‘Where should we go next?’ is the most hotly contested topic at Lonely Planet and dominates more conversations than any other. As self-confessed travel geeks, our staff collectively rack up hundreds of thousands of miles each year, exploring almost every destination on the planet in the process.
Flamingos flock to the Salar de Tara – a salt lake in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, near the borders of Argentina and Bolivia
So which destinations do you need to add to your trip wish list in 2018? We asked everyone at Lonely Planet, from our authors and editors all the way to our online family of bloggers and tweeters, and they came up with hundreds of places that are buzzy right now, offer new things for travellers to see or do, or are criminally overlooked and underrated.