If you're trekking through Australia, do watch out for the often venomous wildlife, especially these critters...

Travel money can be a challenge, especially on long term trips. Here's how to carry or transfer money, and to keep it safe too.

Camping in New Zealand's astounding natural landscape is very popular. Follow these tips to stay as safe as you can.

Going on holiday can be nerve-wracking at times, being away from the safety of home. These gadgets can help.

Lonely Planet travels three days up into the mountains of Colombia to visit a cocaine factory. Leaving behind the protection of the military and police, they rely on the paramilitaries for safety.

Today, many tourists, students and professionals explore different places around the world. May it be for a holiday, job or new life but traveling out of the country has become more affordable and enjoyable.

Since the events of 9/11, airport security has changed the way people travel. Rules and restrictions have been increased and passengers experience greater inconveniences. Although quality security at the airport is for our best interests, is the current research into passenger screening taking things too far?

Tips on how to stay safe from the threat of credit card fraud while traveling.

This video shows how a simple towel can help safeguard your hotel room while you're in it.

Now and then, airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight safety presentation and their other announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some of the better ones that are flying around the web.

Secure Flight, an airline security program being implemented by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), aims to enhance watch list matching after a recommendation from the 9/11 Commission.

Ayer's Rock, also known as Uluru, is to become off limits to tourists climbing all over it due to erosion concerns and safety issues. The rock is subject to damage from the 100,000 or so tourists that climb it each year, and with Ayer's Rock being a huge sandstone rock, it's taking a toll on it's structure.

Lugging around a big wad of cash is not advisable when traveling. If you're robbed, or your stuff's rifled through, you stand to lose most of your travel cash in one go. This would put a big stick through the spokes of anyone's vacation plan.

Travel insurance is more difficult to buy than it should be, as ensuring the right cover is complex. Here's how.

UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has gone ahead and created a new online service named Locate that encourages people to register where they are going every time they travel abroad

Learn some great tips for finding hotel deals that are much better than those advertised. You don't have to pay $400+ in New York, $300+ in London or Paris, just to find a decent room to rest your weary head. This collection of tips will point you in the direction of true hotel bargains, online or offline.

Bus travel is economical, eco-friendly, and sometimes much faster than other options. In Mexico and Brazil for example, it's the cheapest way to get around, and quite comfortable as well.

Never keep all your travel cash in one place when traveling, not even in the in-room safe. Here are our best tips to keep your money.

If you're caught out in a hotel fire, these are the things you need to know so that you can survive this disaster.

Following the BA Boeing 777 crash earlier this week, I found some tips on an older Condé Nast travel article about getting out alive when your plane comes down far too fast.

We're all used to taking care with food hygience in developing countries. But when the Chicago Sun Times published an article on ice cube quality in Chicago, my stomach lurched and I realized that you have to be careful everywhere you go.

I read a lot, and I'm going to start sharing some of the better articles with you. Here are my best articles for issue #1 of these roundups.

When you are traveling by air, it's nice to find out the safety record of your chosen airline. While the major airlines are pretty safe, what do you know of Kinshasa Airlines?

It's easy to get ill while travelling around Mexico. The bacteria is different and the food is very spicy. Here are three tips to stay healthy while visiting Mexico.

Can the way we think about the world and those we share it with really change how things are? I'm not in the habit of re-posting messages or blog posts, but this one caught my eye.