Travel-Links

Overview

Links on traveling are available on the following topics:

• General Information
• Photo travel tips
• Travel Literature
• Travel Equipment
• Special places worldwide
• Maps
• Weather
• Misc

General Information

• At Reiseberichte aus aller Welt you can browse through lots of travel reports from all over the world.
• A similar page in English is Worldisround
• TravelShop has assembled lots of information on different counties in its Länderlexikon
• The page of The Rozylowicz Family is full of interesting reports and photos of their own trips.
• At Foto-Reiseberichte you can find travel reports and photos from many places around the world.
• Another site with travel reports from around the world is Ingrid's Welt.
• Many places in the world can be discovered through photos on Dominique's page.
• Travel reports and photos can also be found at States of the Art.
• PhotoLinks is similar.
• The "World" section of fotocommunity allows to find great images from all over the world fairly well organized.
• At PBase.com also lots of beautiful image from all over the world can be found.
• Similar is the worldwide image database TrekEarth.
• On Karstens Heimseite für Weltenbummler you can find useful information and reports from trips to America, Asia and Australia (despite of the strange name of the site).
• Travellerspoint is a website that helps planning trips in various ways.
• At Flightstats you can check at which airport in the world planes arrive with which delay.
• The German site Fotoreiseberichte.de gives useful and very detailed information about lots of countries the author had visited.
• The site Where-Is-This? allows you to upload photos of places and have the community identify where the photo was taken. You can also browse through the images that had been identified (and those that still wait for being identified).

Photo travel tips

• World Photo Locations shows (photographically) interesting locations around the world and tips how and when best to take photos.
• photo.net has a very informative Travel section.
• And of course the Travel Photography section of the forum at photo.net.
• The Minolta Forum has a section where members can share information about interesting photo locations.
• Similarly the DSLR-Forum has a section about interesting photo locations.
• The internet site of the US magazine Outdoorphotographer has a section featuring Photo locations. Please note: They tend to annoy the visitors of their site by frequently changing the URLs!
• Travel Photographers Network has a collection of photo tips for travelers.
• Fodors Focus on Photography has tips for shooting photos while traveling.
• On travelphoto.net you can also find a list of photography tips for travelers.
• At Thirty Thousand Feet they also have a list of resources for travel photography.

Travel Literature

There are two different travel guides I usually use (depending on where I go and which one has the most up to date information):

• Lonely Planet is probably the best known guide for non organized tours. I usually use it when I am traveling out of Europe
• The travel guides form Michael Müller Verlag are as good as Lonely planet. I use them mostly during tours in Europe
• The third publisher of excellent travel guides is Reise Know How. Depending on the destination they are often very good.

Travel Equipment

• Any kind of outdoor travel equipment can be found at Lauche und Maas in Munich (Pasing). This shop is really amazing. If you happen to be in the area, do not miss the opportunity to go there. The staff is very helpful and knowledgeable. Their catalogue is very informative with very honest comments to each of the products they sell. They are also in Ulm and Jena.
• A GPS receiver is a very useful piece of equipment (especially for an outdoor photographer). A lot of information concerning GPS can be found at Canadier und GPS Info-Seite von Ralf Schönfeld
• Another source of GPS information is Trimble - All About GPS
• Want to buy GPS equipment? Daerr Expeditionsservice probably has most experience in this regard

Special places worldwide

• You are looking for lighthouses? Go to Cyberlights
• Another lighthouse page is The Lighthouse Directory.
• Are you looking for waterfalls? Go to the World Waterfall Database.
• Another site on waterfalls of the world is Michele's Waterfall Page.

Maps

• Maporama lets you seach for (almost) every town in the world. Thy also give you GPS coordinates ofeach place. In addition you can get driving directions.
• Mapblast, Mapquest and Yahoo! Maps are similar but do not offer GPS coordinates
• A great collection of online map services, especially for use with GPS is Die Welt der Karten
• Looking for detailed maps of Bavaria with GPS coordinates? Go to Bayerische Vermessungsverwaltung
• Maps of all kinds can be found at Weltkarten.com

Weather

• Weather.com from The Weater Channel is very reliable and informative for weather around the world.
• The German site Wetter24 has nice and useful flash animations showing the weather forecast for Germany and Europe.
• The German site Wetter.info is similar. Their animation is not flash based and it does not extend as far in the future.
• The German site WETTER.NET does not have animations. They just show maps with pictograms.
• On the German site wetter.com you can easily click find cities. The site offers weather predictions up to 16 days into the future.
• The German site wetter.de also offers nice and easy to use flash animations that aloow clicking through maps to find the location you are interested in.
• The German site Der Wetterbote also allows clicking through maps. Their prediction only covers four days.
• Wetter Online is a very good German online weather service

Misc

I think there are three essential sites one has to look at before traveling:

• At GSM World you can see how good the GSM mobile phone coverage is in every country you ate traveling to. I think that GSM is a fantastic system. You can use your mobile phone almost everywhere on the world, you can be reached via a single mobile phone number everywhere and you can send short text messages at any time.
• Another important information you want to know regarding your travel destination is the kind of mains plug they use so that you bring the correct adapter along This information is available at Stefan Neudeck's page.
• A similarly usefull page is Steve Kropla's Help for World Travelers
• The Universal Packing List generates packing lists for every kind of trip you can imagine.
• At timeandday.com you can (among many other things) calculate sunrise , sunset, moonrise moonset for any location in the world.
• SunriseSunset is similar but the location database provided covers only north America.
• The German site General Aviation is similar. Here the location database provided covers German Airports.