Only a couple of sleeps and it’s Christmas. Time to fire up those chestnuts, glaze that turkey and concoct the new year’s resolutions we’ll be breaking in a month or two. Every year our Women Travellers branch runs a Secret Santa (also known as Kris Kringle in other parts of the world)....

Your photos of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum didn’t turn out as you had hoped: they’re mostly pictures of the backs of other people’s heads as they crowded to get a glimpse of the famous artifact. The romantic photo of you and your fiancée in front of the Eiffel Tower...

Whether you’re lugging your tripod and your medium format to remote wilderness destinations, taking holiday snapshots with your digital point-and-shoot, or taking moody black-and-white cityscapes, nearly everyone likes to record their travels with photgraphs. If you’re interested in sharing...

The US is a big place with innumerable travel opportunities, but despite its size the majority of travellers focus on only a small number of popular destinations. You can always find a wide variety of topics on the US branch on the Thorn Tree travel forum , but if you come back regularly you’ll...

We’re constantly amazed by the breadth of posts on the Thorn Tree forum and love that our community members are sporting enough to field even the most unusual travel questions. One recent standout thread asked a question about elephants in Thailand – not an uncommon topic for the Thailand branch...

Welcome to your new Community homepage and… drumroll… the return of the Lonely Planet Community blog (dramatic flourish!) For some time now we’ve wanted to give travellers one simple entry point to our community spaces and features. We’ve also wanted to showcase some of the fantastic...