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Lonely Planet has created the Globe Tripper App, a travel trivia game for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch where players virtually navigate the world, testing their knowledge and solving puzzles along the way.

Lonely Planet’s Globe Tripper App is the first game from the world’s leading travel content provider and was developed with BBC Worldwide’s Digital Entertainment and Games division. The purpose of the game is for users to test their knowledge of world cultures, history, geography, current events and language through a series of questions from the travel experts at Lonely Planet.

Lonely Planet’s Globe Tripper App is priced at £1.19 (iPhone and iPod touch) and £1.79 (iPad) and can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store.

Further information is available at www.lonelyplanet.com/globetripper

The world’s favourite guidebooks reinvented for the iPad

Lonely Planet’s country guides are now available as enhanced ebooks on iPad. France, Turkey, China, Great Britain and Spain are the first editions of Lonely Planet’s relaunched country guides to be released.

Built to maximise the capabilities of the iPad, these guides are full colour and include offline maps, search function and hyperlinks for easy navigation.

The enhanced guides for iPad are priced from £13.99.

The ebooks are available from the iBooks store. You can check out our France ebook here.

100th Anniversary of the Discovery of Machu Picchu

July marks the 100th anniversary of Hiram Bingham’s discovery of the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. To celebrate Lonely Planet has teamed up with Journey Latin America to offer a free chapter from our brand new Discover Peru guide. Download it here throughout the month of July.

Paris audio walking tour launched

Following the success of our London audio walking tours for iPhone, Lonely Planet has released a Paris audio walking tour app. Built in conjunction with AudioGo, the app features five walking tours of the city; Bastille, Montmartre, Marais, St Germain and the Latin Quarter. The app provides detailed information to let people explore at their own pace, with an easy to navigate location aware map that allows the user to stop and start their journey or skip ahead to any of the selected stops. The tour also works offline so roaming charges for international users can be avoided.

The audio walking tour is priced at £2.99

All of the details can be found here

New Releases:

Discover China

1st edition £19.99

Discover Great Britain

2nd edition £17.99

Mongolia

6th edition

£16.99

Perth and West Coast Australia

6th edition

14.99

Melbourne and Victoria

8th edition

£14.99

Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef

6th edition

£14.99

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