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Horizon Guides is a celebration of travel less ordinary: experiences that push us beyond our comfort zone and expand our understanding of the world.

We live in an era of quick and easy tourism, where the world feels smaller and more familiar than ever before. But at Horizon we know that there's a big world out there, and that it's full of intrigue and adventure.

Forget the undiscovered, untouched shangri-la. That was always a myth peddled by marketing types. Today’s best discoveries come from within – by travelling with a different mindset, approaching the world with open-minded curiosity, and connecting with new people and cultures.

At Horizon we’re nurturing this new age of discovery. We provide fresh insights to familiar places, getting you closer to the people and the stories behind the holiday destinations. We believe that travel is about more than selfies and bragging rights. The world is not a list of places to check off. Burn the bucket list and embrace #TravelLessOrdinary.

Guidebooks

We create guidebooks that offer original perspectives on incredible places. Our guides help you plan your next adventure, with all the essential information you need to find the right place and design the right trip. And because we’re completely independent and unbiased, you know you can always take us at our word. We never take payment for positive coverage and if our professional researchers and contributors haven’t been there, in person and on the ground, it doesn’t go into our guides.

The Journal

We publish Journal dispatches and interviews with a wide range of local voices, world-famous explorers, conservationists, archaeologists and anthropologists, each with their own insights to share. From the remotest deserts and mountain tops to our own hometowns, we know there’s a story waiting to be told behind every place, and the people that live there.

Trips

We've selected a limited number of trips and tours to some of the world's most exceptional places. All trips are organised by our partner travel specialists and we connect you directly to their websites to get the advice you need and to book your next adventure.

Travel specialists

We’ve partnered with some of the world’s best travel specialists to curate a range of first-rate travel experiences. Once you’ve read our guides and are ready to go, our partners will gladly help you find the perfect trip, with no pressure and no commitment to book. And because we don’t charge them any commissions, you know you’re always getting the best possible price.

We help independent tour operators and travel companies connect with a global audience of frequent international travellers. Interested in working with us? Get in touch at sales@horizonguides.com.

Some of our contributors

Sue Watt

Sue Watt

An expert on Africa wildlife travel, Sue writes for The Independent, The Telegraph and The Times, Travel Africa, BBC Wildlife, Wanderlust, the Lonely Planet and Rough Guides.

James Stewart

James Stewart

James Stewart is an award-winning travel journalist whose work appears regularly in the Sunday Times, Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian and the Sunday Times Travel Magazine.

Hans Cosmas Ngoteya

Hans Cosmas Ngoteya

Hans Cosmas Ngoteya is a conservationist from Tanzania, a National Geographic Explorer, and co-founder of numerous conservation organisations including Ngoteya Wild, Landscape and Conservation Mentors Organization and Tanzania Wildlife Media Association.

Heather Richardson

Heather Richardson

Heather is an award-winning journalist and editor based in Cape Town, South Africa. She writes for the BBC, Sunday Times, National Geographic, Lonely Planet, Departures Magazine, among others.

Jane Foster

Jane Foster

Jane Foster is a British freelance travel writer, based in Split on the Dalmatian coast, and specialising in Croatia, Montenegro and Greece. She writes for the Travel section of the Daily Telegraph (UK) and various magazines, including Conde Nast Traveller and Scandinavian Traveler.

Vidya Balachander

Vidya Balachander

Vidya Balachander is a food and travel writer based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Formerly the features editor of BBC Good Food India, her work has also featured in Mint Lounge, Vogue India, National Geographic Traveller India, Time Out Mumbai and the 2010 edition of Fodor’s Essential India guidebook.

Stuart Butler

Stuart Butler

Stuart is an award-winning travel journalist and guidebook author who has been visiting and trekking in Nepal for over thirty years. One of the world's leading authorities on Nepal trekking, he is the author of Lonely Planet’s Trekking in Nepal, the Rough Guide to Nepal, the Tibet chapter of the Rough Guide to China and the Bradt guide to Kashmir & Ladakh. He is also regularly published in The Independent, BBC, Time Out, The Telegraph, among many other UK and international publications.

Stuart Butler

Stuart Butler

Stuart is an award-winning travel journalist covering safari, trekking and conservation in Africa for the Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, BBC, Bradt Travel Guides, amongst many others. He is the author of Walking With The Maasai, a journey through some of Kenya's lesser-visited Maasai lands.

Mariellen Ward

Mariellen Ward

Mariellen is a professional travel journalist who publishes the award-winning travel site Breathedreamgo.com, inspired by her extensive travels in India. Though Canadian by birth, Mariellen considers India to be her "soul culture” and she lives up in the clouds in Rishikesh.

