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Capture the City quiz: can you identify the city from the photo?

Many of the photos being submitted to our Capture the City photo competition, even if they’re not perfect guidebook cover photos, are really hitting the nail on the head and capturing the essen...

22 h ago

Capture the City: 5 of our favourite photos so far

Many beautiful photos are being submitted to our Capture the City photo competition, where we’re looking for the photo that best captures the essence of a city and would be perfect for the cove...

6 days ago

Lonely Planet’s Year of Adventures coming to Travel Channel

Lonely Planet has been producing travel-related television shows for over 10 years, but we’re especially excited about our latest and doubly happy to be able to announce the upcoming US premier...

14 may 12

Road Trips: the winning picture

Our independent judge has been busy assessing the final picture selection of our Road Trips photo competition and has now finally reached a verdict. Before we reveal the winning entry, let’s ha...

04 may 12

A culinary adventure: the winner

We asked you to tell us what had been your best culinary experience while travelling around the world for a chance to win a tour of Morocco, Tuscany or South America thanks to G Adventures and you du...

03 may 12

Road Trips photos: our top 20 picks

Last month we asked you to send us the best picture of your road trips to our Facebook Road Trips Competition. The result was overwhelming, with more than 1,300 submissions, ranging from the evocativ...

01 may 12 1 person likes this

Are Americans safer in Mexico than at home?

Every week or so I get asked, ‘Is it safe to go to Mexico?’ I had always said, if you’re thoughtful about where you go, yes. But after my most recent trip there, I’m changing ...

30 apr 12 1 person likes this

Are Americans safer in Mexico than at home?

Every week or so I get asked, ‘Is it safe to go to Mexico?’ I had always said, if you’re thoughtful about where you go, yes. But after my most recent trip there, I’m changing ...

29 apr 12

Better ways to have fun in Cartagena

Cartagena, Colombia has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the past weeks, in the wake of a scandal implicating a group of US Secret Service agents alleged to have hired prostitutes whil...

27 apr 12

When should you use a travel agent?

That tiresome argument between what makes a ‘traveler’ different from a ‘tourist’ is sometimes split along the lines that the latter used a travel agent. A tourist goes where ...

26 apr 12

Does sharing make travel better? A guest post from Airbnb

Do the joys of sharing enhance your travels? Photo by Judy Bellah This is a guest post from Vivek Wagle at social accommodation service Airbnb. The idea of sharing space is nothing new. From way back...

25 apr 12

US National Park Week 2012: where to go when the parks are free

It’s April, so it’s time once again for one of the most tempting deals in American travel: National Park Week. Each of the 397 parks in the National Park System is offering free admission...

17 apr 12

World Food: the winning picture

We have spent the holiday break reviewing all the submissions to our World Food Facebook picture competition and we are ready to announce the winner! We were very impressed with the array of foods an...

10 apr 12

Google’s smart glasses: ‘Project Glass’ for travellers

For a few months the tech world has been buzzing about Google’s work on Terminator-style smart-glasses. Today, Google released a video (see below) showing their vision of the potential of such ...

05 apr 12

World Food photos: our top 20 picks

To coincide with the launch of our new Street Food book, we asked you to send the most mouth-watering pictures of food you had encountered in your travels to our Facebook Travel Adventures Competitio...

04 apr 12

If Amsterdam’s hash bars closed, would you still go?

Think quick: Amsterdam! What’s the first thing you think? Don’t lie. It’s the hash bars. The Netherlands’ infamously lax policy regarding small amounts of cannabis is so legen...

04 apr 12

A Moroccan Adventure: the winner

We asked you to tell us what had been your best travel adventure for a chance to win a trip to Morocco (courtesy of Intrepid) and we had an amazing response, with over 3,000 submissions. Your replies...

13 mar 12 1 person likes this

Travel Adventures: the winning picture

After whittling down over 400 submissions to a selection of the 20 best entries for our Travel Adventures picture competition on Facebook, we can now reveal the winning entry and five runner ups. Our...

09 mar 12

Travel Adventures: our top 20 picks

We asked you to send us your most daredevil pictures for our Facebook Travel Adventures Competition and you didn’t disappoint. We had over 500 submissions, ranging from rafting to roaring along...

02 mar 12

Street Food Festival Competition – terms and conditions

Lonely Planet’s first ever Street Food Festival is set to take place in the heart of East London. To celebrate the launch of its brand new book, The World’s Best Street Food, Lonely Planet will be se...

23 feb 12

Winter from your Window: the winning picture

After whittling down over 400 submissions to a selection of the 20 best entries for our Winter from your Window picture contest on Facebook, we can finally reveal the winning entry. It was a hard job...

15 feb 12

We made an error, sorry

Lonely Planet acknowledges it has made an error in The Travel Book 2nd Edition and The Not For Parents Travel Book by including the word ‘official’ against the languages spoken in countries listed. W...

14 feb 12

Winter from your window: our top 20 picks

Lonely Planet’s Winter from your Window competition, where we encouraged our followers to submit pictures of what they could see from their windows via our Facebook page, closed recently. We ha...

03 feb 12

Travel Adventures competition – Terms & Conditions

Thanks for entering Lonely Planet’s Travel Adventures competition. Here’s some important stuff you should know. Who’s running the show? The promoter is Lonely Planet Publications Pty Limited (ABN 36 ...

31 jan 12

30 travel terms that don’t exist but should

The Oxford English Dictionary contains over 600,000 unique words – surely enough to describe any situation, one would think. But as any traveler knows, the world has a way of confronting us wit...

28 jan 12

Get answers from the Book of Everything

Have you ever found yourself slogging up the side of a mountain, silently wishing you had known how to shed a few pounds from that backpack before starting out? Or perhaps you once wound up at a posh...

20 jan 12

Top 5 most suggestive US state tourism slogans

The USA’s least-visited state, North Dakota raised eyebrows recently, with a ‘flirty’ tourism ad ‘aimed at Canadians’ that suggested Fargo nightlife could lead to ‘...

18 jan 12

Get happy! 5 rules for travel happiness

A couple years ago, before attending a powerhouse travel conference – complete with PowerPoint, flowcharts, the whole deal – I made a t-shirt. A plain blue tee, with white block letters that read ‘TR...

16 jan 12

8 travel challenges for 2012

So it begins! Some say, a nutty few anyway, that doomsday is coming December 21, 2012, when the Mayan Long Count calendar clicks to a close. Well, look on the bright side: that gives us about 12 more...

30 dec 11

Competition: win your dream trip

If you had the chance to see and experience anything you wanted, where would you go? It’s the kind of question that friends like to ask each other around the campfire…or on Facebook. And ...

26 dec 11

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