Lonely Planet Travel Reference

Lonely Planet’s France is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Grab a café crème at a Parisian sidewalk cafe, take in glacial panoramas above Chamonix and explore the Champagne-soaked city of Reims – all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of France and begin your journey now!  Inside Lonely Planet’s France:  Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before...

Journey to the planet's most magnificent places with this thought-provoking portrait of our world. See it as you've never seen it before and renew your relationship with the place we call home. The images in this book will take you to places far and wide, the kinds of places that you might never visit but that you can perhaps put on that "If " list we all have tucked away. These places are surprising, remarkable, remote, familiar... dive in and marvel over the undeniable fact; it is a...

Discover the world's best eco-conscious travel experiences and places to stay. A curated collection of the world’s best low-impact resorts and experiences. From eco lodges and off-grid camps to responsible wildlife watching, conservation opportunities and community stays, Sustainable Escapes showcase the best eco-conscious trips and places to stay. Each entry is accompanied with beautiful photography and contact details to make booking easy. • Written by Lonely Planet’s travel experts and...

Experience 60 of the world’s greatest adventures on water – from sailing the Nile by felucca and cruising the Canadian Arctic, to exploring Pitcairn Island by cargo ship. With detailed accounts of each route, beautiful photos and practical tips on how to plan your own voyage, Amazing Boat Journeys will help you discover a more rewarding way of travelling. From the seafaring Polynesians to the Chinese Age of Discovery, travel by water shaped the world. That same spirit of exploration...

Published in time for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, this practical and comprehensive guide reveals the best star-gazing experiences around the world. We include guides to 35 dark sky sites, as well as over 60 national parks accredited by the Dark Sky Association, telling readers when to go, what to bring and what they’ll see. Also features all 12 annual meteor showers, the next decade of full solar eclipses, an overview of commercial space flight and...

From Austin to Bogota, Vienna to Wellington, discover the best day and weekend trips within three hours of 60 of Lonely Planet’s favourite cities. With sights, activities and hidden gems – all built around themes like art & culture, the outdoors, and food & drink – you’ll find amazing ideas for your next city escape or long stopover, as well as new experiences to enjoy near where you live. Most of the 60 cities in this book could fill a lifetime with new experiences, but a short journey by...

Let Lonely Planet take you further than ever before with the world’s first and only travel guide to the Universe. Developed with the latest data from NASA, we take you from our home on Earth and out into the far reaches of the solar system, then into our neighbouring stars and planetary systems, and finally into the rest of our galaxy and the Universe. This fascinating journey will help you explore space as you would the world with a Lonely Planet guide. Unique to these pages are wonderful...

Lonely Planet’s Best of France is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Embrace the sights and sounds of Paris, sample tangy olives at the weekly market in Provence and explore the vineyards of Champagne – all with your trusted travel companion. Discover the best of France and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet’s Best of France: Full-colour images throughoutHighlights and itineraries help you tailor your...

So, you want to experience the ultimate overseas adventure? Whether you’re a gap year student or young traveller, taking a sabbatical or career break, a parent or guardian wanting to travel with your children, or in retirement and looking for your next adventure – The Big Trip is for you. Advice and information in this comprehensive companion, now in its 4th edition, has been thoroughly revised and updated to include expert tips and recommendations that will help you create and enjoy a...

Welcome to life on four wheels.Hit the open road with this practical and inspiring guide. In the first half, you’ll discover how to choose and customise your perfect van, and get it fitted for sleeping, cooking and storage. In part two, we’ll tell you how to stay safe, save money and park legally, then share the best road trips around the world, complete with awesome itineraries.Lonely Planet’s The Vanlife Companion is a great introduction to the global #vanlife phenomenon and is geared to...

Take a journey through every country in the world. 850 images. 230 countries. One complete picture.With details of every United Nations-approved country in the world, and a few more principalities and dependencies besides, Lonely Planet's Travel Book is the ultimate introduction to a world of travel and the essential travel reference book for every household!Each country is profiled by Lonely Planet's expert authors and features details of when to visit, what to see and do, and how to learn...

Experience 60 of the world’s greatest and most unforgettable train journeys, from classic long-distance trips like Western Canada’s Rocky Mountaineer and Darwin to Adelaide’s The Ghan, to little-known gems on regular commuting lines.We’ve always had a soft spot for trains. We know the moment a train pulls out of a station bound for somewhere fantastic is when the adventure truly starts. Amazing Train Journeys is the culmination of asking more than 200 travel writers for their absolute...

Whether it's euphoria or serenity, awe or enlightenment, this beautiful hardback presents hundreds of places around the world to experience a particular emotion. Each of the 12 chapters in Lonely Planet's The Place to Be explores a single feeling, with destinations ranging from wild and natural spaces, to modern and ancient cities. Plus, our travel writers explain when to go and how to get there. With 20 places and experiences for each emotion and state of mind, The Place to Be features 240...

Every country in the world, in one guidebook: Lonely Planet's The World. A Traveller's Guide to the Planet.We've taken the highlights from the world's best guidebooks and put them together into one 900+ page whopper to create the ultimate guide to Earth. This user-friendly A-Z gives a flavour of each country in the world, including a map, travel highlights, info on where to go and how to get around, as well as some quirkier details to bring each place to life. In Lonely Planet's trademark...

Featuring communist bunkers, burning gas craters and at least one sponge-rock fluorescent grotto built by Polish monks, this book reveals weird and wonderful sights the crowds don't reach.We've all heard of India's Taj Mahal, but what about Karna Mata Temple? It's a building teeming with rats so revered they enjoy A-list treatment with daily offerings of milk and fruit. It's no secret that visitors to Berlin can see parts of its infamous Wall still standing in the city. Not so many people know...

Explore the vibrant world of craft beer with Lonely Planet. We've selected some of the finest tap rooms, bars and breweries that thirsty travellers can visit in 30 countries around the world. Discover how to find them, which beers to sample, and learn about local places of interest with our recommended itineraries. Each country is introduced by a beer expert and includes regional beverages that shouldn't be missed. There's a world of great beer to taste - go and discover it! So why go beer...

Loos with incredible views, lavish lavatories, outstanding outhouses all are featured in this pictorial guide to the world's most stunning toilets. Whether they're hightech or arty, amusing or amazing, each toilet has a photo and a description of its location. More than 100 restrooms to remember are featured, from Antarctica to Zambia.As any experienced traveller knows, you can tell a whole lot about a place by its bathrooms. Whatever you prefer to call them lavatory, loo, bog, khasi,...

101 skills and experiences to discover on your travels.Who do you want to be... The next molecular gastronomy genius? An intrepid archaeologist? A Paris-based artist? This book takes you around the world and presents 101 experiences, courses and lessons into classic skills and talents of the places you visit - dancing a tango in Argentina, pounding a perfect Thai curry paste in Chiang Mai or trout-fishing weekend in Montana. Saddle up for a new you, and come back from your travel with more...

Experience 50 extraordinary destinations from the BBC's spectacular documentary.From the highest mountains to the deepest seas, the hottest deserts to the frozen poles, The Travellers Guide to Planet Earth reveals the places you dreamed about after seeing them on the BBCs landmark series.The book is divided into sections as featured in the series: MOUNTAINS, FRESH WATER, CAVES, DESERTS, ICE WORLDS, GREAT PLAINS, JUNGLES, SHALLOW SEAS, SEASONAL FORESTS, OCEAN DEEP.Prepare to be overwhelmed by...