Lonely Planet Travel Journals

Unexpected stories from unexpected places.Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even themiddle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole landscape. The discovery that every place is the centre of the world to somebody and has its own riches and wonders. The authors of these 30 real-life tales fi nd passion, surprise and illumination in the middle of Borneo orBeijing, in a Mayan...