Useful Travel Links

Contents:

• Guides
• Forums
• Health
• Airlines
• Practical Info
• Fellow Travelers

Guides

• Lonely Planet Victim of its own success?
• Rough Guide A popular alternative.
• Footprint Format is difficult to use, we found the India guide disappointing.
• Moon Travel and city guides.
• Bradt Specific destinations only.

Forums

• Usenet's rec.travel newsgroups (with a newsreader or via Google Groups).
• The Thorn Tree Lonely Planet's travel forum.
• Travel Talk Rough Guide's travelers forum.
• InfoHub Forums Smaller but more personal.

Health

• Center for Disease Control
• World Health Organization

Airlines

• Airsafe.com All the airplane accidents since 1970, by airline and aircraft model.
• Airline Quality Reviews and grading of airlines.
• Sleeping in Airports Reviews airports.

Practical Info

• Worldsbestbars.com Some of the suggested bars are pretty good.
• Bookstore List Bookshops worldwide.
• Electricity Guide to voltage and plug types worldwide.

Fellow Travelers

• Celine and Steve Cycling through Europe India and South East Asia (met near Tham Lod)
• Ken Kloppenborg I went caving independently for the first time with Ken (near Tham Lod).
• Gil and Pam Nolan The blog of their travels (met near Tham Lod).
• Wayne & Rosemary Wood from Australia. (Met in Buenos Aires)
• Stewart Green 12 years of traveling! (Met climbing volcano Santa Ana in El Salvador)
• Bruce Nisker 4.5 years of traveling.
• Erik Oskamp Honorable competitor.