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.
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Highlighted & Recommended Links
Art of Travel
Boots N' All
David's Links Page
Foreign Travel Advisors Service
Google Earth
Lonely Planet
Pass Planet
Randy's Travel Page
Round The World - FAQs
Seat 61
Small World - Clear Trip
Travel on the Really Cheap
Wikitravel
World Heritage
World Nomads
Site Map
Return To Travel Index.
General / world-widePlease 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
One Bag (the name say it all, good packing advice/lists): www.onebag.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
Budget your trip, a great way to get a handle on what your daily costs might be: www.budgetyourtrip.com
Backpacking tips and starter information, similar to this site - wwww.startbackpacking.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
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
Great interactive world weather map: http://www.worldreviewer.com/world-weather/
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Just For Fun
The Fabulous Adventures of Mister Wombat: www.wombattravel.com
Great travel game to test your Knowledge: www.travelpod.com
Atlas of the real world: www.telegraph.co.uk/.../The-Atlas-of-the-Real-World.html
Lies to tell tourists: http://www.economist.com/tourist-advice
Test your Geography Knowledge: www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/ and www.jetpunk.com
Historical Country Names: www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/hist_country_names.htm
Golden Plungers, the world's best public toilets and where to find them: www.thebathroomdiaries.com/
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
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Travelogues and blogs - General (ones we liked):Globetrotter extraordinaire: http://berclo.net/inden.html
Heinz Stcke - 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
The Chicken Bus: www.chickenbus.com
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
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
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Accommodation:Southern Africa travel bible (hostels): www.coastingafrica.com
Latin America info/hostel guide: www.hosteltrail.com
Hostels in USA, Canada: www.hostelhandbook.com
Bug Europe: www.bugeurope.com
The best directory of hostels in NZ: www.backpack.co.nz
General: Meet people, get a free place to stay: www.couchsurfing.com and www.hospitalityclub.org
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!:
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Working AbroadFind Volunteer work that doesn't have you paying for the privilege: www.truetravellers.org
Organising you own Volunteer Tip: www.gobudgettravel.com/category/volunteer-abroad/
South American free and low-cost volunteer work: www.volunteersouthamerica.net
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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
Studying abroad: www.studyabroad.com
Volunteer Latin America: www.volunteerlatinamerica.com
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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 AmericaThe South American Tourist: http://southamericatourist.com/
Excellent Colombia and Latin America info/hostel guide: www.hosteltrail.com
Argentina Cafe - independent travel guide to Argentina: http://www.argentinacafe.com
Colombia information: http://poorbuthappy.com/colombia/
South American Explorers Club: www.samexplo.org
Amazing mountain biking ride from La Paz: www.gravitybolivia.com
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
Easter Island: www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui.html
Chile Info Project: www.chip.cl
Chichen Itza: www.chichenitzafacts.com
Australia, New Zealand & the PacificTicket to the World, dedicated to backpacker's to Australia: www.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/
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
EuropeGeneral travellers information:
Free guides for Eastern European cities: www.inyourpocket.com
For the Balkans: www.balkanology.com
Train times all over Europe: http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en?ld=107&newrequest=yes&
Air travel: www.europebyair.com
Trains travel: www.raileurope.com
Travelogue: www.johnbowman.btinternet.co.uk
Free to do: www.freetodo.net
Great opinionated guide to sleeping cheap: www.eurocheapo.com
Moldavia Info: www.marisha.net
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AsiaDue 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.
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
The trans-Siberian - start to finish (google maps and video): www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html
Tourism Authority of Thailand - information on festivals, destinations, activities: www.tourismthailand.org
Guide to Thailand by Thai students, great site! (over 5000 pages): www.thaistudents.com
Keng's Thailand travel experiences - stories, photos, links, "Ask Keng", etc: www.keng.com
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
Good maps and information on planes, trains and automobiles: www.india.mapsofindia.com/
Excellent Thailand, Laos and Cambodia info: www.travelfish.org
Travel homepage SE Asia resource with pretty detailed info for the region: www.backpacking-tips-asia.com
Malaysia Travel Guide: www.travelmalaysiaguide.com
Myanmar Travel Guide: www.myanmar-travelnet.com
Tourism Philippines:
www.Tourism-Philippines.com
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