Helpful Travel Links

Bloomberg Currency Calculator

• Calculate exchange rates for more than 200 currencies.

Passports - Passport Information

• Need to renew an old passport? Need a new one? This government site has all the information to help you get a passport.

Fodors Travel Guide

• A guide to places all over the world. Find great shopping, restaurants, and what there is to do in each city.

Focus - Travel Photos Guide

• Get valuable photo tips to help record your vacation on film.

The World FactBook - Get the Facts

• All you want to know about any place in the world. Facts from the CIA fact book.

TimeTicker - International Time Converter

• Explore time zones around the world and set your computer's time clock.

TravelLang - Learn a New Language

• Get free language lessons. You can access translating dictionaries in more than 70 languages. There are also audio files so that you can hear the pronunciation.

Mapquest

• Find out where you are and where you want to go and how to get there. Even get up to the minute traffic reports for more than 60 cities.

Oanda Money Exchange

• Find out the current exchange rate for any currency. You can even print out wallet-sized "cheat sheets" for rates between two currencies.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

• Information about vaccinations and info on preventing illnesses – a government agency and leading authority on travel health around the world.

ZVS - Visa Information

• This site will tell you all visa requirements, cost involved. You can even print out applications for visas (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to print)

Online Conversion

• Temperature Conversion Tool

WMO Members - Weather Worldwide

• This site not only gives you the current weather forecast, but also the average weather year around for anywhere in the world.