Planning a trip to Bali? Utah? How about Peru? You can prepare for any of them by watching videos at Travelistic, a new site that aims to be the "YouTube of travel." (You're no one these days if you aren't the YouTube of something.) Travelistic has videos made by professional producers, tourist boards and ordinary guys with videocams, along with the usual social networking tools of tags, ratings, comments, favorites, maps -- and, as you can see below, it's easy to embed the videos into your blog.

An especially nice feature is the Mapify tool, which lets you embed an interactive Google Map into your Web site or blog.

Here's a video from world traveler Habukubu (click to play):