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