Google Earth is a hot topic with millions of downloads recorded. It allows you to see a detailed interactive view of the world. Zoom into regions, countries, even streets from an aerial view.

Before you book your next vacation use Google Earth, combined with our unique file, to check the location:

• Is it near to the beach, Major roads or shopping malls?
• Is there a stadium or national landmark nearby?
• Get the latest road directions from any given point.
• Virtually fly from one destination to the other.
• Plan your vacation itinerary from your living room

When you have the program downloaded and installed come back to this website and simply click on the icon as described below. Google Earth will open with all of the relevant locations.

You only need to download it once because it will automatically update every time you open Google Earth, provided you save when closing the program and never delete the file from the left-hand menu tree. If that happens, just return to the site and click on the icon again to download the latest file.

How it Works When you have Google Earth installed return to the Holiday Guide Website

Overview of Google Earth

View any location in the world with this spectacular application that gives you a planet's worth of information at your fingertips.

Google Earth is a free application that brings a 3D model of the world to your desktop. After installing the 10MB application, you are presented with a 3D model of the globe, which you can tilt, pan and spin around with your mouse. Using the scroll wheel lets you zoom in and out with an extraordinary level of detail to high-resolution satellite images of hundreds of cities, giving users a birds-eye view of streets, buildings, parks and landmarks.

Click on a link and Google Earth rockets out of your current location and flies you directly to street level of your destination. See what your own house looks like from space. Tilt and zoom to view an elevation of just the destination you are considering visiting.

Like any decent geographical information system, Google Earth combines these bitmap satellite images with vector overlays that represent borders, roads and train lines, and a stack of other information. A broadband connection is a must.

Holiday Guide And Google Earth

• If you do not already have Google Earth installed on your computer then click on the Download Google Earth button.

• If you have Google Earth installed then click on the Aerial View button to open Holiday Guide Google Earth.

Tips on Google Earth

Holiday Guide may be opened in the Google Earth browser by clicking on the Back To Holiday Guide button in any of the red "Rez" markers.

To have Holiday Guide appear in the internal Google Browser select Tools > Options > General and uncheck the "Show web results in external browser."

Controls At A Glance