 Our Travelers Directory is full of great websites to help you get ready for GreatEscape2001®. Included are The Vitals, our Country Database from which our "Blind Date With The World™" will be selected, and finally, our list of the "101 Best Travel Websites™".
GreatEscape Adventures, Inc. has put together what we believe are the "101 Best Travel Websites™". We will continue to provide our friends and contestants with the most timely and up-to-date travel-related information. This list will change as we become aware of new and exciting sites, so please check back with us often as your ultimate travel resource. As time goes by, we will be developing and adding unique additions to our Travelers Directory section, including pages like: TRAVINTELL, homo touristus, Inner Voyages, tour de horizons, Top Ten Travel Lists, Postcards and our annual Go/NoGo list. All The Stuff You Need To Know Before You Go!  We care about your HEALTH:
For those of you with germ-phobias this is the site for you! All the official USG travel health information you could possibly want from the Centers for Disease Control. Or for you folks that prefer the private sector, check out Travel Health Online. And for those that want a real Big Picture understanding of potential global bugs, there's always the World Health Organization. No matter where you go you have to do official PAPERWORK:  First you'll need an official passport, so contact the U.S. State Department. You may need a visa to enter a country, so you better check out the place you want to visit at Embassy World for their complete directory. Whether you purchase tacky tourist trophies, priceless objects de art, jewelry, or household goods, you better check with the U.S. Customs to see if it's legal to bring your stuff back into the country.  What could be more important than your SAFETY:
Politics aside, it's always best to check out a few sites to see who's protesting, planning coups & counter coups, torturing their citizens or raping Mother Earth, etc. The first place to research and get the official party line is at the U.S. State Department's travel advisory reports. The sun may have set on the British Empire, but they still have great spies everywhere and their Foreign & Consular Office offers great travel-related advice. Finally, for a completely unbiased source of where the international danger spots are and how to protect yourself, see the Kroll Associates site.  Ready, set, now for the DESTINATION INFORMATION:
They spend $30 billion-a-year of your hard earned tax money, so make them prove their worth and check out the CIA's World Fact Book. You can get travel brochures e-mailed directly to you from just about everywhere now, so click to the Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory and pick your destination. Or visit the more Chamber of Commerce-like Official Travel Sites. 
Three sites that we really like that may help you put together a thoughtful travel adventure are UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites. The highly informative Human Rights Watch, and the equally important Amnesty International site.  Other fun and HELPFUL SITES:
Want to know what time it is anywhere in the world, check out The World Clock. Need to know International Dialing Codes? Find out how far it really is from here to there at How Far Is It? Want to stay connected on the road, Internet cafes are all the rage from Timbuktu to Katmandu, click to The Cyber Cafe Search Engine.  Learn to say "bottoms up" in 70 languages at the Travel Translator.
Find out just the facts from Country Watch. 
Typhoon season? Beach weather or ski season? Find out for yourself at either the Weather Channel, World Climate or Earth Watch.  MONEY Issues:
Need to change money or want to know the name of the money you'll be using? Among the best is The Washington Post Financial Pages. Or use the Full Universal Currency Converter or The Currency Converter to help you do the math without an advanced degree or calculator. Need cash quickly? These two sites will let you know how best to access your money at global ATMs using Visa or Mastercard.  ARRIVING & DEPARTING:
Check out the airport's services, food and other travel info at the terminals before you arrive, by visiting Airports. Know all about the airline you're flying on after visiting with Landings. 
GROUND TRANSPORTATION:
Maybe the best site of it's kind that allows you instant maps to all the world's mass transit systems is at Subways Navigator. Another great site will get you from many airports to the downtown metro areas the quickest and cheapest at Getting Downtown  MAPS:We love maps at GreatEscape2001 and there are a lot of great map sites out there in cyberspace. Here's a few that we really like: Interactive Atlas or the old commercial standards like: Rand McNally, National Geographic and WorldAtlas.  Finally you're on your way...now for the PACKING:
For what to take, what to take it in and how to pack it, see The Complete Carry-On Traveler. And for how to make the best of your electronics stuff on the road anywhere, check out the World Electronic Guide.  Our long list of potential GreatEscape2001 destinations*: A complete list of GreatEscape Adventure, Incs. "101 Best Travel Websites™" (Last updated: 5 Sept 2000) 101 Best Travel Websites™ (Listed A-Z) 1,000 Tips4Trips ABC News About.com Travel Airports Amnesty International AOL's Travelers Message Board Australian Foreign Affairs Betty's Travel Kiosk Blue Magazine Bradman's Castles Directory Centers for Disease Control Chicago Tribune Travel CIA CNNtravel.com Conde Nast Traveler Conde Nast Traveller (UK) Country Watch Cyber Caré Search Engine Discovery Channel Earthcams.com Earth Watch Embassy World Encyclopedia Britannica (Travel) Escape Excite Travel Eyestorm Fielding Travel Guides Fodor's Frommer's Full Universal Currency Converter Getting Downtown Gogo Info Greatest Places How Far Is It? Human Rights Watch iExplore.com Interactive Atlas Kasbah Travel Search Engine Kroll Associates Landings Let's Go Lonely Planet MapQuest Michelin Guides MIT's World Radio Moon Travel MSN Travel Search Engine Mungo Park National Geographic Maps National Geographic National Geographic Traveler National Park Service NoTourists.com Official Travel Sites Oneworld.com OnTheSnow Opinionated Traveler Outside Magazine Parks PhotoSecrets Pinkerton Global Intelligence PlanetRider.com Rand McNally Randy Johnson's Place Rough Guides Skinet.com Subways Navigator The Compleat Carry-On Traveler The Currency Converter The World Clock Time Out Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory Travel Health Online Travel & Leisure Travel Translator Travel Channel Trips Magazine Trip Spot U.K. Foreign & Consular Office Ulysses Travel Guides USA Today Travel UNESCO's U.S. Customs U.S. State Department Wanderlust Washington Post Weather Channel Webcam World What's Going On What's On When World Art Treasures World Climate World Electronic Guide World Health Organization WorldAtlas Worldnews.com And of course, it may be #101 on our list, but it is #1 in our hearts: GreatEscape2001.com! Please feel free to help us maintain our "101 Best Travel Websites™" list and send us your own Best Travel Website at Travel@GreatEscape2001.com.   Sorry, the following sections are in development, under construction and awaiting grants. Okay, we haven’t written them yet! But they are coming. Check with What’s New next time you come by… For now either head back to our HomePage or Top of the Travelers Directory. Thanks. |
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