Joe Bindloss

United Kingdom

Travel Writer at Freelance

Freelance Digital Copy Editor at Lonely Planet

Keen traveller, Asia enthusiast

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The Lonely Planet guide to Udaipur's City Palace

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Joe Bindloss

Taapsee Pannu Reacts To Influencer Misha Agarwal’s Suicide Over Losing Followers: ‘Long Feared Seeing The Obsession…’TW: Mention of suicide Misha Agarwal, an Instagram influencer with a significant following on the platform, was about to celebrate her 25th birthday. But the content creator unalived herself. The creator of ‘The Misha Agarwal Show’ influencer had been active on both Instagram and YouTube since 2017. …
The Lonely Planet guide to Udaipur's City Palace

1 week ago | lonelyplanet.com | Joe Bindloss

Extravagant royal palaces seem to pop up on every street corner in Rajasthan, but the City Palace in Udaipur is perhaps the grandest of them all. It’s certainly the largest, taking up half a kilometer of the lakeshore in the center of Rajasthan’s legendary White City.
The Lonely Planet guide to visiting Delhi’s Red Fort

2 weeks ago | lonelyplanet.com | Joe Bindloss

Centered on the Mughal city founded by the Emperor Shah Jahan, Delhi is a captivating collection of magnificent monuments, time-dusted tombs, British-built government buildings, djinn-haunted fortresses, and tangled bazaars spilling down to the biggest monument of them all – the legendary Red Fort.
The Lonely Planet guide to visiting Rajasthan’s Amber Fort

3 weeks ago | lonelyplanet.com | Joe Bindloss

Thousands of years of power struggles between dynasties, empires and faiths have left formidable fortresses scattered all over India, from the palatial Mughal strongholds of the central plains to Portuguese, French and British bastions dotted along the coast. But even in this fortress-filled country, Amber Fort near Jaipur is something special.
The Lonely Planet guide to visiting Rajasthan’s Amber Fort

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Joe Bindloss

1 hour agoIndia: Incredible act of courage! Man risks his life to rescue 9-year-old boy from electrocution in flooded roadwayChennai, India - April 16, 2025 A brave man saved a 9-year-old schoolboy from electrocution in a flooded street, preventing a potentially deadly incident by acting quickly in a dangerous situation involving water and electrical hazards. The incident occurred in Arumbakkam, in Chennai district, in southern India’s Tamil Nadu, on April 16.
The Lonely Planet guide to visiting Jaipur’s City Palace

4 weeks ago | lonelyplanet.com | Joe Bindloss

The Kachwaha Dynasty of northeast Rajasthan was one of India’s most extravagant royal families. Generations of Kachwaha maharajas filled their kingdom – centered on the area around modern-day Jaipur – with fortresses, temples and palaces during a rule spanning nearly 1000 years. Of all their regal residences, the fabulous City Palace in Jaipur stands out for its opulence and the ambition of its design.
Il meglio del Vietnam senza spendere una fortuna

1 month ago | lonelyplanetitalia.it | Joe Bindloss

Un viaggio in Vietnam è sempre indimenticabile, quali che siano le esigenze di budget. Una volta coperta la voce di spesa più onerosa, quella per i biglietti aerei, si può girare il paese con meno di 40 euro al giorno, alloggiando in dormitori e mangiando pho (zuppa di noodle) e banh mi (baguette imbottite). All’estremo opposto, è possibile regalarsi una vacanza di lusso soggiornando in sontuosi hotel storici, prendendo parte a tour organizzati e concedendosi cene luculliane.
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1 month ago | thetimes.com | Joe Bindloss
How to get your cell phone connected in Italy: eSIMs, wi-fi and mobile networks

2 months ago | lonelyplanet.com | Joe Bindloss

With its heartstopping art and architecture, its lavish, layered history, its world-beating cuisine and its life-affirming landscapes, Italy is one of those destinations everyone needs to visit at least once in a lifetime. Some of the experiences on offer in Italy – your first glimpse of the Colosseum in Rome, tasting fine wines in Tuscany, gazing on the works of Botticelli, da Vinci and Caravaggio inside the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence – will stay with you forever.
12 of the most magnificent forts in Rajasthan

2 months ago | lonelyplanet.com | Joe Bindloss

An effective fort needs four things: a towering wall to keep out attacking armies; a secure water supply to endure sieges; a dramatic entrance to project an impression of power; and a secret way out, in case that projection of power fails. It’s a principle the fort-builders of Rajasthan in India’s rugged Thar Desert understood intuitively.