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Lonely Planet’s “About” page is a pretty comprehensive sitemap of sorts of its website.
Lonely Planet, now owned by BBC, had a very homegrown beginning, according to its Company History page:
“Where it all began…
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket, and a sense of adventure.
That’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime. They met on a park bench in Regent’s Park and married a year later. For their honeymoon, they decided to attempt what few people thought possible – crossing Europe and Asia overland, all the way to Australia. It took them several months and all the money they could earn, beg or borrow, but they made it. And at the end of it all, they were flat broke… and couldn’t have been happier.
It was too amazing an experience to keep to themselves.” …read the rest…
Lonely Planet is well-known travel portal featuring a vast assortment of travel facts, articles, photos, travelogues, and many other features, many of them interactive and involving members of the site and the travel community at-large.
There is a wealth of information about locations and destinations worldwide.
The site also features a selection of RSS Feeds for a number of different areas of interest to its readership on a number of travel-related subjects.
Lonely Planet Podcasts
- Midsummer in Sweden | Wednesday, 31 December 1969, 7:00 pm
It’s never too early to start planning a season of maypoles, strawberry cake, beer-drinking and songs about frogs. - Stay another day in Cambodia | Wednesday, 31 December 1969, 7:00 pm
Millions visit Cambodia but most only stay a few days, ticking off tourist hotspots. Until they read one small orange book. - Good livin’ in South Australia | Wednesday, 31 December 1969, 7:00 pm
Fresh fruit in the markets, fine wine in the hills and dolphins in the bay - South Australia’s capital has got the lot.
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