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Destination guides
City-by-city travel guides with attractions, food, budget, and the best time to visit each one.
Guanajuato Travel Guide
A colorful colonial silver-mining city cascading down a Mexican valley, with underground tunnels and an October arts festival that takes over every plaza
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Salta Travel Guide
Argentina's high-altitude colonial northwest — Andean foothills, Torrontés vineyards, salt flats, and the best empanadas in the country
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Charleston Travel Guide
Antebellum architecture, Gullah heritage, and one of the best Southern food cities in America
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Mérida Travel Guide
The pastel colonial capital of Yucatán — Mayan ruins, freshwater cenotes, and one of the safest cities in Mexico
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Hoi An Travel Guide
A UNESCO lantern-lit former trading port on the Vietnamese coast, with custom tailoring, the country's best cao lầu, and beach 10 minutes away
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Porto Travel Guide
Lisbon's tougher, prettier northern sibling — port wine cellars, azulejo-tiled facades, and the most photogenic urban riverbank in Europe
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Oaxaca Travel Guide
Mexico's culinary and cultural capital — seven moles, mezcal palenques, Zapotec ruins, and Day of the Dead at its most extraordinary
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Krakow Travel Guide
A perfectly preserved medieval Polish capital with Europe's largest market square, Wawel Castle, and the Kazimierz Jewish quarter
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Chiang Mai Travel Guide
Northern Thailand's mountain-encircled cultural capital, 300 temples, the world's best khao soi, and digital-nomad coffee shops on every corner
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Granada Travel Guide
The Alhambra's home city — Andalusian Moorish-meets-Christian Spain, with free tapas, flamenco caves, and the Sierra Nevada as a snowy backdrop
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Savannah Travel Guide
Spanish-moss live oaks, 22 historic squares, and the South's most haunted-and-most-romantic walking city
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Bruges Travel Guide
Medieval Flanders preserved intact — canals, a step-gabled main square, the world's best Trappist beer, and chocolate on every corner
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Edinburgh Travel Guide
A volcano-set medieval capital with two UNESCO neighborhoods, a castle on a 700-million-year-old rock, and the world's largest arts festival every August
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Boise Travel Guide
Idaho's mountain-fringed capital, a 25-mile riverside greenbelt, a sizable Basque diaspora, and ski terrain 16 miles from downtown
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Chefchaouen Travel Guide
Morocco's Blue Pearl, a Rif Mountain medina painted entirely in shades of blue, with Andalusian heritage and waterfalls an hour away
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Hobart Travel Guide
Tasmania's harbor capital — Australia's most progressive private museum, the world's best whisky distilleries, and Bruny Island oysters
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Tallinn Travel Guide
A Hanseatic medieval old town intact behind its walls, on the Baltic across from Helsinki, in Europe's most digital country
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Salzburg Travel Guide
Mozart's birthplace, the Sound of Music setting, and an Alps-framed baroque old town with one of Europe's largest medieval fortresses
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Luang Prabang Travel Guide
A UNESCO temple town at the junction of the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers — saffron-robed monks at dawn, waterfalls in Caribbean-blue pools, and the cheapest indulgence in Southeast Asia
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San Miguel de Allende Travel Guide
A pink neo-Gothic parish church on a hill, Mexico's biggest expat community, and the country's most polished colonial town
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Fez Travel Guide
Morocco's medieval imperial capital. The world's largest car-free urban area, the oldest continuously operating university, and tanneries that have been working since the 11th century
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Bergen Travel Guide
Norway's western capital and the gateway to the fjords, a Hanseatic wharf of pastel wooden warehouses, surrounded by seven mountains and 240 rainy days a year
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Hanoi Travel Guide
Vietnam's 1,000-year-old capital — French-colonial boulevards meeting a 36-street Old Quarter, the country's best phở, and Halong Bay 3 hours away
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Jaipur Travel Guide
Rajasthan's Pink City — palaces painted terracotta-rose for a British prince's visit, hilltop forts, and India's most spectacular crafts and textile markets
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Bilbao Travel Guide
Basque Country's reborn industrial port — Frank Gehry's Guggenheim, Europe's most innovative pintxos scene, and an hour from San Sebastián by coast
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