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Destination guides
City-by-city travel guides with attractions, food, budget, and the best time to visit each one.
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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Destination GuideRishikesh Travel Guide
India's 'Yoga Capital of the World' — a sacred Himalayan-foothills town where the Ganges flows clear and cold from the Himalayas, the Beatles wrote much of the White Album in 1968, and 200+ ashrams operate today
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Destination GuideJodhpur Travel Guide
Rajasthan's Blue City — a 1.3-million-person desert capital dominated by the 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort on a 125m sandstone cliff, with the entire old town's houses painted indigo blue against the Thar Desert heat
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