Index

Travel Resources

See Also
- street directories
- Languages (learn and translate)

• Earth and Moon viewer
• Library of Congress country Studies - lots of maps and info on many countries, but none on Australia or New Zealand yet
• Map Machine from National Geographic - sophisticated and a large amount of info. Great site (zoomed in on where I live by satallite)
• MapQuest - mainly US maps but some international
• Maps on US
• TerraServer from Microsoft is a clickable map of the world that has photos that people submit on it
• Xerox PARC Map Viewer - world map
• see also street directories

Travel Guides

• Art of Travel interesting site on how to travel cheaply - here are the tips for sleeping in a Greek building site
• CitySearch - Internet Guides to Australian Cities Sydney and melbourne only at the moment
• Economist Cities Guide 
• Edinburgh Festivals Guide
• GORP - Great Outdoor Recreation Pages is an outdoor site on mountain biking, hiking and other pursuits. US based
• Lonely Planet - an excellent site with a world map you can click on and zoom in on the world
• National Geographic
• Rough Guides - a good looking site that seems to be set up along the same lines as the Lonely Planet, as they produce similar guides
• South Coast Australia includes Shoalhaven online
• Timeout - A travel guide to selected worldwide hotspots
• TNT Magazine (Backpacking)
• Trout New Zealand - Fishing Network

Travel Booking

• Elder Hostel - US based travel with an educational bent (over 55s), interesting concept.
• Flight Centre Australian Based
• Jetset - Australian Based
• LastMinute.com - UK and Australia for last minute flight and holiday bookings
• Orbitz - US based flight booking
• Travel.com.au Sydney Based Online TravelAgency. Fares, online booking, packages, insurance, hotel booking, car hire, and destination information.
• TravelLand Australian Based
• Webjet - Australian Based
• Wotif - Last minute travel bookings at discount rates (Australia, NZ, UK & Singapore)

Airlines and Car Hire

• Airlines of the Web huge directory of airlines
• Flightview a flight tracking tool, track by flight number or arrival/departure cities.
• Air New Zealand
• American Airlines
• Avis - Car Rental
• British Airways
• Canadian Airlines
• Continental Airlines
• Delta Airlines
• Impulse airlines - Australian based
• Japan Airlines has an English site
• Jetstar Airlines - Australian based
  
• Lufthansa German based
• Malaysian Airlines
• Philippine Airlines
• Qantas - Australian Based
• Singapore Airlines
• Swiss Air
• Thai Airways
• Virgin Atlantic
• Virgin Blue (Australian flights)

Related Links
Net Tour - it has worldwide webcams
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