the travel zone


		External Travel Related Links
	Online security and privacy. Do you send email from Internet cafés when you are travelling? Minimise the risks to your privacy with cafeKlysm. You get portable email and instant messaging programs to load on your USB flash drive, plus added security features. Go safe - go cafeKlysm...	Low-Impact Travel Tips for responsible travel which help you to minimise your impact when you stay in hotels, use transport, buy food and drink. World Time Times around the world, with valuable information about daylight-saving offsets and other details. Visa ATM Locations Worldwide locations of Automatic Teller machines for cash withdrawal using Visa. MasterCard ATM Locations Worldwide Automatic Teller machine locator for cash withdrawal using MasterCard. Cyber Cafés Worldwide A database of 4208 Internet cafes in 140 countries. Internet In India If you are considering bringing your own computer to India, this clearly written information will help you select a machine and modem, and get to grips with the battery problem. Offset Your Travel CO₂ Emissions? Carbon credits from tree planting are a phoney climate fix! This site persuades you not to pay for such things in order to offset the CO₂released on a typical, long-haul flight. Travel Wiki - Asia A great idea for a set of dynamic, Frequently Asked Questions about Asia. Travellers continually add to and edit the information contained here, which makes it as current as possible. World Weather As the name implies - select a city, and get current conditions, plus a table of average temperature and rainfall through the year. Visa Requirements Do you need a visa and how much will it cost? Do you need a return ticket? This search engine gives various counties' visa requirements for most nationalities. Embassy Search Directory and search engine of the world's embassies and consulates. Map Of India A zoomable map of India which can be magnified to street level in the towns and cities. Very useful, as it resembles Google Earth but shows much more detail Link2India has a very large number of collected bookmarks connected with India. It's a stripped-down and clean-looking site which is very easy to find your way around. If you are travelling to India soon this site is a must. World Travel Map of places you have visited. Just tick where you have been and generate a map showing how much of the world's land you've been on. Here's the map I made showing my travels - quite modest, isn't it? Rupees India - live rates €1.00 EUR = INR $1.00 USD = INR £1.00 GBP = INR $1.00 AUD = INR Rupees Nepal - live rates €1.00 EUR = NPR $1.00 USD = NPR £1.00 GBP = NPR $1.00 AUD = NPR Currency data from coinmill.com
	The Survey Zone. The phenomenal changes which have taken place in India over the past 25 years - or even over the past 5. Were those days long ago when you travelled there really 'golden,' or is India generally better for the visitor today? Take this survey to add your opinion.
	Answers to some common questions about budget backpack travel (how to take your money, how to stay healthy, how to use Asian toilets, how to choose hotel rooms...) View online or download either e-book (CHM) or Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format.
	The Toke-card Zone. Send an electronic greetings card. With a choice of photographs from my collection, each card can be customised with font, background colour and (if you wish) music. Simple to send, and unlike many sites, the card your friend sees is advertisement-free.
	The Blog Zone. My most recent sub-continent trip, December 2007 to March 2008, with previous blogs back to 2002. Journals of three months' journeying through the highlands and hilly lands of India, with photos from life on the road.
	The Online Zone. Read this if you are expecting to use Internet cafés when you travel to send and read email. Tips on dealing with the risks to your online privacy.
	Travel-related downloads. Popular screen-savers, "skins" for your browser and the Winamp mp3 player, a journal from a first visit to Rajasthan, a desktop rack of international clocks.
	Travel Photo Gallery. Some pictures from around thirty years of wandering or living in Australia, Austria, Burma, Finland, India, Ireland, Indonesia, Nepal, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Pakistan and Scotland.
	Panorama photographs. Some very large photographs you can pan around and zoom into and out of. Viewpoints that extend 270° in some cases. Presently featuring five panoramas from India and four from Austria. You can view them in either the QuickTime or Flash formats.
	DIY section. A simple money belt you can sew yourself costing less than half that of a commercial belt and which lasts 2-5 times as long. Other useful shoestring hints for making life on the road easier and cheaper.
	Other travellers whose sites I like. These sites are a mixture of old and new, with photographers, walkers, cyclists and writers. Throw another log on the fire and keep surfing...

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