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Travellers' Checks
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lots of useful links to help you plan your escape |
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page two |
| The
Basics |
Working
Overseas |
| journey planner |
Volunteering |
| Red
Tape & Visas |
Sustainable backpacking |
| Travel
Health |
Low-carbon Travel - The Debate |
| Weather |
Trees |
| Maps |
Greener
Guidebooks |
| Events
& Festivals |
Kit
& Photography |
| News
& Radio stations |
Some other sites we like...
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| Communication |
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| Working
Overseas |
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Working overseas
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Holds your hand
a bit but lots of information on working overseas and gap-year
travel generally
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Scuba diving
qualifications
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All your 'Big
Blue' fantasies in one handy
website.
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| Guide to Australia's working holiday visa |
A good guide to the red tape of finding work in Australia |
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Jobs in Australia
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Oz based backpackers'
site with a great database of job agencies and info on visas
etc
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Guide to New zealand's working holidays scheme
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Info on NZ working holiday visas and IRD (tax) numbers
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Jobs in New Zealand
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Kiwi job site. Lots of job opportunities plus info on visas, IRD (tax) numbers and CVs
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| Teaching
English as a Foreign Language |
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CELTA -
the teaching qualification
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Probably
the most recognised teaching qualification
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following websites feature advice for teachers and students
of English including ideas for
lessons and job opportunities around the world
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Dave's ESL
cafe
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TEFL Professional
Network
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Transitions
Abroad
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| Teaching materials |
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| Volunteering |
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Ethical Volunteering |
Is your volunteering programme going to be of value to the community you're working with? |
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Guide to ethical volunteering |
7 questions to help you find out |
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World Wide
Opportunities on Organic
Farms
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Voluneering opportunities
on organic farms across the globe
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Wwoofing and organic farming |
A comprehensive guide to all things organic |
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GoNomad:
US-based alternative travel site
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US based, general
travel site with lots of volunteering opportunities
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GoNomad's
mini-guide to volunteering
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A handy guide
for anyone considering volunteering
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The United
Nations's volunteering site
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United Nations
volunteering opportunities
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Volunteer your
skills online from home
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Translating articles,
researching data, mentoring young people and more, from your
own computer. What
a great idea!
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Volunteering
in the UK
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Projects across
the UK for those bitten by the
volunteering bug
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Voluntary
Service Overseas
(VSO)
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VSO: Volunteering
with the international development charity
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| Sustainable backpacking |
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Tourism Concern
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Featuring campaigns
to highlight exploitation in the tourism industry and packed
with information on responsible tourism
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National
Geographic site
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A comprehensive
links section on sustainable tourism
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Ethical travel
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Working with
the tourism industry to strengthen human rights and protect
the environment
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Responsible Travel
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Source holidays with responsible tour operators and hotels |
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The Responsible
Tourism Partnership
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Working to improve
destinations for local people and visitors
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The
Cape Town Declaration
on Sustainable Tourism
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The 2002 Cape
Town Declaration
from The Responsible
Tourism Partnership
and Western Cape
Tourism, South
Africa
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Responsible skiing and climbing |
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The International
Porter Protection
Group
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Working to improve
the lives of mountain porters worldwide
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Respect the Mountain |
Excellent UK-based sustainable skiing site |
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Ski Area Citizens |
US-based Sustainable skiing site featuring environmental 'scorecards' for resorts |
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| Low-carbon Travel |
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To fly or not to fly? that really has become the question. The sites below cover the argument from 'No, Never!' to 'If you must but offset your carbon emissions'. Unfortunately, 'yes, and bugger the consequences' just isn't an option anymore. Have a look at some of the sites below and check out our introduction to the issue.
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is carbon offsetting just hot air? |
an article from the UK's Guardian newspaper featuring an excellent green products and services directory |
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Plane stupid |
UK-based anti-flying, anti-airport activists |
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Loco2 - Low Carbon Travel Adventures |
Lots of great ideas for low-carbon backpacking - including flight-free festival travel |
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Helping you because you can't help yourself |
If you have trouble being faithful, offset your infidelilities here |
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Round the world - overland |
Futerra.com Ed Gillespie's low-carbon blog |
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| Greening your flight - Trees |
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WWF - The
Global Trees
Campaign
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10% of the world's tree species are threatened
with extinction
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Soundwood - Make
music, conserve trees
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Over 200 species
of tree are used to make musical instruments. 70 of these
species are under threat
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Tree 2 my door
- sustainable gifts
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Unique sustainable
gifts, including the very cool 'EcoSphere'
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Trees
for cities
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An urban tree-planting
and community 'greening' project
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| Kit
& Photography |
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Security gear
for your rucksack
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Lots of innovative
ideas to protect your kit
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Photographic
equipment
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Bags and accesories
to protect your camera equipment
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Jessop's photography
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Camera equipment
and accesories
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other sites we like |
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The Connected
Traveller
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US based travel
site with video and a bizarre radio station
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World travellers
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Air, rail and
ferry info oragnised around a large links page
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EditRED |
A writer's community site designed to help writers develop and publish their work. |
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Songlines magazine
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Excellent world
music magazine
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Blue Flag
- Clean Beaches
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Eco-label awarded
to clean beaches across Europe,
South Africa
and the Caribbean
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Slow Food
- global cuisine
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"Protecting
the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of fast
food and life." Great idea
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Tramping in New
Zealand & the UK
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A personal and
authoritative guide to tramping in New
Zealand and the UK
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Karmabanque
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Social protest
through capitalism! Now there's
a shock.
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Zenzibar
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Alternative
culture site featuring lots of alternative travel ideas
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Creative
Commons
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Free your...
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Open Source
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...thoughts.
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Metropolis Tokyo
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Excellent online
listings magazine for Japan -
in English
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