Links

Here's a ton of links that should give you a hand in the planning stay of your trip and hopefully some general surfing enjoyment. Directly below is what are consider to be the most essential and useful links in a Java script, that may or may not work properly for you. Then below that is a very long, hard to maintain list of hundreds of other links that maybe helpful to you. The link of the minute is

Do us a favour and e-mail (address at bottom of this page) notice of broken links or if you think I should link up with your site (click here, fill out the form) plus any new links you know of. Please note commercial sites cannot be listed unless truly worthy, this is a page of links to sites like this one: by travellers for travellers.

    Highlighted & Recommended Links

Art of Travel
Boots N' All
Google Earth
Lonely Planet
Travel Budget Calculator
Pass Planet
Randy's Travel Page
Round The World - FAQs
Seat 61
Travel on the Really Cheap
Wikitravel
World Heritage
World Nomads

Site Map
Return To Travel Index.

    General / world-wide

Please note excellent highlighted links contained within the script above.

Travellerspoint Travel Community: www.travellerspoint.com

Pass Planet (Central America and SE Asia): www.passplanet.com

The Man in Seat 61 (train focused - excellent): www.seat61.com

Go Budget Travel (blog, advice, info): www.gobudgettravel.com

Rough Planet: www.roughplanet.com

Ubertramp, travel blog, advice & articles: www.ubertramp.com

What's on when; plan you trip around a festival: www.whatsonwhen.com

World Nomads, free MP3 language guide downloads: journals.worldnomads.com/language-guides

On-line travel guide: www.professionaltravelguide.com

Learning about the world through photography: www.trekearth.com

Travelholic (Europe, Oz/NZ): www.travoholic.com

Share experiences and get tips on message board: www.trekshare.com

Travel advice in a similar vein to this site: www.hectoryague.com/traveltips.htm & www.startbackpacking.com

Backpacking forum, photos, blog: www.backpatters.com

World Climate - If you're not heading off for another six months, this site gives you the average temperature and rainfall for any time of the year just about anywhere in the world: www.worldclimate.com

Nice looking resource for all the popular destinations: www.backpacker-planet.com & www.worldbackpackers.net

Virtual Tourist (great info & forum): www.virtualtourist.com

Travel resource for independent travellers: www.thebackpacker.net & www.the-backpacking-site.com

Which plug in which country?: http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm 

Meet people, get a free place to stay: www.couchsurfing.com  and www.hospitalityclub.org

 

 

    Just For Fun

The Fabulous Adventures of Mister Wombat: www.wombattravel.com

Great travel game to test your Knowledge: www.travelpod.com

Test your Geography Knowledge: www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/ 

Historical Country Names: www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/hist_country_names.htm

Golden Plungers, the world's best toilets: www.thebathroomdiaries.com/goldenplungers.html

Spud Travel's: www.spudstravels.com

Guide to sleeping in airports: www.sleepinginairports.net

Far-flung journeys of the Monkey: www.monkeytravel.org

How many country have you been to: www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedCountries

How far is it? www.indo.com/distance/

The Big Mac index: www.oanda.com/products/bigmac/bigmac.shtml

Which side of the road do they drive on?: www.brianlucas.ca/roadside

Let your books travel and catch up later, great idea: www.bookcrossing.com

Where is Matt? (quirky video of Matt's dancing on his travels): www.wherethehellismatt.com

Five Steps for Doing Laundry While Backpacking: www.theworldisnotflat.com/laundry

 

    Travelogues and blogs - General (ones we liked):

Globetrotter extraordinaire: http://berclo.net/inden.html

Heinz Stücke - cycle around the world, not once, but ten times: www.bikechina.com/heinzstucke1z.html

Alby's Travels - nice format great photos: www.albytravel.com

The Savage Files: www.thesavagefiles.com

Travelogue of cycling trip of 28.000 km from North Alaska to South Argentina: www.travel.to/the.americas

The Chicken Bus: www.chickenbus.com

Travelogue and tips: www.whatwesaw.com

Some cool tales: http://travel.to/weecheng

Stories, advice and photos (S. America, M. East and Asia): www.gorustic.com

Interesting Asian photo travelogues: www.travelspot.be

Great travelogue: www.edouard.com/travel

Photos and travel journal. Elise's did not just want to travel; she got off her arse and did it!: www.elisesworld.co.uk

Blurry Travel. Nice personal travelogue with detailed tip filled diaries (SEA focus): www.blurrytravel.com

Wired to the world (travelogue and practical tips): www.wired2theworld.com

Angiedarren's Travel Blogs: www.travelpod.com/members/angiedarren

Day-by-day travel diary through Asia, Oz & N.America: www.yearinthelife.org

Current: London to NZ overland: www.thewanderyears.net

 

 

   Budget Airlines

This is tough to keep updated with new up-starts and close-downs happening all the time. Please feel free to help, in fact please help!:

For international flights try:

The recommended Sidestep. It searches various airlines and bargain agents like orbitz in the US, ebookers & Opodo in UK and expedia. It then allows you to sort the results according to a sliding bar for price, and many other variables: United States version UK & Ireland version.

See full advice and more links for international flights here.

