Travel guide Coloring Book - a Surprise Castle exclusive

24 hand-illustrated scenes from postcard-perfect destinations, from a Venetian gondola to Machu Picchu in cloud forest.

Open the guidebook. Pick up the pencil.

A hand-drawn adult coloring book, 24 scenes that run from Roman amphitheaters and Dutch tulip fields to Hindu temples and Times Square skylines. The pace is set by the slow turn of a guidebook page and the steady creak of a hostel bunk, not the next notification.

Step up to a gondolier in striped shirt poling past Renaissance buildings. Walk to outdoor cafe tables under striped awning before clock tower. Pull up to a woman with glasses reading a guidebook on stone steps before an amphitheater. Then to a hiker amid layered red rock under desert sky.

The pages keep moving. A traveler in an airport lounge observing planes. A hiker before Machu Picchu stone ruins. A couple in a hammock by thatched bungalows over turquoise water. A photographer at a pagoda with cherry blossoms.

Wander through the world. A woman on a London crosswalk with double-decker buses and Big Ben. A cyclist past Dutch windmills and tulip fields. A surfer on a tropical beach with palm trees. A traveler photographing a Hindu temple.

Keep going. A hiker observing Machu Picchu cascading down the mountainside. A woman in a London street past a red phone booth. A second airport lounge with rolling luggage. A backpacker at a world map with iconic landmarks. A tourist in a narrow European alley with bicycles. A coastal rocks moment before a white lighthouse. A second surfer amid crashing waves and palm trees. A hiker overlooking a misty suspension bridge. An urban explorer with the Empire State Building. A cyclist through a European village. A second pagoda with cherry-blossom branches. And to close, a woman with surfboard and backpack at a world map of landmarks.

There's a reason coloring sticks around. It gives a busy mind somewhere to land, and in this case that somewhere is the lattice of a phone booth or the cobblestone of a European alley. Some pages are bold and forgiving. Others will eat a whole afternoon. Works fine with colored pencils, fine-tip markers, or gel pens.

If you know someone with stamps in their passport from forty countries, a friend planning a six-month gap year, or anyone who reads Lonely Planet for fun, this is for them. It's also for the person who'd quietly rather shade Machu Picchu on a Saturday than scroll.

Pack the bag.

Inside you'll find 24 scenes: a Venetian gondolier past Renaissance buildings, an outdoor cafe under striped awning, a woman reading a guidebook before an amphitheater, a hiker amid red rock, an airport lounge with planes, a hiker at Machu Picchu, a couple in a hammock over turquoise water, a photographer at a pagoda, a London crosswalk with Big Ben, a cyclist past Dutch tulip fields, a tropical beach surfer, a Hindu temple traveler, a second Machu Picchu hiker, a London street past a red phone booth, a second airport lounge with rolling luggage, a backpacker at a world map, a narrow European alley, a coastal rocks lighthouse, a second surfer in crashing waves, a misty suspension bridge, an Empire State Building urban explorer, a European village cyclist, a second pagoda with cherry blossoms, and a woman at a world map of landmarks.