Top 5 Travel Blog Review Of The Month – July 08

Travel Feeder is proud to kick start this exciting project: The montly review of the Top 5 Travel Blog in the world. This review extends our commitment to provide another source of travel guides to our readers through recommending the latest popular travel websites around us. In every month, we will pick only 5 of the many travel blogs we explore in the internet as our top 5 travel blogs of our choice, in terms of its popularity, informative and easy reading plus frequently updated. From there, we review each one of them and add this blog to our featured Travel List so that our readers could, in addition to all the travel tips and guides we are feeding, further benefit from these carefully selected travel blogs. Happy reading!

This month, for the first month, based on our criteria, we picked and reviewed these 5 travel blogs of the month: July 08:-

1) The Cranky Flier

• This is the winner of 2007 Travvies Best Single author blog for Best informative/ practical travel blog; 2007 Readers’ Choice Best Travel Blog; The Observer’s Choice of the 50 most powerful blog in the world; The following is about the author:-

• “There’s nowhere to hide for airlines these days. Not with self-confessed ‘airline dork’ Brett Snyder, aka Cranky Flier, keeping tabs on their progress. He’s moved on from spending his childhood birthdays in airport hotels, face pressed against the window watching the planes come in, and turned his attention to reporting on the state of airlines. His CV is crammed with various US airline jobs, which gives him the insider knowledge to cast his expert eye over everything from the recent 777 emergency landing at Heathrow to spiralling baggage handling costs and the distribution of air miles to ‘virtual assistants’.” – According to The Observer (UK) magazine.

• For those frequent flier, you can’t miss his insight stories about so many airlines from Virgin, USAir to Alitalia;

• “If there are travel pundits, The Cranky Flier is one of the best. With snarky, critical and sometimes humorous comments about the airline and travel industries, The Cranky Flier is a crowd pleaser.” – Performancing.com

• We love his idea also to have an online store selling Cranky Flier’s apparel, mugs and hats. Wow, he is such a dork. Need we say more?

2) Travelerfolio.com

• This inspiring travel photo blog could sometimes be grouped as photo blogs with lots of beautifully taken photos of many attraction tourists destination in the world like Italy, New York, Vietnam, Malaysia, France, German, Austria, Shanghai and so on;
• Blog is clean and beautifully design with hints of energetic lady’s spirit in it with a sweet author’s avatar on top of it; Very easy to explore about with post archive and photos being categorised according to geographical areas;
• Readers could even download some of the nicely taken wallpaper from the wallpaper section;
• Author’s passionate to share her travel experiences until she would disclose how she did her *business* in the toilet in the dark!
• Readers or her members can even chat with her live through its interactive chat box provided, and
• Travelerfolio.com is currently ranked 1st at the Top100travellingsite. The author, Eunice, is eager to have her visitors to vote for her for Best Photo Blog in Singapore Blog Awards.

3) Nomatic Matt’s Travel Site

• The author, Matt, set this blog up to track his travels as well as give people practical advice on traveling so that they can also explore the world;
• In July 2006, Matt quit his job in America and went explore the world to all around America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Southeast Asia. He is still travelling the world now! While he is travelling, he blogs, and that’s why this blog is so interesting;
• This travel blog is full with rich travel experiences from Matt and lots of extraordinary destination with lots of photos taken. Though it is a bit tricky to explore its blog, once you click around and you will find great stuff beneath!
• With his 41 travel goals set, namely climb to Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Everest, learn scuba diving, visit every continent, visit pyramid, see the nothern light, visit Tibet, fly first class and so on, and his publication experience, surely readers will be hooked to this blog, and
• 3rd ranked travel blog in Top100travellingsite is doubtless.

4) Travel Blog.org

• This blog is actually not a personal travel blog but is a travel blog portal website for travelers to create their individual travel blogs online;
• As the author explained,

• Travel Blog is a unique free online travel diary for travellers across the world. It works from internet cafes and computers world wide, to allow you to update an online travel diary, it is free to join and takes just minutes to setup, all you need is a working email address;

• Nonetheless, the author, Ali – Alistair Watters, is also a travel enthusiat that his go-around-the-world travel experience is featured here also;
• The blog has over 50,000 members with over 200,000 blog entries and 1.5 million photos! So, you could get whatever information here by selecting your country or area of interest which have been well categorised and managed;
• With the new inclusion of forum, members could share their ideas and comment when they prefer not to write post articles, and
• The membership is growing rapidly; Perhaps you should start your own?

5) Intelligent Travel

• The 2007 Travvies Big winner for Best Travel Blog, the ultimate award; From National Geographic Traveler, Emily King and researcher Jessie Johnston round up travel tips and news in a very National Geographic way of presentation; As IT quoted :-

• Intelligent Travel is about exploring the intersection of authentic and sustainable travel. We want to showcase the essence of place, what’s unique and original, what locals cherish most about where they live. And we want to highlight places, practices, and people that are on the front lines of sustainable travel—travel that preserves places’ essential uniqueness for future generations.

• With the mission of Inspiring people to care about the planet, readers could always find some good quality travel stories there, and
• We love to explore the other aspect of travel that IT is about. Do you?

Ok. It wraps up our Top 5 Travel Blog Review Of The Month. We found out that it is so challenging trying to look for quality travel blogs around and our selection is just our personal opinions as a traveler and blogger and perhaps readers of this blog may have different opinions and suggestions. Travel Feeder reserves the right to revise these selection anytime. Bravo! 🙂 – Travel Feeder, your ultimate photo travel blog

About The Author

Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.