Travel inspiration, ideas and guides and other holiday travel features

Mad houses

The world's costliest, craziest and most unjustifiable piles

Another Ibiza

New age descends on the original party isle

Riddle of the sphinx

Guess the bing location and win a trip for two to Egypt

Christmas travel

Trips as gifts, best shopping worldwide and where to escape it all

Best Christmas markets | Trips to give as gifts

Price and toasty

The world's most luxurious ski chalets

Where to see the aurora borealis | Celebs on the slopes

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Today on Travel

Wish you were here

We bid a fond farewell to postcards, guidebooks, getting lost and other hallowed travel traditions that the web and mobile phones appear to be killing off.

Ski & snow

The white stuff

For the best early season skiing and lots of tips on non-ski fun on the snow, turn to our powder-powered page.

Adventurous

Is it goodbye to guidebooks, getting lost and grotty youth hostels?
As the decade draws to a close, we ask whether the web and mobile phones risk robbing travel of adventure
The greatest new buildings on Earth
St Paul's, the Egyptian pyramids, the Colosseum, even the Sydney Harbour Bridge - we are used to gasping at the architectural marvels of the past when we travel but why not sneak a peek at the very latest and greatest feats of building worldwide?
The world’s greatest train journeys
From the Trans-Siberian railway to the Australian Ghan and the Rocky Mountaineer, get onboard for a return to the most glamorous and entrancing way to travel
Mad houses
The world's costliest, craziest and most unjustifiable piles
The best in travel in 2010
Start packing: we reveal the juiciest bits from a new Lonely Planet book on top travelling trends next year
Amelia Earhart and other pioneering travellers who disappeared
As Amelia, the Hilary Swank movie about the pioneering female aviator Amelia Earhart, is released, we look at the mysteries of adventurers who vanished in the course of their journeys - never to be seen again

Toasty

Budget

Tasty

The world’s most extravagant restaurants
These shrines to dining belong to another world. Fancy eating underwater? Or accompanied by an extraordinary firework display? How about sushi for US$400, or a £58 starter?
World's strangest bars
Crawl with us around some of the oddest drinking spots on the planet
10 unforgettable meals worldwide
Breakfasts of the world
Best tasting breaks in Britain and abroad
Europe's best patisseries and cake shops

More inspiring travel features

Ah Vienna, it means something to me
Find out why elegant city of Vienna has never been as easy to visit as it is now.
Jamaica leaves you both shaken and stirred
Liam Creedon finds out why Jamaica regards itself as one of the most fashionable corners of the Caribbean.
If you're on a budget, seek out Slovenia
Have a fun, family time on the cheap and cheerful slopes of Kranjska Gora.
Rock around the clock in Hamburg
Laura Wurzal enjoys the music scene of this hip German city.
Skye takes you to the edge
Unspoiled, glorious and dramatic, there are many reasons to visit the remote islands off the coast of Scotland.

Picture postcard: travel matchmaker

What's your ideal holiday?
Is adventure your middle name? Or are you in the game for escapism, hedonism or good old-fashioned family fun? Find out which holiday suits you best with our short travel personality test.

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