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Travel Insurance with World Nomads

At World Nomads you get so much more than travel insurance. With free SMS travel safety alerts, iPod language guides, your own online travel journal and destination guides, World Nomads keeps you travelling safely.

5 things you really should know about our travel insurance

1. Claim online
At World Nomads you can claim online. And if you don't entirely trust insurance companies, have a look at how we have helped some of our travellers.

2. Who can buy it?
Our insurance is available to residents of over 150 countries

3. Extend your cover
Had a change of travel plans? Unlike other policies, World Nomads allows you to extend your policy indefinitely. Because it's online, you can do it 24/7 from anywhere in the world.

4. What can I do?
We cover most adventure sports from bungee jumping in New Zealand to white-water rafting in Colorado.

5. How do I buy it?
You can only buy our policies online using a credit card. To start, please choose your country of residence.

Travel insurance: simple & flexible

You can buy, extend and claim online even after you've left home. Recommended by Lonely Planet, World Nomads travel insurance is available to people from over 150 countries and is designed for adventurous travellers with cover for overseas medical, evacunatio, baggage and activities such as skiing and snowboarding.

"If you think you are too small to make a difference you haven't been in bed with a mosquito."

In 2007, WorldNomads.com and our customers funded 300 sight-saving surgeries, built a primary school and repaired another, trained over 200 teachers and helped 40 kids get through school, gave a whole village solar-lighting, installed water and sanitation facilities in 3 schools and 2 villages, provided educational supplies in 4 schools and medicines to 3 communities and 4 orphanages, helped create two kitchen gardens and buy 300 egg-laying chickens, built capture fog-nets for fresh drinking water and provided a safe-home for girls of sex workers.

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Travel Tips from World Nomads

Here are a few things to consider when choosing your insurance to make sure that you will be covered on your adventure:

Cancellation: It's no fun if you fall ill before you leave and can not go on your trip. To claim though, you have to buy your insurance policy when you buy your trip. Not all insurance policies cover cancellation, so please read the policy wording relevant to you carefully
Lost or Stolen Gear: most backpacker travel insurance policies have a per-item value limit – make sure its high enough to cover your gear or choose a policy that allows you to increase the limit.
Medical expenses over and above evacuation: check that your cover includes emergency treatment while away and transport to bring you home – remembering that insurance providers will usually insist on getting you home as soon as you are fit enough to travel.
Adventurous Activities: look carefully at what your policy covers - you may find that you are not covered to do all of the adventurous activities that you are planning while you're away.
Personal Liability: Accidents happen. If it's found to be your fault and someone decides to sue you, you want to be covered.