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 just left Rajasthan, the most colourful state in India. A favourite glimpse of a picture in the gallery at the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur – it’s Maharajah Bakhat Singh watching his elephants ‘wreaking havoc.’
I read to Hellholes and back, Chuck Thompson’s account of the ‘art of extreme tourism,’ principally because he goes to Congo and I read most things that come up about that country. Chuck decides not to follow Conrad’s miserable haul up the Congo River, but instead end...
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