General

Travelers' Health

An excellent site by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control explaining how you should prepare for the trip.

Medicine Planet

A heath site specifically for travellers.

Eco Travels in South America

An excellent site featuring tales of travel with an ecological bent.

South American Explorers

This non-profit group is widely recognized as the best overall source of travel information about South and/or Central America. They have clubhouses in Lima, Peru & Quito, Ecuador, providing members with reliable, up-to-date information on trip planning and travel conditions. They also sell maps and guidebooks.

Sanborn's

Sanborn's specializes in Mexican and Central American travel. They offer insurance and guidebooks for drivers.

learn spanish

A commercial site featuring a commercial CD-based Spanish course (for $165) as well as a free (limited) online tutorial. Worth checking out if you plan to learn Spanish but haven't started studying yet.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

A great collection of scanned maps in the public domain.

Omnimap

An excellent source for road maps of all of the countries we'll be travelling through.

Internet Café Guide

A list of internet cafes in well over 130 countries. Invaluable for finding email access in the middle of nowhere. (This guide is also available as a printed book, available from this site.)

Travelogues

Kevin & Heather's Excellent Adventure!

One couple's techno-scrapbook of their trip through Central and North America. Includes lots of wonderful photos.

The Long Drive to South America (and Back!)

Two brothers drove a Toyota 4Runner from San Francisco, California to Tierra del Fuego and back, between March 9 and July 15, 1996. This site includes some great tips and photos.

No Sex 'til Santiago

One man's less-than-sultry journey across the continent.

Shipping

American Presidents Line (APL)

Dan Stephens

Darién Gap

Outback of Beyond Adventures

This is the web site for a couple who made the first all-land crossing of the Darién Gap by motor vehicle. They publish a guidebook to crossing the Gap. You can read a brief summary of their adventure entitled 'Sand Ship Discovery in the Darién Gap.'

Argentina

CIA Factbook: Argentina

Ushuaia, below 54° South

Tierra del Fuego's official tourism site.

Córdoba Weather Center

Tierra del Fuego current weather (in Spanish, and degrees centigrade.)

South to Patagonia: Lyle Lovett on the Road from Ensenada

Microsoft's Mungo Park puts Lyle Lovett on a motorcycle travelling south.

Argentina Volkswagen Club

A group of Volkswagen owners based in Buenos Aires. At least one member owns a 1986 Westfalia Wolfsburg edition.

Belize

CIA Factbook: Belize

Belize Explorer

The website of the Belize Tourism Industry Association for the Cayo district.

Brasil

CIA Factbook: Brazil

Viva Brazil!

A huge tri-lingual 'virtual trip to brazil'.

Foz do Iguaçu

Located near the junction of Argentina, Brasil & Paraguay is the world's biggest falls (as measured by volume). 30,000 cubic meters of water a second falls over the approximately 400 falls at Iguaçu.

Chile

CIA Factbook: Chile

Chile Information Project

A great online resource about Chile.

Colombia

CIA Factbook: Colombia

Destination Colombia

Lonely Planet's guide to Colombia.

Republic of Colombia

A guide to the country by the Latin-American Student Organization.

World Heritage Sites in Colombia

A list of world heritage sites and links to more information.

Ecuador

CIA Factbook: Ecuador

Guatemala

CIA Factbook: Guatemala

Guatemala Web

A good english-language resource to the country.

Mexico

CIA Factbook: Mexico

Travels With Crazo

A Baja California travelogue.

Peru

CIA Factbook: Peru

Machu Picchu

Contains some practical information and some beautiful photos done in April 1997.

Venezuela

CIA Factbook: Venezuela

Caracas Jeep's Club

Friends in this group may accompany us for a short while out of Caracas on our route South.

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last modified January 15, 2001