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Destination guides
City-by-city travel guides with attractions, food, budget, and the best time to visit each one.
Kotor Travel Guide
A medieval walled town on the deep blue Bay of Kotor — UNESCO-protected fjord-like inlet, 1,350 steps up the city walls, and the friendliest cats in Europe
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Mendocino Travel Guide
A Northern California coastal village of about 900 people perched on dramatic ocean bluffs — Murder She Wrote's Cabot Cove, the redwoods 30 minutes inland, and Anderson Valley wine country an hour east
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Bariloche Travel Guide
Argentina's Patagonia lake-district capital — Swiss-style mountain town, the largest ski resort in Latin America, and chocolate shops on every corner
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Annecy Travel Guide
The Venice of the Alps — a turquoise glacial lake at the foot of the French Alps, a medieval canal-laced old town, and the most photographed castle-on-an-island in France
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Halifax Travel Guide
Nova Scotia's harbor capital — Titanic graves, Atlantic Canada's best lobster, and the gateway to Peggy's Cove and the Cabot Trail
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Strasbourg Travel Guide
Alsace's French-German hybrid capital — a canal-laced UNESCO Old Town, France's oldest Christmas market, and the rose-colored Gothic cathedral that was the world's tallest building for 200 years
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Mendoza Travel Guide
Argentina's wine capital — Malbec country at the foot of the Andes, with the highest peak in the Americas (Aconcagua) two hours west
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Uyuni Travel Guide
The world's largest salt flat at 12,000 feet — Salar de Uyuni's mirror surface in the wet season, cactus islands and Colorada/Verde lagoons on a 3-day jeep tour to the Chilean border
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Joshua Tree Travel Guide
California's high desert — Joshua Tree National Park's surreal namesake yuccas, boulder fields with 8,000 climbing routes, and one of America's darkest night skies
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Albuquerque Travel Guide
New Mexico's high-desert capital — host of the world's largest hot-air balloon fiesta, the longest aerial tram in the Americas, and the country's most distinctive Native-Spanish-Anglo cultural fusion
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Galway Travel Guide
Ireland's bohemian west-coast cultural capital — traditional music sessions in every pub, the Cliffs of Moher 90 minutes south, and the Aran Islands by ferry from Doolin
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Easter Island Travel Guide
The most remote inhabited island on Earth — 887 monumental moai statues carved by a Polynesian civilization 800 years ago, 3,700 km from the nearest continent
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Atacama Travel Guide
The driest non-polar desert on Earth — high-altitude Mars-like landscapes, the world's best stargazing, geysers at 14,000 feet, and the gateway to Bolivia's Uyuni salt flats
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Yangshuo Travel Guide
Southern China's karst-mountain landscape — limestone peaks rising from rice paddies, the iconic Li River bamboo-raft cruise, and the country's best rock climbing
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Essaouira Travel Guide
Morocco's Atlantic-coast windsurfing capital — UNESCO walled medina, blue-painted fishing fleet, and the relaxed counterpoint to Marrakech 2.5 hours inland
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Vieques Travel Guide
Puerto Rico's quiet sister island — the world's brightest bioluminescent bay, wild horses on empty beaches, and a US destination with the feel of a much smaller Caribbean nation
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Lalibela Travel Guide
Ethiopia's 'African Jerusalem' — 11 medieval churches carved downward into solid rock 800 years ago, still in active use by white-robed Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims
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Florianópolis Travel Guide
Brazil's southern beach-island capital — 42 distinct beaches on a single Atlantic island, the country's most consistent surf, and the highest quality of life in Brazil
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Outer Banks Travel Guide
A 200-mile barrier-island chain off North Carolina — wild Spanish mustangs on Corolla's beaches, the world's first flight at Kitty Hawk, and one of the East Coast's most spectacular lighthouses
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Destination GuideCozumel Travel Guide
Mexico's Caribbean diving capital — UNESCO-protected reef system, Mayan ruins on a low limestone island, and the largest cruise port in the Western Hemisphere
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Destination GuideHavana Travel Guide
Cuba's capital frozen in 1960s amber — 1950s American cars, UNESCO Old Havana cobblestones, Hemingway's mojito and daiquiri bars, and a Malecón seawall that lights up at sunset
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Destination GuideUshuaia Travel Guide
The world's southernmost city — Argentine Patagonia at the end of the Americas, the launching port for nearly all Antarctica cruises, and the gateway to Tierra del Fuego National Park
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Destination GuideZanzibar City Travel Guide
The Tanzanian spice island's UNESCO Swahili capital — coral-stone alleys, the most photographed carved wooden doors in Africa, and white-sand Indian Ocean beaches an hour north
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Destination GuideSonoma Travel Guide
California's quieter wine country — California's largest public plaza, where California briefly became its own republic in 1846, and the friendlier counterpoint to neighboring Napa Valley
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Destination GuideCape May Travel Guide
America's oldest seaside resort — a Victorian-era beach town with 600+ painted houses, a working 1859 lighthouse, and one of North America's premier bird migration corridors
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