Videos

Check out these truely fascinating hand-picked videos by Vice, Lonely Planet and National Geographic, chosen by the ETG team. Enjoy!



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Istanbul city guide - Lonely Planet travel video


Istanbul is a city experiencing a total rebirth. Join Lonely Planet to discover the highlights of one of the world's hippest metropolises.



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Fist Fighting on Christmas: A Peruvian Tradition

Once a year around Christmas in the Peruvian Andes, the whole town gets together to dance, drink and beat the hell out of each other.




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Japan's Naked Island Hermit

78-year-­old Masafumi Nagasaki is the sole resident of a tropical island located at the southern tip of Okinawa, Japan. He would rather obey the demands of nature than of another person, which is what led him to escape civilization and live on Sotobanari Island.




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Snake Island

The highest concentration of one of the most venomous snakes in the world is located about 90 miles off the coast of Santos, Brazil, on a small, craggy chunk of otherwise uninhabitable land. It's known as Ilha da Queimada Grande, or Snake Island, and it's the only place you will find 2,000 or so of the wholly unique golden lancehead viper, or Bothrops insularis.


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Surviving Alone in Alaska

Heimo Korth is the last man standing in 19 million acres of Alaskan wilderness. His neighbors are polar bears and caribous. Say good bye to civilization and see how they do it in the arctic circle on the last frontier in America.


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Road Less Travelled - Lonely Planet - Kazakhstan

Lonely Planet travel writer and archaeologist Iain Shearer travels down the old Silk Road into Kazakhstan.


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