Back in November 2009, the folks at Tripbase had a clever idea. They picked several of their favorite travel bloggers and challenged them to write about their three best travel secrets. Those initial bloggers each had to “tag” three more travel bloggers to do likewise, and so on.

Travel Tips eBook

What was originally intended as a fun way to share the knowledge, experience, and expertise of a group of savvy world travelers quickly became an avalanche of insider tips so valuable that the folks at Tripbase decided to publish the information in a series of seven eBooks that are now available for free download on their site.

They compiled the 500+ travel secrets into seven different books, spearheaded by “Tripbase Best Kept Travel Secrets; 88 Essential Travel Secrets from the Top Travel Bloggers on the Internet Today,” which features valuable tips from industry giants like Peter Greenberg, Johnny Jet, Rolf Potts, and me, of course. The remaining tips were broken into six other books dealing with specific topics: beaches, Italy, U.S., family travel, worldwide travel, and food. Not only are all seven Best Kept Travel Secrets eBooks now available for free download, to celebrate the launch of the series the folks at Tripbase have partnered with Charity: Water, committing to donate $1 per download up to $5,000, half a dollar to $10,000, and 25 cents to $15,000.

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Access to water is, in my opinion, the most pressing issue facing the world today. Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us. Charity: Water is one of the best non-profit organizations working to provide clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. They use 100% of public donations to directly fund sustainable water solutions in areas of greatest need. Just $20 can give one person clean water for 20 years, so each dollar donated for downloading these free eBooks is providing someone with clean water for an entire year.

I’ve already got my set, now it’s your turn to download all seven or any one of the Best Kept Travel Secrets eBooks, without charge or obligation of any kind.