Joe Bindloss

FOREWORD The best? We've picked the brains of our authors, our staff and our travellers and come up with a collection of destinations and experiences that we rate as the stuff you really ought to consider for 2009. It's time to plan a break from the routines of the everyday, and think of the...

This Book From the Publisher This 10th edition of Australia was edited in Lonely Planet's Melbourne office by Arabella Bamber, with the assistance of Joanne Newell, Kristin Odijk, Cherry Prior and Lucy Williams. Barbara Benson coordinated the design, layout and mapping, with superb back-up from...

Destination Nepal Draped along the greatest heights of the Himalaya, the kingdom of Nepal is where the ice-cold of the mountains meets the steamy heat of the Indian plains. It's a land of yaks and yetis, stupas and Sherpas, some of the best trekking on earth and the closest thing that...