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 you book a vacation package. 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.

Four major museums, a world-class botanical garden, & culinary delicacies whet one’s appetite through this enticing taste of the alluring arts district of the Paseo del Prado in Madrid. Join Iris Brooks & Jon H. Davis of Northern Lights Studio as they explore Spain’s vibrant capital city in a cultural feast for all the senses.

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Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina has had a troublesome history thanks to the much publicised civil war during the 90s. We were curious and wanted to see what it’s like now the fighting is well and truly over. We were surprised in a good way! Check out our video.

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An external video featuring the highlights of San Cristobel – an interesting Mexican town and Zapatista stronghold.

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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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Neatly tucked underneath the Winterberg mountains in the Eastern Cape, lays the citrus valley of Fort Beaufort.

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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, but stumbles across a quaint old chapel to discover its 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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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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