the ultimate money-saving travel guide

306 Pages·2016·57.56 MB·English

by  Lonely Planet

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Release Date August 2016
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CONTENTS
A RTS & C U LT U R E
M U S I C & F I L M
S P O RTS & L E I S U R E
A RTS & C U LT U R E
Singapore 56 Geneva 102
Tokyo 62 Helsinki 104
Europe’s best
CONTENTS EUROPE 68 free museums
Amsterdam 70 and galleries 106
INTRODUCTION 4 Beijing 26 Athens 72 İstanbul 108
Beirut 32 Barcelona 74 Lisbon 112
AFRICA 6 Asia’s best sunsets Europe’s best London 116
Cape Town 8 without the national parks 78 Europe’s best city
Africa’s wildest pricetag 34 Berlin 80 walking tours 122
experiences 12 Delhi 36 Bruges 86 Madrid 124
Marrakesh 14 Dubai 38 Budapest 88 Milan 130
Safari without Hong Kong 44 Copenhagen 90 Moscow 134
the big bucks 18 Mumbai 50 Europe’s best Stinge Henge 138
Asia’s best cheap wild swimming 94 Oslo 140
ASIA 20 gourmet grub 52 Dublin 96 Paris 142
Bangkok 22 Shanghai 54 Edinburgh 100 Prague 148
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C O N T E N T S
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CONTENTS
A RTS & C U LT U R E
S P O RTS & L E I S U R E
FO O D & D R I N K
F EST I VA LS & E V E N TS
Reykjavik 152 Las Vegas 192 Free spectator sports Buenos Aires 274
Europe’s best tours by Los Angeles 196 in the USA 232 Wine tasting on a
public transport 156 Miami 200 Vancouver 234 shoestring in
Rome 158 New Orleans 202 Washington, DC 238 South America 280
Stockholm 164 North America’s Lima 282
Venice 166 best free OCEANIA 244 Rio de Janeiro 284
Vienna 168 movie nights 204 Brisbane 246 How to party at
New York City 206 Melbourne 248 Carnival in Rio 290
NORTH AMERICA 172 Portland, OR 212 North Island, NZ 252 San Salvador 292
Austin 174 San Diego 214 Australia & New Sao Paulo 296
Boston 176 San Francisco 218 Zealand’s best
The Caribbean 180 Top 10 free-range free walks 256
Chicago 184 adventures in South Island, NZ 258 PRICE INDEX 298
Detroit 188 America’s Sydney 264 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 300
Top 10 free-wheelin’ national parks 224 INDEX 302
all-American Seattle 226 SOUTH AMERICA 270 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 304
adventures 190 Toronto 230 Bogotá 272
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C O N T E N T S
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Last year, while taking our children on their first cheap can mean much, much better. No Roman
foray into Africa we visited Marrakesh in Morocco. dinner will ever match the bread and cheese picnic in
On our first evening we walked into the Djemaa Villa Celimontana, a short walk from the Colosseum,
el-Fna (page 16), the city’s world famous open on my first visit to the Eternal City. And if we’re talking
square. It was like walking into another world. The life lessons, there are few better insights into the
smoke and smells from food stalls, the sound of human condition than sharing a dorm room with a
drummers and the clamour of people shouting, dozen others from around the world.
singing and hawking their wares. Everyone’s eyes Nations all around the world recognise the value
were out on stalks, senses in overdrive. I had been of making the wonders under their stewardship
worried it would be too much, but the kids asked accessible. 5000 years of Chinese history? Free
to go again the following night. One of the most (National Museum of China, page 28). 19 museums
memorable moments I’ve had travelling cost and galleries in Washington DC? Free (Smithsonian
nothing beyond the gumption to walk into the Institution, page 242). Britain’s national parks? All
square that night. free. Donations always welcome, of course. And if
The monetary value implied in the term free can you want to experience all those popular places at
misrepresent what’s on offer within these pages. The their best then get up early and get their before the
quality of an experience, after all, is not attached to crowds arrive. The priceless calm of early mornings
a price tag. Many of the suggestions here involve doesn’t come with a price tag either, by the way.
unearthing the world’s secret wonders, whether that’s It’s an exaggeration to say that everything good
swimming around Sydney’s ocean pools (page 267) is free, so you’ll find plenty of excellent value cheap
or strolling the tombs and monuments of Delhi’s Lodi things to experience throughout this book. Dip into
Gardens (page 37). Walkers tackling the great tracks your spare change for classy street food like
of New Zealand (page 260) will find themselves close a choripán (chorizo sandwich) in Buenos Aires (page
to the soul of those beautiful islands. 277), the best views of Hong Kong’s skyline from the
For many of us, when we take our first steps Star Ferry (page 48) and a Boston brewery tour (page
travelling free things are not only appealing but 179). Great memories, a happier you and a grateful
essential if we’re to make our backpacking days last wallet; one glance through these pages and you
as long as possible. And it’s not just formative forays - may never aspire to the indulgences of top-end
many unforgettable blasts of freedom and discovery travel again.
tend to be budget affairs. You quickly realise that Tom Hall
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OUDEKRAAL NYANGA streets, but don’t miss the District Six hanging space for contemporary first Thursday of
the month, which
Museum (districtsix.co.za; 25a Buitenkant Southern African artists since 2008. Many
is cool. Picnics
St; 9am-4pm Mon-Sat; R30), which also of the young artists originally championed
on Signal Hill are
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Even if a guided trip to the jail that
Owens, company
once held Mandela and other political director.
prisoners, Robben Island (robben-island.
org.za; R300) is beyond your budget,
don’t miss the ‘People’s Cathedral’, where
Archbishop Desmond Tutu led a dignified
decades-long struggle against apartheid.
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