MatadorTravel.com - Explore Your World

Matador´s a socio-globe-traversing, travel compendium which also features travel merch, classifieds and booking. It´s geared towards the young lot of modern day nomads, with up to date info on real world cultures, music acts, off the track destinations and travel blogs. You can purchase travel gear designed by Matador creatives; the apparel actually goes towards funding Matador which is an otherwise cost-free site. Browsing through the categories you´ll find Small World classifieds which is a sort of traveler´s Craigslist; currently though, there´s slim pickings as people have yet to start posting. Overall the site´s chalked full with interesting info, and it´s a good place to go if you´re thinking about taking a trip.

“Matador is a hip, new, vibrant community for people interested in travel, music & art, writing & photography, sports, and positive global development. Best of all, it"s free”

Matador is venturing into highly covered territory. You have the urban youth based blog Gridskipper; every major newspaper has a travel section, and sites such as Airfarewatchdog.com do a pretty good job of finding the best travel deals.