James Lyon

Introduction South-East Asia has so many highlights it is difficult to know where to begin. Volcanos, jungles, ancient cultures, thriving metropolises, pristine beaches and spellbinding ritual - you'll fmd them all. But perhaps it's easiest to sum it all up with a cliche - it's the people you...

John Noble John grew up in the cool, green valley of the River Ribble, England. He escaped intermittently from a career in newspaper journalism by taking lengthy trips around Europe, North and Central America and Southeast Asia, before Lonely Planet answered his call and sent him to update their...

Foreword ABOUT LONELY PLANET GUIDEBOOKS The story begins with a classic travel adventure: Tony and Maureen Wheeler's 1972 journey across Europe and Asia to Australia. Useful information about the overland trail did not exist at that time, so Tony and Maureen published the first Lonely Planet...

Foreword Lonely Planet gathers information for everyone who's curious about the planet - and especially for those who explore it firsthand. Through guidebooks, phrase-books, activity guides, maps, literature, newsletters, Image library, TV series and website, we act as an information exchange...

Introduction Ii Like a string of jewels in a coral sea, the 13,000 plus islands of the Indonesian archipelago stretch almost 5000 km from the Asian mainland into the Pacific Ocean. And like jewels the islands have long represented wealth. A thousand years ago the Chinese sailed as far as Timor...

Introduction South-East Asia has so many highlights it is difficult to know where to begin. Volcanos, jungles, ancient cultures, thriving metropolises, pristine beaches and spellbinding ritual - you'll find them all. But perhaps it's easiest to sum it all up with a cliche - it's the people you...