Lonely Planet Community Highlights : Weblog

Lonely Planet launches API!

Posted at 04:54PM Jul 03, 2008 by geekgal

Lonely Planet is pleased to announce we're diving headlong into an exciting new venture of collaboration and innovation destined to make your travelling life bigger and better.

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Category: NewAndImproved | Tags: api community lonelyplanet technology

What is it with those Thorn Tree posters?

Posted at 11:47AM Jun 19, 2008 by geekgal

Ever wondered what makes our famous Thorn Tree forum tick? Check in with some introspective users in our Thread of the Day.

Peru Community Project

Posted at 06:35AM Jun 02, 2008 by geekgal

Feel like taking a trip that makes a difference?

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Category: Events | Tags: aid building community peru tour volunteering

Thorn Tree members interview Lonely Planet author

Posted at 06:10AM May 29, 2008 by geekgal

Last Friday author Frances Linzee Gordon spent some time in Lonely Planet headquarters answering questions from Lonely Planet's online community, with the help of the LonelyPlanet.tv and Community crew. Check out her answers!

Frances Linzee Gordon answers your questions

Posted at 11:46PM May 25, 2008 by geekgal

Travel writer Frances Linzee Gordon has faced her most challenging experience yet. No, not bandits, or wildebeasts, but questions from you, our Lonely Planet online community.

Who needs a guidebook?

Posted at 05:56AM May 23, 2008 by geekgal

Is the guidebook doomed? Is it possible to write one without some sort of cultural bias?

Long time Thorn Tree poster Fieldgate prefers to eschew the printed word when travelling, and they've prompted an interesting discussion about the role of guidebooks for the modern wanderer.

How to make an 'encounter' video

Posted at 07:21AM May 07, 2008 by geekgal

A place is as much about the sights as the characters you meet. Check out this video by Lonelyplanet.tv member Lauren (one of our favourite talented contributors) which follows a local NYC character on a Big Apple tour.

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Category: TravellerVideos | Tags: community new-york traveller video

Show us your travel polaroids and WIN!

Posted at 07:28AM May 06, 2008 by geekgal

Even in this age of digital gratification, nothing beats polaroids. The saturated colour, the ability to mess with the emulsion, the thrill of watching the image develop - their magic will never pall.

We're inviting you to dust off and share your old travel Polaroids for the chance to win a fab prize (and revel in nostalgia, of course!)

I post, there-forum I am

Posted at 02:08PM May 01, 2008 by geekgal

Today on the Thorn Tree users had a field day getting introspective. Poster JJack raised a terrific pot stirring question about just how efficient a travel forum can be, no matter how well intentioned.

"After reading and posting on this site for around seven odd years, I've come to an uncomfortable conclusion: do not ask anyone's opinion of anything," begins his gauntlet throw.

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Category: ThreadOfTheDay | Tags: community thorntree threadoftheday

Bus ride from hell

Posted at 06:53AM Apr 21, 2008 by geekgal

Alas, travelling isn't all soft focus, pina coladas and blissful memories.

In this Lonely Planet.tv submission, one traveller relives the particular hell that is motoring by bus to Nepal for seven hours (don't worry, the video is only a minute!)

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Category: TravellerVideos | Tags: bus community lptv nepal video

Terminal 5 Rap

Posted at 12:56PM Apr 18, 2008 by geekgal

Had it up to here with Heathrow's Terminal 5? Then you'll love this viral video smash, created by frustrated (and talented) travellers!

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Category: TravellerVideos | Tags: airport community heathrow london video

Backpacking in a blue chair

Posted at 12:09AM Mar 27, 2008 by CarolB

Thorn Tree user wbalenov is also known as Walt Balenovich, North America's Disabled Adventurer. Walt tells us about 'hitch wheeling', flat tires and how he was inspired to write a book while conquering the world.

Silk Road Nomads

Posted at 04:01AM Mar 25, 2008 by CarolB

Meet the Steward family. We dig their moxie! This California quartet left it all behind to journey indefinitely along the Silk Road of High Asia.

Now based in Istanbul, they are fast racking up a tome of adventures that would put Indiana Jones to shame, all the while living a pretty extraordinary life.

We caught up with Stan for a chat.

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Category: CommunityHighlight | Tags: blog community iran silk_road turkey

South American Explorers party for Pick & Mix

Posted at 01:56AM Mar 22, 2008 by CarolB

The South American Explorers Club recently held launch parties to celebrate Lonely Planet's new digital product, Pick & Mix, and a salivating time was had by all!

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Category: Events | Tags: community events food south-america

Sarah Baxter, responsible traveller

Posted at 10:13PM Mar 19, 2008 by G-Woman

Lonely Planet community member Sarah Baxter hopes to encourage greater dialogue on the importance of being more aware when travelling.

To achieve this, she started writing her own travel blog, The Exotic Durian, which examines the good and bad impacts of travelling in Indonesia... [Read More]

Category: CommunityHighlight | Tags: blog community indonesia sustainabletravel

Boogie in Burundi

Posted at 09:57PM Mar 18, 2008 by G-Woman

This video comes from Lonely Planet community members Silvia and Vincenzo - who met online, met in real life, fell in love, then embarked on a life changing trip to Africa.

Toronto lowdown from Broken Social Scene

Posted at 05:28AM Mar 14, 2008 by G-Woman

When travelling, it always helps to ask a local for the inside scoop.

Toronto band Broken Social Scene, part of the Lonely Planet travel family, share some of their townie secrets with us.

Creative Travel

Posted at 03:04AM Mar 14, 2008 by G-Woman

Lonely Planet Community member Elena Paschinger is a passionate traveller who likes to experience a destination as richly as she can.

She tells us how getting in touch with your creative side while travelling can shed a whole new light on your destination (and quite possibly, yourself).

Pick & Mix Launch at SAE Clubhouses

Posted at 03:01AM Mar 13, 2008 by CarolB

This March, all across the continent, South American Explorers clubhouses will host launch parties to celebrate the arrival of Lonely Planet's brand new Pick & Mix downloads.

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Category: Events | Tags: community events south-america

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