I-obo.com includes all those necessary "ingredients" to allow for an enjoyable and very memorable trip to a new country. We include information to allow you to visit compatriots in jail. Who do you know that has done that?

Continual updates
i-obo.com is an adventure travelers guide that is continually updated. Since i-obo.com is continually A travel book
can not do that updated, you have instant access to any changes in information, such as an accommodation has closed down, or a great eatery gets discovered, or the quality of a recommended place slides. A travel book can not do that; i-obo.com does and is totally free to boot!

By scanning through the itineraries, you will get acquainted quickly with the places to explore, accommodations to choose, eateries to enjoy,and, perhaps more importantly, their counterparts to avoid.

The itineraries can be useful templates not just just click on the “add to itinerary” button for what to explore but also for how much time and money to budget for your excursion. Additionally, the samples can provide the best route to take for your particular needs.

Creating an itinerary is simple, just click on the “add to itinerary” button in the lodging, eatery, and “go there or not” sections. To view your itinerary, click on “My Itinerary” button.

Just Visiting
We all make mistakes or use poor judgment at times. Unfortunately, for some travelers, these mistakes have translated into prison time. This section is to promote visits to incarcerated travelers. Keep in mind, for many of them, their family is overseas and hence they get very few visitors.

If you are one to go off the beaten track, how unbeaten is the track to visit an inmate from your home country in a foreign jail? Not only will they be grateful to get visitors but you will experience something that most people never will. What kind of unique memories will you bring home? Please visit the “Just Visiting” page to get more info.

Did you know?
Listings in most travel guides So much
for the straight unbiased scoop are actually paid for advertisements by those establishments. So much for the straight unbiased scoop. Since i-obo gets feedback from many travelers, you will have more complete, accurate, and unbiased information about any enterprise listed in i-obo.com.

Forums
If you can’t find the information in the usual sections in i-obo.com, you can always use the forums section to ask specific questions. This is a much easier way than using a travel book to get the information you need. Books may have the information, but finding elusive info can be time consuming and frustrating.

To see or not to see
Travel book writers can only provide feedback about their experiences which are limited to a few short days of a 365 day year. Meaning, they are "evaluating" either high season, low season or somewhere in between. Is their feedback valid for a traveler that is visiting during a different time of the year?

Unlike a book, i-obo.com has many travelers providing whether the place is or is not for you with much more certainty feedback throughout the entire year about sights, lodgings, eateries and other traveler related spots. By viewing the feedback of the i-obo.com community, you can determine whether the place is or is not for you with much more certainty than you could by reading a travel guide with its limited feedback from just one travel writer.

Scams
Scammers need to stay ahead of the information media to continue their scam. When a scam gets exposed, it goes dormant and a dormant scam gets revived. The i-obo scam pages are there to keep you from being scammed. To find out what scams are being run in the country or city you are planning on exploring, just click on scams and then the country you want to investigate.

Blogs & Short Stories
By writing blogs or short stories while traveling, you can keep a diary of your adventures. This will help to accurately record your trip. Also, these writings can help in identifying the many photographs you have shot by referencing the date the photo was created.

Follow along
Friends and family can follow your traveling adventure by accessing your blogs, photos & videos, and short stories in i-obo.com.

Emergency
Should an emergency arise, just access our emergency section to get immediate pertinent information including phone numbers on how to contact local or tourism police, medical facilities for foreigners, and your embassy or consulate.