Cooks, Clowns and Cowboys by the editors at Lonely Planet, Lonely Planet, 216 pages, $22.99.
The answer to the classic question of what did you do on your vacation is about to get a whole lot more interesting. If you have a desire to embrace the local culture at your holiday destination then this is a book filled with ideas for you.
Drawing from the incredibly detailed information gathered for the various Lonely Planet books, the world leader in travel writing has gathered 101 unique things to do from around the world. Learn to fight like a gladiator in Rome, shear sheep in the Australian
Outback, paint Easter eggs in Ukraine or roast your own coffee beans in Guatemala. There are activities for every interest and activity level.
Each one is presented in a full-page description and with an accompanying photograph. There are seven categories for easy reference: music and dance, active, culture and language, flora and fauna, food and drink, mind and body, arts and crafts. To easily identify the type of activity the categories are designated by a badge that appears on the top of each page.
Every account starts with information on the cost, location, duration, and then goes on to describe in detail what you can expect.
So if getting out into the world excites you then why not join in something that will really make that trip memorable and be the first of your friends to undergo Cosmonaut Training in Moscow.
