By the time Tony co-founded Lonely Planet Publications in 1973, he already had the travel bug. And ever since, travel and discovery have been at the heart of his life and career.
I’ve recorded several podcasts, interviews, conversations recently.
At London Business School Maureen and I recorded Journeys, a conversation with Rajesh Chandy the Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Developing World at the Wheeler Institute. People seemed to enjoy it, someone suggested that we ‘looked like two teenagers our to start an exciting adventure,’ not business like at all.
With Tyrel Cameron Eskelson I talked on his Interlocutor podcast about my travel life, starting in Pakistan when I was a small child right up to travel in recent weeks and for the rest of 2025.
Well we flew in to his airport in Ulaanbaator anyway (Last year I flew in to the Mother Teresa International Airport in Tirana in Albania). Maureen and I spent two weeks in Mongolia in August, riding in old Russian jeeps and flying in old Russian helicopters, staying ...
Chinggis KhaanYou can't get away from Chinggis Khaan (aka Genghis Khan in the west) and our first encounter with the most famous Mongolian was right in the centre of Ulaanbaatar where this very imposing new statue looks across Sükhabaatar Square from the very glo...
Bad Lands – my account of travels along George Bush’s ‘axis of evil’ (Iran, Iraq and North Korea) plus six other assorted ‘interesting’ nations (Afghanistan, Albania, Burma, Cuba, Libya and Saudi Arabia) is available from Lonely Pla...
My first view of Mt Kilimanjaro, flying in to Dar es Salaam on a British Airways 767 out of London. It was great to see the snow-capped volcano cone poking through the top of the clouds. Two weeks later, I'd made it to the top of Afric...
I had eight days to kill before meeting up with my Kilimanjaro friends so I spent four days on Zanzibar Island (now there’s another of those ‘want to go there’ travel names) and four days on safari in Lake Manyara National Park, the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater...
I spent most of May and June travelling for business, talking about my new books Bad Lands and Unlikely Destinations. Now I'm back on the road in Africa, I'm writing this from a hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This morning I had this view of Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa's...
Maureen and I are travelling around the USA promoting Unlikely Destinations, the Lonely Planet story, and my new 'Axis of Evil travel book' Bad Lands. On Monday July 18 I'll be speaking at Powell's bookshop in Portland, Oregon and everyday this week I'll be posting a ...
CROCODILES OF UNUSUAL SIZE This is crocodile country and visitors get plenty of opportunity to contemplate the ‘this could happen to you’ warning signs. And every year it does seem to happen to somebody who doesn’t take enough care. Our prime crocodile experiences: ...
Maureen and I arrived in Australia in December 1972 at Exmouth on the North-West Cape, off a yacht sailing from Bali. In May 2007 I returned to Exmouth to dive with the whale sharks. Rhincondon typus is the world’s biggest shark, whale size in fact. They’re also harml...
Here I Sat (or squatted) Pictures of hotel rooms often show the luxurious bed, the stylish furniture or the stunning view out the window. Or alternatively the lumpy bed, the crumbling furniture and a close up view of an adjacent wall. Either way that important seco...
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