Travel [and Geography]

• Travel Information Sites
• Particular Places
• New York City in Particular
• Spiritual Travel in Particular
• Languages
• Air Fare etc. Search
• Maps & Location Finders
• Time, Weather, Money, & Other Converters

Travel Information Sites

About.com Travel

http://www.about.com/travel/

Art of Travel: How to See the World (John Gregory)

http://www.artoftravel.com/

BootsnAll Travel: Resource for the Independent Traveller (Chris J. Heidrich)

http://www.bootsnall.com/

Come Back Alive (Robert Young Pelton)

http://www.comebackalive.com/

Concierge (formerly Epicurious Travel)

http://www.concierge.com/

Fodor's

http://www.fodors.com/

Frommer's

http://www.frommers.com/

Hopstop: Transit and Walking Directions

http://hopstop.com/

Hotel Chatter

http://www.hotelchatter.com/

iExplore - Adventure Travel and World Travel

http://www.iexplore.com/

IgoUgo (Tony Cheng)

http://www.igougo.com/

I Stopover [short term travel rentals]

http://www.istopover.com//

InfoHub Specialty Travel Guide

http://www.infohub.com/

Literary Traveler (Francis and Linda McGovern)

http://www.literarytraveler.com/

Lonely Planet

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/

The Man in Seat 61 [Train Travel] (Mark Smith)

http://www.seat61.com/

Photo.net Travel (Philip Greenspun)

http://photo.net/travel/

Pick a Trail [backpacking]

http://www.pickatrail.com/

Road Scholar [formerly Elderhostel]

http://www.roadscholar.org/

Rough Guides

http://www.roughguides.com/

Shaw Guides [Learning Vacations]

http://www.shawguides.com/

Time Out

http://www.timeout.com/

Travel Adventures

http://www.traveladventures.org/

Travel Blogs

http://www.travelblog.org/

Travel Document Systems (Visa Services)

http://www.traveldocs.com/

Travel Information [source for brochures, etc.]

http://www.TravelInformation.com/

Trip Advisor

http://www.tripadvisor.com/

Virtual Tourist

http://www.virtualtourist.com/

Wikitravel

http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page

The World Factbook (CIA)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Particular Places

Derelict London (Paul Talling)

http://www.derelictlondon.com/home_page.htm

Discover America

http://www.discoveramerica.com/ca/

Europe Through the Back Door (Rick Steves)

http://www.ricksteves.com/home.htm

Ghost Town Gallery (Daniel Ter-Nedden and Carola Schibli)

http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/

The Paris Pages / Les Pages de Paris

http://www.paris-pages.com/

Le Passage to India (Ripan Dhawan)

http://www.lepassagetoindia.com/home.aspx

Places Online

http://www.placesonline.org/

Roadside America: Online guide to offbeat tourist attractions

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/

Stone Pages: A megalithic guide (Paola Arosio and Diego Meozzi)

http://www.stonepages.com/

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list

U.S. National Forests

http://gorp.away.com/gorp/resource/us_national_forest/main.htm

A Visit to Nepal (Scott A. Yost) [1995]

http://www.vic.com/nepal/

Wild Texas

http://www.wildtexas.com/

New York City in Particular

©Central Park

http://www.centralparknyc.org/

©New York (Didier Forray)

http://www.cnewyork.net/

Ask a New Yorker (Kennedy Moore)

http://www.askanewyorker.com/

Brooklyn.com

http://www.brooklyn.com/

Central Park

http://www.centralpark.com/

City Lore

http://www.citylore.org/

Dot City: Dorothy Parker's New York

http://www.dorothyparker.com/

Easy New York City

http://www.easynewyorkcity.com/english.htm

Forgotten New York (Kevin Walsh)

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/

HopStop: Directions: New York

http://www.hopstop.com/?city=newyork

Manhattan Address Locator (Greg Costikyan)

http://www.manhattanaddress.com/

Manhattan User's Guide (Charlie Suisman)

http://manhattanusersguide.com/

Mr. Beller's Neighborhood (Tom Beller)

http://www.mrbellersneighborhood.com/

New York CitySearch (incorporating New York Sidewalk)

http://newyork.citysearch.com/

New York City: The Official NYC Web Site

http://home.nyc.gov/portal/index.jsp?pageID=nyc_home

New York City Map (Marketa Bankova) [virtual guide]

http://www.nycmap.com/macindex.html

New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority

http://www.mta.info/

New York City Park Odyssey (Jon Sobel)

http://parkodyssey.blogspot.com/

New York City Signs (Walter Grutchfield)

http://www.14to42.net/

New York City Vacation Packages

http://www.nyctrip.com/

New York City Walk (Caleb Smith)

http://www.newyorkcitywalk.com/

NewYork.com

http://www.newyork.com/

New York [Magazine] Metro Guide

http://nymag.com/

New York Public Library

http://www.nypl.org/

New York Subway Org (David Pirmann)

http://www.nycsubway.org/

New York Today (NY Times)

http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/new-york/new-york-city/overview.html