Charlotte Beauvoisin

Charlotte Beauvoisin

Charlotte is a travel journalist and guidebook author based on the edge of Kibale Forest, Uganda. She is an expert contributor on East Africa for the Bradt Uganda Guidebook and has written for Lonely Planet, The Daily Telegraph and Fodor's. She also volunteers with Conservation Through Public Health where she works with Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda's most prominent gorilla vet.

Jeremy Head

Jeremy Head

Freelance travel writer and photographer. His writing and photos are regularly published in the UK’s mainstream newspapers. Wales is one of his favourite destinations, particularly when he’s travelling with the family.

Lottie Gross

Lottie Gross

Lottie is a travel journalist with bylines in The Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, National Geographic Traveller among others.

Dr Joseph Ogutu

Dr Joseph Ogutu

Joseph is a bio-statistician currently based at the Institute of Crop Science in the University of Hohenheim. His research focuses on understanding the decline in the wildlife population of Kenya.

David Whitley

David Whitley

David Whitley spent five years in Australia editing backpacker magazines and has visited twice a year since coming back to the UK. He works for major magazines and newspapers both at home and in Oz.

Emma Sparks

Emma Sparks

Emma Sparks is an itchy-footed freelance travel writer and digital editor based in Cardiff, UK. She has written for Lonely Planet, The Telegraph, Love Exploring, easyJet, Skyscanner and more.

Marcela Torres

Marcela Torres

Born in Santiago, Chile, Marcela is a journalist and local expert on outdoor travel. She’s earned a master's degree in tourism with an emphasis on ecotourism, operated a tour company, and co-authored a Spanish-language guidebook about Chile’s national parks. Her travel career has taken her all over South America, and she has also lived in Australia, Costa Rica, and the United States. Follow her coverage of tourism in Chile at tourism-people-nature.blogspot.cl

Robin McKelvie

Robin McKelvie

Robin McKelvie is a Scottish based travel writer who has spent the last two decades travelling the globe writing articles for newspapers and magazines across five continents, as well as over 30 guidebooks for the likes of Berlitz and National Geographic. He also talks travel regularly on the BBC.

Cindy Fan

Cindy Fan

Cindy Fan is a writer specialising in experiential travel, food, culture and destination guides. The author of Travelfish’s Laos and Vietnam guides since 2014, her stories and guides have been published in CNN Travel, The Australian, The Toronto Star and various inflight magazines.

Paul Bloomfield

Paul Bloomfield

Paul is an award-winning travel journalist writing on walking and hiking in Europe and beyond for the likes of the Telegraph, The Times, Wanderlust, Lonely Planet, BBC Wildlife and National Geographic Traveller.

Lakshmi Sharath

Lakshmi Sharath

After fifteen years as a journalist in several media organisations, Lakshmi decided to travel the world. So far, she has covered five continents and 25 countries.

Simon Heptinstall

Simon Heptinstall

Simon is a TV writer turned travel journalist and photographer who specialises in walking and hiking holidays in the United Kingdom, Europe and beyond. He writes on walking holidays in England for the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, among others.

Taylor St. John

Taylor St. John

Taylor is a freelance travel journalist based between Glasgow and the east coast of the U.S. She writes for publications like HuffPost UK, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Country Walking, easyJet Traveller and Orkney.com.

Belinda Dixon

Belinda Dixon

Belinda Dixon has researched Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland guidebooks for Lonely Planet and produces podcasts for Ordnance Survey (OS). She has led wilderness expeditions to the Indian Himalaya, Iceland and the Canadian Yukon with the youth development charity, British Exploring.

Amy Balfour

Amy Balfour

Amy has authored or co-authored 26 books on the USA for Lonely Planet. Her articles and essays have appeared in Backpacker, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Houston Chronicle, Redbook, Southern Living, Women’s Health, Vegetarian Times, the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post.

Ian Redmond OBE

Ian Redmond OBE

Ian Redmond is a tropical field biologist and conservationist, renowned for his work with great apes and elephants. For more than 40 years he has been associated with the mountain gorilla, through research, filming, tourism and conservation work. Ian founded Ape Alliance in 1996 to encourage conservation organisations to work together.

Hugh Thomson

Hugh Thomson

Hugh has led several research expeditions to Peru and is the author of The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland and of Cochineal Red: Travels through Ancient Peru.

