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![Don't miss: Junkanoo Festival](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Don't miss: Junkanoo Festival
Folklore says Junkanoo takes its name from a slave master who allowed his slaves to celebrate Christmas.
![Close to home: Walking on Waiheke](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Close to home: Walking on Waiheke
With 40 guided walks, the Waiheke Walking Festival is a great way to explore the island.
![Travel book: <I>Visions of Nature</I>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Travel book: <I>Visions of Nature</I>
There are so many fine picture books about New Zealand these days that it's often difficult to find a point of difference that makes one stand out from the others.
![What I Pack: Camilla Anderson](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
What I Pack: Camilla Anderson
It's a Woman's World host Camilla Anderson shares her travelling tips.
![Ask Lonely Planet: The best of India](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Ask Lonely Planet: The best of India
Advice on India's must-see cities and how to get a working holiday job at a French skifield.
![Airline's latest plan to save money: Fewer toilets](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Airline's latest plan to save money: Fewer toilets
Passengers on Europe's biggest airline may need to cross their legs if a plan to reduce the number of airline toilets is approved.
![Jim Eagles: Travel expectations versus reality](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Jim Eagles: Travel expectations versus reality
If you start writing enthusiastic stories about trips that are complete rubbish, you'll soon lose all credibility.
![Travel gadget: Crumpled City Maps](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Travel gadget: Crumpled City Maps
I like a map that has every last, tiny, winding old street shown.
![Ask Lonely Planet: 'Pearl' worthy of poetry](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Ask Lonely Planet: 'Pearl' worthy of poetry
Advice on combining a marathon-running trip to France with a sidetrip to Croatia and rental car options in Los Angeles.
![Qantas strike off, 'too late' for passengers](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Qantas strike off, 'too late' for passengers
Thousands of Qantas passengers are expected to face flight cancellations and delays today, even though a union has called off a nationwide strike.
![Air NZ, Wellington Airport named best in Australasia](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Air NZ, Wellington Airport named best in Australasia
Air New Zealand has been named the leading airline in Australasia for the third year running.
![Jim Eagles: A new practice to take on board](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Jim Eagles: A new practice to take on board
Getting on a plane, muses Him Eagles, is almost always inefficient and frustrating.
![Don't miss: Gypsy Jazz Festival](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Don't miss: Gypsy Jazz Festival
Every November, New Caledonia swings to the rhythms of gypsy jazz - a style popularised in Paris in the 1930s to 1950s by guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli.
![Travel book: <I>Trail</I>](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Travel book: <I>Trail</I>
A decade after it opened, the rail trail has become - to use an overworked phrase - a New Zealand tourist icon.
![Ask Lonely Planet: Venezuela on the cheap](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Ask Lonely Planet: Venezuela on the cheap
Advice for a student planning a six-month trip around South America and adventure-sport opportunities in Europe.
![Don't miss: Dickens Christmas Market & Festival](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Don't miss: Dickens Christmas Market & Festival
Rochester Castle and other local landmarks are mentioned in Charles Dickens' works.
![Travel gadget: Samsung SH1000 camera](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Travel gadget: Samsung SH1000 camera
I got my first camera aged six and had to send the film away for processing: it took three weeks to get my pictures back.
![Albanian Riviera a victim of its success](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Albanian Riviera a victim of its success
Albania, ranked as the world's top destination to be visited in 2011 by Lonely Planet, has been growing in popularity with tourists for several years.
![Ask Lonely Planet: Diverse American beauty on menu](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Ask Lonely Planet: Diverse American beauty on menu
Advice on finding accommodation in Las Vegas and New York and avoiding hotspots on an overland journey between Mumbai and Damascus.
![Sex-assault risk greater on liners than on land: study](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Sex-assault risk greater on liners than on land: study
People thinking of getting away for a relaxing holiday at sea are being warned to take extra care following revelations of sexual assault on cruise ships.
![The honeymooners' cuddle test](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
The honeymooners' cuddle test
Honeymoon flight the perfect opportunity to try out Air New Zealand's Skycouch innovation.
![Don't miss: Sydney Food & Wine Fair](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Don't miss: Sydney Food & Wine Fair
Thousands of happy food-lovers will fill Hyde Park North for the massive Sydney Food & Wine Fair.
![Travel book: 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Travel book: 100 Places To Remember Before They Disappear
More an exercise in global warming propaganda than anything else, really, though the photos of endangered beauty spots are certainly stunning.
![What I Pack: Jim Harre](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
What I Pack: Jim Harre
The international wine judge and Chair of the 2011 New World Wine Awards shares his travelling tips.
![Shelley Bridgeman: How to travel light](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Shelley Bridgeman: How to travel light
In the last fifteen months I've taken only a soft-sided carry-on bag on three separate overseas trips.
![Ask Lonely Planet: Canada's splendours best seen by road](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Ask Lonely Planet: Canada's splendours best seen by road
Advice on a six-week European taster, the most-direct route to Ghana and which way round to do a Canada roadtrip.
![Greg Dixon: Giving tourists the warm fuzzies](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Greg Dixon: Giving tourists the warm fuzzies
If there is any city in the world in which one should play absolute tourist, London is it.