 

    Working Abroad

Find Volunteer work that doesn't have you paying for the privilege: www.truetravellers.org

Organising you own Volenteer Tip: www.gobudgettravel.com/category/volunteer-abroad/

South American free and low-cost volunteer work: www.volunteersouthamerica.net - (see comments)

Work for accommodation exchange: www.workaway.info

Light in Africa: www.lightinafrica.org

Volunteer International work camps: www.vfp.org

More volunteers work: www.workingabroad.com

Teaching English: www.tefl.com  or www.onlinetefl.com or www.englishjobmaze.com

Studying abroad: www.studyabroad.com

Volunteer Latin America: www.volunteerlatinamerica.com

Here is the second part of this links page. They get a little more disorganised from here on - please e-mail us (address at the bottom of this page) notice of broken links or if you think this site should link up with any other site (click here, fill out the form). These links are mainly travelogues, homepages and tourism ministry sites, but can be helpful and most have at least some interest.

    Latin America

South American Explorers Club: www.samexplo.org

Photos: www.cinemascope.com/photos/samerica

Links for cycling in South America: www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Island/6810/index.html

Peru, more photos and general information: http://perutraveller.cjb.net

Peru's conservation travel organization: http://inkanatura.com

Archaeology information (in Spanish): http://sipan.perucultural.org.pe

Amazing mountain biking ride from La Paz: www.gravitybolivia.com

Chile Info Project: www.chip.cl

Easter Island: www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui.html

Argentina Cafe - independent travel guide to Argentina: http://www.argentinacafe.com

General Ecuador information: www.ecuadorexplorer.com

Colombia information: http://poorbuthappy.com/colombia/

 

    Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific

Ticket to the World, dedicated to backpacker's to Australiawww.tickettotheworld.co.uk

The best directory of hostels in NZ: www.backpack.co.nz

Travelling NZ: www.backpackerboard.co.nz

Travelling Oz: www.backpackeressentials.com.au

Settling in and visiting Oz: www.immi.gov.au

Uluru information: www.crystalinks.com/ayersrock.html

Finding work in Australia: www.jobaroo.com

Climate averages in Australia: www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/

Backpack New Zealand: Backpacking & Hiking in NZ: www.backpack-newzealand.com

Kakadu national park: www.ea.gov.au/parks/kakadu/

Virgin Blue (budget OZ internal airline): www.virginblue.com.au

Independent travel resource about Vanuatu: www.positiveearth.org/bungalows also see: www.positiveearth.org

    USA and Canada:

Hostels in USA, Canada: www.hostelhandbook.com

Hire car relocations: www.driveaway.com

SouthWest USA: www.canyontocanyon.com

Budget Internal Airlines: www.southwest.com & www.jetblue.com

Accommodation swapping: www.swapnow.com  & www.stay4free.com

    Europe

General travellers information:

www.oldcontinent.com

www.guideforeurope.com

www.eurotrip.com

www.backpackeurope.com

www.backpackingeurope.com

www.euro-backpacker.com

Free guides for Eastern European cities: www.inyourpocket.com

Train times all over Europe: http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en?ld=107&newrequest=yes&

Car sharing in Europe: www.hitchhikers.org

Air travel: www.europebyair.com

Trains travel: www.raileurope.com

Photos: www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/Europe/

Travelogue: www.johnbowman.btinternet.co.uk

Free to do: www.freetodo.net

Great opinionated guide to sleeping cheap: www.eurocheapo.com

Live-in Jobs for backpackers in the UK: www.livein-jobs.co.uk

Moldavia Info: www.marisha.net

Free events, attractions and gems in Dublin: www.freedublin.com

Guide and resources for Rome: www.2rome.it

 

    Asia

Due to the sheer number of listable links for this continent, it has meant I have shied away from the task a little. Will come soon, but for now, most information, can be found listed in the essential links at the top of this page - most sites listed have very good links pages themselves.

Excellent page of Asia links: http://home.pi.be/travelspot/travel.htm

Asiaphoto: www.asiaphoto.de

Japan on the Cheap: www.japan-cheap-travel.com

Peter M. Geiser's Internet Travel Guide: www.pmgeiser.ch

SEA Travel FAQ, basic easy to follow - good info: www.chaskemp.googlepages.com/asia_travel

• Thailand

Myanmar Mike: http://myanmarmike.com

Tourism Authority of Thailand - information on festivals, destinations, activities: www.tourismthailand.org

Very informative site about Thailand: www.into-asia.com

Guide to Thailand by Thai students, great site! (over 5000 pages): www.thaistudents.com

Thailand FAQ: www.geocities.com/studentinsd/ttfaq.html

Good source for Chiang Mai / Chiang Rai information: welcome-to.chiangmai-chiangrai.com

Keng's Thailand travel experiences - stories, photos, links, "Ask Keng", etc: www.keng.com

Good info on Gem scam and others: www.geocities.com/thaigemscamgroup/Intro/Scam.html

• India

An independent and very polished site about travel to and within India: www.indiamike.com

Along the same lines as above, a well polished LP TT alternative for India: www.theindiatree.com

Webyatra India, great homepage type resource: www.geocities.com/webyatra

Good maps and information on planes, trains and automobiles: www.india.mapsofindia.com/

• Other South East Asia

Excellent Thailand, Laos and Cambodia info: www.travelfish.org

Malaysia Travel Guide: www.travelmalaysiaguide.com/

Myanmar Travel Guide: www.myanmar-travelnet.com

 

 

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