Susana Corona Cruz

Susana Corona Cruz

Susana is a Cuban-born travel writer, blogger and translator. Now based in Europe, Susana returns to her motherland at least once a year to rediscover, photograph and write about her birthplace. She works as an editor and translator for online and offline publications and her work has appeared in The Luxury Report and London magazine Latino Life.

Peter Knights

Peter Knights

Peter is co-founder and Executive Director of WildAid, the only organisation focused on reducing demand for wildlife products and leading the fight against global demand for shark fin, ivory, and rhino horn.

Ethan Gelber

Ethan Gelber

Ethan has been a freelance writer and editor for more than 20 years, with scores of projects focused on travel, culture and education. He specialises in responsible and sustainable tourism, family travel, and keeping travel local.

Jim Lutz

Jim Lutz

Jim is president of the International Galapagos Tour Operators Association, an organisation made up of 40 companies working to preserve and protect the islands by promoting responsible, well-regulated, low impact tourism, and by supporting critical conservation initiatives and scientific research.

Julie Olum

Julie Olum

Julie Olum is a nomad, writer, YouTuber and architecture graduate from Nairobi, Kenya. The hands and mind behind FrameAmbition.com, she makes online content around solo travel, festivals and visa hacks for holders of “weak passports". Her love affair with travel is now a near-obsession with slow travel and exploring cultural similarities across the world.

Steven Hermans

Steven Hermans

Steven is the creator and editor of Caravanistan, an online travel guide to the Silk Road that was described by the Lonely Planet as a "peerless online travel guide to the region". He has been travelling the region since 2010, and has dedicated himself to improving tourism on the Silk Road, both for travellers and locals.

Katie Coakley

Katie Coakley

Katie Coakley is a freelance writer and occasional blogger based in Denver, Colorado. She’s eaten dinner on a portaledge in Wales, snorkelled through the North American and Eurasian continents in Iceland and ridden the Reunification Express through Vietnam and has lived to write the tale. Antarctica was the seventh continent she has visited. Her writing has appeared in various newspapers, magazines and online outlets. You can find more of her work on her website or follow her on Instagram.

Jim O'Donnell

Jim O'Donnell

Freelance journalist, author and photographer, Jim O’Donnell focuses on conservation, human rights, and travel. A former archaeologist, O’Donnell is the author of Notes for the Aurora Society as well as numerous articles, several sordid tales, various angry letters-to-the-editor and other scribblings. He lives in New Mexico with his two children.

Mike Gasparovic

Mike Gasparovic

Mike is an independent travel writer based in Lima, Peru. He has written for Fodor’s, Peru This Week and has created two book-length guides to his new hometown. His chief interests are the history and culture of the Spanish speaking world.

Matt Maynard

Matt Maynard

Matt has been based in Chile since he began a bicycle adventure from Patagonia in 2011. Since then, he has run ultramarathons across steaming volcanoes, hiked solo on the remotest stretches of the Greater Patagonian Trail and ridden his tandem with his Chilean wife across the breathless expanses of the Atacama desert.

Andrea Mujica

Andrea Mujica

Born and raised in Florida, Andrea is currently living a nomadic lifestyle in Chile. She loves writing, people-watching, eating avocados, and finding new and interesting places to visit throughout South America.

Carolina Morgado

Carolina Morgado

Carolina currently works as executive director in the Tompkins Conservation Chile office in the beautiful city of Puerto Varas, the gateway to Chilean Patagonia.

Edgar R Batte

Edgar R Batte

Edgar is an award-winning journalist, writer and editor. His work has been published by The East African, African Review, Music in Africa, Marimba Media and many more.

Rachel Bracken-Singh

Rachel Bracken-Singh

Rachel is head designer at international fashion boutique Anokhi and co-founder and director of the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing. She lives in Jaipur.

Ashley Leiman

Ashley Leiman

Ashley founded the Orangutan Foundation in 1990 and is one of the leading figures in orangutan conservation.

Anthony Ham

Anthony Ham

Anthony is a renowned travel journalist and guidebook author and is one of the world's leading authorities on Africa safari, wildlife and conservation. He has been travelling to Africa for more than two decades to research Africa safari guidebooks for Lonely Planet. He is widely published in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Monthly, Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR), National Geographic Traveler, BBC Wildlife, Lonely Planet Traveller, Africa Geographic, The Independent, Travel Africa, among many others.

Amanda Lynnes

Amanda Lynnes

Amanda is Head of communications and environment at the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO). Her Antarctic career began in 1996 with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) as a penguin biologist and field assistant for the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).

