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
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
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
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.
