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Looking for travel on the Internet? Take your umbrella to London or your swimsuit to Rio (not that you wouldn't anyway!). Most comprehensive currency converters available. (If you don't see what you want, choose Expand Currency List.) TravLang also has an excellent currency converter, with some nice features. Another good one is the Oanda Currency Converter. Does anybody really know what time it is? These Aussie guys do. If the time server you need is down, try the Timezone Converter. Another one to check out is Time and Date.com. Learn useful words and phrases in more than 60 languages. To talk dirty, however, you'll need to consult The Alternative Dictionaries. Well-organized site waxes eloquent on the fine art of traveling light. Who says you can't live indefinitely out of a carry-on bag? Air travelers regularly wade through an assortment non-intuitive airport codes like LHR, YYR, GIG, CDG, etc. This searchable database lets you identify an airport code code or look up the codes for the airports in a particular city. Airlines are similary coded; the Airline Designator Codes site operated by the Melbourne Airport Authority lets you interpret or find a code in a number of ways. Whenever I visit a new city, I make it a point to ride the subway (metro, underground, "tube," subterráneo, whatever...). This page is one of the coolest I've seen, with info on subways around the world. Should you need to take the wheel, this will help determine which side of the car you need to get into to avoid looking foolish (it happens to the best of us!). Because of the increasing number of automated teller machines worldwide, I no longer use travelers cheques (big difference in the exchange rates). This page helps you find the closest ATM to wherever you are. There's also the Mastercard/Maestro/Cirrus ATM Locator for users of those cards. Department Travel Advisories. See what Uncle Sam has to say about conditions in your destination country, including danger zones and general information about crime, road travel and the quality of medical care. Similar information is available from the UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office. no doubt know, there's a fair amount of unrest and turmoil in the world these days. Air Security International prepares daily reports each Monday through Friday to keep travelers advised of global events ranging from guerilla attacks to protest marches to union elections, along with tropical weather updates and significant dates worldwide. An e-mail subscription is available. that will help you find the consulate or embassy for wherever you might be going. There's also the Worldwide Embassies and Consulates Search Engine. Also, the CIA World Factbook is more chock full of facts than a high school geography text. Vital information from the US Center for Disease Control & Prevention on needed vaccines, areas of concern, and how to keep the food and water from spoiling your trip. A searchable listing of national and religious holidays around the world. It might keep you from scheduling that conference during an important religious holiday in a certain place. News and resources for the computer-carrying international traveler. Bless their hearts, they wrote about me way back in the 20th Century. Locate Cybercafes around the world to improve your odds of Internet access while traveling. Also worth a visit is the Internet Cafe search engine at Backpacker's Cafe. Links to state and national official tourism sites around the globe. Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina_Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape_Verde Central_African_Rep. Chad Côte_d-Ivoire Comoros_&_Mayotte Congo Dem._Rep._of_Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial_Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia General_Africa Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Reunion Rwanda São_Tomé_&_Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra_Leone Somalia South_Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Antarctica Adelaide Australia Brisbane Hobart Melbourne New_Zealand Papua_New_Guinea Perth Sydney Aruba Bahamas Barbados Bonaire British_Virgin_Islands Cayman_Islands Cuba Curaçao Eastern_Caribbean Grenada Guadeloupe Jamaica Martinique Montserrat Puerto_Rico Saba Sint_Eustatius Sint_Maarten St_Vincent_&_the_Grenadines U.S._Virgin_Islands Belize Costa_Rica El_Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama General_Central_Asia Albania Amsterdam Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belfast Belgium Berlin Bosnia-Hercegovina Bulgaria Canary_Islands Crete Croatia Cyprus Czech_Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe_Islands Finland Florence France Frankfurt Georgia Germany Greece Greenland Holy_See Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lisbon Lithuania London Luxembourg Macedonia Madrid Malta Manchester Moldova Monaco Moscow Munich Netherlands Norway Paris Poland Portugal Prague Romania Rome Russia Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain St_Petersburg Sweden Switzerland Ukraine Venice Vienna Wales Yugoslavia Bangladesh Bhutan Delhi Goa India Kathmandu Maldives Mumbai Nepal Pakistan Sri_Lanka Bahrain Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestinian_Territories Qatar Saudi_Arabia Syria Turkey United_Arab_Emirates Yemen Alaska Atlanta Austin Bermuda Boston CANADA Chicago Dallas Denver Fort_Lauderdale Hawaii Honolulu Houston Las_Vegas Los_Angeles MEXICO Miami Minneapolis_&_St_Paul Nashville New_Orleans New_York Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix San_Diego San_Francisco Seattle USA Washington,_DC Beijing China Hong_Kong Japan Macau Mongolia North_Korea South_Korea Taipei Taiwan Tibet American_Samoa Cook_Islands Fiji Guam Independent_Samoa Kiribati Marshall_Islands Micronesia Nauru New_Caledonia Niue Northern_Mariana_Islands Palau Pitcairn_Islands Solomon_Islands Tahiti_&_French_Polynesia Tokelau Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador_&_the_Galapagos_Islands Falkland_Islands French_Guiana Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela Bali Brunei Burma Cambodia East_Timor Indonesia Kuala_Lumpur Laos Lombok Malaysia Manila Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam Airlines Buses Customs Embassies_&_Visas Ferries_&_Ships Getting_Around Home_Exchanges Hostelling Language Maps Money_Matters Packing_&_Preparation Rail_Travel Settling_In Time Weather Contacts Diseases_&_Disasters Malaria_&_Misc News Predeparture Special_Needs Travel_Advice Travel_Insurance Camping Climbing Cybercafes_&_Chats Cycling Diving Festivals_&_Events Food Hiking Mobile_Computing Snow_Sports The_Great_Outdoors Travel_Photography Animal_Rights Environment Human_Rights Post_a_Travel_Story Travel_Magazines Travelogues Mainstream_Travel Offbeat_Travel Student_-_Budget_Travel Study_-_Work_Abroad Volunteering