Tuesday, February 13, 2007

I discovered this marvellous India focussed travel site that promises to offer unbiased and honest travel content

A little bit about the space: Oktatabyebye.com is a free travel guidance and research website that offers honest advice and unbaised opinions to help plan vacations or trips

Launched just a few months back in 2006, Oktatabyebye.com is India’s 1st online travel community. This community is all about travel in India and a space for travel enthusiasts to connect with, discover and share experiences with thousands of others like himelf.

Prominently featured on Oktatabyebye.com are 1st person travelogues, photos and photo galleries, destination features, hotel reviews, event posts and travel related member queries & solutions.

The real value it offers is the honest travel talk and unbiased advice from real travellers, available on a click. The content is dynamic and multi-person; therefore multi-facted and of interest to many.

Further, member comments, reviews, review ratings and votes ensure that it is always up-to-date, useful and remains transparent.

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Prominently featured on Oktatabyebye.com are first person travelogues, destination photos and photo galleries, member contributed destination features and reviews written by travellers plus travel related member queries & solutions.

Travelogs: featured are day-by-day, place-by-place personal accounts of trips and journeys by real travellers. From the typical weekend getaway to extended trips these individual travlogues are rich in practicality, perspectives, details and give great ideas for trips

Talk Junction: In Oktatabyebye Talk Juction are 2 sections – Queries: where travelers are asking and answering thousands of destination and interest based travel-related questions every day and Gossip: where travel enthusiasts are sharing travel talk, anecdotes and experiences or simply some useful tips with friends.

Picture this: A photo gallery of thousands of pictures of India taken by real travellers. From personal albums of friends and occassions, to holiday destinations, people, culture, landscapes – they aim to capture the essence and beauty of this fascinating and multi-faceted country.

Places and Faces: On Oktatabyebye these are compilations of places (states, cities, towns and sometimes even villages covered as destinations) and activities as experienced by travelers. These destination features cover must see attractions, the offbeat, stops on a walking tour, places to eat, useful tips and also nearby destinations that are a must visit.

Roads and Rides: Featured here are road trips as penned by compulsive bikers. Here’s wher you will find the truly awesome ‘Great Indian Roadtrip’ - 20,000 Kms of incredible India covered by friends or the inspiring Freya’s Diaries – travel tales from the interiors of India.

While this might read like marketing spiel, Iactually spent time on the site. I believe these guys have a winner, and really useful to travel crazy people like me.