The Lonely Planet Road Trip series is a new series for 2015 & it explores the favourite driving destinations in some of the best road tripping countries. These full-colour guides provide a wealth of information needed to embark on a driving adventure. With illustrated itineraries, regional highlights, practical driving information & city walking tours, they are indispensable for planning your trip & referencing while on the road. Each guide introduces the road trip & region with a reference map showing the route divided in 3 or 4 sections, or 3 or 4 different road trips in a country or region. This is accompanied by an at-a glance facts table with ‘ Best time to go’, ‘ Great for…’, ‘ Highlights’, ‘ Best two days’ & distances, followed by brief highlights of two main cities, making this part of the guide ideal for planning your trip & deciding your stopovers. Then, each road trip (or section of it) is explored in more depth with each chapter detailing the attractions & highlights along the road, worth detours, ways to link different trips together, all indicated on a road map. Following chapters offer insider tips & pay particular attention to the destinations you will visit on each section of the trip. There you will find helpful city maps with walking tour options where suitable, illustrations & photographs of main attractions, places to visit, events calendar, listings of where to eat & stay with a brief description, contact details & price range. The last few pages are dedicated to driving in the specific location with practical tips, expert advice, road etiquette, required documents, insurance, rentals, distances, border crossing, road rules & recommended maps. The guides come with a reference pull out road map, ideal for planning, highlighting the route/s, main roads & cities & locating national parks & green areas.