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Destination guides
City-by-city travel guides with attractions, food, budget, and the best time to visit each one.
Destination GuideParaty Travel Guide
Brazil's perfectly preserved 17th-century colonial port — UNESCO World Heritage cobblestone streets that flood at high tide, a bay of 65 islands, and the country's cachaça capital
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Destination GuideSan Cristóbal de las Casas Travel Guide
The Maya highland heart of Chiapas — a 16th-century colonial town at 2,200m elevation, surrounded by indigenous Tzotzil and Tzeltal villages and a living Maya culture you don't see in the Yucatán
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Destination GuideBerat Travel Guide
Albania's UNESCO 'City of a Thousand Windows' — white Ottoman houses stacked up two steep hillsides, a still-inhabited 13th-century castle, and one of Europe's most undiscovered colonial cores
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Destination GuideSucre Travel Guide
Bolivia's UNESCO white city — the constitutional capital where Bolivian independence was signed in 1825, set at 2,810 meters in a temperate Andean valley
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Destination GuidePucón Travel Guide
Chile's adventure capital of the Lake District — an active 2,847m volcano you can summit in a day, hot springs in moss-covered ravines, and a town set on a deep glacial lake
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Destination GuideLeón Travel Guide
Nicaragua's revolutionary university city — Central America's largest cathedral (UNESCO), one of the lowest-cost colonial bases in Latin America, and the launchpad for volcano boarding on Cerro Negro
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Destination GuideSapa Travel Guide
Vietnam's northwest mountain capital — terraced rice paddies cascading down 1,500-meter valleys, six ethnic minority cultures, and the cable car to Indochina's highest peak
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Destination GuideOhrid Travel Guide
North Macedonia's UNESCO lake town — one of Europe's oldest and deepest lakes (5 million years), the 'Jerusalem of the Balkans' with 365 medieval churches, and the postcard view of St. John at Kaneo on a cliff above the water
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Destination GuideSalento Travel Guide
Colombia's coffee country anchor — a brightly painted Andean village at 1,895m next to the surreal Cocora Valley, where 60-meter wax palms (Colombia's national tree) rise out of cloud forest
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Destination GuideTrinidad Travel Guide
Cuba's perfectly preserved 18th-century sugar-town — UNESCO cobblestone streets, pastel houses unchanged since 1830, and live salsa on the Casa de la Música steps every night
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Destination GuideHampi Travel Guide
The UNESCO ruins of the Vijayanagara Empire — over 1,600 surviving stone temples, palaces, and bazaars scattered across 36 square kilometers of surreal granite-boulder landscape in southern India
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Destination GuideYogyakarta Travel Guide
The cultural heart of Java — gateway to the 9th-century Borobudur (world's largest Buddhist temple), the still-living Sultan's palace, and the Hindu Prambanan complex, all in one of Indonesia's most affordable cities
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Destination GuideMarfa Travel Guide
Texas's improbable high-desert art town — population 1,800, three hours from the nearest major airport, transformed by Donald Judd in 1979 into one of America's most influential contemporary-art destinations
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Destination GuideColonia del Sacramento Travel Guide
Uruguay's UNESCO Portuguese colonial outpost — a cobblestone river town founded in 1680, an hour ferry from Buenos Aires, and one of South America's most underrated weekend escapes
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Destination GuidePondicherry Travel Guide
India's French colonial coastal town — mustard-yellow boulevards from the 18th-century French period, a 1.5km Bay of Bengal promenade, and the spiritual gravity of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville
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Destination GuideBattambang Travel Guide
Cambodia's most authentic colonial city — French-Khmer Art Deco buildings, the famous bamboo train, the Phare circus, and the genuine countryside Cambodia that Siem Reap has lost
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Destination GuideTofino Travel Guide
Canada's surf-and-storm-watching capital — a 2,000-person Vancouver Island village at the end of a 4-hour rainforest drive, fronting the open Pacific and Pacific Rim National Park
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Destination GuideBrașov Travel Guide
Romania's Transylvanian Saxon capital — a 13th-century Carpathian-mountain town with the Gothic Black Church, gateway to Bran (Dracula's) Castle and one of Eastern Europe's most underrated ski regions
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Destination GuideCienfuegos Travel Guide
Cuba's UNESCO 'Pearl of the South' — a 19th-century French-colonial planned city, the only one founded by French settlers in the Spanish Caribbean, on a deep protected bay between Havana and Trinidad
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Destination GuideMcLeod Ganj Travel Guide
The home of the Dalai Lama in exile — a Tibetan-Buddhist mountain town at 2,082m in the Indian Himalayas, the de facto capital of the Tibetan diaspora since 1960
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Destination GuideKampot Travel Guide
Cambodia's riverside pepper capital — a sleepy French colonial town at the foot of Bokor Mountain, the world's most valuable pepper terroir, and the slow-paced southern Cambodia counterpoint to Siem Reap
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Destination GuideMompós Travel Guide
Colombia's UNESCO 'lost' river colonial town — a 1540 Spanish settlement on an inland Magdalena River island, where García Márquez found the model for 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'
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Destination GuideNinh Binh Travel Guide
Vietnam's 'Halong Bay on land' — UNESCO limestone karst valleys and rice paddies threaded by river-cave boat trips, the rural counterpart to coastal Halong Bay, 90 minutes south of Hanoi
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Destination GuideWanaka Travel Guide
Queenstown's quieter alpine sister — a 9,000-person lakeside town under the Southern Alps, famous for the Wanaka Tree photograph, the Roys Peak panoramic hike, and the slower Southern Lakes alternative
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Destination GuideTórshavn Travel Guide
The world's smallest capital city — a 21,000-person Viking-era harbor town on a treeless North Atlantic archipelago, grass-roofed buildings, and gateway to 18 islands of fjords, sea cliffs, and puffin colonies
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