Aug 27, 2010 • 2 min read
It's that time of the week, where we ask our worldly Lonely Planet editors what's making travel news in their corners of the globe.
Aug 27, 2010 • 2 min read
It's that time of the week, where we ask our worldly Lonely Planet editors what's making travel news in their corners of the globe.
Aug 13, 2010 • 4 min read
Hong Kong is a city where high finance meets high fashion, and mega deals are closed in soaring skyscrapers. But if you look beyond the glass and steel,…
Aug 11, 2010 • 4 min read
Eating can be the best part of travelling. To get you inspired, here are some of the world's most mouth-watering iconic national dishes
Aug 10, 2010 • 6 min read
Want it modified, enhanced, drilled out, implanted or just plain alleviated? In this excerpt from Lonely Planet’s 1000 Ultimate Experiences, we show that…
Aug 9, 2010 • 3 min read
So much of travel is about coming face to face with history - literally, in some cases. Introducing six folks who've been preserved - through accident or…
Aug 3, 2010 • 4 min read
Usually people will do anything to get out of jail, but with prison tourism on the rise, folks are now paying to get in. Defunct prisons all over the…
Jul 22, 2010 • 4 min read
It’s all very well spending much of your business trip cooped up in an air-conditioned office, with only the view from the 34th floor window to remind you…
Jul 22, 2010 • 3 min read
You’re bored of boardroom sandwich platters, instant coffee, and water from crushable plastic cups. So forego the usual lunchtime doldrums on your next…
Jul 15, 2010 • 3 min read
It’s Mumbai in July, and the air is so thick that even the ever-diligent auto rickshaw drivers are disinclined to get up from their divans and deliver you…
Jul 13, 2010 • 4 min read
Hot water percolates up out of the ground from one end of Japan to the other. The Japanese word for a hot spring is onsen, and there are more than 3000 of…
Jun 30, 2010 • 3 min read
While in Donegal, Ireland a few years back, my friends and I heard from locals about some impressive cliffs near the fishing port of Killybegs going by…
Jun 15, 2010 • 6 min read
In this excerpt from Lonely Planet's 1000 Ultimate Experiences, we take you to the big-city districts you might not have heard of yet, but they're the…
Apr 8, 2010 • 5 min read
Ahh, your own place in the sun. In this excerpt from Lonely Planet's 1000 Ultimate Experiences, we show how to make like a beach bum and head for the…
Mar 23, 2010 • 3 min read
Think of the Philippines and images of gorgeous beaches and crystal blue seas are sure to spring to mind. Islands such as Boracay and Palawan easily…
Mar 12, 2010 • 4 min read
It's a tough life but someone's gotta do it: flitting between exotic destinations, schmoozing in glam casinos and disposing of baddies without a backwards…
Jan 28, 2010 • 4 min read
Part of travel is coming up against local foods that might raise your eyebrows. Here we take a global trip to those 'wha?!' plates, but remember, as…
Jan 5, 2010 • 6 min read
We've all read a book or watched a movie and wished the places it transported us to were real. Some of the most enduring destinations are fictional. Well…
Nov 11, 2009 • 2 min read
Sitting in Yuri Gagarin's chair? Check. Watching a rocket launch? Check. Exploring a Soviet blast from the past? Check. Then you must be in Baikonur, in…
Nov 11, 2009 • 1 min read
If Ghenghis Khan were alive today he’d be riding on 220cc! The most fun you can have with your clothes on, bouncing around on a dune buggy is an…
Oct 17, 2009 • 2 min read
I had been told to look out for the orangutans. Those cheeky chimps at the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Borneo could nab a hat or pinch a…
Sep 24, 2009 • 1 min read
Divali, the Festival of the Lights, is one of the happiest, brightest spots on the Indian calendar, full of marigolds and sweets and fireworks. Having…
Sep 21, 2009 • 2 min read
Wherever you glance in China, you enter the through-the-mirror world of Chinglish. You may at first be confused by a sign that says 'Be Seated Defecate',…