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Fielding Guides
(no website) |
Buy at Amazon.com |
For the
experienced traveler. Uses icons (e.g., by rail, by air) to help you
select your interests. It has lodging, food, and sightseeing
lists that includes a rating system. Although it has little detail,
there are maps and black & white photos.
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Find Our Community |
Find our
Community is a beautiful, easy-to-use website with a map-based
interface to get to a country or city. Once on the country or
city page, they have a short list and links to popular websites with
travel information and maps for that place.
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| Fodor's
Travel Guides |
Buy at Amazon.com |
An
excellent site with extensive coverage of U.S. and world places. You can also create your
own mini-guide.
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Footprint
Handbooks |
Buy at Amazon.com |
They have
extensive worldwide coverage with travel guides for countries,
regions of countries, continents and cities. They also have
guides covering specific activities (e.g., surfing worldwide).
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Forbes Traveler
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Destinations |
This is a
beautiful website oriented toward luxury travel where you can get
information to plan your trip. make reservations and buy your tickets. They
have excellent destination information including articles by destination
experts and the 10 best of things topics at a destination (e.g., 10 best
golf courses, etc).
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Frommer's Travel Guides
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Buy at Amazon.com |
We have
always liked the Frommer's travel guides. Their on-line site is first class! Consider it
as a budget travel agency on the
web. We can also drop you off at their
Destinations
section if you want to go directly to countries. Some articles from Arthur' Frommer's Budget Travel magazine are on line
also. There is also a
daily
newsletter. Any budget traveler will enjoy this site.
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| Geographia |
A beautiful site with
good historical and geographical information about selected countries. It also has travel
information.
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| Globetrotter
Guides |
Buy at Amazon.com |
A
worldwide series of travel guides for cities, countries and regions.
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GoNOMAD |
Destinations |
In our opinion, this is one of the
best travel sites on the web. It is beautifully laid out, easy
to navigate and has comprehensive travel and destination
information. It is a travel magazine, travel agency and travel guide
all rolled into one.
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Google
Recreation/Travel Directory and
Destinations (provided by DMOZ) |
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| Great
Destination Guides |
Buy at Amazon.com |
These guides cover cities and regions
of the United States. Well written, they include how to get there,
and where to stay, eat, shop, and play. Includes an index, maps and
black & white photographs. Check the publication year and some
guides have not been updated in a while.
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Great Eats and Sleeps Guides
(formerly Cheap Eats and Sleeps Guides) |
Buy at Amazon.com |
Sandra Gustafson has spent many years
sleeping and eating in budget accommodations, finding those that are
clean, comfortable, and often charming, and eating in budget
restaurants in European cities and countries. She has
also done a lot of shopping and offers appraisals of both well-known
and little-known shops. She pays her own way and her
information is objective and unbiased. Great Eats and Sleeps Guides
provide informed, personal appraisals like a friend would give you
after a trip. Besides European cities and countries, she has a
guide for eating economically in Greater Vancouver and San
Francisco. If you are a budget traveler, this is a nice
companion to your typical travel guide. Her website also has
some Great Tips on Shopping, Eating and Sleeping.
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Green Guides |
Buy at Amazon.com |
These are from Michelin and have
cultural and practical information for regions, cities and countries
of the world.
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Guide 105 |
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Extensive world-wide travel
information with easy navigation. They have various categories to
choose from, as well as, the normal world region, country, region
within a country and city search feature. The hotel side panel
on their home page let's you select a hotel by city, amenities,
hotel name (optional) and hotel type. Very well done with
comprehensive information!
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| How
To See The World |
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This is the title of a free, online book written by
John Gregory, who has visited over 35 countries. It is subtitled
"The Art of European and World Travel Backpacking on $25 a day".
In it, he details all aspects of seeing the world as a backpacker or
independent traveler in 25 well-researched chapters. We thank
him for offering his experience to the world.
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USA Travel Guides |
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This is an excellent, comprehensive list of travel
guides for each state of the United States.
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| iagora.com |
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This is a
wonderful site with lots of interesting content. A very beautiful
site that is well
laid out. "Every day, more and
more people from every corner of the world are seeking to study,
work, and travel abroad. Here at iAgora, we believe that this
phenomenon is creating a category of people whose open-mindedness,
desire to learn, and human values make them true world citizens.
Not surprisingly, these people enjoy each other's company. iAgora
is a website created as a meeting place for such
internationally-minded people and that's why we call our members
Internationals ®."
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iExplore.com-Guides |
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They are an online travel agency in association with National
Geographic that specializes in finding you a tour. A beautiful
website where you select a region of the world or country and
activities and then they provide information about the place and a
list of tour companies.
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Igougo.com |
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A beautiful and comprehensive, worldwide series of travel guides.
Easy to navigate. "I-Go-You-Go"
Their
information also includes recommendations from other travelers. Meet
the people behind the advice. You can share your own reviews and
photos to earn rewards.
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Independent Traveler |
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An
excellent website that has extensive travel topics and destination
guides, as well as, being a full service travel agency where you can
book airline, hotel, car rentals and make other reservations.
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Insider's Guides (no
website) |
Buy at Amazon.com |
A
worldwide series of travel guides covering cities, countries and
regions within countries of the world with an extensive collection
of guides for cities and places in the United States.
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Insight Guides |
Buy at Amazon.com |
Excellent series of guides covering
countries of the world with special guides for certain places such
as the Nile River or East African Wildlife. They are visual
guides. The beautiful photographs and narrative descriptions
make this a guide to read before your trip or at your leisure. The
latter part of the books contain tourist information. Includes maps
and many color photos.
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Insight Pocket Guides |
Buy at Amazon.com |
Smaller than regular Insight Guides
(about 5" x 8") but not exactly pocket size. These guides cover
destinations worldwide and major US cities. Arranged geographically
by itineraries. Brief descriptions, maps, and color photos. (also
known as Insight Compact Guides.)
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Intraporta |
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This is a
beautiful, very comprehensive travel gateway with lots of travel
information. It is organized by categories but it also has a
search capability to let you find something quickly.
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In Your Pocket Country Guides |
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This
excellent series of web country guides covers mainly the countries
of Eastern Europe including Russia. "In Your Pocket guides are
brimming with copious amounts of information presented in a concise
and clever manner. Travel wisdom not always found in even the
bulkiest of books." Discover everything that you need to know
about a country.
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JohnnyJet.com |
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This is a
wonderful travel portal with lots of travel information. It is
organized by categories but it also has a search capability (site
and web) to let you find something quickly. There is also a free
Johnny Jet Travel letter you can subscribe to and receive via email.
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Just
Marvelous Walking tours |
Buy at Amazon.com |
Jeanne
Oelerich's walking guides to popular cities in Europe are well
praised by travelers who have used them. They are easy to take along
and allow you to plan your day and time around the places you want
to visit. They are compact, and very comprehensive, with large, easy
to read maps of specific city areas that shows major attractions as
well as lesser known ones; lists good restaurants and great places
to view the city. views. There are usually some museum floor-plans,
brief histories, plus general travel and packing tips. Includes a
glossary. For online walking tours, also check out
Infohub's Walking Tours.
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Fodor's City
MiniGuide |
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We list
Fodor's in both our City and Country section and in this section of
their website are wonderful web city guides for cities around the
world. Easy-to-navigate, excellent information.
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In Your Pocket City Guides |
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| This
excellent series of web city guides covers a wide range of cities of
Europe including Eastern Europe. "In Your Pocket guides are
brimming with copious amounts of information presented in a concise
and clever manner. Travel wisdom not always found in even the
bulkiest of books." Discover everything that you need to know
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