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Destination guides
City-by-city travel guides with attractions, food, budget, and the best time to visit each one.
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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Destination GuidePhong Nha Travel Guide
Vietnam's UNESCO cave country, home to Son Doong, the world's largest cave, plus Paradise Cave's 31-kilometer underground river system, in a remote central-Vietnam national park
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Destination GuideCabo Polonio Travel Guide
Uruguay's off-grid beach village at the end of the world — accessible only by 4x4 across 7km of sand dunes, no electricity, no roads, 80 permanent residents, and one of South America's largest sea-lion colonies
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Destination GuideComporta Travel Guide
Portugal's quieter Hamptons, 60km of empty Atlantic beach, rice paddies, pine forests, and a thatched-roof fishing-village aesthetic that has drawn Madonna and Christian Louboutin, an hour south of Lisbon
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Destination GuideJeju Travel Guide
South Korea's volcanic resort island — UNESCO triple-crowned (World Heritage, Geopark, Biosphere Reserve), home to the 1,950m Hallasan volcano, the haenyeo women free-divers, and Korea's honeymoon capital
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Destination GuideLake Atitlán Travel Guide
Aldous Huxley's 'most beautiful lake in the world', a 340m-deep volcanic crater lake at 1,560m in the Guatemalan Highlands, ringed by three perfectly conical volcanoes and 12 Maya villages
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Destination GuideMadeira Travel Guide
Portugal's mid-Atlantic volcanic island — 'the floating garden of the Atlantic,' 600km of UNESCO levada irrigation walks, the second-highest sea cliff in Europe, and the birthplace of Cristiano Ronaldo
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Destination GuideBoquete Travel Guide
Panama's cool-mountain coffee country, a 25,000-person town at 1,200m in the Chiriquí highlands, home to the 3,475m Volcán Barú, premium Geisha coffee, and one of the world's top retirement destinations
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Destination GuideOtavalo Travel Guide
South America's most famous indigenous market. Every Saturday since pre-Columbian times, Quichua Otavalo weavers fill the Plaza de los Ponchos with the textiles that fund 600 of the wealthiest indigenous families in the Americas
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Destination GuideDahab Travel Guide
Egypt's Bedouin-roots Red Sea dive town. The world-famous Blue Hole, vivid coral reefs accessible from the shoreline, and the relaxed alternative to package-tourist Sharm El Sheikh, 90 minutes north on the Sinai coast
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Destination GuideAzores Travel Guide
Portugal's mid-Atlantic volcanic archipelago, 9 emerald islands of crater lakes, geothermal hot springs, whale-watching waters, and São Miguel's green dairy country, halfway between Lisbon and New York
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Destination GuideWadi Rum Travel Guide
Jordan's 'Valley of the Moon', a UNESCO red-sand desert wilderness of sandstone mountains and rock arches, where T.E. Lawrence camped during the Arab Revolt and where 'The Martian' was filmed
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Destination GuideCape Breton Travel Guide
Canada's Atlantic island of Celtic-and-Acadian heritage. The 297km Cabot Trail circuit through Cape Breton Highlands National Park, regularly ranked among the world's most beautiful drives
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Destination GuidePisco Elqui Travel Guide
Chile's astronomy-and-pisco valley capital, a 500-person village at 1,250m in the Elqui Valley, surrounded by the world's clearest night skies, premium pisco distilleries, and the birthplace of Nobel-laureate poet Gabriela Mistral
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Destination GuideHydra Travel Guide
Greece's car-free Saronic island, a stone amphitheater town of 18th-century captains' mansions ringing a perfect natural harbor, 90 minutes by hydrofoil from Athens, where donkeys are the only transport
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Destination GuideAswan Travel Guide
Egypt's southern Nile gateway — sailing feluccas at sunset, the relocated UNESCO temples of Philae, the gateway to Abu Simbel, and the slower-paced Nubian alternative to Luxor and Cairo
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Destination GuidePlovdiv Travel Guide
Europe's oldest continuously inhabited city, 8,000 years of Thracian, Roman, Ottoman, and Bulgarian Renaissance heritage layered together, plus the country's best contemporary arts scene in the Kapana creative district
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Destination GuideTbilisi Travel Guide
Georgia's Caucasus capital, a 1,500-year-old crossroads city of sulfur bathhouses, wooden balconied houses, the world's oldest wine tradition, and one of the most exciting new food scenes in Eurasia
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Destination GuideMunnar Travel Guide
South India's tea-plantation hill capital, a 30,000-person town at 1,600m in the Western Ghats, surrounded by 80,000+ acres of British-era tea estates, the endangered Nilgiri tahr, and the once-in-12-years Neelakurinji bloom
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Destination GuideMonteverde Travel Guide
Costa Rica's cloud-forest capital, a 6,500-person Quaker-founded village at 1,440m in the Tilarán mountains, home to 2,500+ plant species, 100+ mammals, the resplendent quetzal, and the original zip-line
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Destination GuideVilnius Travel Guide
Lithuania's Baroque Baltic capital, one of Europe's largest surviving medieval-and-Baroque old towns (UNESCO), home to the self-declared artistic 'Republic of Užupis,' and one of Europe's most affordable capitals
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Destination GuideSarajevo Travel Guide
Europe's most layered cultural crossroads — where four religions meet within a single neighborhood, the city that hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics and survived the longest siege in modern history, and the start point of World War I
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Destination GuideČeský Krumlov Travel Guide
Bohemia's perfectly preserved medieval fairy-tale town, a 13,000-person UNESCO Renaissance-and-Baroque castle town in a tight Vltava-river bend, the alternative to overcrowded Prague three hours south of the capital
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Destination GuideHolbox Travel Guide
Mexico's Yucatán off-grid island paradise, no cars, no banks, no high-rises, just 42km of sand beaches, the world's largest whale shark aggregation in summer, and bioluminescent plankton at night
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