Tips & articles
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Best places to get married - and best places to go after a break up!
19 July 2010
From the giddy heights of romance and commitment to the best places to be miserable and alone, we’ve got places...
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Head for the hills: the India of the Raj
15 July 2010
It’s Mumbai in July, and the air is so thick that even the ever-diligent auto rickshaw drivers are disinclined to...
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Mumbai: the city that has it all
13 July 2010
Mumbai is big. It’s full of dreamers and hard-labourers, actors and gangsters, stray dogs and exotic birds, artists and servants...
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Uncovering the best beaches of Goa
13 July 2010
In a diminutive state seemingly so tightly packed with beachfront development, it’s astoundingly easy to escape the tourist crowds and...
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Travelling through windows
31 May 2010
An ancient proverb states that eyes are the windows of the soul. Here I want to give examples of how...
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Where to go in May
14 April 2010
Planning to go tripping in May? In an extract from the January 2010 issue of Lonely Planet Magazine, we’ve got...
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Best beaches to swing a hammock
08 April 2010
Ahh, your own place in the sun. In this excerpt from Lonely Planet’s 1000 Ultimate Experiences, we show how to...
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Top 10 places to go skinny-dipping
18 March 2010
Loosen your buttons & shake off your inhibitions with this extract from Lonely Planet’s 1000 Ultimate Experiences: our rundown of...
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Best beaches to swing a hammock
17 March 2010
Dreaming of your own place in the sun? In this excerpt from Lonely Planet’s 1000 Ultimate Experiences, we take you...
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London to Beijing by high-speed train
10 March 2010
Okay, okay, maybe not just yet. But according to a report in the Telegraph, China is in negotiations to build...
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Staff favourites
26 February 2010
This week the staff of Lonely Planet have been writing unashamed love letters to their favourite destinations - what they...
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Staff favourites: Trent's India
25 February 2010
It’s no secret that here at Lonely Planet we love to travel. We all develop soft spots for particular destinations,...
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Holi: the Festival of Colours
24 February 2010
The most boisterous of Hindu festivals, Holi waves goodbye to winter and welcomes in spring in a rainbow of colours....
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Short changed
18 January 2010
A lesson in how not to change money on the road.Shane and I traipsed our way overland from Australia to...
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Flamingo-spotting made easy
13 January 2010
The flamingo, with its sunrise plumage and dancer’s moves, is the kind of bird that travellers cross the world to...
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Cities - so misunderstood (update)
12 January 2010
Wow - the original version of this article, entitled ‘Cities You Really Hate’ and published on 9 October, certainly ruffled...
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Top spots for a medical adventure
04 December 2009
Want it modified, enhanced, drilled out, implanted or just plain alleviated? Whatever your bodily need, there’s a place for you.IndiaWith...
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Best things to do in 2010
27 November 2009
Rest up while you can, dear travellers, because 2010 is going to be an action-packed year!Total eclipse from Easter IslandSunday...
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Best-value destinations for 2010
20 November 2009
Looking for the latest buck-stretching destinations? We’ve got the pick of them, fresh from Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2010...
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YOUR top 10 countries for 2010
19 November 2009
A couple of weeks ago, we published our list of hot destinations for 2010.You sure had a lot to say!...
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Best travel boasts, myths & legends
02 October 2009
Wasted tales, India Any travel tale that starts with ‘When I was in Goa‘ is bound to end with ‘we...
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India's Festival of the Lights
24 September 2009
Divali, the Festival of the Lights, is one of the happiest, brightest spots on the Indian calendar, full of marigolds...
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