It's been over two millennia since an official set of "Seven Wonders of the World" were defined, Astrodomes and other eighth wonders aside. Now, the New 7 Wonders campaign is asking the world's people to vote on a new list of wonders to be announced on 7 July 2007. The project aims to raise awareness and funds for heritage preservation. The Monkey knows his favorites: what about yours? 10 June 2007
The Monkey isn't the only monkey on a globe-spanning mission!
Nate's Sock Monkey Hub
Meet Nate, one of a plethora of traveling sock monkeys (yes, monkeys made out of socks). Nate has quite a bit of travel under his belt!
The Legendary Exploits of Lucius M. Monkey
This expansive website features the travels and tales of Lucius M. Monkey and his sock monkey friends. Lucius has some great photos.
Terry, the Lucky Travel Monkey
Terry the Lucky Travel Monkey has seen a number of places in East Asia and the western United States. Pay this little guy's site a visit!
Pablo the Monkey
Pablo is a sock monkey who has spanned the globe. His photos are stored in a human travel forum called RealTravel.
Sock Monkey's Homepage
This sock monkey's site features info on his pal's rock band, and also contains a valuable link to information about how to assemble your own sock monkey.
You've met the Monkey's Schlepp friends, but check out these other on-the-road ursines!
Wellington's World
Wellington is a Schlepp who really gets around. Read his story and see his pictures from around the world.
Travel Schlepp
This Schlepp from Oregon has been involved in global arms control and nonproliferation efforts. Way to go, Travel Schlepp!
ArnieTravels
Arnie the Bear has been to every continent and over 30 countries!
L.J. Bear
L.J. Bear has visited a number of destinations, from Norway to New Zealand.
Travelling Bears
This family of teddies hail from Ireland, and they've put together an impressive collection of travel photos.
Frimpong the Bear
Frimpong is English, but feels himself a citizen of the world. He travels to meet different photographers who snap his picture around the world.
Nounours
Nounours is a French teddy bear with a webcam of its own, plus occasional travel photos.
Beyond monkeys and bears, there are lots of other traveling animals and odd little creatures circling the globe!
Willy Puchner's Penguins
Austrian artist Willy Puchner took a pair of penguins on a number of travels, documenting their experiences in some wornderful photographs.
Spud's Travels
Spud is a Mr. Potato Head doll and long-time traveller (since 1985!) who has really been around—even to Easter Island.
The Fabulous Adventures of Mr. Wombat
A furry little fellow from down under, Mr. Wombat has a great collection of travel photographs.
Bud's Travels
Bud is a mannequin who has been traveling since 1983, and must be one of the largest travellers of this variety out there. He has some pretty amazing pictures.
Travel Pig
Travel Pig documents the travels of over 20 pigs who accompany dozens of humans on trips around the world.
Pandas on Tour
This site lets you follow the world travels of two cuddly panda bears. They've been quite a few places!
The Adventures of Mini-Psycho and Mini-Seek
Mix a Japanese rock group, some tiny action figures, and lots of volunteer photographers, and you end up with this website.
Nodding Dogs On Tour
Those little nodding head dogs you see in cars have finally broken out of the autos and onto the travel stage. Bizarre.
Wackeldackel.com (More Nodding Dogs)
The nodding/bobble head dogs have a sister site run from Germany with even more canine adventures.
Gnomar
Gnomar is a traveling garden gnome whose site features an almost daily update.
Gnomads.net
This site is dedicated to tracking the travels of a bunch of tiny gnome statues. You can register and start your own gnomadic adventure.
Dinosaur Bob
Dinosaur Bob follows the adventures of a green traveling dinosaur who has unfortunately gone missing.
The Adventures of Jean Luc Picard
If you thought Captain Picard only explored space and the occasional highly interactive hologram, think again.
Truly miscellaneous traveling objects.
Cheese On Tour
A community of cheese-lovers have built this homage to their favorite food, complete with a multitude of photos of different cheeses in famous places.
Beans Around the World
Cheese isn't the only traveling food. Two friends turned a back-and-forth about beans into a project to document the far-flung travels of a can of beans.
These sites feature other interesting approaches to travel photography.
Flat Stanley Project
An educational project begun in Canada, Flat Stanley is a paper cut-out that volunteers take photos of in places around the world. View the Picture Gallery!
Beer Can Bob
A bit like Flat Stanley with more licentious ends, Bob is a cut-out that users attach to beer cans and then photograph in a variety of settings.
Phoons
A phoon is a comical, running man pose that humans on this website have struck in places all over the planet. Why not add your own?
The Varieties of the Balloon Hat Experience
Photographers Addi Somekh and Charlie Eckert have traveled the world making balloon hats for people and taking their portraits. A clever and beautiful human interaction.
Crazy Kent
What makes Kent crazy, you may ask? Well, mostly it's that his travel photography always takes place with him inside a specially designed garbage can backpack. Just check it out...
Parking Spots
This project has user-submitted photos of miniature cars next to the real thing, in settings from around the world.
Signs of Life
Strange and often poorly phrased signs from different corners of our planet. Sometimes baffling and other times oddly illuminating, this site's photos are worth a look.
Flickr Group: Travelling Toys
There are many more images of traveling animals and objects in this photo pool on the photo-sharing site, Flickr.
This is a limited selection of NGOs the Monkey supports. He will be expanding this list soon.
http://www.barganews.com/gnomes
The home page of a European Gnome sanctuary.
http://www.amnesty.org
Website of the venerable human rights group Amnesty International.
http://www.human rightswatch.org
The New York-based Human Rights Watch is another leading global human rights organization.
http://www.peta.org
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spearheads campaigns against animal rights-violating practices and industries. The Monkey is understandably a big fan.
http://www.wildaid.org
WildAid is leading the fight against the highly destructive illegal trade in animals. When the buying stops, the killing can too.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/
Greenpeace is one of the premier environmental conservation groups in the world.
http://www.rsf.org/
This group monitors press freedom and threats against journalists worldwide.
http://www.un.org
The United Nations is active on countless fronts, and collects data and issues reports on a wealth of global topics.
A few musical websites the Monkey enjoys.
Kraftwerk
The Monkey's very favorite band also has one of the best websites on the net.
Ted Huntington's Songs
Ted Huntington is an internet maverick. The Monkey respects that. This link takes you to free downloads of his stellar songcraft.
Songs To Wear Pants To
Do have a weird idea for a song you wish someone would write? Songs To Wear Pants To can make that happen for you.
No particular rhyme or reason here. Just some fun websites.
Bzzzpeek
Learn how to make animal sounds and traffic noises in different languages. Audio contributions sought.
Your One Stop Jodie Shop
This website brings you everything you need to know about Jodie Sweetin, the actress who brought Stephanie Tanner to life on TV's Full House.
A Post Card for World Peace
This global project asks users to send a post card for peace. All post cards received are displayed on the site.
Where Is George?
This strange site lets you track the journeys of that U.S. or Canadian dollar bill you've got. So, you can know where your money's been, after all!
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