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Ask Lonely Planet: Tot-friendly tour of culture and colour
Advice on travelling to Malaysia with a two-year-old and spending a week in Beijing.

Motion in the ocean
Fancy a cruise lifestyle on the waves, but plagued by motion sickness? Deborah Abrams Kaplan offers some solutions.

Hot deals: Exploring New Caledonia
Explore the Northern Province of New Caledonia with six days' car rental, return airfares and seven nights' accommodation.

Expand your horizons - work overseas
A stint or a secondment overseas in your chosen occupation is something everyone should look at doing at all levels of their career, from PA to chief executive, writes Gill South.

The search for authenticity
It may be put on solely for tourists, but a yak polo match in Mongolia is a heap of fun, writes Jim Eagles.

Ask Lonely Planet: Glugging and gloating around Tuscany
Everywhere in Tuscany is well-travelled - especially in summertime - but after Florence, anywhere will seem comparatively peaceful, even the hubs of Siena and Lucca.

Ask Lonely Planet: Spanish mix of art, architecture, ambience
Advice on visiting Barcelona, Valencia and Santiago de Compostela.

Travel book: <i>Destination Saigon</i>
Being a large man taking up a space usually occupied by three Vietnamese, writer Walter Mason was obviously an easily noticed foreign visitor in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon).

Close to home: Zip it up
Queenstown's new Ziptrek is an ecological adventure with views of Lake Wakatipu as you zip through the forest canopy on flying foxes.

Ask Lonely Planet: Greece to Croatia - plans up in the air
Advice from a travel expert on travelling between Greece and Croatia.

Hot deals: Bubbly in the Bay of Islands
Victoria Bartle rounds up some of the best travel deals going.

Travel gadget: Plugs
One of the most important bits of planning a trip is sorting out the right power plug adaptors to take with you.

What I Pack: Rickie Dee
The co-owner and fashion buyer for Superette boutique shares her luggage packing tips.

What a card
The old spirit of New Zealand ingenuity, of being able to build anything from a Large Hadron Collider to a small vacuum cleaner with No.8 fencing wire, lives on in the imaginative Kiwi traveller.

Travel book: <i>Great Kiwi Eats</i>
One of the special joys of touring New Zealand these days is the number of places you find that sell great food.

What I Pack: Scribe
Scribe says there's not always time to do washing when travelling on the tour.

Hot Deals: Bask in the Cook Islands
United Travel has Cook Islands packages including return airfares with Pacific Blue from Auckland, and five nights at the five-star Te Vakaroa Villas from $1999 each.

Close to home: Rock to the beat
The Bay of Islands Country Rock Festival will be held May 7-9 in venues around Paihia, Waitangi, Russell and Haruru Falls.

Ask Lonely Planet: Culture boost at the Great Wall
Lonely Planet experts share their tips for travel to China, France and Italy.

Hot Deals: Ruapehu
United Travel has Ruapehu ski passes, from $79 a person per day. Gear rental from $37 a person.

London: Capital fun at half the price
Graham Reid goes looking for the cheaper side of London life.

Ask Lonely Planet: Fresh faced on the continent
A colleague who has never been to Europe has the chance to attend conferences in Vienna and Zurich, and she's keen to combine an extra two weeks' travel before or after each.

Auckland Airport named among top 10 in the world
Travellers have voted Auckland International Airport one of the world's best in the annual Skytrax World Airport awards.

Sightseeing for the blind
Julie Woods never thought she would be able to tour places like the temples at Luxor.

Ask Lonely Planet: The inside edge on walls and warriors
The Lonely Planet experts respond to a reader's request for help planning a Beijing travel itinerary.