Other Travel Resources
The Art of Travel
An online book with loads of tips for the traveller. Easy to spend a few hours at.
Crazy Dog Travel
Interesting name, but loads of information. Great background information for those taking their first trip.
Eurotrip.com
Neat site that seems to be focused around Yanks going to Europe with a Let’s Go in their hands. Very active forums with plenty of interaction.
Hostels.com
An extensive database of hostels from around the globe. Another good resource if planning a budget trip.
Journeywoman.com
A travel magazine aimed at the woman traveller. Great tips and info for the female traveller!
The Travel Clinic
Everything you need to know about travel and related health matters. If there’s a subject you cannot find, they probably have a link to it.
The Travel Guide Publishers – Behemouths of Travel Guide Publishing. These next few are the people who write and publish the travel guides that we all use. Some of the best resources on the web…
Lonely Planet
The Traveller’s Bible also has one of the best travel websites around. Active message boards and you can buy their books online.
Fodors
The travel guides from Fodors also have a decent web site with a nice travel forum.
Frommers
Frommers web site has some decent content and a budget travel section that may be worth your time.
Map sites
www.Mapblast.com – We use a lot of these maps.
www.MapQuest.com – Just got bought by AOL.
Travelogues – The net has given almost anyone the power to tell the world about their personal trip. Here are a few of our favourites:
Mad Nomad
A neat travelogue site that is updated frequently. Follow Gregg and Evelyn on there extensive journey.
Travelog.net
John Berns took a round the world trip, but ended up in Asia for a few years and documented most of it. Fun reading.
Gone Walkabout
Sean Connolly documents all of his travels as well as his 1994-5 round the world trip. Nice one.
Webtravel.org
Philip Greenspun has a very intensive web site that covers his travels and photography. This site also covers just about anything else under the sun concerning web publishing.
Travel Gear – Buy travel gear for your trip.
LeTravelStore.com
They ship everywhere and have some great Eagle Creek Travel Gear
Altrec
Lots of brands and lots of stuff.
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