Forget Western Europe: try these great Eastern alternatives
To say that the tourist trail through Western Europe is well-travelled is an understatement. In fact it’s so well-travelled it’s not a mere trail, but …
To say that the tourist trail through Western Europe is well-travelled is an understatement. In fact it’s so well-travelled it’s not a mere trail, but …
In 2009, the travel world was rocked by swine flu and ‘staycations’, but what about 2010? In an extract from Lonely Planet Magazine’s January 2010 …
South Korea’s capital city is transformed every decade by its citizens’ energy and love of the new. Forever morphing into the future, the gung-ho vitality …
Forty years after Neil Armstrong embarked on the ultimate joy-flight to the moon, a whole range of all American adventure outfitters now offer some extraordinary …
A voyage to the Kalahari is akin to catapulting into a parallel universe. It’s a surreal Alice-through-the-looking-glass experience where you feel really small and everything …
1. Singapore Airlines’ double-bed suites When you’re engaged in a perpetual battle for the bums of some of the world’s richest people on your seats …
Nobody does tea better than the Chinese. And nowhere is China’s tea culture better represented than in Sichuan province. But there seems to be more …
Sick of snapshots that are just a bit, well, ordinary? In this extract taken from Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Photography by Richard I’Anson, he …
Think of Sri Lanka and, aside from images of Tamil Tiger strife, it might be hard to picture anything except palm trees, azure seas and …
Rome has some eccentric hot spots – from macabre rooms lined with bones through to the massive burial grounds along Appian Way. Here are some …