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MyJourney Contest ‘Best of’ video

The 2009 MyJourney contest unearthed amazing film-making talent across the US. Congratulations to our five finalists and the ultimate winner, Andrew Keenan-Bolger for his video, 'Taste of Philly'.
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Time: 01:27 More in Travel & Events
Lonely Planet author John Vlahides braves political turmoil and plunges deep into the heart of Madagascar. In this mysterious land of taboos and ancestor worship, he explores a spooky subterranean river system, meets a healer who treats him with tobacco and booze, and earns his rock-climbing stripes on the archipelago of Nosy Hara. In the Central Highlands, he gets the surprise of his life at a circumcision ceremony, becomes the star of the show in a coming-of-age bull-wrestling fiesta and is welcomed into an ancestral reburial ceremony that blurs the division between life and death. Catch Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled across Australia, Asia and the Pacific on Monday nights at 8.30pm and repeated Saturday 7.30pm and Sunday nights 6.30pm. For other air times please check your local TV guide. For more on the series, go to www.lonelyplanet.com/roadslesstravelled
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Time: 00:55 More in Travel & Events
In this episode of Roads Less Travelled, Lonely Planet sends travel writer and archaeologist Iain Shearer down the old Silk Road and into Kazakhstan. Two decades after achieving independence from Mother Russia, Kazakhstan is still an unknown quantity. As Iain blazes a trail through one of Asia's most enigmatic countries, he learns the ancient art of hunting with eagles, sandboards down 'singing' dunes with gnarly Kazakh snowboarders, and helps a nomad family build their summer camp. Heading west across the rolling steppe, Iain discovers a fishing fleet left stranded in the desert, takes the controls of a spaceship in the birthplace of the space race, and joins a moving ritual with Kazakhstan's incredible singing Sufis. Catch Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled across Australia, Asia and the Pacific on Monday nights at 8.30pm and repeated Saturday 7.30pm and Sunday nights 6.30pm. For other air times please check your local TV guide. For more on the series, go to www.lonelyplanet.com/roadslesstravelled
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Time: 00:57 More in Travel & Events
Lonely Planet author and fearless festival hunter Ray Bartlett travels deep into the heart of suburban Japan for a peek at some of the world's largest... penises, uncovering one of the country's oldest and most venerable fertility festivals. Hounen Matsuri, in Komaki, Japan, holds this yearly celebration to ensure bountiful harvests and plenty of offspring in the coming years. Get ready to giggle, gawk, or admire as the penis procession unfolds. Or ask the gods to grant your wish by writing on a phallic prayer board. More about Ray Bartlett at www.kaisora.com
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Time: 03:13 More in Travel & Events
Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler shares his thoughts on Lonely Planet achieving its 100 millionth book milestone and what sharing travel stories means to him while filming Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled on location in Alaska.
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Time: 02:22 More in Travel & Events