Country Guides
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PlanetWare
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This is another beautiful, comprehensive
travel guide website that is easy to navigate.
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Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guides
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An
excellent site for the independent and budget traveler or
backpacker. Practical and up-to-date advice on traveling in
Europe. He also has a phrase book series you
can buy.
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| Rough Guides |
Buy at Amazon.com |
This is a well-known
travel guide series with an attitude! They have an excellent on-line site. Besides
covering basic tourist information on over 4,000 countries and cities worldwide, they have
information on things like bars, discos, nightclubs, etc in a city.
Besides travel, they also have Rough Guides for music, the
internet, and reference. Click
here to go to their overall home page where you can link to
any of these topics.
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Sacred Places
Travel Guides
(not a travel guide series)
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Buy Guides to Sacred Places at Amazon.com |
A
beautiful series of online guides with comprehensive coverage of
sacred places throughout the world. Includes not only background and
history, but also tourist information on how to get to the location,
where to stay and how to visit or explore the sacred site. Sometimes
sacred sites are a single location and sometimes it encompasses a
wide area.
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Schmap |
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The
Schmap Player is a small, easy-to-use piece of freeware that you can
download and install on your Windows PC. Then download
interactive Schmap Guides: dynamically explore a city, island or
region. Play virtual tours of recommended hot spots. Find
restaurants and bars. Print your own destination guides.
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Sierra Club Guides |
Buy at Amazon.com |
The
Sierra Club is known for their excellent hiking, backpacking and
outdoor guides with extensive United States coverage, including
national parks, but also other countries and regions of the world.
The guides include details on accommodations, including booking
offices, hostels, hotels, campgrounds, and mountain huts and words
of interest to hikers in the languages of the countries covered.
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| Simple Guides |
Buy at Amazon.com |
The
Simple Guides focus on customs and etiquettes of countries of the
world.
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| SoftGuides |
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Here's the way it
should be done! Although they
only cover Spain and Ireland, they cover several cities.
(See City Guides at the bottom of this page.)
Their guides rely on local input and feedback from users and
tourists to the area. They also have online reservations. Check them out and check
for more SoftGuides as they become available.
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SuperTravelNet.com
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This is
the way a world traveler expects to start exploring. Besides the
option of entering a city, country, company or resort name, you can
start with their world map. But what a map! They let you zoom
in on a country map and then a part of a country. They have tourist information for that
particular area -attractions, etc. And you can go down to very
small areas in a country.
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BlueMarble.org |
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If you want to travel like a local
instead of a tourist, this is a great website to visit. You
can learn how to find restaurants, accommodations, entertainment
and sights that are used by locals rather than tourists.
Become a participant instead of a spectator in the daily life of
people living in the global village.
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| The
Directory of Travel |
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This is Travel.Org's "The Directory of Travel", a very comprehensive travel information site with links to
everything from airlines to travel agents to tour companies including tour companies and
travel agencies serving regions of the world. This is a real smorgasbord of travel
information. It's one of the top travel web sites in number of visitors.
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| Tourist Offices
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This is our
travel topic page that lists several good sites with comprehensive lists of government
tourist offices in the United States (by state), Canada (by province) and worldwide.
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Travel
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This is the Travel & Leisure magazine's
online destination guides. They are just as beautiful and complete
as the magazine.
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Travel
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This is a travel website with articles by
great travel writers covering over 100 destinations worldwide. You
can search by author or region.
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| Travel
Channel |
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This is the
Travel Channel website with a lot of good articles
and information, as well as, links to other sites. We can drop
you off at their Destination section if you are in a hurry.
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Travel.com |
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One of
the most comprehensive and beautiful travel sites on the web
compliments of the Discovery people.
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Travelnotes.org |
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This is
an excellent site that is less commercial than some of the other
travel guides. It has very comprehensive travel information and a
nice, clean layout with an easy-to-navigate user interface
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Travelers Digest |
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This is
a comprehensive site that has a nice, clean layout with an easy-to-navigate user interface.
You can click on a city, or region of a country, on the country map
and go to a page about that city or region.
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Travellerspoint |
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This is
a great travel site with a clean interface. They have a good
collection of travel tools, guides, blogs and photographs provided
by travelers.
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Travelnow |
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This is
an excellent site with very comprehensive travel information and a
nice, clean layout with an easy-to-navigate user interface.
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Travelocity.com |
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This is
an excellent travel agency site that has very comprehensive travel
information for places and cities of the world. This link takes you
to their Destinations Guide.
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TravelWise |
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This is a beautiful and comprehensive
websites that includes information on countries of the world as well
as travel articles.
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TripAdvisor |
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This is an excellent combination search
engine and directory of travel information. One of the
top-rated travel sites on the web. They have unbiased
vacation reviews and recommendations.
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TripSpot |
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This is an excellent, very comprehensive,
travel website packed with worldwide travel information with some
interesting additional topics such as travel as articles on travel
magazine's best lists. No fancy artwork, just straightforward,
well-organized information with direct links to many subjects.
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Here's the way it
should be done! Their city maps are exceptionally detailed and interactive. "The SoftGuides Network brings you the very best in
unbiased city guide information compiled from contributions by locals in each city and
continually modified and updated by feedback from users, both resident and tourist."
They currently cover the following cities: Dublin, Ireland / Pisa, Italy
/ Madrid and Barcelona, Spain / and Tokyo, Japan. They also
have online reservations. If you are planning a visit to any of these cities, check them out and check
for more SoftGuides as they become available.
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| Time Out
City Guides |
Buy at Amazon.com |
The online Time Out City Guides do an
excellent job of covering over 30 cities of the world. They
have excellent, one-click categories and topics that make it easy to
get around. They have a lot of practical advice for
not only visitors, but also people living in the city. They
also publish weekly Time Out magazines for London and New York. They
also publish paperback city guides that cover 33 cities of the world
including major United States cities.
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TripAdvisor |
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This is an excellent combination search
engine and directory of travel information. Information is well
organized and ranked for relevancy. They have great city
coverage.
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