Travelling into the future using Google apps

Google tour at Veiw Point of the Great Rift Valley Escarpment, Limuru. (Photo: Audrey Cheptoo/Standard)

Internet giant, Google has unveiled applications that make travelling fun and more conducive for smartphone owners.

Google executives from all over the globe gathered in Nairobi recently to take a hoard of journalists from Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria on a tour of Nairobi and the Great Rift Valley as part of their #GoogleInNairobi travel story – a pilot project for Africa.