Planning

May 12, 2011 • 4 min read

Packing light used to be a handy skill. These days, it's a necessity.

Jan 27, 2011 • 4 min read

The ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 (starts 19 February) is coming and there’s never been a better time to visit India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Not for…

Jan 18, 2011 • 5 min read

You don't need to be a card-carrying (or -trading) baseball fanatic to enjoy spring training baseball. Even if you don’t know your dugout from your…

Dec 30, 2010 • 2 min read

Lonely Planet staffer Suyin recently left her desk in the Melbourne office to take to New Zealand for some much needed relaxation and exploration. We…

Dec 20, 2010 • 1 min read

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Dec 7, 2010 • 4 min read

What? You don't know where you're going yet? Well, consider this: travel is bouncing back, but so are prices. USA Today reports that the average domestic…

Nov 30, 2010 • 4 min read

In Swahili, safari means 'journey', a fitting translation for what is arguably one of the most evocative words to infiltrate the English language. But…

Nov 25, 2010 • 5 min read

When you visit a country, especially if it's in the developing world, often you can't forget what you've seen - and want to give back to a community…

Nov 15, 2010 • 3 min read

Penguins are the number one attraction for many visitors to Antarctica. You're pretty much guaranteed to see them up close (as long as you go on a ship…

Nov 15, 2010 • 4 min read

Antarctica has become a top destination during the past couple of decades for several reasons. Many people come just for the wildlife: the penguins, seals…

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 12, 2010 • 4 min read

"Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate," complained the unemployed Craig Schwartz, the character portrayed by John Cusack in…

Oct 11, 2010 • 9 min read

Flickr: mike warren

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 16, 2010 • 3 min read

It's not often we have teenagers in the office (except for teenagers at heart), so we asked Lonely Planet work experience student Camilla Stephenson to…

Sep 13, 2010 • 3 min read

Want to add a little culture to your next holiday? Here’s historian Dan Snow’s guide to the best places to get your history fix. This advice is taken from…

Sep 7, 2010 • 5 min read

Mexicans love a good reventón (party), and there are celebrations galore going on now through the end of the year in Mexico to commemorate the…

Sep 1, 2010 • 6 min read

Some days at sunset, the whole of Buenos Aires seems to be moving to the rhythm of a tango soundtrack – old gents deal cards in corner bars while Carlos…

Aug 18, 2010 • 2 min read

Visiting Tibetan China without sampling tsampa is a bit like going to Beijing and skipping the roast duck. Made from roasted barley flour, tsampa is…

Aug 5, 2010 • 2 min read

Bamboozled by the breadth of European travel information out there? Let's face it, it's a massive continent that you could easily spend delicious decades…

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.