The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/

NYCity Map

http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/

NewYorkology (Amy Langfield)

http://www.newyorkology.com/index.php

NYC Arts Online

http://www.nyc-arts.org/

NYC & Co. [official tourism site]

http://www.nycgo.com/

Paper [alternative news]

http://www.papermag.com/

NY.com [formerly Paperless Guide to NYC]

http://www.ny.com/

The Village Voice

http://www.villagevoice.com/

Virtual New York

http://www.virtualnyc.info/

Virtual New York Tour (Taher Baderkhan)

http://www.virtualnyctour.com/

Spiritual Travel in Particular

Ancient Wisdom: Online Prehistory [Index of Ancient and Sacred Sites] (Alex Whitaker)

http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/

Earthwise Journeys

http://home.teleport.com/~earthwyz/

Global Volunteers

http://www.globalvolunteers.org/

A Journey of Discovery (Gayle Lawrence)

http://www.ajourneyofdiscovery.com/

Power Places Tours and Conferences

http://www.powerplaces.com/

Sacred Destinations (Holly Hayes)

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/

Shamanic Journeys (Nicki Scully)

http://www.shamanicjourneys.com/

Air Fare etc. Search

Airline Tickets Org.

http://www.airlinetickets.org/

Booking Buddy

http://www.bookingbuddy.com/

EasyJet [45 routes between 17 key European cities]

http://www.easyjet.com/

Expedia

http://www.expedia.com/

Fare Compare

http://www.farecompare.com/

Hotline

http://www.hotline.com/

Kayak

http://www.kayak.com/

Mobissimo

http://www.mobissimo.com/

Orbitz

http://www.orbitz.com/

Reserve America [campgrounds]

http://www.reserveamerica.com/

Travelocity

http://www.travelocity.com/

Languages

Applied Language Solutions Free Translation [text, email, Website]

http://www.appliedlanguage.com/free_translation.shtml

Babelfish [formerly Alta Vista Translation Service for Web Pages]

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

Bing Translator [formerly Windows Live Translator]

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/

Foreign Languages for Travelers

http://www.travlang.com/languages/

Free Translation

http://www.freetranslation.com/

From Language to Language

http://www.langtolang.com/

I Love Languages [formerly The Human Language Page] (Tyler Jones)

http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

Lingo 24 Free Translation Online

http://www.lingo24.com/free-translation-online.html

Maps and Location Finders

Atlas Query (Astrodienst Zurich)

http://www.astro.com/cgi/aq.cgi?lang=e

Bing Maps [formerly MapBlast, Mappoint, MSN Maps, Live Search Maps]

http://www.bing.com/maps/

EarthCam

http://www.earthcam.com/

GeoNames

http://www.geonames.org/

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html

Google Maps

http://maps.google.com/

Map Machine [National Geographic and ESRI]

http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine

MapQuest

http://www.mapquest.com/

MapsOnUs

http://www.mapsonus.com/

Tiger Mapping Service (U.S. Census Bureau)

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/maps/

Visible Earth (NASA)

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

World Sunlight Map

http://www.die.net/earth/

Xerox PARC Map Viewer

http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/mapdocs/

Yahoo! Maps

http://maps.yahoo.com/

Time, Weather, Money, & Other Converters

Time

Earth Calendar

http://www.earthcalendar.net

The Official US Time

http://www.time.gov/

Time and Date [with utilities like calendar generator]

http://www.timeanddate.com/

Time Service Department (US Naval Observatory)

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/time.html

Time Ticker

http://www.timeticker.com/main.htm

Time Zone Converter

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

What Time Is It?

http://www.whattimeisit.com/

World Time Server

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/

Weather

Intellicast Weather

http://www.intellicast.com/

Weather.com

http://www.weather.com/

Weather Underground

http://www.wunderground.com/

Money

Exchange Rates

http://www.x-rates.com/

Oanda: The Currency Site

http://www.oanda.com/

Universal Currency Converter (Xenon Labs)

http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Conversions

Online Conversion [length]

http://www.onlineconversion.com/length_common.htm

Online Conversion [temperature]

http://www.onlineconversion.com/temperature.htm