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Roll On Down the Highway

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

route66

While the road trip has always been a stand-by for American travel, dreams of travelling the classic routes like the fabled Route 66, the Pacific Coast Highway, and the Alaska highway seem to have rekindled in recent months.

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  • 6 May 2009
  • 10:05am
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We won the Webby – and you did it!

Vivek Wagle Lonely Planet author

Lonely Planet wins Webby!

What a fantastic surprise. We woke up this morning to learn that we had won the Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Travel Website.  This is exciting for the lonelyplanet.com team. The New York Times has called the Webby ‘the Internet’s highest honor’. And we’re particularly proud of taking home the People’s Voice Award, because that…

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Off-beat adventures in the Middle East

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

Faces of Palestine, from Lonely Planet Flickr group member Hongkiu

Looking for some inspiration for your next adventure in the Middle East? Here are some recent videos from talented members of our Lonely Planet TV community.

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  • 30 April 2009
  • 11:28am
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Swine flu: the traveller's view

Vivek Wagle Lonely Planet author

UPDATE 5 (12 June 2009): The WHO has now declared swine flu a ‘pandemic’. What does this mean? My colleague Adam explains it all in this post. _______ UPDATE 4 (29 May 2009): The initial panic over swine flu has now subsided. While the flu will continue spreading, its effects are limited. An Australian who…

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Senior Gap Year

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

montmartre

Older travellers often put a shine on their ‘golden years’ by exploring the world, seeing and doing stuff they’d postponed or getting back into the swing of it now the kids have left!

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Travel is still good for you, right?

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

How do you manage caution and adventure?

Along with everyone else, the Lonely Planet traveller community is cautiously watching the news surrounding the spread of Swine Flu. But discovering the world is still food for the mind and soul, isn’t it?

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Elephant encounters

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

Snapped by Lonely Planet Flickr group member Alikana

We’re constantly amazed by the breadth of posts on the Thorn Tree forum and love that our community members are sporting enough to field even the most unusual travel questions. One recent standout thread asked a question about elephants in Thailand… with a twist.

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Welcome to your new Community homepage

Venessa Paech Lonely Planet author

Students in Zimbabwe, snapped by Lonely Planet Flickr group member Emma Kinsella

Welcome to your new Community homepage and… drumroll… the return of the Lonely Planet Community blog (dramatic flourish!)

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  • 21 April 2009
  • 3:57pm
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Lonely Planet guidebook maps are online

hoetmerk Lonely Planet author

Hi – I’m Ken, the guy in charge of digital maps at Lonely Planet. If you’ve ever used Google maps to research a far-flung travel destination, you will have discovered, to your dismay, that they often look rather sparse. Perhaps they look like this. If you’re extremely unlucky, you will even have encountered the dreaded…

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  • 16 April 2009
  • 5:29pm
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Help us Webby it up!

Vivek Wagle Lonely Planet author

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We’ve been nominated for a Webby! And we need your help. What’s a Webby? Well, it’s kind of like the Oscars for the web. Webbies have been handed out for 13 years now. They started out when there was barely an Internet, and they’ve grown to be pretty prestigious – well, at least for web…

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