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Destination guides
City-by-city travel guides with attractions, food, budget, and the best time to visit each one.
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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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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