Lonely Planet's Top Travel Destinations of 2017

With 2016 coming to an end and a brand new year soon to begin Lonely Planet has revealed their top 5 countries to visit in 2017.

1. Canada

Canada is more than its hulking-mountain, craggy-coast good looks: it also cooks extraordinary meals, rocks cool culture and unfurls wild, moose-spotting road trips.

Coverage includes: Planning chapters, Alberta, Ontario, Québec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Labrador, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Understand and Survival chapters.

2. Colombia

Soaring Andean summits, unspoiled Caribbean coast, enigmatic Amazon jungle, cryptic archaeological ruins and cobbled colonial towns. Colombia boasts all of South America’s allure, and more.

3. Finland

Finland is deep north: vast horizons of forests and lakes with revitalising crisp air plus cutting-edge urbanity. Choose summer’s endless light or winter’s eerie frozen magic.

4. Dominica

The Dominican Republic is one of the Caribbean’s most geographically diverse countries, with stunning mountain scenery, desert scrublands, evocative colonial architecture and beaches galore.

5. Nepal

Wedged between the high Himalaya and the steamy Indian plains, Nepal is a land of snow peaks and Sherpas, yaks and yetis, monasteries and mantras.

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