The 500 Best Places to See in the World
Jul 28, 2018
Book #23: Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel
❤ Book #23 review from my 50 Books 2018 Challenge!
❤ You can read about my initial challenge progress, and check out all the books I’m reading this year here. I got off track, but I’m back at it now!
Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel
Our List of the 500 Best Places to See… Ranked
My sister got me this book as a going away gift when I was moving from New York City to London this spring, and I’ve absolutely adored being able to reference it while dreaming and making travel plans.
One weekend, after a rough work and personal week, the wanderlust hit me hard, and I found myself reading through all 500 places that Lonely Planet lists in this book!
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn.
Climb that goddamn mountain.”
— Jack Kerouac
As an avid traveler with a thing for lists, this is basically my dream book, it gave me a major wanderlust boner! 😍
What a blast to read, getting lost in all of the wild options this wonderful world has to choose from.
I would love to write a book, or contribute to books like this in the future. (All the pros use the term “wanderlust boner”… right?) 😆
“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”
— Anthony Bourdain
It is an extraordinary travel book, in a delightful format with stunning photos across every page.
Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel also comes with a world map, marking their top 100 places on it! (You know I can’t wait to check that shit off!)
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure — self-determined, self-motivated, often risky — forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it.
Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness.
In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind — and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both.
This will change you.
Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.”
— Mark Jenkins
Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel makes for a great conversational piece, and serves as substantial travel inspiration.
I would buy this for yourself if you’re looking to light your wanderlust fire and fuel your travel dreams.
As I mention in my (free) how to start traveling email course, dreaming big is a huge part of trip planning, and you need a daily reminder of what you’re working and saving so hard for. This would be an excellent investment to serve as that reminder for you.
This would also make a great gift for a traveler friend, and definitely for recent high school or college graduates to inspire them as they start #adulting!
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel — as far and as widely as possible.
Sleep on floors if you have to.
Find out how other people live and eat and cook.
Learn from them — wherever you go.”
― Anthony Bourdain
I squeal with surprise and delight every time I flip open to a random page, my appetite for seeing every country in the world only growing stronger with each spot I read about.
I currently find myself determined to see all of these top 500 places, so I’m off to scheme how I can accomplish this in my lifetime, starting right now… wish me luck!
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.”
― Anais Nin
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