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• Image Gallery – Displays from three to six pictures; not many,
but good.
• Events – Provides a brief overview of what’s happening and
when, including public holidays for some countries.
• Transport – Tells you how to get there and how to get around
once you are there.
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Figure 2.2 Lonely Planet’s Destinations page for Norway
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• Money – Provides details about the country’s economy, but
more importantly for the travel, a Costs list showing the
price of typical items, such as movie tickets, a liter of milk, a
loaf of bread, a glass of wine, a roll of film, and a daily transport
ticket—a tremendously valuable tool in planning a travel
budget.
• Background Info – Includes sections on Weather, Time &
Place (time, weights and measures, geography), Crossing
Borders (customs, visas, passports), Government (names of
heads of government, etc.), People & Society (origins and religions),
and Culture & History (the origins of the culture, the
language, music, literature, and history, so travels get a
sense of the basics).
City information includes similar categories, with much more information
about the city’s local sights, attractions, events, etc. (However,
for individual sights within any city, more information is available on the
Fodor’s or Frommer’s sites than at Lonely Planet.)
Other Sections of Lonely Planet
On Lonely Planet’s main page (and other pages), you will find links
to the following Lonely Planet features:
• Thorn Tree – One of the most active travel forums on the Web
with more than a quarter of a million registered users. For
more information about the Thorn Tree forum, see the section
on Discussion Groups at the end of this chapter.
• Travel Services – Lonely Planet has teamed up with several
well-respected sites to provide the following reservation and
travel services: Airline Reservations (from Opodo, Kayak,
Zuji); Hostels and Budget Travel (HostelWorld); Hotel
Reservations (Opodo, Kayak, Zuji); Travel Insurance (World
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Nomads); Global Communication for phones and phone
cards (ekit); Adventure Travel (World Expeditions); Personal
Trip Web Site (MyTripJournal); Rail and Ferry passes, schedules,
and reservations (RailPlus, RailEurope); and Car Rental
(Holiday Autos).
• Bluelist – A collection of travel experiences and destinations
that are recommended, described, and rated by the Lonely
Planet staff, authors, and travels.
• Travel Ticker – Contains important travel advisories, including
new and ongoing warnings, and reminders of other events,
such as elections and holidays, that may generate large
crowds travels may wish to avoid.
• Theme Guides – Provides advice on where to go, categorized
by a variety of themes, including Art, Beaches, Deserts, Fatal
Attractions, Festivals, Food, History, Honeymoons, Islands,
Music, Religion, Roadtrips, Safaris, Sport, Twilight Zone,
Water, and Sports. Lonely Planet is at its unconventional best
with its commentary on places and events: “The sole purpose
of the Burning Man Festival is to confirm the widely-held belief
that Californians are a loopy lot, in that harmless SoCal
magic-crystals-and-inner-child kind of way.”
• Digital Guides – Print guides, audio guides, and maps you
can purchase
• Travel Features – Browse this mini-travel magazine with articles,
podcasts and blogs by Lonely Planet guidebook writers.
You can browse by author and by region.
• Postcards – Includes guidebook-type information contributed
by Lonely Planet readers and functions somewhat as an
update to the printed Lonely Planet guidebooks. Most information
falls in the following categories: Visas; Embassies &
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