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Vivek Wagle Editor, lonelyplanet.com

When predators change their minds

This is amazing. A potentially vicious leopard seal in Antarctica decides a photographer can't fend for himself and needs to be fattened up with a couple of penguins. Seriously. It's incredible.

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Colombia's cowboys

Our author Dominic Bonuccelli heads for Colombia to hang out with the vaqueros, photograph their day-to-day life, learn their history and experience their music - like 'the score to a Disney movie about a hummingbird with a crack problem'.

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The ultimate travel shoes?

Vibram Five Fingers. They're the shoes that divide the toes - and the people. Some love their almost bare, feel-the-world support. Others get squeamish about webbing or think they look weird. mike_ travel_too has never worn them, and invites the Thorn Tree forum to throw out some opinions.

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Photo of the day

Ready, aim... We love the archer's speeding arrow in this image, taken in Bhutan by Lonely Planet photographer Johnny Haglund.

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Cuba's architectural highlights

Cuba's known for its music, so it makes sense that novelist Alejo Carpentier described Cuba's architecture as its 'music turned to stone'. Swing along to the beat of Cuba's best buildings.

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