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The satisfaction and silliness of leaving New England in November…in flip flops.

I’m of to Savusavu, Fiji – Tom Robbins says something like everything on an island needs to be said twice – to join the Tui Tai crew for the month of November.

tripwolf is constantly changing and improving to bring users the best travel site we can. Whether making it easier to search and find info about places, plan a trip, and even book it, here are a few new features you will definitely want to utilize:

- Book Flights; Along with searching for the best hotel deals, you can now find cheap flights on tripwolf through Kayak.com.

- Free SIM card; Our new partner ekit.com is offering the tripwolf community a free international SIM card to take on your travels!

- Plan trips; We have improved our new trip feature even more – now you can leave comments on other users’ trips, and see what other people think of yours

- Personal Travel Diaries; the map is back!

We heart travel, and we heart tripwolf – we’re always looking for comments and suggestions on how we can improve! Thanks! Be our fan on Facebook, or follow our travel tweets on twitter.

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Winner photos from the Twilight Games – 7 inspiring locations, 7 amazing footie games.

South Africa

Twilight outside of Cape Town

Tintagel

Pinnacles National Park

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If you’re one of our many iPhone app users – get excited! tripwolf has just released the newest app update.

If you’re new to tripwolf, it’s now even easier to sign up and log in through the tripwolf iPhone application. The app itself is much faster because we’ve fixed some bugs and improved performance in general.

Now, you can read reviews and leave your own right from your iPhone!  Check out restaurants before you go, or leave that (great?) review while you’re still sipping that last martini.  You can even add new places to tripwolf from your iPhone, and it will show up in our travel guide immediately.

And, if you haven’t yet, check out our great new content – we have recently partnered with Footprint Books, a publisher out of England and we have put the entirety of their Peru guidebook online on tripwolf!

As always, Happy Travels!

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tripwolf has recently partnered with Footprint Books, a print travel guidebook series out of England. Footprint is one of the longest established English guidebook publishers, releasing their first travel guide in 1924. Footprint’s expert travel writers are known for providing intelligent, informative and culturally aware material.

tripwolf is extremely proud and excited to present Footprint’s Peru guidebook content live online for the first time!

tripwolf has been able to place Footprint’s most valuable content in our easily navigatable online format. This includes new points of interest, as well as information like ‘best time to go,’ ‘dangers and safety,’ as well as ‘music, movies and literature,’ located in our Survival Kit.

Check out some more great Footprint content:

- The intriguing neighborhoods of Lima; Miraflores, Barrio Chino, and Barranco.

- Some of the best sights in Peru, including of course Machu Picchu

- Destination highlights, the best cities and villages to visit while in Peru, including the beautiful Lake Titicaca.

Thanks to partners like Footprint, tripwolf is able to provide their users the best travel information available – now from print to web!

Video featuring FREUD. Download the free tripwolf app here!

We put all our energy and development power into the new tripwolf iPhone App, and today it is here!  We are so happy to finally share this with you, and are looking forward to your feedback!

Click on the screen shot below, and you’ll be brought directly to the iTunes App store!  (Get more info or download here.)

Simox, an avid tripwolf user and travel writer is on the trip of a lifetime in Vietnam. This is his story about traveling from Hanoi to Hue, and reflections on being a tourist. (Original Post)

“Going from Hanoi to Hue with the night train was an experience on its own. I do not know if the condition of the train or the condition of the tracks are to blame for the bumpy ride, but once used to it, it was not bad overall.
Walking through the coaches allowed me to see how much the Vietnamese people enjoy to travel, it was more lively than any street corner in Hanoi. In the dinning car they had some interesting offers on the menu, for example partly hatched eggs.

Once arrived in Hue it is obvious that tourism is much more present in this part of Vietnam, but not in an entirely bad way. The town is beautiful and well taken care of, on the other hand the motorbike drivers also work as part time pimps and want to take you to “Lady Bars”. Prostitution is one of the most depressing implications of mass tourism…
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…Eddie, your camera is on its way to South Korea!

Check out a pic of the FlipMinoHD that EdwardWisdom won for his blog post, ‘How Crashing a Wedding in Laos Saved My Life.’ If you want to win something cool, keep checking back for more tripwolf competitions!