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Experiential travel has always been at the heart of Rough Guides. For over 30 years, our authors have been sharing travel experiences that inspire readers to push themselves out of their comfort zones and to immerse themselves in a destination's culture and traditions.

Rough Guides' bestselling inspirational coffee-table book draws upon the insider knowledge of in-the-know writers to share the 1000 ultimate travel experiences across the globe. Make the Most of your Time on Earth is a handpicked curation of personal recommendations, from retracing Odysseus's footsteps on Mljet and hippo-spotting in the Bijagós Islands, to wild camping on the Arabian Peninsula and defying gravity at China's Hanging Temple. It might even be something as simple as walking among Hockney's landscapes on the Yorkshire Wolds Way, or eating among locals in the perfect setting: the definitive gelato in Rome or a mopane worm in Zimbabwe. Every one is special, and authentic, and - above all - inspiring.

This fourth edition has been fully revised, with a brand-new design and a collection of high-quality colour photographs spanning beautiful national parks, captivating wildlife and dramatic landscapes. Entries are divided into regions, so you can dip in and out of the different parts of the world you're interested in, whether that's a remote island in the Philippines, a stunning Swedish archipelago or an off-the-beaten-track pocket of Saskatchewan. Lively and engaging text captures the essence of the experience, while essential "Need to Know" sections at the end of each chapter make it easy for you to plan your trip.

Packed full of ideas and take-you-there photography, Make the Most of your Time on Earth is pure escapism for active travellers and armchair fantasists alike.

About Rough Guides: Rough Guides have been inspiring travellers for over 35 years, with over 30 million copies sold. Synonymous with practical travel tips, quality writing and a trustworthy 'tell it like it is' ethos, the Rough Guides list includes more than 260 travel guides to 120+ destinations, gift-books and phrasebooks.

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Publié par	APA
Date de parution	01 août 2019
Nombre de lectures	10
EAN13	9781789195828
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	16 Mo

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Editor : Joanna Reeves
Assistant editors : Tom Fleming, Siobhan Warwicker, Aimee White Commissioning editors: Rebecca Hallett, Georgia Stephens
Managing editor : Rachel Lawrence Picture editor and cover photo research : Aude Vauconsant Cartography : Katie Bennett Proofreaders: Jan McCann, Stewart Wild Head of DTP and Pre-Press: Dan May
Thanks to all our writers and photographers, credited at the back of the book, for their great ideas, fine writing and beautiful pictures.
Contents INTRODUCTION BRITAIN & IRELAND 001–054 WESTERN EUROPE 055–117 THE IBERIAN PENINSULA 118–160 SCANDINAVIA 161–188 SOUTHEAST EUROPE 189–260 EASTERN EUROPE 261–298 NORTH AFRICA 299–327 WEST AFRICA 328–350 CENTRAL & EAST AFRICA 351–391 SOUTHERN AFRICA 392–443 THE MIDDLE EAST 444–480 USA 481–541 CANADA 542–568 THE CARIBBEAN 569–601 MEXICO & CENTRAL AMERICA 602–652 SOUTH AMERICA 653–730 CENTRAL & NORTHERN ASIA 731–799 THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT 800–856 SOUTHEAST ASIA 857–913 AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & THE SOUTH PACIFIC 914–985 THE POLAR REGIONS 986–1000 SMALL PRINT

