The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel
by Rachael Antony and Joel Henry
Lonely Planet, $140
If the journey is more important than the destination, Experimental Travel is a must read. Here are 40 experiments, ranked by difficulty, offering unusual travel experiences that tingle with serendipity. You can play solo, as a couple or with friends. Try travelling separately to a foreign city and then see if you know your partner well enough to find them. Fancy conquering K2? Take an atlas - or, for a different way to spend the day off, the local street directory - open it at random and go to map reference K2. Try alternate travel, turning left then right until you can go no further. When travelling overseas, take a photo in each place of something the same - a fire hydrant, the contents of the minibar, the view from your room window. After a while you'll start to see that there's nothing the same about even the mundane. Friends may even become interested in your holiday snaps, and your travel stories will have a unique edge. Oh, and there's a set of coded yellow stickers to use with your mobile phone. Have fun.
