Journeys of a Lifetime

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I love, love, LOVE this book. I've had it for years, and it's as fun to read on any rainy day as it is to read when planning a trip. I'm constantly dog-earing another page to add to my list of travel destinations. Half the fun is looking at the photographs, collected over the years by Nat Geo's finest. The format, divided into modes of travel By Train, On Foot makes what could be a very overwhelming coffee table book accessible.

The Top 10 lists are also great fun Where else would you find a list of the world's "Top 10 Funiculars and Cable Cars"? Journeys of a Lifetime is a key read for any aspiring world traveler, and for anyone who wants an adventure without stepping out of their hobbit hole. Aug 26, Laura rated it really liked it Shelves: An excellent "coffee table book".

There is a trip in here for everyone who wants to travel local and internationally; by boat, plane, or foot; adventure-themed or food-themed. The only thing I wish they could have done was given more detailed information about each trip. Logically I know that book would be 3x the size as this one, and this book is not light already-but that is what I thought was missing, more detail.

Mar 16, Molly rated it liked it Shelves: Unless you are extremely lucky, extremely rich, or both, this book is a way to vicariously see places you are not likely to visit in person. It's National Geographic, so, of course the pictures are awesome. I was pleasantly surprised that I had visited some of the places mentioned, but not shocked to find that many I'd never heard of!

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There are minimal travel details included for each journey, but if you actually intend to take one of the trips a more in depth guide would be essential. Feb 02, Francine rated it it was amazing. I read this when it was newly published. The photographs are outstandingit's National Geographic, after all. This is a great book to reflect on during cold weather months This book has inspired country-themed parties; I've used it to inspire a culinary themed dinner at least twice.

May 17, Sara W. Reading is book is like traveling around the world. I love this book since it introduces places that are very beautiful and nice to visit. Also it includes here some bridges, highways and rides that you can just see it beautiful and great to stay for a while.

I love also the pictures included here. Such an overwhelmed to read. Feb 05, Carole rated it it was amazing. This was a wonderful "coffee table book" full of ideas about places to go and things to do around the world. It's only drawback was also it's highpoint, that it didn't go into too much depth about each location. It was visually attractive as each page was one locale. For people who like to travel, or wish they could, it was a great way to get ideas about where to go and what to do.

Sep 28, Brian Badonde rated it it was amazing. I love to travel and I think this book is fantastic! Browsing through this beautiful book, I had to add several travel destinations to my list of places I someday want to visit. If you want some great vacation ideas, from US to exotic oversees destinations, this book will provide many.

Paging through the book is also an educational opportunity to discover a bit more about places around the world. Aug 04, Suyash Sengar rated it it was amazing. It was a special gift from a special someone. For a person with wanderlust,its an absolute must to have. Excellent location picks,breathtaking images,wonderful account,Nat Geo special tips: Mar 14, E. Ce Miller rated it it was amazing.

This is a great coffee table book--I often will flip through it in a spare moment here and there It's also great in assisting with off-beat trip planning. This is definitely a book for travelers, not tourists. It's easy to see why the famed wind-whipped dunes starred in the film Lawrence of Arabia, as well as many others.

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Explore Worldwide ; www. Thanks to Eurostar, you can do the entire journey from the UK to Switzerland by train and experience some of the world's most stupendous alpine scenery without the airport crush. Linking the elegant, traffic-free resort of Zermatt with St Moritz, the idea is to hop on and off and walk in summer, ski in winter.

First-class is a must for the wood-panelled dining car and unique bent-stemmed wine glasses to avoid a spill on steep gradients. The slow chug up the Rhone Valley to Andermatt, then over the Oberalp Pass down to Chur is the most thrilling section, best in winter when layers of meringue-like snow soften the mountains, waterfalls freeze rigid and you can wave at the skiers whooshing past.

D Do it with: Great Rail Journeys ; www. This fabled city in Mali, one of Africa's landlocked and least-visited countries, lures adventure travellers with the promise of a genuine time warp. On the southern edge of the Sahara, it is being slowly lost to the encroaching sands: Visit the 14th-century mosque with a mysterious door that has never been opened, meet the 15, remaining nomadic Tuareg, join them on a camel ride and sleep out under the stars.

Other Mali highlights include sailing a traditional pinasse down the Niger river, camping out on the banks, and visiting the Dogon villages, known for their cave-like houses with stone steps scoured out of the cliff face. Don't go if you need fluffy towels and ice in drinks.

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The Imaginative Traveller ; www. The bicycle is still the main means of transport in Asia's friendliest emerging country so it's the perfect way to get to know the locals. You don't have to pedal the entire distance from Ho Chi Minh City formerly Saigon in the south to Hanoi in the north as all public transport happily carries two wheels.

Push yourself up mountain passes, wreathed in mists like an oriental painting then take it easier on the flat, alongside emerald rice paddies, dotted with temples and curvy pagodas. Exodus Biking Adventures ; www. To the rest of us, the crown jewel of the Himalayas invokes tales of unbelievable human courage and strength.

Today a trek to Base Camp should be within range of any fit regular weekend walker. Those who've done it say nothing compares with that roof-of- the-world feeling as you stand there in awed silence surrounded by towering snow-capped peaks. That said, the Himalayas are as famed for their vibrant rhododendron forests as their snowy tops.

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You'll also need a camera for cliff-side monasteries with football playing monks in saffron robes, colourful yak trains accompanied by local black-eyed urchins and vertiginous swing bridges decorated with fluttering prayer flags. A Do it with: Walks Worldwide ; www. The tangled alleyways, spice-laden bazaars and grand domed architecture of ancient Silk Road stopovers such as Tashkent, Kashgar and Samarkand are childhood storybook cities. Once the only trading and cultural link between the East and Europe, these central Asian 'caravan' towns were almost forgotten until their rediscovery by Russian and British spies, which only adds to the frisson of mystery.

Aim to do it at leisure, starting in Beijing with time for the Great Wall, before moving on to the Heaven Lake at Urumqi, Kashgar with its celebrated Sunday market, Tashkent and Khiva - a mythical living museum of a city with minarets, mosques, tiny, twisting streets and pomegranate-red desert sunsets. Audley Travel ; www. Often known as the Amundsen Route, this is a genuine epic voyage on little-explored waterways, crossing the Arctic Circle, linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The excitement starts from day one with a helicopter transfer from Anchorage, Alaska, to your trusty ice-breaker Kapitan Khlebnikov. As well as stunning ice and snow scenery, including calving icebergs and glaciers, you should encounter polar bears, seals, musk oxen and arctic foxes. Highlights include whale-watching in the Bering Strait, visiting remote Inuit communities, and viewing the weathered remains of the Maud, the schooner in which Amundsen sailed the north polar basin in the s.

Discover the World ; www. A relatively new route, introduced in , this follows the cross-country path taken by the Japanese nobility and Samurai warriors as they travelled each year from the feudal court in Tokyo to their regional palaces.

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Today's trail also makes use of the bullet train to Hakone, home to more than 60 temples and shrines; Kyoto, regarded as the cradle of Japan's culture as well as its loveliest city; and Hiroshima, where the Peace Memorial Park acts as a grim reminder of the first atom bomb. LitFlash The eBooks you want at the lowest prices.

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