Mandy Sinclair

Mandy Sinclair

Mandy Sinclair is a travel journalist and guidebook author based in Marrakech, Morocco. She runs the blog MandyInMorocco.com and hosts the bi-weekly podcast Why Morocco. She contributes to the Lonely Planet, The Independent, Toronto Star, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Telegraph Travel, among many other publications.

Lauren Keith

Lauren Keith

Lauren Keith is a guidebook author and travel writer specialising in the Middle East and North Africa and off-the-beaten-track destinations. Lauren was previously the editor for the Middle East and North Africa at Lonely Planet, where she’s written extensively about the region. Follow her adventures in the Middle East and beyond on Instagram @noplacelike_it.

Megan Eaves

Megan Eaves

Megan Eaves first visited China in 2004 with her Mandarin-language class and got hooked on Nanjing’s spicy weather and food. She’s lived in China twice and visited countless more times, travelling the length of the country from Guangdong to Qinghai and Guizhou to Beijing. She has written on China for Lonely Planet, CNN, The Independent and Atlas by Etihad, and is the author of This Is China: A Guidebook for Teachers, Backpackers and Other Lunatics. If lost, she is likely to be found scarfing down beef noodles in remotest Gansu province, or guzzling craft beer in a Beijing hutong.

David Luekens

David Luekens

Based in Thailand since 2011, David first waded into Southeast Asia in the early 2000s via friendships forged in the Thai, Vietnamese and Karen communities of Vermont, almost Canada, USA. He is a bona fide nerd in maps, islands and travel planning with a research background in Buddhism and the environmental, political and human rights issues of Southeast Asia. Bylines include CNN Travel, Conde Nast Traveller China and more than 100 Travelfish guides.

Nicole Canning

Nicole Canning

Nicole Canning is a freelance travel writer and co-founder of the adventure travel blog, TheTwoTravelled.com. Follow her on @nikkitravelled where she shares her latest travel plans and country guides for the time-restricted traveller.

Susannah Rigg

Susannah Rigg

Susannah Rigg is a freelance writer and Mexico specialist based in Mexico City. Her work has been featured by Condé Nast Traveller, CNN, BBC Travel and AFAR among others. She has visited 26 of Mexico’s 32 states and is captivated by Mexico’s rich Mesoamerican history.

Sharell Cook

Sharell Cook

"Sharell Cook is a travel writer and author of Henna for the Broken-Hearted, published by Pan Macmillan. She was born and brought up in Australia and now lives in Mumbai, India."

Amanda Barnes

Amanda Barnes

Amanda Barnes is an award-winning wine and travel writer who has been based in Argentina since 2009. She is author of the South America Wine Guide: The essential guide to the wine regions of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. When she isn’t drinking wine in South America’s wine regions you can often find her riding horses with gauchos in eastern Argentina, exploring the steppes of Patagonia, or learning to tango in Montevideo.

Mark Stratton

Mark Stratton

Mark is a professional travel writer and radio broadcaster. His work has appeared in National Geographic, Wanderlust, Telegraph Travel and many others. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio Four’s From Our Own Correspondent.

Somdyuti Datta Ray

Somdyuti Datta Ray

Somdyuti is an experienced Kolkata-based journalist who has written for Outlook Business, The Telegraph India, The Asian Age and others.

James Lowen

James Lowen

James writes about travel and nature. He has twice won Travel Guidebook of the Year awards. His books include Pantanal Wildlife: a Visitor’s Guide to Brazil’s Great Wetland and he is the editor of Neotropical Birding, the only magazine dedicated to wildlife in South and Central America.

Tamara Thiessen

Tamara Thiessen

Journalist-travel writer and photographer, Tamara Thiessen is an expert on Borneo with her 4th edition Bradt Travel Guide to the island due in 2020. France-Australia based, she works for newspapers, travel & leisure publications and in-flight magazines worldwide and is the author of several books

Jon Jared

Jon Jared

Jon is a travel writer and guidebook researcher based in Quito, Ecuador. He has authored the Moon guides to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands and contributes to Delta Sky Magazine and the Happy Gringo Travel website.

Stuart Thornton

Stuart Thornton

Stuart is a California-based travel writer and guidebook author. His books include Moon California Road Trip, Moon Coastal California and the forthcoming Moon Northern California Road Trips. For more about Stuart and his books, visit his website.

Ashley Owen

Ashley Owen

Ashley is a freelance travel writer from the UK who spent two years travelling around Japan, and writes about the country regularly for a variety of print and online publications. You can follow her on Instagram.

