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Capture the City Photo Competition: the winner

Andy Murdock Lonely Planet author

When we launched the Capture the City photo competition, we weren’t sure how travellers would respond. After sorting through over 2500 beautiful entries we now know the answer: everyone who entered aimed to make our job of picking a winner as difficult as possible. There just were too many great photos to get our heads…

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Lonely Planet meets Layar: bridging the print-digital divide

admin Lonely Planet author

Once a book is printed, it’s printed – nothing changes without a reprint. But what if you could add contextual digital content to enhance the book with real-time information on the fly? We’re experimenting with just that in partnership with Layar, a free augmented reality app available on Apple iOS and Android devices. To start,…

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Sunrise, sunset: city photos at the golden hour

Chelsea Garecht Lonely Planet author

In travel photography, light can either be your best friend or a horribly mismatched travel companion. The way the light enters and consumes the scene can either enhance or diminish the destination’s beauty. The best travel photographers know how to spot and utilize the ‘right light’, making their photos leap off the page and irresistible…

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Capture the City quiz: can you identify the city from the photo?

Andy Murdock Lonely Planet author

Many of the photos being submitted to our Capture the City photo competition, even if they’re not perfect guidebook cover photos, are really hitting the nail on the head and capturing the essence of the city in the photograph. Photographers are taking different approaches to the challenge: some go for the macro-level wide view of…

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Capture the City: 5 of our favourite photos so far

Andy Murdock Lonely Planet author

Many beautiful photos are being submitted to our Capture the City photo competition, where we’re looking for the photo that best captures the essence of a city and would be perfect for the cover of a Lonely Planet city or pocket city guidebook. It’s a tough challenge: great photos aren’t necessarily great guidebook cover photos.…

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Road Trips: the winning picture

Javier Panero Lonely Planet author

Our independent judge has been busy assessing the final picture selection of our Road Trips photo competition and has now finally reached a verdict. Before we reveal the winning entry, let’s have a look at the 5 runner ups (in no particular order): 1. Top of the World trail in Moab, Utah. Just one of…

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A culinary adventure: the winner

Javier Panero Lonely Planet author

We asked you to tell us what had been your best culinary experience while travelling around the world for a chance to win a tour of Morocco, Tuscany or South America thanks to G Adventures and you duly obliged: we had over 2,500 mouth-watering submissions! Here are some of the best ones: Gap year comfort…

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World Food: the winning picture

Javier Panero Lonely Planet author

We have spent the holiday break reviewing all the submissions to our World Food Facebook picture competition and we are ready to announce the winner! We were very impressed with the array of foods and dishes that you have snapped in your travels – our stomachs were grumbling by the end of the day. Before…

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World Food photos: our top 20 picks

Javier Panero Lonely Planet author

To coincide with the launch of our new Street Food book, we asked you to send the most mouth-watering pictures of food you had encountered in your travels to our Facebook Travel Adventures Competition. The result was overwhelming, with nearly 900 submissions that made our stomach grumble hard with envy. We have now gone through…

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A Moroccan Adventure: the winner

Javier Panero Lonely Planet author

We asked you to tell us what had been your best travel adventure for a chance to win a trip to Morocco (courtesy of Intrepid) and we had an amazing response, with over 3,000 submissions. Your replies showed how some of you do not shy away from a great adventure, like Emma Wheatley, who told…

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