General
An excellent site by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control explaining
how you should prepare for the trip.
A heath site specifically for travellers.
An excellent site featuring tales of travel with an ecological bent.
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 specializes in Mexican and Central American travel. They
offer insurance and guidebooks for drivers.
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.
A great collection of scanned maps in the public domain.
An excellent source for road maps of all of the countries we'll be
travelling through.
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
One couple's techno-scrapbook of their trip through Central and North
America. Includes lots of wonderful photos.
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.
Shipping
Darién Gap
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
Tierra del Fuego's official tourism site.
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.
A group of Volkswagen owners based in Buenos Aires. At least one
member owns a 1986 Westfalia Wolfsburg edition.
Belize
The website of the Belize Tourism Industry Association for the Cayo
district.
Brasil
A huge tri-lingual 'virtual trip to brazil'.
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
A great online resource about Chile.
Colombia
Lonely Planet's guide to Colombia.
A guide to the country by the Latin-American Student Organization.
A list of world heritage sites and links to more information.
Ecuador
Guatemala
Mexico
Peru
Contains some practical information and some beautiful photos done
in April 1997.
Venezuela
Friends in this group may accompany us for a short while out of Caracas
on our route South.