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INTRODUCTION
What makes the ultimate travel experience? Is it something as simple as stumbling across that perfect undiscovered restaurant where you can feast on traditional food among locals? Or is it that dream adventure that takes you outside your comfort zone and pushes you to new limits? We asked our Rough Guide writers to share their most inspirational experiences – to inspire yours. Wildly different, the accounts all had one thing in common: authenticity. Each and every one pushed travel a bit further, either through opening a path to new territories, forging fresh routes across established ones or offering a new way of looking at the world.
It might be the all-encompassing awe of discovering an ancient city like Volubilis or defying gravity at China’s Hanging Temple, or the sheer exhilaration of paragliding against a dramatic Matterhorn backdrop. It could be humbling wildlife encounters, from hippo-spotting in the Bijagós Islands to glimpsing jaguars in the Paraguayan Pantanal, or it might be appreciating natural wonders in all their diverse glory: Pamukkale’s shallow staircase of thermal pools, the towering giants of Sequoia National Park, the churning waters of Devil’s Pool in Zambia.
A shift to conscious travel sees people make better-informed decisions, not only booking trips that are unique but those that benefit local people and places too. Travellers are heading off the beaten track in an attempt to prevent popular places being “loved to death”, whether that be wild camping in the Oman desert, going off-grid in northern Saskatchewan or exploring unchartered fjords in wild East Greenland.
That’s not to say travel always has to be pushing yourself to extremes – you can have a life-changing experience from something as wonderfully unassuming as clawing for clams on Île de Noirmoutier or getting lost in the golden streets of Valletta.
Some experiences in this book are easy to undertake, others require planning and expertise. Some are rare events that happen once every few years; many are daily occurrences. Every single one, though, is a personal recommendation. For this fourth edition, we’ve added more than one hundred and fifty new experiences from around the globe. We hope that they truly inspire you to make the most of your time on Earth.
Joanna Reeves, Editor
BRITAIN & IRELAND
001–054
Which is the real Britain and Ireland? The tradition-rich home of Welsh choirs, Oxford colleges and Georgian spa towns? The open expanses of green Connemara hills, vast Norfolk beaches and rearing Scottish highlands? Or the culture-packed buzz of its fast-paced cities? The answer, happily, is all of them. Layered with centuries of history, peppered with iconic attractions and well stocked with regional delicacies, Britain and Ireland juggle old and new to thrilling and sometimes eccentric effect, whether you’re staying in an off-grid treehouse in Wales, walking in Hockney’s landscapes on the Yorkshire Wolds Way, admiring street art in Manchester and London or cycling the North Coast 500 in Scotland.
001 | In celebration of the oyster

ENGLAND I’ve always loved Whitstable, the arty fishing town on Kent’s northern coast, with its shingle shore, its beach huts, its huge skies and its workaday bustle – and its oysters, which have been harvested in these estuarine waters since Roman times. So here I am, the archetypal “Down From Londoner” as locals call us, come to celebrate these ancient, sea-salty delicacies at Whitstable’s annual Oyster Festival.
Heralding a week of ceilidhs and crabbing competitions, tug-o-wars and dog shows, the festival starts with the stately Landing of the Oysters, when fishermen carry baskets of freshly caught creatures from sea to shore to present them for blessing. Having witnessed this peculiarly moving scene, I follow the carnival parade of giant sea beasts and excited schoolkids through town before ducking off to the harbour. In the cool of the fish market I discover enormous prawns, silvery sardines and tiny tiger-striped clams shifting on their icy beds – and, of course, the celebrated oysters, heaped on wooden carts. Natives being out of season, these are Rock oysters, their gnarled, algae-tinged shells as dark, cold and heavy as tombstones.
Nearby, at the seafront, serious-faced shuckers deftly gouge open shells and flip the meat, mermaid tattoos writhing on their arms as they prepare plates for the feeding frenzy. This is not refined food. Silt smears the cold marble slabs while grit-flecked brine swooshes out of primeval-looking shells. The oysters themselves are colossal, their flesh gleaming and smooth, laced with delicate black frills. I grab a plate, plus a lemon quarter, and tip them back, savouring that surprising hit, mineral and creamy, a slurp of the ocean.
Next I head to the Old Neptune , Whitstable’s pub on the beach, for a pint of oyster stout. Dark and cold, with a salty caramel bite, it’s the perfect drink for today. Just yards away, silvery waves klonk hard against the shingle, churning up speckled shells before retreating with a shimmery whisper. Even without its Oyster Festival, Whitstable has a lot to celebrate.
Samantha Cook
is a writer and editor based in London. She is the author of the Rough Guides to New Orleans and Chick Flicks , and co-author of the Rough Guides to Kent, Sussex & Surrey, London and Vintage London .

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002 | The Globe Theatre: Shakespeare as it should be
ENGLAND It’s standing-room only in ‘the pit’ at Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s South Bank, a reconstruction of the original theatre a few hundred metres away at which Shakespeare’s theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, performed from 1599. Here in “this wooden O”, as Henry V calls it, hard wooden seats encircle the ‘thrust’ stage, but you get the best atmosphere if you take your place in the pit, standing in the footsteps of the Elizabethan and Jacobean ‘groundlings’ who paid a penny apiece.
The cheap seats are also the best seats. This close up, Shakespeare cannot be dusty or distant. The performances are energized, physical, exhilarating. Audience and actors can see each other clear as day. The modern Globe’s first artistic director, Mark Rylance, has said that he found himself on stage here “thinking of the audience as other actors”. This is a participatory, democratic theatre experience. There’s a terrific camaraderie, as both actors and audience tacitly agree to ignore the roar of that aeroplane flying overhead or those first drops of rain from the summer sky.
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