Planning a holiday? It should be exciting, but instead, your head's spinning: where to go, where to stay, how to get around — and most importantly, how to pay. Because nothing ruins a trip faster than your bank freezing your card for “suspicious activity” just when you're trying to pay for dinner.

Let’s Face It — Travel Can Be a Headache

Back in the day, travelers carried bricks of cash to exchange into local currency. Risky, bulky, and always a gamble on rates, and if you lose your wallet — it’s a game over.

Thankfully, times have changed. You no longer have to travel with pockets full of foreign banknotes or become a walking calculator for exchange rates. Now, you can travel with crypto — pack light and pay right.

Whether you're off to Lisbon for a Web3 summit or remote-working from Bali, crypto can make your travel smoother, safer, and way more flexible. Here’s how to do it right.

Why Travel with Crypto in the First Place?

There are several best things about paying with crypto:

• You just don’t have to look for ATMs or exchange kiosks near the airport, and one day you’ll even forget about the drama surrounding bad rates.
• Losing a wallet abroad is still a problem for your documents, but all your funds are in your phone, or can be easily restored on any other device.
• No pre-trip exchange stress when you travel to countries with different currencies. Your ETH doesn’t care when your card swaps it on the spot for the best local rate.
• Traveling light with minimal baggage — no need for 5 cards, 2 backups, and wads of emergency cash.

Set up a crypto card

Booking flights with cash? That’s so last decade. It’s time to put your crypto card to work. Before you hit the "book now" button, get yourself a wallet that’s built for travel.

Here’s what to look for:

• Multichain support to pay in ETH, MATIC, PEP, BTC, AVAX, and more.
• Borderless functionality to spend across 24 time zones without skipping a beat.
• Google Pay / Apple Pay compatibility so you can tap-to-pay IRL, not just online.
• Built-in swaps and transfers to skip the need to open up a centralized exchange every time you want to move coins around.

The good news is that Kolo offers all the features above and even more, like SEPA transactions, non-custodial wallet creation, and social features, such as splitting the bill between Kolo-frens.

Top up your card

Some doubt the possibility of spending crypto for a croissant with your morning coffee. But Kolo makes it possible not just to spend crypto like USDC, but give utility to almost any crypto you touch: Bitcoin, Ethereum, PEPE, Solana, and many others.

Just pick the crypto you want to use, top up your card balance in seconds, and you’re good to go. Got multiple assets? Once one balance empties, you don’t have to swap coins mid-purchase, cause you can set the order in which assets will be spent.

Wherever you land, Kolo gives you the freedom to pay your way.

Enjoy living in crypto — What can you spend your crypto for?

This is where the magic of Kolo really kicks in.

Once your card is set up, spending crypto is as effortless as tapping your phone. Whatever you buy — espresso in Milan or sneakers online, if the place takes Visa, you’re covered.

Subscriptions, hospitality, mobility — you can pay for everything without switching tabs because all you need to do is confirm an Apple/Google Pay transaction.

Maybe you need to off-ramp your funds and use the deprecated Web2 finance? Then just withdraw crypto to an IBAN, thanks to SEPA transactions support.

What our users say is that Kolo is just like a bank, but better and cheaper.

Kolo Makes Your Traveling Smarter

With a crypto card, you are no longer afraid of losing your wallet, you don’t need to exchange currencies or explain to your bank your “suspicious” activity abroad — that’s the freedom Kolo brings to the world.

Kolo crypto card lets you tap and pay anywhere Visa or Mastercard is accepted, without questions asked. You can top it up with almost any coin — BTC, ETH, PEPE, USDC, you name it — and even set your preferred spending order.

So what’s on your packing list? Toothbrush, ID, phone charger, and Kolo on your smartphone. That’s real financial freedom.

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