- Global Travel Guide 2009
- Global Guide to Change 2009
- Gear Guide 2009
- Underground mazes in Budapest

This issue features the Global Guide to Travel, the Global Guide to Change and the 2009 Gear Guide. Plus adventures in train travel, plentiful sharks and migrating snails, photography advise for shooting at night and Ian Wright in Syria, plus much more.

FEATURES

29_GUIDE TO GLOBAL TRAVEL 2009
So you’ve been bitten by the travel bug but don’t know where to go? Whether it’s walking through Afganistan, skiing to the South Pole or chilling in San Franciso’s vineyards, we’ve scoured the globe for some of its greatest trips, whatever your threshold for adventure.
EDITOR: RYAN MURDOCK

57_GUIDE TO GLOBAL CHANGE 2009
Looking for inspiration? Here are the volunteers, corporations and technologies that are helping to make the world a better place. And, to get you in on the altruistic action, a list of trips that let you do your part.
EDITOR: DEBORAH SANBORN

70_TRAIL-TESTED GEAR GUIDE 2009
We’ve hit the road – and rainforests and mountains – to test some fo the year’s coolest gear. Get the lowdown on which products are worth the cash, and which ones deserve a pass

IN EVERY ISSUE

5_MAIL STOP
A letter from the publisher

9_TRIPPING
All aboard for the moving history of train travel

10_ON THE FRINGE
Plentiful sharks, mirgrating snails and one plucky unicyclist

12_THRILLSEEKER
Fighting claustrophobia in the underground maze of Budapest’s caves

14_MEC’S THE TRAVELLER’S EDGE
Tips from and for world trekkers

17_SHUTTER STOP
Illuminating advise for shooting at night

20_WORLD WRITES
A fabled city and walks you won’t want to miss

22_FIELD NOTES
Scientists find more than Nemo with a high-tech map of a coral reef in the Bahamas

80_WRIGHT OF WAY
Ian Wright gets serious about Syria

82_BACKPACKERZ BUZZ
News from Hostelling International