Online Travel Tools in Los Cabos & Baja Sur

Online Travel Tools

All About Los Cabos

The best information about ecotourism and environmental issues is at www.planeta.com. Discover Baja, a membership club for Baja travelers, has links and info at www.discoverbaja.com. Links to Los Cabos businesses and other information are available at www.bajalife.com, www.baja-web.com, and www.loscabosguide.com.

Currency Conversion

Google (www.google.com) does currency conversion. Just type in the amount you want to convert and an explanation of how you want it converted (e.g., "14 Swiss francs in dollars"), and then voilà. Oanda.com (www.oanda.com) also allows you to print out a handy table with the current day's conversion rates. XE.com (www.xe.com) is a good currency conversion Web site.

Safety

Transportation Security Administration (TSA;. www.tsa.gov).

Time Zones

Timeanddate.com (www.timeanddate.com/worldclock) provides the correct time for all time zones.

Weather

Accuweather.com (www.accuweather.com) is an independent weather-forecasting service with good coverage of hurricanes. Weather.com (www.weather.com) is the Web site for the Weather Channel.

Other Resources

CIA World Factbook (www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html) has profiles of every country in the world. It's a good source if you need some quick facts and figures.