile or your laptop using the device GPS and camera. The app even lets you wipe your device off data completely, keeping your information safe.

Prey is available both on Android and iOS.

5:- VOLO – Your Travel Journal

Keeping a travel journal and updating it at the end of each day o adventure is not just fun but an essential part of travel. These will be the memories that you would want to go back to and VOLO makes it easy. The app allows you create scrapbooks, include pictures along with text entries and even lets you co-author the story with your backpacking buddy!

Download VOLO for both Android and iOS devices!

While there are a lot of other apps that make the day of a backpacker, these are the ones that become the basic essential. If you are planning a trip soon, make sure you have these on your phone.

1# Worldmate

It is the best and no. 1 travel app for blackberry. It helps you to get information about your flights, hotel bookings and to find the stores where you would like to shop. The app also finds the delays and shows you instantly the changes and hence removes the need of getting an extra mail to check about the issue. Worldmate syncs with your calendar and reminds you of all the happenings related to your instantly. There are many other benefits of using this app as well. You can also search for the hotels and along with all of it; it also updates you with the current exchange rates of currency from one form to another. Hence, this app is a complete manager of your travel.

2# Blackberry travels

It is a free app and works as your travel scheduler and reminder. This app synchronizes with your calendar and contacts to keep you updated with your travel information. You can link you LinkedIn account to it to get more information about the location and your travel. This app also helps you to find the places to reside at and rental cars if you are going on a road tour.

3# Flight alerts

This app is aimed to give you the information about your flight. Once you feed you necessary information about the flight that you have to catch on, this app reminds you of the flight with the exact timings to depart. This app also give the information of the delays and arrivals of the flight.

4# Tripit

TripIt is yet another popular travel app which may be used in Blackberry. You need to mail you information at ‘plans@tripit.com’ and all the information will be automatically synched with the calendar and maps of your phone. The best part of using this app is that you have to enter or fed very much data to get all these details and in addition to that you may also share these facts related to your travel with your friend as well.

5# Poynt

Are you on a business trip and done with your work? Do you want to relax from the stress of your work and want to have some fun at the unknown city? If it is so, then all you need to have is to download this app in your Blackberry. This app helps you to finds out the exciting things going out at the place. You can check movie timings, details of night clubs and also about an event going nearby. The results are shown in accordance to the location of the user and are updated by ‘timescity.com’. It shows around 10 results in each category of the search keyword.

Author Bio:- This is a Guest Post by Rajkumar Jonnala travel and technology blogger from India and blogs at http://travelnize.com/