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This pocket-sized gift book showcases 50 of the world's best bars and is the perfect gift for anyone interested in the best places in the world for a drink. Whether they boast a jaw-dropping location, world-class artisan cocktails or effortless cool, these bars are among the best places on the planet to enjoy a drink or two.
How have we whittled down this list? Some bars have earned their spot by playing up their obvious assets, whether it's an interesting urban location or a stunning natural setting. Others are champions of the basics, be they cocktails or single liquors, while still others do something dramatically unusual or fun. But perhaps the secret sauce in all this is genuine desire to delight each person who walks through the door. It's a love of hospitality and an enthusiasm for the precious drop.
Whether you're a fan of barefoot, surfside imbibing or you prefer sophisticated cocktails in stylish surrounds, it's time to plan your list. Cheers, salut, bottoms up. See you at the bar.
Wow factor // Beautiful bars
Al Sarab // Dubai The Island Bar // Sydney Northern Lights // Reykjavik Ozone // Hong Kong Sky Bar // Bangkok Water & Wind Bar // Binh Duong White Rabbit // Moscow
Mixology // Cocktail bars
Academia da Cachaca // Rio De Janeiro Attaboy // New York City Gen Yamamoto // Tokyo Lidkoeb // Copenhagen Monkey Bar // Berlin Smuggler's Cove // San Francisco Sum Yi Tai // Singapore Tales & Spirits // Amsterdam Yuan Oyster & Cocktail Bar // Shanghai
A'brewin' // Craft beer bars
Delirium Cafe // Brussels Magnolia Brewing Company // San Francisco Petritegi Tolare Sagardotegia // San Sebastian T-Anker // Prague Torst // New York City
Shh! // Hidden bars
Area 51 Top Secret Party Facility // Boracay Aux Deux Amis // Paris Cafe Madrigal // Havana El Quim de la Boqueria // Barcelona Gallow Green // New York City The Harrison Speakeasy // Buenos Aires The Jerry Thomas Project // Rome
Rhythm // Music & party bars
360Istanbul // Istanbul Bluefrog // Mumbai Linda's Tavern // Seattle Opera Club // Warsaw Tooting Tram & Social // London
Whimsy // Quirky bars
Baobab Tree Bar // Limpopo Bounce Ping Pong // London Le Comptoir General // Paris Icebar // Jukkasjarvi Joben Bistro // Cluj-Napoca Museum HR Giger Bar // Gruyeres The Storm Crow Tavern // Vancouver
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.
A beach always feels like the ultimate escape, with the sound of the waves lapping against the shore, which science says has a calming effect on our brain activity. And then there's the guaranteed hit of vitamin D our exposed skin absorbs.
Whether you're looking for black-sand beaches, high-octane watersport hotspots, secret bays or the finest palm-fringed tropical paradises, Lonely Planet shows you where and how to find them. So pack your beach towel and hit the sands.
Includes:
Bliss // Tropical desert island paradises
Cabbage Beach // Nassau, Bahamas Crane Beach // Barbados Flamenco Beach // Culebra, Puerto Rico Green Island Beach // Green Island, Antigua & Barbuda Hanalei Beach // Hawaii, USA Nalaguraidhoo Beach // South Ari Atoll, Maldives
Drama // Wild & unusual beaches
Bowling Ball Beach // Mendocino, California, US Giant's Causeway // County Antrim, Northern Ireland Gulpiyuri Beach // near Llanes, Spain Hidden Beach // Puerta Vallarta, Marieta Islands, Mexico
Action // Surfing & diving meccas
Bells Beach // Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia Biarritz Beach // Biarritz, France Bondi Beach // Sydney, Australia Ehukai Beach // Hawaii, USA
Discovery // Beaches for combing & exploring
Charmouth Beach // Dorset, UK Conche des Baleines // Ile de Re, France Navagio Beach // Zakynthos, Greece Squeaky Beach // Wilson's Promontory, Australia
Parties // Social & nightlife beaches
Bacvice Beach // Split, Croatia Copacabana // Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gulf Shore Beach // Alabama, USA Paradise Beach // Mykonos, Greece
Encounters // Wildlife & conservation hotspots
Agonda Beach // Goa, India Diani Beach // Mombasa, Kenya Espiguette Beach // Le Grau du Roi, France Manuel Antonio Beach // Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Family // Calm, safe all-rounders for all comers
Brandinchi Cove // Sardinia, Italy Koh Kood (Koh Kut) // Trat Province, Thailand Porthcurno // Cornwall, UK Praia de Mira // Mira, Portugal Will Rogers State Beach // Malibu, California, USA
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.
