Pacific Travel Stories

Dec 20, 2010 • 3 min read

Nothing makes a drink taste better than sitting in an alien's lap while you have it, right? Come with us on a global tour of the world's trippiest bars.

Dec 2, 2010 • 4 min read

Planet Earth, BBC's award-winning documentary brought together some of the most stunning nature footage from over 200 locations in 62 countries. The…

Dec 1, 2010 • 5 min read

At times while watching films you'll notice the main character isn't human. You'll realise that the destination where the film is set is your hero (or…

Nov 24, 2010 • 6 min read

When you're engaged in a perpetual battle for the bums of some of the world's richest people on your seats you've got to pull out all the stops. So when…

Nov 9, 2010 • 3 min read

Work - exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.

Nov 1, 2010 • 5 min read

OK, so it's old news that Oprah Winfrey is coming to Australia to film a few episodes for the next (and final) season of her eponymous talk show. For…

Oct 4, 2010 • 3 min read

Strike up a conversation with an Australian abroad and you’ll inevitably uncover a national quirk: the obsessive quest for a 'decent' coffee. It will…

Sep 24, 2010 • 3 min read

Just as the climate changes from south to north in New Zealand, so do the local speciality foods of each region. Chefs carefully seek the very best and…

Sep 23, 2010 • 3 min read

Lonely Planet's New Zealand guidebook is full of great ways to cover the whole of this surprisingly large country.

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…

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 22, 2010 • 4 min read

Every so often we all get that unmistakable itch to flee the city. Lonely Planet author Sarah Wintle picks the best weekend breaks and out-of-town…

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…

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 8, 2010 • 2 min read

The turn of a new decade leads to inevitable reflection.  So we turned to our founders, authors and travel editors to see what they thought of travel in…

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…

Oct 29, 2009 • 3 min read

With Halloween and Day of the Dead fast approaching, it's only natural that our thoughts turn to subjects spooky and supernatural. Kids running around in…

Sep 8, 2009 • 9 min read

Travellers learn to grab forty winks in some pretty taxing situations: overnight bus trips, hostel rooms of 15 snorers, humid places with no air-con. But…