Laura Williams

Laura Williams

Laura is a freelance writer who has written for Men's Journal, Thrillist, VeryWellFit and many more. She currently runs a small community bar in the El Llano pueblo in Costa Rica.

James Clark

James Clark

James is a freelance travel journalist who has written for Lonely Planet, BBC, Monocle, TGO Magazine and TNT Magazine. He is returning to Tohoku to complete the entire Michinoku Coastal Trail.

Jools Stone

Jools Stone

Jools Stone is an award-winning travel and arts writer and editor, published by the Telegraph, New European, Daily Express, Rough Guides and more. Based in Brighton, he’s a keen advocate for rail and slow travel.

Katheryn Wise

Katheryn Wise

Katheryn is World Animal Protection's UK campaigns manager for wildlife. Her role focuses on exposing places where wild animals are used for entertainment in tourism.

Tom Allen

Tom Allen

Tom is an explorer and travel writer, originally from England, now based in the South Caucasus. He has published five books and three full-length films, and currently works full-time on the Transcaucasian Trail.

Baia Dzagnidze

Baia Dzagnidze

Baia is a travel writer and blogger from Tbilisi, Georgia. With a background in journalism, she has been writing travel articles about Georgia for local and international publications for more than three years. Her articles have been published in Lonely Planet, National Geographic Traveller FOOD (UK edition), Skyscanner, Georgia Starts Here, and Forbes Woman Georgia.

Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey

Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey


Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey is a freelance travel writer and guidebook author. Her work has appeared in The Independent, The Telegraph, France Today, AFAR, CNN Travel, and her three books on Australia are in print with Moon Travel Guides.

Chris Draper

Chris Draper

Chris is head of animal welfare and captivity at the Born Free Foundation. He oversees animal welfare across all the Foundation’s projects and leads on promoting its Compassionate Conservation initiative. Chris is also the European Coordinator for the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS) and has completed a PhD at the University of Bristol on the implementation of legislation and assessment of animal welfare in zoos.

Nick Stewart

Nick Stewart

Nick is World Animal Protection’s global head of campaign against dolphin captivity, advocating for the public and travel industry’s rejection of captive dolphin experiences and building support for responsible alternatives and solutions to protect current and future generations of animals.

Joel Balsam

Joel Balsam

Joel Balsam is a travel journalist and editor whose work has appeared in TIME, National Geographic Travel, The Guardian, BBC Travel, American Airlines, Travel + Leisure and more. He is the Lonely Planet guidebook author for Armenia, Morocco and France.

Stephanie Foden

Stephanie Foden

Stephanie Foden is a documentary photographer who has shot stories for National Geographic, New York Times and TIME.

Daiva Repeckaite

Daiva Repeckaite

Daiva is a Lithuanian journalist based in Malta, published in Guardian Cities, Politico Europe, New Internationalist and other international and local media. She is interested in the changing worlds of work and the ways people make sense of dramatic changes around them.

Kellie Heckman

Kellie Heckman

Kellie has a 20-year track record as a non-profit executive, charity startup veteran, and academic research scientist with a focus on international animal advocacy and conservation, companion animal overpopulation, and the protection of wildlife, equine and farmed animals.

Mazuba Kapambwe

Mazuba Kapambwe

Mazuba is a freelance writer from Zambia whose travel writing has appeared on CNN Travel, Unearth Women, Culture Trip and several in-flight magazines. Her travel podcast Mwende Bwino (Go Well) was recently featured on Conde Nast Traveler’s website and listed as one of the top five Zambian podcasts. Mazuba co-wrote the Lusaka Arts and Culture guide produced by the National Arts Council of Zambia.

Elen Turner

Elen Turner

Elen is a Nelson, New Zealand-based travel writer who has lived on both the North and South Islands, from Northland to Otago. Her writing on New Zealand has appeared in Lonely Planet, The New Zealand Herald, Ozy, TripSavvy, Culture Trip, The Points Guy and elsewhere.

Tony Dunnell

Tony Dunnell

Tony has been living in Peru since 2009. He has also written on a range of subjects for publications such as Atlas Obscura, Vice, Mental Floss, and many more. You can see more of his writing at tonydunnell.com.

Fergal MacErlean

Fergal MacErlean

Dublin-born Fergal fell in love with Scotland as a student, settling there to become a journalist and cycle guidebook writer. In addition to his guides covering Scotland, he has written for the BBC, New Scientist, BBC Countryfile Magazine and many travel publications. Andalusia is a second home.

