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Oct 13, 2011 • 4 min read

If you haven't yet visited the Napa or Sonoma Valley, you might assume the area was covered with clusters of red and white grapes lazily stretching out…

Oct 10, 2011 • 4 min read

The town was quiet. Tour buses with curly, girly lettering on the side advertising Twilight tours were parked, idle and empty, in the gas station parking…

Sep 26, 2011 • 4 min read

You don't need to know the history of the Catholic Church to appreciate a cathedral. And you equally don't need to understand 5000 years of Chinese…

Sep 26, 2011 • 3 min read

There's nothing like decades of martial law to make a community long for the good times. For the residents of Kinmen Island, a frontline in the defence…

Sep 26, 2011 • 4 min read

10/10/2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China. Although deposed from mainland China in 1949, the ROC government still controls Taiwan …

Sep 10, 2011 • 3 min read

There’s a place in Penang, south of Little India in Georgetown, where you can find good food, sport on the TV, a pretty temple and somewhere around the…

Sep 2, 2011 • 3 min read

Wills and Kate didn’t invite you to their big day? Don’t be down heartened. Instead let us tell you about a place where royalty –as well as a few village…

Aug 26, 2011 • 4 min read

Lonely Planet editorial intern Soumya Rao hails from Hyderabad, India. So we asked her to write an article about how travellers can get to the heart of…

Aug 23, 2011 • 5 min read

It can be hard to think of Sydney as anything other than a bastion of delicate pleasures and devil-may-care whimsy.  But for the history nerds out there,…

Aug 18, 2011 • 3 min read

The island of Elba, the largest in the Tuscan Archipelago, is a 260km drive and 15km ferry ride north of Rome. In July and August, the population density…

Aug 11, 2011 • 3 min read

In the remote southern Italian region of Basilicata is the unique and ancient cave-city of Matera, famous for its sassi (stone houses carved out of the…

Aug 10, 2011 • 10 min read

If you do much travel in the USA, particularly by road, you WILL at some point make it through central Oklahoma, where I grew up and went to college. I…

Aug 8, 2011 • 4 min read

Who would've thought we could look to the humble postcard as a means of tracking the changes in both travel and popular culture? And where would our…

Aug 5, 2011 • 6 min read

Yoga in India, cooking in Vietnam - in this extract from Lonely Planet's 1000 Ultimate Experiences, we find those 10 iconic experiences that are as…

Aug 3, 2011 • 6 min read

One-off imaginations have turned these gardens into offbeat wonderlands. Get your green on and go wandering!

Aug 1, 2011 • 6 min read

All you Cinderellas and Prince Charmings: you will go to the ball, at one of Europe's grandly fortified fantasies.

Jul 25, 2011 • 7 min read

In 2009 Lonely Planet sent South Pacific author Celeste Brash to remote Pitcairn Island, the first guidebook author to visit since Tony Wheeler’s trip 10…

Jul 22, 2011 • 3 min read

Though other countries hog all the fairytale glory, Austria does not lack for castles. In fact, for the intrepid traveller, there are many castles to…

Jul 21, 2011 • 6 min read

Tourism, political instability and urban development threaten some of our greatest natural and cultural history – do your bit for preservation and…

Jul 20, 2011 • 4 min read

Sightseeing may be enough for other cities, but Sigmund Freud's hometown demands further exploration. Like a waking dream, Vienna stimulates all three…

Jul 6, 2011 • 7 min read

Fashion, food and music all take their cues from the past, so why not a little travel with a vintage twist? Here’s our down-the-years guide to yesterdays…

Jun 28, 2011 • 3 min read

Despite its chilly (okay, freezing) winters, Canada's summers are a sunny delight with gorgeous scenery, lively cities and festivals inviting you to make…