Visitors to Gallipoli on ANZAC day discouraged

In this issue• Fiji beyond the beach towel • Turkey guidebook released • Tony Wheeler returns from Tour d'Afrique

Fiji guide goes beyond the beach towel

Lonely Planet encourages travellers to love thy neighbour this winter with the launch of the eighth edition of its Fiji guide - the most popular guide to Fiji on the market. This new edition Fiji guidebook comes complete with a dedicated chapter on diving, a focus on sustainable travel as well as encouraging travel beyond the resorts with comprehensive itineraries for tailored short breaks.

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Lonely Planet discourages visitors to Gallipoli on ANZAC day

The new Turkey guidebook highlights the fact that increased popularity on ANZAC Day has made site conservation of the national park particularly challenging to the point, as the guidebook describes, of ‘overwhelming the peninsula’s modest infrastructure.’

The book highlights the fact it is easier to ‘appreciate Gallipoli’s poignancy and beauty at almost any other time,’ suggesting the ‘only way to save Gallipoli is to do the"unpatriotic" thing and stay away, at least on 25 April.’ Instead, the Turkey guidebook opens up endless options for what to do in the country, whether it is used as a perfect accompaniment to an ANZAC Day journey to Gallipoli or as a guide for those wanting to experience the sights, sounds and sensations that Turkey has to offer.

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Just Back:
Tony Wheeler and team return from the Tour d'Afrique.

Lonely Planet Co-founder Tony Wheeler and the company's team of riders finished the fifth stage of the epic Tour d’Afrique race in Lilongwe, Malawi today after cycling over 1000km in 10 days.

Beginning in Tanzania, this leg of the eight stage bicycle race from Cairo to Cape Town challenged riders both physically and mentally. In the last week alone, five Tour d’Afrique riders have been hospitalised with injuries including fractured ulnas, kidney infections and one unfortunate rider’s shin embedded with a 3cm thorn after being tangled in a bush. Also faced with the dinner truck breaking down three times in the past week, it has been far from a smooth ride, but a special one.

Lonely Planet’s Fiona Siseman writes “The morning was spent in cloud & was quite cool, the first descents had my teeth chattering, quite a novel experience to be cold and sweating buckets at the same time. The views were really what the day was all about. From Tanzania the land seems to slide down into Malawi. Verdant green valleys, sometimes cultivated with corn, tea, bananas, sometime wild, cascaded off to our right. Whilst on the left the land rolled down to Lake Malawi in the distance, another range of mountains looming behind it.”

The race continues with the next Lonely Planet team picking up their bikes in Malawi, headed toward Victoria Falls in Zambia.

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