Catherine Bodry

Catherine Bodry

Catherine is a freelance travel writer and guidebook author hailing from Anchorage, Alaska. Her work has appeared in Lonely Planet, BBC Travel, Fodor's, MSN UK Travel, and many other print and web publications.

Lisa Maloney

Lisa Maloney

Lisa is an Alaska-based writer and journalist. She has authored the Moon guide to Alaska Alaska and served as senior editor at Alaska magazine among bylines in Via, Backpacker, the Wall Street Journal, Alaska magazine, Last Frontier, Northwest Travel & Life, The Writer, Funds for Writers, Natural Home and Garden and Outside Online.

Daniel McCrohan

Daniel McCrohan

Daniel is a prolific guidebook writer who divides his time between exploring Asia for Lonely Planet and Britain for Trailblazer. As well as writing close to 50 guidebooks for Lonely Planet, he has worked on more than a dozen Trailblazer walking guides, and has hiked and camped his way across many parts of the UK, China, Mongolia and India.

Sarah Reid

Sarah Reid

Sarah is an award-winning Australian travel writer with a passion for sustainability and low-impact travel. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, BBC Travel, Lonely Planet, Adventure.com, The Independent, and more. She also writes travel reference books for Lonely Planet, and manages sustainable travel website Eco Travelist.

Colin Baird

Colin Baird

Edinburgh-born Colin is a cycling blogger. He became hooked on cycling in Scotland after his first-ever biking holiday to the Orkney Islands. He's been all over the country discovering routes and seeking out the best places to visit by bike. He blogs about his adventures on the Cycling Scot website.

Sara Jane Armstrong

Sara Jane Armstrong

SJ Armstrong is a travel writer and infrequent blogger from London. She specialises in slow and budget travel across 6 continents, including 6 months travelling around Australia. Her writing has appeared in various online outlets and magazines, and more of her published work can be found here.

Steven Hunt

Steven Hunt

Steven is an energy & innovation advisor at the UK's Department for International Development (DFiD) with an interest in low carbon, and energy access technology. When he's not at work he's out exploring new corners of the UK and Europe with his wife, Sarah, and their two boys in their 1980s Volkswagen T3 campervan.

Kerry Walker

Kerry Walker

Based in the mountains of Mid Wales, Kerry Walker is an award-winning British travel writer, author, photographer, translator and co-founder of Undiscovered Wales. She is also lover of mountains, cold places and true wilderness.

Jody Halsted

Jody Halsted

Jody Halsted is her family’s chief vacation planner and publisher of Camping Tips for Everyone. While Jody has experience with all types of camping, from ‘roughing it’ to luxury glamping, she prefers the spacious comfort of her 36’ Class A RV.

Lucie Grace

Lucie Grace

Lucie is a freelance journalist specialising in arts, music, travel and leisure. She has lived in London, Malta and Venice, and currently resides in India. You can follow her travels and work on Instagram.

Ellie Ross

Ellie Ross

Ellie is a NCTJ-qualified travel journalist specialising in active travel, yoga, and fitness. She is published in The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, National Geographic Traveller, among many more.

Sarah Bence

Sarah Bence

Sarah Bence is a travel journalist based in her home state of Michigan, after living in the UK for three and a half years. She writes for Lonely Planet, Fodor's, Roadtrippers Magazine, Business Insider, and more.

Rudolf Abraham

Rudolf Abraham

Rudolf Abraham is an award-winning travel journalist, photographer and guidebook author. He writes on trekking and hiking for National Geographic, the BBC, Cicerone, DK Eyewitness, Bradt Guides, among many others.

Helen Moat

Helen Moat

Helen Moat is author of Bradt Guides' Slow Travel The Peak District. She is also a regular contributor for Wanderlust, Derbyshire Life, BBC Countryfile, among others. Now settled in the Peak District, she is constantly inspired by the landscape and the people and places shaped by the Peak.

Rosie Bellwood

Rosie Bellwood

Rosie is a writer from Sheffield who has spent the last couple of years pottering about Europe, Southeast Asia and New Zealand, writing screenplays and blogging about her favourite films.

Maureen Santucci

Maureen Santucci

Maureen is based in the ancient Peruvian capital of Cusco, where she works as a travel advisor and journalist covering Peru for Fodors Travel Guides and a variety of other publications.

