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2 unusual facts about Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled


Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli

Dominic spent several months on assignment co-hosting the travel TV series Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled, airing internationally beginning November 2009 on the National Geographic Adventure Channel, hunting down new travel experiences in Colombia, Spain, and northern Mexico.

Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled

Season 1 hosts include Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler, writer John Vlahides, photographer Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli, Shawn Low, Tamara Sheward, Amelia Thomas, Katarina Kane, archaeologist Iain Shearer, and Kerry Lorimer.


Aidchild

Lonely Planet calls Aidchild's Equation Café “first class,” and Oscar winner Emma Thompson says it is “possibly the best shop on the planet”.

Art Monastery

In the 2010 Lonely Planet guide to Tuscany and Umbria, the Art Monastery Project is mentioned three times.

Ataq

Ataq is described by Lonely Planet as "not at all like an inland Yemeni town"; other publications have described it as Beau Geste in appearance and "completely different" and surrounded by desert.

City of Maribyrnong

Maribyrnong’s key employers include Victoria University, Western Health, Lonely Planet, Highpoint Shopping Centre, Western Bulldogs Football Club, Mobil Australia and Sugar Australia (CSR).

Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli

A graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts with a degree in Film Production/Cinematography, he is represented by Getty Images (NY), AGE Fotostock (Spain) and Lonely Planet Images (Australia).

Ebebiyín

The main hotel is Hotel Mbengono which in 1985 was reported by Lonely Planet to be the only hotel in the city.

Fauzi Azar Inn

In December 2011, Tony Wheeler, founder of the Lonely Planet travel guide stayed at the Inn as a guest, and hiked the Jesus Trail with Inon.

Geiranger

Geiranger is home to some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, and has been named the best travel destination in Scandinavia by Lonely Planet.

Gor Sujyan

He will sing the song "Lonely Planet", written by legendary Tony Iommi, the English guitarist and songwriter, a founder member of the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath and Armenian lyricist Vardan Zadoyan.

Justine Shapiro

Justine Shapiro (born March 20, 1963) is one of several main hosts of the Pilot Productions travel/adventure series Globe Trekker (also called Pilot Guides in Canada and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet).

Khinalug

Because of its location, scenery and relative isolation, the village is considered one of Azerbaijan's premiere destinations for hikers and adventure travellers in such travel guides as Lonely Planet.

Museum of Old and New Art

In October 2012, a writer for the Lonely Planet series of travel guides ranked Hobart as number seven of top ten cities to visit in 2013, citing MONA as a major tourist attraction in a small city, similar to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

Navarino Island

The trail passes peaks known as Cerro Clem and Montes Lindenmayer, named in 2001 by the Chilean Ministry of Natural Resources for the author of the Lonely Planet guide.

Thai Airways International Flight 311

The remains of the aircraft can still be seen in Langtang National Park, and have been featured in Lonely Planet guidebooks as a point of interest on the trek from Ghopte to the Tharepati Pass.

Wellington Statue, Glasgow

In 2011 the Lonely Planet guide included the monument to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in its list of the "top 10 most bizarre monuments on Earth", along with the Rocky Balboa statue in Žitište, Serbia and the Washington National Cathedral in the United States.

Wheeler Centre

On 26 November the centre was renamed the Wheeler Centre after a donation by Lonely Planet founders, Tony Wheeler and Maureen Wheeler.


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