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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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