Travelogue

Jun 21, 2020 • 6 min read

Guided by a research project covering his home state of Indiana, travel writer Kevin Raub visited many of the sites he overlooked as a kid.

Jun 17, 2020 • 8 min read

Here's what it's like to move to Paris and stay at Shakespeare and Company bookstore.

Jun 16, 2020 • 7 min read

A look back at some of the friendships made during 12 years of Lonely Planet magazine.

Jun 12, 2020 • 14 min read

Travel writer Carson Vaughan takes a cruise up the Inside Passage on the Alaska Marine Highway System.

Jun 10, 2020 • 13 min read

Thirteen Lonely Planet writers reveal the one destination they are longing to get back to when they can travel again.

Jun 4, 2020 • 10 min read

Traveler, Abongi Gael Bokongo, shares how fleeing a civil war with his family shaped how he travels the world.

May 30, 2020 • 6 min read

Travel writer Bailey Freeman reflects on her last trip, and how a journey that was cut short by COVID-19 might actually help get her through the pandemic and…

May 9, 2020 • 5 min read

A trip to the French capital just days before lockdown had one writer thinking about city breaks past, present and future.

May 4, 2020 • 8 min read

Dog-eared and wrinkled editions of travel guidebooks have mapped new paths for travelers around the globe, but they've also changed the world in surprising…

Apr 30, 2020 • 6 min read

A writer attempts to return to Italy from Peru upon learning that his parents had passed away from COVID-19.

Apr 28, 2020 • 5 min read

“This time it will be harder to say goodbye. Parting will be difficult,” Shyamal, my father, said, as we munched on dosas in a crowded cafeteria.

Apr 24, 2020 • 9 min read

The hummingbirds are coming. A travel writer muses on being stuck at home and managing her urge to go.

Apr 24, 2020 • 5 min read

Duncan Garwood has spent 15 years travelling around Italy for Lonely Planet. Here he explains why he is not giving up on this wonderful country, and you…

Apr 24, 2020 • 15 min read

Carolyn Swindell finds out that small things really do matter in Buenos Aires.

Apr 21, 2020 • 3 min read

Travel writer Hanna Summers revisits her campervan trip in Scotland, and the beach that changed her life.

Apr 17, 2020 • 9 min read

After desperately wanting to be alone, a chance encounter in a remote town restores the writer's faith in humanity.

Apr 8, 2020 • 6 min read

Quarantined in Peru with his family still in Italy, this is Marco Ferrarese's harrowing experience of life in lockdown.

Mar 27, 2020 • 7 min read

How one writer made her home in Vietnam's most famous street.

Mar 24, 2020 • 6 min read

Stranded on an Antarctic cruise ship due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Edwina Hart shares her experience of life on board. 

Mar 23, 2020 • 6 min read

Sailor Brian Thompson, who has circumnavigated the world solo, shares his advice on self-isolating during the coronavirus crisis. 

Mar 21, 2020 • 9 min read

In our series rediscovering great travel essays, TC Boyle recounts his first time living abroad in Ireland.

Mar 13, 2020 • 8 min read

With more countries introducing lockdown measures to control the spread of coronavirus, we asked three people living in Italy to share their experiences.