The World: A Traveller's Guide to the Planet
Lonely Planet
Language: English
Pages: 2621
ISBN: 2:00353292
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Every country in the world, in one guidebook: Lonely Planet delivers the first guide to The World.
We've taken the highlights from the world's best guidebooks and put them together into one 960-page whopper to create the ultimate guide to Earth. This user-friendly A-Z gives a flavour of each country in the world, including a map, travel highlights, info on where to go and how to get around, as well as some quirkier details to bring each place to life. In Lonely Planet's trademark bluespine format, this is the ultimate planning resource.
From now on, every traveller's journey should start here...
Nearly 1000 colour photos of must-visit highlights
More than 200 colour maps
The guidebook every traveller needs to own
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scenery changes as you wind your way up the serpentine curves of the Mamou route: the population changes too. You’ll pass elegant old men in indigo boubous and striking ladies as they walk to the mosque. This impressive plateau is also an old centre of Islamic learning. Temperatures are cool and the landscape is simply stunning and perfect for treks. Bossou Environmental Research Institute 3 Researchers from around the world come to the Bossou Environmental Research Institute to study the
worshippers. The mosque was built with marble from Italy, glass from Austria and teak wood from India, carved by Bahraini craftspeople, and has some fine examples of interior design. TIM BARKER / GETTY IMAGES © Bangladesh Gorgeously green yet swamped with people, Bangladesh is a rural wonderland laden with waterways, peppered with villages and bursting with humanity. CAPITAL Dhaka POPULATION 163.7 million AREA 143,998 sq km OFFICIAL LANGUAGE Bangla (Bengali) Bangladeshis
temperatures. NOV–FEB Winter offers perfect temperatures and clear skies. Tribal People 2 Possibly no other corner of Africa has such a wide diversity of tribal peoples, many of whom continue to live a largely traditional lifestyle. There are numerous ethnic groups speaking around 60 languages. Indigenous traditional beliefs are widespread and even though Christianity has made inroads it’s still very much a minority religion that’s often overlaid with traditional beliefs and customs.
giraffe and buffaloes wander on the wide-open plains; leopards, of which there are many in the park, hunt in the dense woodlands; herds of elephants wade through the marshes; and hippos munch serenely on Nile cabbage in the Luangwa River. The bird life is also tremendous: about 400 species have been recorded – large birds like snake eagles, bateleurs and ground hornbills are normally easy to spot. The quality of the park is reflected in the quality of its guides – the highest in Zambia.
revealing left-field artistic secrets at every turn. Las Terrazas’ Eco-Village 6 Back in 1968, when the fledgling environmental movement was a bolshie protest group for long-haired students in duffel coats, the prophetic Cubans – concerned about the ecological cost of island-wide deforestation – came up with rather a good idea. After saving hectares of denuded forest from an ecological disaster, a group of industrious workers built their own eco-village, Las Terrazas, and set about