Lonely Planet Tips for Best Travel in 2009 Review : Kathika Travel Website

By Amanda Kendle

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Lonely Planet is making a habit of publishing lists of must-visit travel spots and there’s another one just out: Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2009. This book of lists is said to contain some 850 different destinations arranged in various lists, including in a special section on water, with 75 ideas for “water-related travel”.

There are also three important “top ten” lists: the best cities, the top regions and of course, the top ten countries to travel to, according to the Lonely Planet team. As often in these kinds of Lonely Planet lists, they contain a few old favorites and a bunch of “new” destinations that are either on the way to become trendy or probably will be as a result of this book. Whether that’s a good thing or not and you actually want to be the kind of traveler who follows these trends is a matter that’s up to individuals, of course.

A nice feature of the book is that it ends with country profiles for every nation in the world. By necessity, they are quite brief, but they give you a good overview of what’s happening around the place these days, and is especially good for sorting out in your mind the corners of the world which are a bit unfamiliar. As a whole, the book is a nice resource for daydreaming about possible trips but not much use for planning one – but daydreaming is a necessary part of the travel equation, anyway.

photo credit: Ferdinand Reus