Lonely Planet Asia - June 2016

AMERICAN ROCKIES GREAT ESCAPE ON THE ROAD HOW TO GET THERE Denver, the capital of Colorado, makes the most useful entry point fo ...

AMERICAN ROCKIES Yellowstone National Park has up to 5,000 bison, some of which are seen here wandering past Old Faithful geyser ...

AMERICAN ROCKIES GREAT ESCAPE GREAT ESCAPE AMERICAN ROCKIES See nature at its wildest... ...

AMERICAN ROCKIES T HE MOVE FROM THE great plains of eastern Colorado to the mountains of the west feels as precise a divide as c ...

AMERICAN ROCKIES GREAT ESCAPE GREAT ESCAPE Rocky Mountain National Park Mark the centennial of this national park by strapping ...

AMERICAN ROCKIES flexible models of today. These help to open a side of the park not normally seen by summer visitors. ‘One of t ...

AMERICAN ROCKIES GREAT ESCAPE GREAT ESCAPE adventurers would follow the twisting roads through the mountains to reach Estes Park ...

AMERICAN ROCKIES Jackson Hole and the Tetons The Old West lives on in the mountain valleys of Wyoming, where elk herds and har ...

AMERICAN ROCKIES GREAT ESCAPE GREAT ESCAPEGREAT ESCAPE compacted. The Mormons who settled here liked to group together, unlike t ...

AMERICAN ROCKIES 4.Yellowstone The world’s first national park is astounding enough to see in summer, but winter visitors can ex ...

AMERICAN ROCKIES GREAT ESCAPE GREAT ESCAPE Old Faithful’s jet of water averages 40 metres in height, but the steam cloud above t ...

AMERICAN ROCKIES The Firehole River is warmed by runoffs from geysers and other springs, and never freezes in winter – it’s also ...

AMERICAN ROCKIES GREAT ESCAPE GREAT ESCAPE The Old Faithful Snow Lodge is one of two park lodges that open in winter (December ...

LOCALS’ ROME An 18th-century sacred fresco outside the Church of Sant’Egidio. RIGHT A cat poses out- side an antiques shop in Tr ...

LOCALS’ ROME Locals’ Rome The people who know the Eternal City best reveal the places they love – including hidden bars and mark ...

LOCALS’ ROME The day off In southern Rome rises Monte Testaccio, a hill that in ancient times was a dumping ground for amphorae: ...

LOCALS’ ROME Tagliatelle being made at Sora Margherita. RIGHT Lucia peeps out from the entrance to her restaurant Sora Margherit ...

LOCALS’ ROME The day off One site that keeps drawing Elisa back, even in her downtime, is the second-century Villa dei Quintilii ...

LOCALS’ ROME The red-brick ruins of Villa dei Quintilii. ABOVE Via Margutta, once home to craft workshops and stables, now hosts ...

LOCALS’ ROME The day off Massimo’s Pigneto watering hole of choice is Co.So, a bar that, with its cocktail-shaker door handles, ...