Robert Isenberg

Robert Isenberg

Robert Isenberg spent nearly two years in Costa Rica as an adventurer and journalist for the Tico Times. An award-winning writer and stage actor, Isenberg has contributed to such diverse publications as Lonely Planet, McSweeney's, Mental Floss, The Christian Science Monitor, and Pittsburgh Magazine. He has authored several books, most recently The Green Season, a jaunty collection of journalism and essays from his time in Costa Rica (also on Audible). He currently lives in Phoenix, AZ.

Erin Raub

Erin Raub

Erin Raub is a travel writer and journalist who has been based in Costa Rica for nearly a decade. When not writing, Erin enjoys exploring Costa Rica with her family, ever-impressed at the country’s incredible diversity. Her favorite spots are the cloud forests of Monteverde, the beaches of Manuel Antonio, and the volcanic landscapes of Rincón de la Vieja.

Erin Walton

Erin Walton

Erin is an Australian writer and translator who has called Chile home for over four years. After travelling through South America from Santa Marta to Ushuaia as an independent traveller, she moved back to Chile where she remains drawn to its always-varying landscapes. She writes for companies working in travel and tourism.

James Gifford

James Gifford

James is an award-winning photographer and journalist based in Botswana. His work on Botswana's wildlife, landscapes and culture has been published in numerous publications including The Times, The Guardian, BBC Wildlife, Lonely Planet, CNN Traveller, amongst many others.

Sara Mc Geough

Sara Mc Geough

Sara is a travel writer, editor and adventure guide based in the West coast of Ireland. She guides for Wilderness Ireland, Trek Travel and writes for Her Sport Magazine.

Heather Jasper

Heather Jasper

Based in Cusco, Peru, Heather is an expert on travel to Peru and South America. Heather writes on tourism, trekking, and social issues in Peru for publications including BBC Travel, Fodor’s Travel, Matador Network, Thrifty Nomads, World Nomads, Frommer's, Flashpack, and more. Heather co-founded the Covid Relief Project with Henry Quintano Loaiza to assist vulnerable families in the Cusco region.

Emma Boyle

Emma Boyle

Emma is an established travel writer and author specialising in Sri Lanka where she was based for over a decade. Emma's work has featured in Condé Nast Traveller, Guardian Travel, Get Lost, Suitcase, Wanderlust and numerous inflight magazines. She's written for i-escape.com and Mr & Mrs Smith, and is The Telegraph's Sri Lanka hotel expert. She's worked on many Rough Guides titles including guides to Australia, India and Sri Lanka. She is also the author of Culture Smart! Sri Lanka.

Stephen Lioy

Stephen Lioy

Stephen is a travel photographer and writer who specialises in trekking and hiking in Kyrgyzstan, Morocco and destinations beyond in Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. He writes for Lonely Planet, BBC Travel, Slate, amongst many others.

Peter Elia

Peter Elia

Peter is a travel journalist and photographer who travels the globe searching for compelling stories from the paths less travelled. He writes on trekking and hiking for many publications, including BBC Travel, Lonely Planet, The Independent and The Guardian.

Yvonne Gordon

Yvonne Gordon

Yvonne Gordon is an award-winning adventure travel writer based in Ireland. She writes for The Sunday Times, the Irish Independent, National Geographic, the BBC Travel, the Washington Post, among many others.

Steph Dyson

Steph Dyson

Steph Dyson is a freelance travel journalist and guidebook author. She specialises in adventure travel to Chile and South America. She spent three years living in Santiago and writes for Moon Guides, Rough Guides, DK Eyewitness Guides, The Independent, Vox.com, CNN, Time Out, as well as her own South America travel site, Worldly Adventurer.

Bradley Mayhew

Bradley Mayhew

Bradley is a travel journalist and guidebook author specialising in trekking in Central Asia, Nepal, Bhutan and elsewhere in Asia. He writes for Lonely Planet, Odyssey Guides, Insight Guides, among others.

Abhi Shrestha

Abhi Shrestha

Abhi is the operations manager at Snow Cat Travel, one of Nepal's most highly regarded trekking specialists. With 25 years' experience organising treks to Nepal, they're recognised by Lonely Planet, Rough Guides and multiple other publications as one of the best trekking operators in Nepal.

Miles Buesst

Miles Buesst

Miles has been travelling to Peru since 1999, originally as a tour leader and more recently as the founder of PeruNorth, a leading specialist in Peru trekking tours to lesser-known locations. Over the years, his expert knowledge has been employed by various guidebooks, including National Geographic Traveller: Peru, DK Eyewitness, Footprint: South America Handbook and Viva Peru!

