Lonely Planet offers TV option for grounded travellers

Travel guide Lonely Planet has launched a range of resources to help those struggling with the current travel restrictions.

Homebound travel lovers can delight in the world with the launch of Lonely Planet TV (tv.lonelyplanet.com), which will transport sofa-surfers to remarkable destinations with stunningcinematography and unique insights.

Brimming with intoxicating culture, unique cuisine, and extraordinary landscapes, Lonely Planet TVfeatures every episode of the much-loved GlobeTrekker show ever made, plus Treks in a Wild World, Planet Food and many more.

These much-loved shows hosted by experienced and Oscar-nominated travellers are available in their entirety for the first time with over 350 episodes of award-winning travel shows.

Travel lovers can access the full suite for free until 1 June.

Membership options beginning from next month will include exclusive discounts on Lonely Planet guidebooks as well as unrestricted access to the Lonely Planet Guides app and Lonely Planet TV’s full offering.

How much are you missing travel at the moment? Where is the first place you will travel when things return to normal? 

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Travel Ben ???

When you can see all these wonderful things on TV

Thanks for the great link .. too bad that the free will stop on June 1

We had our plans to see more of Europe scuttled by the COVID-19 virus. We have done a rethink and have decided that, because of our age, we will no longer travel overseas or go on another cruise but will travel around this beautiful country. Our first choice is between Western Queensland and Tasmania on a conducted tour. We have travelled to every state and territory before but there is always more to see.

Western Queensland and Tasmania ... sounds great Horace.

Have travelled in both ... so different but so interesting and scenic in their own ways.

Particularly enjoyed our drive through Western Queensland ... probably because, before we went I thought it would be boring. Proved me totally wrong, our long drive included ...

Firstly, Roma's huge bottle trees and the Big Rig; meeting the bilbies in Charleville and the Charleville Cosmos Centre and Observatory; Blackall, the  home of the Black Stump, Jackie Howe champion shearer and the Blackall Woolscour living museum; Barcaldine, the birthplace of the Australian Labor Party and the Tree of Knowledge; Longreach with the QANTAS Founder’s Museum and the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame; Winton, Dinosaur Capital of Australia plus Dinosaur Stampede National Monument at Lark Quarry and home of the Waltzing Matilda Centre; Cloncurry, founded after the discovery of Queensland's first copper deposits; Mount Isa, mining tours and Riversleigh Fossil Centre; Lawn Hill National Park and the beautiful Lawn Hill Gorge; Normanton, with its replica of the world's largest recorded crocodile found there in the 1950s; and finally Karumba, a gulf fishing mecca with stunning meals and sunsets from the pub on the water.

I've become an armchair traveller these days. A friend told me about Pro Walks so I looked it up on YouTube and I have had the best time seeing places I have always wanted to go to. My sister said she has been watching it for a long time now and had even gone into the Cathedral in Edinburgh where our Grandfather was Baptised in. 

Certainly plenty to choose from ... thanks Hola.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ProWalks/videos?view=0&sort=p&shelf_id=1

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