How to find cool places to travel to Russia

This question begins to be interested in anyone who is going to go to another region to visit, for example, or on business. What is there to see? Where to go? The same goes for a short or a budget vacation. In Russia, there is something to see, in each region there are places that do not just like it, and will delight and remembered for a lifetime. But here's the problem - how to find them? Read about it below.

More recently, I spent a holiday in the Urals: hiking in the mountains, pure lake Turgoyak city surrounded by mountains. Impressions left the sea, but despite the rough hike plan to the planning problems were still traveling.

More before catching a train and go to another area, we tried to find other things to see in another city, how to get to the national park "Taganay" and what to see in it already.

In the end everything happened by itself, but still we did not have time to visit some places, for example to go to the armory shop where you can buy a knife from damask steel, or climb the bell tower to see the city with height. Of course, if we knew in advance, it would be to somehow adjust your schedule and still have time.

And if you are not traveling for a vacation, but by deeds, simultaneously wanting to see the city, a clear plan of action is needed at all, but it remains one disappointment. So where is the search for interesting places to visit?

Ask the social network

It's a great way, especially if you get a man who knows and loves his city. I'm usually looking for the group in the social network, something like "... - my favorite city ", choose a few people that I like, and ask them. Yet no one has refused to answer questions like: "What do you see in the city?".

It is much easier than to find places of interest in the search engines, the more so that the information on different sites can be outdated, but from the people you will learn the most current information.

If you are used to focus on the visual part, you can search in Foursqare: there are also pictures of the beautiful places, and mark on the map. However, there is no description of the full-scale attractions.

There is one more opportunity to gain a clear travel plan, which I unfortunately learned only on arrival. It TopTripTip application with interesting places in different regions of Russia.

guide TopTripTip

This free app for iOS 7 (not yet optimized for iOS 8), with which it is possible not only to prepare for the journey, but also to be guided in the process of offline maps.

While the application has 23 destination - the largest city and the region. Over time, will be added new regions to cover all the interesting places in Russia.

First you need to download the guide to the destination. I uploaded the Samara region, since the beginning of October, we will go to the "404 Festival", so you have to know that you can simultaneously see in this city.

We go to the guide and see several editions. This blocks that are assembled sights and interesting places on certain topics.

For example, "Russian traditions" or "For those who love the mountains." Choose, you like more, go to the office and looking already specific places to visit.

Full information on the site

In contrast to the correspondence with the locals, there is a mark on the map and photos, as opposed to Foursqare - a detailed description.

TopTripTip can be used not only during training, but also on the spot. The app determines your location, shows interesting places, distributed over a distance, and will bring you to the destination.

Another plus - related objects. If the desired location is somehow related to another, for example two monuments of nature, which are close to each other, you'll see it in the card and attractions can for a hike to visit two steep place.

Make it easier to look for, there are filters for the projects. Go to the section "Objects", click on the icon in the upper left corner and set filters, for example distribute objects by popularity or distance, and select the category that cause interest.

Most likely, before the trip, you will see only the attractions and tourist destinations, which can not be afraid of boring journey.

But in the process you may need to travel and other facilities such as shops, hospitals or the police - and it's all there in the application filter.

create route

Of course, in TopTripTip can not only watch the sights, but also create entirely consistent plan of action. And given the full information - the work interesting institutions and their contacts - you can plan the perfect route and still have time.

If you like a place, simply click on "Visit", create a list and add it. You can create lists in different cities or even different days. For example, if you are traveling for three days, each define lists of sites that must be visited.

Once you have visited the site, you can layknut it and post it on social networks directly from the application. Also TopTripTip you see huskies and other users can roughly estimate how popular a certain place or event.

By the way, about the events: some festivals, exhibitions and reconstruction can be remembered even better than just interesting places. The main thing - the relevance of the information, but it seems to have TopTripTip with it all right.

Relevance and calendar

To fill TopTripTip relevant content, applications, editors are monitoring the situation in the different cities and regions, and update information. In service TopTripTip even have an affiliate program in this regard.

Due to the constant updating of data in the application, there is a calendar of events with actual information, where you can see the next event in the destination.

This is especially useful if you do not clear your travel dates and you can move it to any day of the week. All the interesting events are marked in the calendar of the green point, so you will see immediately, for a number of stands to get tickets.

Moreover, the application has a reminder feature, due to which you will not forget to go to the planned activities.

Push-notifications will remind you about the plans, and new interesting places that had just appeared in the place of destination, because the base of routes, facilities and activities is constantly updated.

Oh and one last thing before you buy tickets and plan trips, see another tab - "The weather."

It is unlikely that you will be pleased with the heaviest backpack hiking in the rain, no matter how beautiful nor was the nature. Yes, and city attractions are unlikely to be remembered, if at that time you will torment cold or heat.

What you're looking for cool places to travel to Russia? Share your experiences in the comments.