Mark Johanson

Travel, Food & Culture Writer

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Mark Johanson is an American journalist based in Santiago, Chile. His stories about travel, food, culture and sustainability have appeared in publications such as Newsweek, GQ, Travel + Leisure, Men's Journal, The Economist, The Guardian, Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg, Vox, CNN, BBC and a variety of global travel and in-flight magazines. He has also authored a dozen Lonely Planet guidebooks. Click through the photos below and the tabs above for samples of his work.

Chile’s Andean metropolis

How bike-friendly ‘slow streets’ are changing cities

The origin of the word ‘taboo’

Why you should bring the outdoors inside

The land that spawned the supermarket spud

Tourism collapse puts wildlife conservation in peril

How a long-forgotten word rallied a nation

An insider’s guide to the Chilean capital

How ‘la once’ became Chile’s fourth meal

A world of adventure

The world’s next great wine destination

Inside one of the world’s newest (and wettest!) national parks

Uruguay’s ritzy Atlantic coast

What’s it like in the greenest city on earth?

Tracing ancestry on a wild trip through Sweden

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About Mark


Mark is an American journalist based in Santiago, Chile. His articles on travel, culture, food, wine and the environment have appeared in magazines (GQ, Men’s Journal, Newsweek), newspapers (The Guardian, Chicago Tribune), digital publications (Punch, Narratively), and global news outlets (Bloomberg, CNN, BBC). He has also penned several Lonely Planet travel guides and hardcovers, worked as a presenter for Lonely Planet’s video channel, served as a travel expert for NPR and been featured as an authority on travel writing in books such as Travel Writing 2.0.

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