World Travel Stories

Sep 13, 2011 • 5 min read

Have you had a good plummet lately? No? Well, if you'd like to add an adrenaline rush and an element of danger to your next trip, we've pulled together a…

Aug 26, 2011 • 4 min read

With rising airfares, hotel costs, and near-record gas prices, people fortunate (and unfortunate) enough to live in destination-friendly places can expect…

Aug 22, 2011 • 4 min read

Sometimes the really good travel stories are the ones where you feel a smidge of fear. Perhaps it’s because we all love scary stories, drawn from those…

Jun 5, 2011 • 3 min read

When you arrive in a new place, are you the type who heads straight to bed or straight to the bar? Do you acclimatise by immediately chatting with locals…

Feb 7, 2011 • 3 min read

I’m no objectum sexual, a person with 'pronounced emotional and often romantic desire towards particular inanimate objects', like newlywed Erika Eiffel…

Dec 20, 2010 • 1 min read

This article is taken from the Lonely Planet Images blog. All images and more are available to buy at Lonely Planet Images.

Dec 6, 2010 • 1 min read

When a tree falls near a cafe filled with java-sippers leaning over laptops, does it make a sound?

Dec 2, 2010 • 1 min read

Winter can get gloomy no matter how many spirit-lifting hot toddies you try to chug down your neck, or how many cosy movie theatres you decamp to. But hey…

Oct 22, 2010 • 0 min read

If you love capturing your travels but are plagued by cut-off heads, fuzzy photos and telegraph poles inexplicably shooting out of your subject's head,…

Oct 22, 2010 • 5 min read

Every new situation throws up different challenges for the photographer, but some conditions consistently raise the most questions: shooting when the…

Oct 4, 2010 • 6 min read

Take a digital photo and there's no end to the possibilities of what you can do with it: create an online album to share with family or the world, start a…

Oct 1, 2010 • 4 min read

Whether you're on the other side of the world or wandering your own neighbourhood, you'll soon realise that the sights that have you reaching for your…

Sep 30, 2010 • 3 min read

Have you got an iPhone with iOS4? Go to your photos or camera roll. See the icon below that says 'Places'? Click on it and you'll see a global Google map…

Sep 23, 2010 • 1 min read

I suppose the reason why airlines stick with using those annoying two-headed jacks for inflight entertainment is to discourage people from stealing…

Sep 20, 2010 • 1 min read

Amazed by what you see on your travels but underwhelmed by your photos of them? No problem - we've got five fail-safe tips for snapping landscapes, from…

Sep 18, 2010 • 4 min read

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…

Sep 9, 2010 • 2 min read

Technology has totally reshaped the way we travel. The internet is now the go-to place for ideas, inspiration, reviews and bookings, and social media is…

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 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…

May 25, 2010 • 4 min read

Travel blogger, technology advocate, media scholar - add ‘sailor’ to that list. Alex Budak tells us about his floating college days with Semester at Sea.

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…