Denise Carnihan

Denise Carnihan

Denise is the founder of Helping Hand African Tours & Safaris, a specialist in safari to Kenya. She has been travelling to, and working in, Kenya for over twelve years. Her travel business has allowed Denise to establish two primary schools in Kenya, and she has written a book based on her experiences.

Nune Taunts

Nune Taunts

Based in Yerevan, Armenia, Nune has been organising and operating travel to the Caucasus for the last 12 years, originally as a tour manager and more recently as CEO of the two biggest travel companies in the Caucasus.

Caitlin McNamara

Caitlin McNamara

Caitlin is a senior travel expert for Amity Tours, a specialist in Chile hiking and adventure travel. Based in Santiago, she has been living, working and travelling in Chile since 2015, visiting some of the country's most thrilling locations from the Atacama desert to Torres del Paine and virtually everywhere in between. Of all Chile's best trekking destinations, those closest to her heart are San Pedro de Atacama, Colchagua, Mapu Lahual, Frutillar, Chiloé, and Torres del Paine.

Robert Zgozi

Robert Zgozi

Robert has been organising safaris to Zambia for over 10 years. He is the founder and CEO of Absolute Zambia Safaris, a leading local safari operator.

Robbin Meulemans

Robbin Meulemans

Robbin is the founder and CEO of Tanzania Specialists and has been organising safaris to Tanzania since 2015. It took just one unforgettable tour for Robbin and his wife to fall in love with the magic of Tanzania, and Tanzania Specialists was born quickly growing into a 30-person team based in Arusha and the Netherlands.

Sarah Kingdom

Sarah Kingdom

Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, before moving to Africa at the age of 21, Sarah Kingdom is a mountain climber and guide, traveller, yoga teacher, trail runner, and mother of two. When she is not climbing or traveling she lives on a cattle ranch in central Zambia. She guides climbing and trekking trips worldwide, including taking climbers up Mount Kilimanjaro numerous times a year.

Rory Sheldon

Rory Sheldon

Rory, born and raised in Botswana, is the founder and director of The African Wild, a social enterprise that specialises in conservation through ecotourism. He has over 12 years' experience in video journalism, conservation management, and ecotourism in Botswana.

Philip Briggs

Philip Briggs

Philip Briggs is a guidebook writer and travel journalist specialised in African travel. He first backpacked between Nairobi and Cape Town in 1986 and has been travelling the highways and byways of Africa ever since. Since the 1990s, he has researched and authored several pioneering Bradt Guides. These include the first dedicated guidebooks to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda and Somaliland. He has worked on guidebooks for several other publishers including AA, Insight, Berlitz, Eyewitness, Frommers, Rough Guides, Struik-New Holland and 30 Degrees South.

Joshua Zukas

Joshua Zukas

Joshua is a Vietnam-based journalist covering travel, culture, architecture, food and innovation in Asia. He holds a BA in Southeast Asian Studies and an MSc in Sustainable Tourism.

He writes on Vietnam for Lonely Planet, Michelin Guide, Bradt Guides, Ink Global, CNN Create and Asia's top inflight magazines, and contributes to The Economist, Insider, Wallpaper and Interior Design Magazine, among many others.

Sarah Gilbert

Sarah Gilbert

Sarah is an award-winning travel journalist and guidebook author specialising in Morocco, Africa and Latin America. She has been published in Lonely Planet, Wanderlust, The Guardian, The Telegraph, among many others.

Emma Heywood

Emma Heywood

Emma is founder and director of Undiscovered Balkans, a leading specialist in sustainable small group adventure, active and walking holidays in the Balkans established in 2008. Tours are based on her unique local knowledge and have won acclaim from top travel media including The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, the Lonely Planet and Bradt guides and others.

Melanie van Zyl

Melanie van Zyl

Melanie is a travel photojournalist and guidebook author based in Johannesburg. A qualified field guide, scuba diver and budding birdwatcher, she is an expert contributor on Southern Africa and has written for Lonely Planet, Travel+Leisure, Condé Nast Traveller and Fodor's, and photographed some of the continent's beloved travel lodges.

Jamal Idali

Jamal Idali

Jamal is the founder of Atlas Mountain Trekking, and has been leading treks and tours in Morocco since 2002. In 2012 he decided to create his own business showing visitors the very best of Morocco's trekking and hiking.

David Battle

David Battle

David is the director of Thistle Trekking, established in 2011 and a leading specialist in fully guided adventure treks and walking holidays in Scotland. David is a qualified Mountain Leader and is either busy hiking in the Highlands, planning his next trip, or helping organise a trekking holiday for one of Thistle Trekking's clients.

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