compassguides.info
your free online travel e-guide resource
your free online travel e-guide resource
Compass Online Travel E-guides was established in 2008 by Jon Mitchell, a vetran foreign correspondent who has travelled widely as a photojournalist. Tired of spending lots of cash on travel guides, he decided to write them for free and publish them on the Internet, using online ads to fund the venture.
At the moment, all the e-guides are written by Jon, though we hope to commission writers to produce more e-guides on a fuller range of destinations in the future and keep them updated.
The concept of an e-guide is simply to publish useful, accurate and practical travel information on various web sites, each on a particular destination or sometimes subject (such as the Night Sky e-guide), which is aimed at astronomers, rather than travellers.
There are many advantage to publishing travel guidebooks on the Internet. One important factor is that information can be updated, offerring better info than any printed guide ever could. Information not uncovered in initial research, can later be added to enhance the guide.
One disadvangtage is maps, which are too costly to add to these guides, though we do link to good map sites on the destination in question whenever possible.
Barcelona (coming soon)
Kathmandu (under construction)
The Night Sky (under construction)
Mount Everest region trekking (Nepal)
Should you want to use any of the images featured on this site, simply click on the link on the credit or the image itself to view the image on a stock photo database and details of how to license the image or visit http://lightroom.momapix.com/