Ecuador’s privileged geographic location, gentle weather, contrasting regions and travel-friendly size make it an ideal destination to travel by road.  While driving in Ecuador is not entirely without challenges — it’s best to get a 4WD vehicle to traverse the most hostile terrains — the relatively inexpensive gas and short distances between cities...

Belgium is petite. Fall asleep on a Paris to Amsterdam train and you could miss it all together – well, maybe, if you’re a heavy sleeper. But crammed into this fascinating little land are some of Europe’s great medieval cities (including Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp), the EU capital Brussels and no less than three national languages.  Fabulous chocolate,...

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Lonely Planet’s marketing manager, Serina Patel, recently returned from her weekend in Isla Holbox, Mexico. Here she shares her trip highlights and what to prepare for before you step foot on the island. What screams "30" better than a girls' trip? When my sister floated the idea of a weekend getaway for her birthday, she had one destination in mind...

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet literally wrote the book on Brittany – or at least the chapter on the region in the latest edition of Lonely Planet’s best-selling France guidebook. The culinary heritage of Brittany is unique – and unmatched anywhere else in France. After all, this northwestern region offers very few local cheeses and practically no wines...

Scoop up an 18th-century French town and plop it down in the middle of coastal Tamil Nadu, India, and voilà: you have Puducherry. More familiar as Pondicherry, this breezy city was under French colonial rule from the late 17th century until 1954. Although indisputably Tamil, Pondicherry still holds onto countless traces of its Gallic past, from pastel-hued...