But for adventurous souls who can handle a 4WD and don't mind camping, there are affordable options within the delta's Moremi Game Reserve. Apostles (Australia) — Appropriately listed at number 12, Australia's 12 Apostles are wind and wave-eroded pinnacles that lie off the coast of Victoria. The Aṉangu people, the area's original inhabitants, believe it's still home to spirit ancestors like the python woman Kuniya and the hare-wallaby people, the Mala. The Great Barrier Reef (Australia) — A 1,600-mile sweep of of coral, the Great Barrier Reef is a magnet for divers with more than 400 species or marine life spanning from great baleen whales to thorny urchins. Four decades after it began as a penniless backpacker’s bible to traveling on the cheap, Lonely Planet is publishing what it says is the definitive guide to the world’s top tourism attractions.

There are 100 line drawings for you to colour in, and at the back of the book, there are descriptions of each place so you can find out a little more about the most astounding places on earth. Colour the world's 100 greatest places, from the Grand Canyon to the Alhambra, the Great Barrier Reef to the Acropolis and beyond. The temples are the perfect fusion of creative ambition and spiritual devotion, and a point of pilgrimage for all Cambodians. Petra (Jordan) — Known to many from the final scenes of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," Jordan's rock city of Petra was carved more than 2,300 years ago.Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) — Among the most environmentally precious -- and sensitive -- regions on earth, the Galapagos Islands attract travelers who keen to admire the incredible bio-diversity that helped inspire Charles Darwin's evolutionary theories. This book is guaranteed to exercise your creativity, focus your mind and inspire your inner traveller. These are the places we think you should experience; there are sights that will humble you, amaze you and surprise you.

Beyond Angkor Wat are more than 1000 temples and shrines, including Ta Prohm, its towers gripped by the jungle, and Bayon with its giant stone faces. For the first time, the team at Lonely Planet and its panel of industry experts have ranked the top 500 unmissable experiences and hidden gems across the land – to create this definitive travel wishlist. Of course, what makes a place special is different for everyone, but this is our definitive list and one we hope will inspire many other travel wish lists. This blue-green body of water with a white church on a green island, abutted by a terracotta-roofed castle and backed by snow-daubed Julian Alps, is Slovenia's premier crowd-puller.It started with the pilgrims from afar who came to worship at the photogenic island church, it continued with the lakeside sojourns of 19th-century royalty and then of former Yugoslav President Tito who had a villa on the shores - and today, tourism to Slovenia's Lake Bled shows no signs of slowing. Lonely Planet says: It’s not the outrageously dramatic Andean setting, nor the way that the city clings to impossibly precipitous slopes that makes Machu Picchu so mind-blowing – it’s the fact that no one really knows what happened here. Until 2017, visitors were allowed to summit Uluru, which went against the wishes of the Aṉangu, who worried about degradation and climber injuries. Looks good, but anyone hoping to hit all 500 is probably best advised leaving it on the coffee table rather than hauling it around in their backpack. The Ultimate Travelist describes Snowdonia as being "full of beauty and myth", with particular praise for the hikes to be had on craggy Tryfan and Cadair Idris, as well as its zip wire and newly-opened inland surfing lagoon.

Each year, the floodwaters of the Okavango River arrive from the Angolan highlands and expand this unique ecosystem to almost 7722 sq miles (20,000 sq km), sustaining vast quantities of wildlife. Fiordland National Park (New Zealand) — Carved by ancient glaciers and riven by towering cliffs that feature countless waterfalls, Fiordland makes the list despite, no doubt, stiff competition from New Zealand's dozen other national parks.Sagrada Familia Cathedral (Barcelona, Spain) — Construction on Antoni Gaudi's monumental church in Barcelona began 130-years ago. Home of 1960s cult TV show The Prisoner, the guide highlights Portmeirion's colourful Italianate buildings and florid tableware, describing them as "all rather captivating and slightly odd - it could only be in Britain".

Marking the boundary between Argentina and Brazil, the Río Iguazú flows languidly through the jungle before plunging over a basalt ledge with such sudden, furious force that the planet's most awe-inspiring waterfalls are the result. But generations later, after the city was abandoned, it was known only to the Bedouin who made the caves their home. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.That's only one of the brain-bending experiences you'll have visiting these 4085 sq miles (10,582 sq km) of salt, high in the Bolivian altiplano.