About Livio's Journey

Founded by Livio, the goal is to promote independent adventurer travel through trekking, bikepacking and more.

From a travel blog to a comprehensive app, we empower explorers to share experiences and find backpacking buddies worldwide.

It all started with Livio, who has been backpacking and trekking in Nepal (and the rest of the world) for over 20 years. As part of that activity, he began to write an independent outdoor travel blog (Realworld Adventures) and shot videos (2.4+ million views on his YouTube channel 3minute Adventures).

In every trekking season Livio searched for trekking buddies (generally with Post-it notes in cafe’s) and was successful 50% of the time. Then a few years ago he decided that a more robust solution was needed so he created the mobile app called “Trekking Nepal" - Now called "Nepal Trekking Community”.

The Trekking app included Nepal treks, DIY details (tracks, maps, etc) and finally a forum feature for a trekking community to ask questions and search for trekking buddies. The app also included additional resources, such as the summary data related to the Lonely Planet Trekking Nepal Guide with links back to the Lonely Planet site for deeper descriptions.

This year he got the idea to create an app that includes worldwide backpacking coverage and community forums. The starting point for the app will be travels from his blog site Realworld Adventures and the ability to to import data from other sources.

So an app is being created, this time focused on backpacking trips worldwide and community forums for members to find backpacking buddies or share their stories.

The app will soon be released as "Backpacking Community" in the Apple and Google app stores.

The plan is to continue adding external data sources for import into the app (with links back) and promotion of the community sharing and buddy finding capabilities.