Archive for May, 2008

In this video your humble traveler goes walking around Budapest, Hungary in search of the famed public baths.
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Lonely Planet author Tom Downs loves New Orleans' soulful, saucy and eccentric nature. Located as far South as geographically possible in the USA, it's only mildly American in flavour, more a gumbo of French, Carribbean and African American. Tourists might flock to Bourbon Street's non-stop carnival but the whole city really knows how to...
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Lonely Planet's Brice Gosnell grew up in Brooklyn's mad urban mix and says it all somehow works. Just outside of Manhattan, Brooklyn's 33 neighbourhoods each have their own cafés and bars that feature strongly in everyday life. He blames it on small apartments but it could be the community's social nature.
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Lonely Planet author Sarah Johnstone wants us to ignore Zurich's reputation for being boring. There's a slow-paced cool that involves art, clubbing and lazing by the lake. But for her, the city is all about the chocolate.
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Travel with Lonely Planet writer Greg Benchwick as he visits the desert outpost of San Pedro de Atacama in Northern Chile. Located smack-dab in the middle of the world's driest desert, San Pedro is an adobe oasis that has been inhabited since pre-Columbian times. Today, it has become Chile's number-one traveler destination, and for...
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