Lonely Planet blog Category: Staff trips

Healthy holidays – right or wrong?

HeatherC Lonely Planet author

Of all the types of travellers that exist, the one that really irks me is the holier-than-thou “healthy traveller”. I’m talking about the people whose sole purpose in taking a trip is to lose weight and tone up whether it’s getting up at the crack of dawn to do yoga at an ashram in India or…

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Tamales: America’s oldest Christmas food

Andy Murdock Lonely Planet author

New Mexico is my kind of state. Every American state has its boring official state motto, bird, and rock – but any state that has an official state question is clearly an interesting place, particularly when the question is “Red or green?” (asking you to state your chile color preference). And don’t spell it “chili”…

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