Your trip starts here
Book - 2023
"Embark on over 50 of the world's most life-affirming journeys and nurture your path to self-discovery. Packed with beautiful photography and inspiring first-person insights for each trip, from hiking Japan's sacred Shikoku pilgrimage to following the Underground Railroad in the US. This is the perfect book for anyone seeking to travel with purpose. Each journey features first-hand accounts from travellers with insightful tips on how to begin planning an enlightening travel experience. From cultural explorations to challenging expeditions, travellers can spend a month of reflection on foot through Northern Spain to reach the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela; connect body and mind as they canoe the wild and remote Yukon Riv...er in Canada; embrace the wonders of rail travel aboard Australia's luxurious Ghan; plus so much more. Your Trip Starts Here is the ultimate travel book for anyone longing to immerse themselves in a different culture, grow as a person or reflect and reset their focus. Gift this collection of journeys to the explorer in your life who wishes to travel with purpose or inspire your own adventure using this unique guide"--Publisher's description.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Travel guidebooks
Guidebooks - Published
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Dublin, Ireland :
Lonely Planet Global Limited
2023.
- Language
- English
- Item Description
- Includes index.
At head of title: Lonely Planet.
Subtitle on cover: Journeys of self-discovery : how travel helps us grow. - Physical Description
- 304 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm
- ISBN
- 9781837580064
- Americas: Remembering the dead on a Mexican road trip ; Seeing South America by bus ; Sail on a windjammer in coastal Maine, USA ; Overland in Guyana, from Atlantic coast to remote rainforest ; Rafting the Grand Canyon, USA ; Reconnecting with nature on the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador ; A soulful music pilgrimage through the USA's South ; Canoeing the Yukon from source to mouth, USA & Canada ; Step into the infinite in the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia ; The Indigenous roots of the Canadian Rockies ; Driving the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, USA ; Cycling the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, USA ; Hike across Canada's smallest province on the Island Walk ; Memphis to Montgomery : an American Civil Rights journey
- Europe: Norway's many-storied skiiing escapde ; On pilgramage to Santiago de Compostela, Spain ; Remembering D-Day on the Normandy coast, France ; Hiking the Celtic Way from Glasontbury to Stonehenge, England ; Stargazing on the Cambrian Mountains Astro Trail, Wales ; Follow seafaring saints to Iona, Scotland ; The Magna Via Francigena : hiking through the heart of Sicily, Italy ; Paddle Scotland's Great Glen ; Hiking the Wexford-Pembrokshire Pilgram Way, Ireland & Wales ; Walk the Robert Louis Stevenson Trail with a donkey in rural France ; A Tóchar Pháraig pilgrimage : walking Saint Patrick's Causeway, Ireland ; Walking in the footsteps of Warsaw's Jewish ghosts, Poland ; Artistic awakening on the French Riviera ; A pilgrimage of faith through Germany, Switzerland & Austria ; Follow saintly footsteps on the Via di Francesco, Italy
- Asia: Across India by train ; Spiritual awakening in Bhutan ; A surfing loop around Sri Lanka ; Trek Nepal's Langtang Valley ; Ride in the hoofprints of Kyrgyz nomads, Kyrgyzstan ; Bangkok to Singapore by rail ; Walk like a Tibetan : Lhasa's pilgrim circuits, China ; Gunung Mulu to Limbang on the Headhunter's Trail, Malaysian Borneo ; Walking the Jeju Olle Trail, South Korea ; Circuiting a sacred mountain : the Kailash kora in Tibet, China ; Hiking in historic footsteps on the Lycian Way, Turkey ; Looping across Ladakh on two wheels, India ; Temple to temple on Japan's Shikoku Pilgrimage ; Gangotri to Gaumukh : hiking the headwaters of the Ganges, India
- Oceania: Hiking the Larapinta Trail, Australia ; Cycling New Zealand's Tour Aotearoa ; Crossing a continent by rail aboard the Ghan Australia ; An Antarctic awakening in the Ross Sea ; Lurujarri dreaming : walking country with the Goolarabooloo, Australia
- Africa & the Middle East: An overland odyssey through sub-Saharan Africa ; Journey along the Jordan Trail, Jordan ; Adventuring in the Empty Quarter's endless dunes, Oman ; Pilot a canoe down the Zambezi River, Zambia & Zimbabwe.