Ah, international travel! New people to meet. New places to see. New opportunities to make a complete ass of myself. © Anna Bizoń While overseas, I feel it’s my patriotic duty to behave in a way that will reflect well on...
Bay Area-based writer and editor Amanda McKee didn’t know what to expect when she embarked on her first trip to Bhutan. The Himalayan kingdom is famed for its policy of Gross National Happiness, but beyond that, it’s a blank on most travelers’ maps. In this...
Last month I had the grand pleasure of leading a small group of impassioned and intrepid travelers through Kyoto and Shikoku, Japan. We experienced a splendid spectrum of delights, from visiting with monks and pilgrims at venerable temples and shrines, to making omochi rice paste...
Editor’s note: Lonely Planet’s anthology “A Fork in the Road” presents 34 stories that explore the intersection of travel, food, and cultural revelation. Below we excerpt one of the collection’s highlights, a learned and loving celebration of Sri Lankan cuisine by Madhur Jaffrey, regarded by...
My earliest world-wanderings were undertaken through others’ words. As my mother’s voice wove magical word-carpets, I was transported to Narnia by C. S. Lewis, the Sahara and beyond by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Great Places by Dr. Seuss. In high school and college I journeyed...
Candace Rose Rardon is an American writer, photographer and artist who sketches as she travels. These sketches, combined with the stories behind them, poignantly portray those moments of encounter and illumination that become the stepping stones of adventure, inner and outer. We are extremely pleased...
To help you solve some of your tipping troubles on your next trip, our Adventure Collection member companies offer these guidelines for showing your appreciation to the people you count on in the places where you go....
Lonely Planet’s new anthology, “A Fork in the Road,” presents 34 stories that explore the intersection of travel, food, and cultural epiphany. Each of the pieces in the book, writes editor James Oseland in his introduction, “says something ineffable about how we process and remember...
I’m in the midst of a five-week Grand Tour that’s taking me the equivalent of 1.7 times around the globe, from Japan to London, Dublin and Wales, to Bali and then back to San Francisco. One of the great lessons I’ve re-learned on this trip...
Africa is a favorite subject for coffeetable tomes, but I have rarely come across as compelling a package of photographs and essays as Living Africa, by Steve Bloom. In more than 200 photographs, South African-born Bloom showcases a mind-expanding spectrum...