Web Sites


CITY OPENING LESSONS

Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow
The Mega-Cities Project- Innovations for Urban Life
Find city profiles in each.

CITY AND COUNTRY INFO

  • Lonely Planet Online
    Lonely Planet is passionate about bringing people together, about understanding our world, and about people sharing experiences that enrich everyone's lives. We aim to inspire people to explore, have fun, and travel often. And we strive to provide travellers everywhere with reliable, comprehensive and independent travel information.
  • Yahoo! Travel Destination Guides
    Get recommendations on attractions, restaurants, and hotels, and up-to-date weather, health tips, and general information for thousands of destinations.
  • TripBuzz
  • Cities.com - Cities of the world
  • World City Guide
  • Kid Friendly Cities
  • City Facts
  • Carfree Cities
  • Country Studies
  • Eurotrotter
    This site gives you easy and convenient access to thousands of internet sites that will enable you to explore your destination, find an accommodation, book a journey or holidays and lead you to all kinds of service-organizations that can be useful to the traveler.
  • The Paris Pages
    Paris Pages - a collection of everything regarding the City of Light.

    CITY IMAGES

  • Virtourist
    Virtourist has great pictorial tours of cities.
  • Metrotrip
    The Online Photographic City Guide & Virtual City Tours Portal
  • The Great Buildings Collection
    This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects.

    GEOGRAPHY

  • Geographic.org
  • World Atlas of Maps Flags and Geography Facts
  • Time Zone Map
  • World Time Zones

    FOOD AND CULTURE

  • Food & Agricultures of the World
  • The Global Gourmet
  • Zagat
  • Geographia

    TRAVEL LOGISTICS

  • Flags of all Countries
  • MapQuest
  • Weather Channel
  • The World Clock
  • Currency Converter
  • Banknotes- World Money
    Collecting world paper money let's you travel all over the world without leaving comforts of your home exploring all different cultures, countries, continents, getting to know many famous people, learning about fauna, flora, rivers, mountains that are on the seven continents of our Earth.
  • How Far Is It?
    How Far Is It provides the distance between cities.

    TRAVEL TOUR SITES

  • Vacations Website
  • Travelocity.com
  • Expedia Travel
  • Fodors Travel
  • Let's Go
  • Travel Channel
  • Lonely Planet
  • Luxury Link

    LANGUAGES

  • Foreign Languages for Travelers
    Beware the pop-up, but a great site.
  • Si, Spain
  • World Bridge Linguistics

    COUNTRY HEALTH

  • U.S. Dept. of State, Consular Affairs
  • World Health Organization
  • Travel Health Online

    Maps

  • Maps.com - The Place for Maps Online
  • The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress
  • Historical Map Web Sites

    Special Travel

  • Geography: Greatest Places Online
  • iExplore The Site for Adventure Travel
  • The Islands Information Directory
  • Appalachian Trail
  • Rail Europe Home Page
  • Europe by Eurail
  • Amtrak
  • VIA Rail Canada

    SKILL

  • Skills: History