Top 10 cities to visit in 2018 according to Lonely Planet

2017 is slowly coming to an end, which means it's time to start planning travel for next year. We hope that the recommendations of an authoritative publication about our planet and Lonely Planet travels on it will help you in this. The resource recently presented its Best in Travel rating for the upcoming 2018. ...
  • Artist from Austria gives color to gorgeous old photographs of famous people

    Mario Unger is a photographer and digital artist from Austria, who believes that before photographs were done in black and white just because there was no color shooting. With the help of color, he gives the old pictures a mood and makes them more understandable and close to us. Unger recently shared his favorite works. ...
  • 27 good reasons to come to Nepal after everything that happened there

    Nepal was one of the most popular tourist destinations that many travelers dreamed of. Here people found themselves and made the notorious trips that turned the lives of everyone who decided on them. But the terrifying, destructive and deadly earthquake that occurred last year, and then political problems, greatly aggravated the tourism situation in this already poor country. ...
  • Six Senses Fiji prepares to open April 14, 2018

    The resort staff is looking forward to meeting the first guests on April 14th. To celebrate this event, Six Senses Fiji prepared an amazing event. Guests who book stays of four nights or more from April 14 to May 31, 2018 will be surprised: the resort will provide every fifth night for free. ...
  • 11 most common types of travel fraud and how to avoid them

    Overpriced airfare is not the only factor in travel that separates you from hard-earned money. There are many options to lose money on a trip, as they say, in broad daylight and out of the blue. We have collected 11 of the most common types of fraud victims of which are travelers, and we will tell you how not to be among those who are unlucky to be deceived. ...
  • 1942: How the Americans collected scrap metal for the war industry

    However, one of the most important materials for military needs was scrap. The construction of a tank alone required an average of about 18 tons of metal, and what can we say about ships - there it is needed hundreds of times more. The work of collecting recyclables was done ambitious. Scrap metal reception centers organized competitions among themselves, women carried aluminum pots and pans, farmers gave away their old tractors, and forged fences were dismantled everywhere on city streets. ...
  • How the Chinese emperor learned about the earthquake: the ingenious invention of Zhang Han

    Already at the beginning of our era, the Chinese empire occupied vast spaces, and news from the outskirts of the state could go to the capital for several days, if not weeks. This was a huge problem for the country, especially when an earthquake occurred in some part of China. People needed help, and neighboring nations, unfriendly to China, often took advantage of the situation, breaking the borders. ...
  • How to cheat visitors to Delhi

    When I booked my "expensive" hotel in Delhi, I received a message from them. At first I was not going to read it - I thought the standard set "thank you, we are very happy". But it was boring and looked all the same. And then he became incredibly pleased that he had not sent him to the basket! The fact is that the hotel sent me instructions on how not to let the taxis separate themselves on the way from the airport. ...
  • Beautiful Indian people: 30 soulful portraits from a Polish photographer

    Getting to know people from different walks of life and understanding how we are all different and at the same time the same - that is what really broadens our horizons. Alas, most of us cannot visit all corners of the globe, see and learn everything in the world. However, the fact that we cannot shake hands with a person from a remote country does not mean at all that we cannot get to know him, even if only a little. ...
  • A duo of travelers travels the world and takes photos against the backdrop of unusual architecture

    Daniel Rueda and Anna Davis - a creative duet from the Spanish Valencia, who travels the world, studying perspective and geometry, and does not part with the camera. They show the bizarre side of architecture, and the photos they take look as if they had just left the pages of some aesthetic encyclopedia. ...
  • 20 vintage photographs of the heyday of California

    Long before Silicon Valley blew up housing prices in San Francisco, California became a symbol of cultural change. The 60-70s of the XX century are considered to be the Renaissance of the sunny American state. The iconic hippie party on the corner of Ashbury and Haight Streets and revolutionary Hollywood cinema brought California to its peak. ...
  • Scientists have built a mini-city for drones

    Unmanned drones are gradually becoming an ordinary part of our lives. But while they have not yet begun to fly through the streets with dense traffic, as in science fiction films, they need to be prepared for different situations and "taught" the rules of the road (and air) traffic. For these purposes, engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich even built a mock-up of the city - it became a training ground on which the researchers tested a new control system for small wheeled quadrocopters. ...
  • How did men have fun at "parties" in ancient Greece

    Symposia, stormy fun parties, were an important component of male pastime in ancient Greece. Actors performed at them, sang songs, held various contests and games. Cottab was the favorite and most popular game for men. Various variants of the cottab can be seen on Greek vessels, and references to this game are found in many works of ancient literature. ...
  • Weather station. Dawn above the clouds

    And four hundred meters of ascent behind - and I'm already going to a lonely house on the mountain. This is a weather station. Inside, he meets a hospitable but strict watchman, Nikolai. Equal man, he has everything in order and comfort. Vegetarians came ahead of me, and the next day is to be spent in this company. At a weather station, stove steam heating. ...
  • From eternal winter to eternal summer: the most extreme cities of the planet

    What could be weirder than a city that is in a place unsuitable for a comfortable life, where it is very cold or too hot, or maybe so high that it becomes difficult to breathe. They are usually isolated, but the locals seem to have adapted to such conditions and learned to live in them, and even very well. ...
  • A Finnish photographer takes pictures of foxes and it’s impossible to tear yourself away from these pictures.

    A couple of months ago we already showed you the work of Finn Ossi Saarinen. Then they were portraits of funny birds, exactly the same as the main characters of the famous game Angry Birds. Turns out Saarinen is also taking amazing photos of wild foxes! The guy takes off the red cheats from last summer, after his fateful meeting with a whole family of foxes. ...
  • Why do Chinese eat chopsticks instead of using more convenient forks and spoons

    In some Asian countries, as a cutlery, they do not use spoons or forks that are familiar to us, but a couple of chopsticks. Chopsticks eat rice, noodles, meat, vegetable dishes and even soups. Despite the spread of the Western lifestyle among the population of Asian countries, sticks are still very popular. ...