From the people who've been delivering trustworthy guidebooks to every destination in the world for 40 years, Lonely Planet's 50 Festivals To Blow Your Mind will make your next trip an unforgettable one.
There's something about festivals. Whether it's a giant, joyous party or a respectful honouring of tradition, a seemingly bizarre adherence to ritual or a celebration of a quirky obsession - a festival is a uniquely human thing to be involved in. We get together to dance, sing, eat, laugh, drink, dress up, light fires, take our clothes off, throw tomatoes at each other, roll around in mud - festivals are life-affirming and take our desire to have a good time with friends and family to a global level.
Contents:
All action
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta - USA
Argungu Fishing Festival - Nigeria
Holi - India and Nepal
Las Bolas de Fuego - El Salvador
Rouketopolemos (Rocket War) - Greece
Saidai-ji Eyo Hadaka Matsuri - Japan
Songkran Water Festival - Thailand
Art and culture
AgitAgueda Art Festival - Portugal
Edinburgh Fringe Festival - UK
Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival - China
South by Southwest - USA
Sundance Film Festival - USA
White Nights Festival - Russia
World Body Painting Festival - Austria
Calm and tranquil
Floating Lantern Festival - Hawaii
The International Highline Meeting Festival - Italy
Pingxi Lantern Festival - Taiwan
Foodie
Bordeaux Fete le Vin - France
MAD Symposium - Denmark
Maine Lobster Festival - USA
Oktoberfest - Germany
South Beach Food and Wine Festival - USA
Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival - UK
Just one big party
Amsterdam Gay Pride/Europride - The Netherlands
Burning Man - USA
Carnevale - Italy
Carnival - Brazil
Chinese New Year - Singapore
Feast of San Jeronimo - Nicaragua
Mardi Gras - USA
St Patrick's Day - Ireland
Up Helly Aa Fire Festival - Scotland
Music
Coachella - USA
Glastonbury Festival - UK
Montreal International Jazz Festival - Canada
Rhythm and Vines - New Zealand
Roskilde Music Festival - Denmark
Sonar - Spain
Splendour in the Grass - Australia
WOMADelaide - Australia
Off the wall
Air Guitar World Championships - Finland
Boryeong Mud Festival - South Korea
Buso Festival - Hungary
Dia de los Muertos - Mexico
Ivrea Orange Festival - Italy
Kanamara Matsuri Festival - Japan
La Tomatina - Spain
Thaipusam Festival - Malaysia
UFO Festival - USA
Wife Carrying Festival - Finland
About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.
Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
From the people who've been delivering trustworthy guidebooks to every destination in the world for 40 years, Lonely Planet's 50 Natural Wonders To Blow Your Mind will take you on a tour of the world's most mind-boggling wild and wonderful places, and help you discover just how extraordinary our planet really is.
For all of our obsessions with man-made wonders, nothing compares to the creations of Mother Nature. Vast underground cave systems, wild desert landscapes, breathtaking waterfalls, staggering geology and spectacular vestiges of our prehistoric past all remind us of our small place in Earth's story.
In this book we've attempted to capture just a fraction of what our planet has to offer, and we hope it inspires you to get out and find your own slice of pleasure in the great outdoors.
