Trip Around the World!

Start here -- LonelyPlanet Lots of useful travel info; there are also some videos to watch. Click on the map, or on Find a destination

For more information

Fodor's "For choice travel experiences."
Frommer's "The best trips start here."

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Pictures

Getty Images A huge collection of images
Panoramia Use a world map to select pictures of place
Corbis Wonderful storehouse of pictures

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Music

World Music from the BBC
Virtual Instrument Museum: search by geographic region

World Music Network Click on image to get in; search for your country; click on the name of the song to listen to the music

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Videos and TV

Start here -- Blinkx Many videos

LinkTV you can find television programs by region

Mediascrape Internet Broadcast News Network

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Food

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Languages

BBC News in 32 Languages

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Dance

Dance Style Locator

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Maps

Maps from Google -- pretty amazing!

Want to get Web sites just from a particular country? Use the Country Codes printout. If I were searching for sites only from Ecuador, for example, my Google search would look like this:

Or you could add a common word like hotel.

How to Get to This Page on the Internet

Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
Click on Internet Links
Click on ESL.
Scroll down and under Course-Related Materials, select ESL 253, Z. Dastagir

Z. Dastigar; T. N. Smalley 3/09