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Destination guides
City-by-city travel guides with attractions, food, budget, and the best time to visit each one.
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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Destination GuideHue Travel Guide
Vietnam's imperial capital (1802-1945) — UNESCO Citadel + 7 royal mausoleums + dragon boats on the Perfume River, the deeper historical sister to nearby Hoi An
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Destination GuideKazbegi Travel Guide
Georgia's Caucasus mountain village — a 1,800m gateway to 5,054m Mount Kazbek (Europe's 7th-highest peak), with the iconic 14th-century Gergeti Trinity Church on a 2,170m ridge above the village
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Destination GuidePuebla Travel Guide
Mexico's UNESCO colonial city of Talavera tile and mole poblano — a 1.5-million-person Spanish settlement 2 hours from Mexico City, with the famous Cholula pyramid and 5 of the country's most stunning Baroque churches
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Destination GuideBohinj Travel Guide
Slovenia's quieter alpine lake — Lake Bohinj is 4x the size of Lake Bled, surrounded by Triglav National Park and the Julian Alps, 30 minutes from Bled but a world away from the day-tripper crowds
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Destination GuideBar Harbor Travel Guide
Maine's gateway to Acadia National Park — a 5,500-person Mount Desert Island village famous for the East Coast's only fjord, Cadillac Mountain (first US sunrise October-March), and the legendary popovers at Jordan Pond House
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Destination GuideTaos Travel Guide
New Mexico's high-desert art capital — the 1,000-year-old UNESCO Taos Pueblo (oldest continuously inhabited community in North America), the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, and 80+ art galleries that drew Georgia O'Keeffe, D.H. Lawrence, and the modern American art world
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Destination GuideCrested Butte Travel Guide
Colorado's 'Wildflower Capital of America' — a 1,500-person former coal-mining town at 2,700m in the Elk Mountains, famous for an explosive July wildflower bloom, the dramatic Maroon Bells, and one of America's most authentic ski-town experiences
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Destination GuideBeaufort Travel Guide
South Carolina's Lowcountry heart — a 13,000-person colonial seaport between Charleston and Savannah, famous for antebellum mansions under live-oak-and-Spanish-moss canopies, the Gullah Geechee culture of the Sea Islands, and Hunting Island State Park
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Destination GuideBisbee Travel Guide
Arizona's former 'Queen of the Copper Camps' — a 5,000-person arts-and-historic-preservation town in the Mule Mountains, built into a 1880s mining gulch 90 minutes southeast of Tucson and 10 km from the Mexican border
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