Contents:
Beach idyll
Beach of the Cathedrals - Spain
Hidden Beach, Marieta Islands - Mexico
Moeraki Boulders, South Island - New Zealand
Palawan Island - The Philippines
Santorini - Greece
Vaadhoo Island - Maldives
Deep down
Cave of Crystals - Mexico
Darvaza Crater - Turkmenistan
Grand Prismatic Spring, Wyoming - USA
Great Barrier Reef, Queensland - Australia
Great Blue Hole - Belize
Hang Son Doong - Vietnam
Jeita Grotto - Lebanon
Lake Baikal - Russia
Manjanggul Lava Tube - South Korea
Marble Caves - Chile and Argentina
Mendenhall Ice Caves - USA
The Mariana Trench - Western Pacific Ocean
Mountainous wonders
Huangguoshu Waterfall - China
Lauterbrunnen Valley - Switzerland
Milford Sound - New Zealand
Mount Everest - Nepal and Tibet
Mount Roraima - Venezuela
Musandam Fjords - Oman
Perito Moreno Glacier - Argentina
The Grand Canyon - USA
Tianzi Mountains - China
Trolltunga - Norway
Mystical and mythical
Aurora Borealis - Greenland
Fairy Pools, Isle of Skye - Scotland
Fingal's Cave, Inner Hebrides - Scotland
Giant's Causeway, County Antrim - Northern Ireland
The Waitomo Glow-worm Caves - New Zealand
Uluru - Australia
National parks
Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory - Australia
Lencois Maranhenses National Park - Brazil
Plitvice Lakes National Park - Croatia
The Wildebeest Migration - Tanzania and Kenya
Yosemite National Park, California - USA
Strange landscapes
Bristlecone Pines, California - USA
Crooked Forest - Poland
Eye of the Sahara - Mauritania
Ice Towers of Mount Erebus - Antarctica
Living Root Bridges of Cherrapunji - India
Pamukkale - Turkey
Sagano Bamboo Forest - Japan
Salar de Uyuni - Bolivia
Socotra Island and Archipelago - Yemen
Spotted Lake, British Columbia - Canada
White Desert - Egypt
About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.
Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.
From the people who've been delivering trustworthy guidebooks to every destination in the world for 40 years, Lonely Planet's 50 Places to Stay To Blow Your Mind will make your next trip an unforgettable one.
From glass igloos in Finnish Lapland, to wooden spheres suspended in Canadian treetops; from geodesic domes in the Patagonian wilderness, to old-school opulence at New York's Plaza Hotel - these are the ultimate in overnight experiences. Not every place is a budget buster; sometimes it's about the spectacular locations, like the gravity-defying Bivacco Gervasutti on Mont Blanc. There are places that literally disappear into their surroundings like the Mirrorcube in Haradsand others that stand tall and command attention like the Frank Gehry-designed Hotel Marques de Riscal.
We've only included a place if it gives us a thrill, makes us catch our breath and inspires us to see the world through different eyes. We hope they motivate you to go on a journey to a new destination.
With this pocket-sized gift book showcasing 50 of the most luxurious, extraordinary and spectacular accommodation offerings around the world, even sleeping will be an adventure on your next trip.
Contents:
Elegant - Traditional opulence
Ashford Castle - Ireland
Hotel Everest View - Nepal
Majestic Hotel - USA
Quinta Real Zacatecas - Mexico
Trans-Siberian Express - Russia-Mongolia
Escape - Remote and secluded
Attrap Reves - France
Berggasthaus Aescher-Wildkirchli - Switzerland
Junk cruise - Vietnam
No Man's Fort - UK
The Caves - Jamaica
The FloatHouse River Kwai - Thailand
The Secret Campsite - UK
Treehotel - Sweden
Whitepod - Switzerland
Explore - Intrepid adventures
Ariau Amazon Towers - Brazil
Bivacco Gervasutti - Italy
EcoCamp Patagonia - Chile
Hotel Arctic - Greenland
Shamwari Game Reserve - South Africa
Skylodge Adventure Suites - Peru
Splurge - High-end luxury
Conrad Maldives - Maldives
Huka Lodge - New Zealand
Katikies Hotel-Oia - Greece
Neemrana Fort Palace - India
Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort - China
Southern Ocean Lodge - Australia
The Plaza - USA
Wonder - The totally unexpected
Crane Hotel - The Netherlands
Crazy Bear - UK
Crocodile Hotel, Jabiru - Australia
Das Park Hotel - Austria
Hang Nga Guesthouse - Vietnam
Hotel Marques De Riscal - Spain
Hotel Sidi Driss - Tunisia
Huettenpalast - Germany
JW Marriott Marquis - United Arab Emirates
Kumbuk River Resort - Sri Lanka
Palacio de Sal - Bolivia
Propeller Island City Lodge - Germany
Shinjuku Ekimae Anshin Oyado - Tokyo
The Dog Bark Park Inn - USA
Tianzi Garden Hotel - China
V8 Hotel - Germany
About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of the places in which they find themselves.
Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.