get lost Goes Off the Grid for Issue 60

get lost magazine's latest issue features 12 places, tours and experiences that will have readers disconnecting from the hustle and bustle of modern life and reconnecting with the fascinating world that surrounds them. If you dream of seeing no bars in the top left-hand corner of your mobile phone and having someone snigger when you ask for the Wi-Fi password, you'll be booking a ticket – and sometimes lacing up your hiking boots – as your flick through the pages.

From cliffside cocoons on the French island of Corsica to a Tanzanian safari vehicle that lets you head into some of the country's most remote corners, these dozen epic adventures will inspire you to look up from your phone.

“It's becoming increasingly hard to find destinations where you're completely off the grid,” says get lost's publisher, Justin Jamieson. “Increasingly hard, but not impossible.

“Many people assume that if you take yourself off to a corner of the world where there's no electricity, running water or internet connection you're going to be roughing it. You can do that if you want to, of course, but equally accommodation and tour providers are realising some travellers want to say goodbye to civilization but still have a comfy bed and delicious meal to return to in the evening.

Elsewhere in the issue, Anna Kantilaftas joins Dreamtime Dive & Snorkel's Indigenous rangers on their inaugural trip to the Great Barrier Reef, and Lucy Gillmore cruises the cold waters of the Arctic in search of polar bears. The Ik people have a reputation for being, well, brutal, but Mark Eveleigh discovers that's far from the truth when he hikes into Uganda's far north. Lynn Gail is another writer who visits a remote tribe when she sails into Indonesia's Alor Archipelago. It might be an almost forgotten destination as far as tourists are concerned, but Nina Karnowski finds a rich history and natural splendour when she visits Akko on Israel's northern coastline. Plus, there's a phallic festival in Athens, the best places to go after dark in Philadelphia and a celebration of crocodiles in Papua New Guinea.

Issue 60 of get lost is on sale from this week at newsagents and online from Apple Newsstand and Amazon.

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