Destination Videos

This category contains destination guides in video format gathered on a gradual basis from around the Interweb. Each video is generally just a few minutes long but should hopefully give you a good idea of the destination, highlighting main attractions and tourist areas, architecture and ambience. A good way to see a little bit of the place before you book your holiday. This page updates every few days, so bookmark it (or use the RSS feed) and check back for more destinations regularly. You can get quick access to a full list of all the videos in alphabetic order via the sitemap.

A taste of Belgrade in Serbia with it’s excellent citylife!

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Neatly tucked underneath the Winterberg mountains in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, liess the citrus valley of Fort Beaufort.

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Entry into the Eastern Cape is likely to be along the N2 from Cape Town, where you’ll be struck by the beauty of the Tsitsikamma National Park, before the landscape flattens out past Cape St Francis and Jeffrey’s Bay, through Port Elizabeth and on to East London.

Inland to the north are the rolling hills of Grahamstown …

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A tourists guide to Toronto filmed in 2004. Take the bus tour, the river cruise, walk around chinatown or experience the views from the CN Tower.

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Take a spectacular river trip on the ‘Maid of the Mist’… Just one of the highlights from your visit to Niagara Falls!

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Experience the rich nomadic lifestyle in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Share in their simple way of life as you stay in the beautiful Gers, unwind, share a meal, ride a horse and feel like a nomad.

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Lonely Planet Author and Cape Cod native Ray Bartlett heads out for a great day of humpback whale watching in Stellwagen Bank, an underwater nature preserve north of Provincetown. Whales have always been a key industry in this area, and luckily these days it’s whale watching and tourism, not whale oil and meat, that are the main attraction. The gentle, endangered giants did not disappoint: feeding behavior, flukes and flippers, and breeching made this trip stand out as one of the best.

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Lonely Planet author Kate Armstrong heads to Portugal and stumbles across a quaint old chapel to discover the interior walls are built with human skulls! She continues to find more of these chapels that are famously known as The Bone Chapels.

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Makuteros en las peleas de gallos de Ecuador un deporte controvertido… como los Toros en España….

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Lonely Planet author Anja Mutic adventures out for some horse riding in Motovun, Croatia. Whether it’s a short one-hour trek or a week-long ride through the valleys and forests of Motovun, Anja describes horseback riding as being on top of the world as she takes in the stunning countryside scenery.
Shot by Anja Mutic and Tin Ostres.

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Lonely Planet author Michael Kohn spends 24 hours in Beijing. He visits the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Dashilar Hutong, the markets and then explores the nightlife where bars, restaurants and even street aerobics are a buzz.

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