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Hanoi Travel Guide
Vietnam's 1,000-year-old capital — French-colonial boulevards meeting a 36-street Old Quarter, the country's best phở, and Halong Bay 3 hours away
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Jaipur Travel Guide
Rajasthan's Pink City — palaces painted terracotta-rose for a British prince's visit, hilltop forts, and India's most spectacular crafts and textile markets
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Bilbao Travel Guide
Basque Country's reborn industrial port — Frank Gehry's Guggenheim, Europe's most innovative pintxos scene, and an hour from San Sebastián by coast
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Prague Travel Guide
The 'City of a Hundred Spires' — Europe's largest castle complex above a medieval Old Town, the world's oldest astronomical clock, and beer cheaper than water
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Seville Travel Guide
Andalusia's capital — the world's largest Gothic cathedral, a Moorish Royal Alcázar still used by the Spanish king, and the birthplace of flamenco
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Bocas del Toro Travel Guide
A Caribbean archipelago of nine islands in northwest Panama — clear water, no big resorts, and the friendliest backpacker scene south of Tulum
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Mostar Travel Guide
A UNESCO 16th-century Ottoman bridge over an emerald river in southern Bosnia — destroyed in the 1990s war, faithfully rebuilt, and still the symbol of a divided-then-reunited city
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Telluride Travel Guide
A former silver-mining town wedged into a Colorado box canyon at 8,750 feet — world-class skiing, four signature festivals, and the only free gondola in North America
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Sayulita Travel Guide
A surf town on Mexico's Pacific coast with bunting-strung streets, beginner-friendly waves, and Punta Mita's hidden beaches 15 minutes south
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Pokhara Travel Guide
Nepal's lakeside Himalaya gateway — paragliding above the Annapurnas, the trek launchpad for the Annapurna Circuit, and a town built around a single transcendent mountain view
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La Fortuna Travel Guide
Costa Rica's adventure-tourism capital — at the foot of the Arenal Volcano, with hot springs, hanging bridges, and a 75-meter waterfall a short hike from the main square
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Kotor Travel Guide
A medieval walled town on the deep blue Bay of Kotor — UNESCO-protected fjord-like inlet, 1,350 steps up the city walls, and the friendliest cats in Europe
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Mendocino Travel Guide
A Northern California coastal village of about 900 people perched on dramatic ocean bluffs — Murder She Wrote's Cabot Cove, the redwoods 30 minutes inland, and Anderson Valley wine country an hour east
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Bariloche Travel Guide
Argentina's Patagonia lake-district capital — Swiss-style mountain town, the largest ski resort in Latin America, and chocolate shops on every corner
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Annecy Travel Guide
The Venice of the Alps — a turquoise glacial lake at the foot of the French Alps, a medieval canal-laced old town, and the most photographed castle-on-an-island in France
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Halifax Travel Guide
Nova Scotia's harbor capital — Titanic graves, Atlantic Canada's best lobster, and the gateway to Peggy's Cove and the Cabot Trail
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Strasbourg Travel Guide
Alsace's French-German hybrid capital — a canal-laced UNESCO Old Town, France's oldest Christmas market, and the rose-colored Gothic cathedral that was the world's tallest building for 200 years
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Mendoza Travel Guide
Argentina's wine capital — Malbec country at the foot of the Andes, with the highest peak in the Americas (Aconcagua) two hours west
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Uyuni Travel Guide
The world's largest salt flat at 12,000 feet — Salar de Uyuni's mirror surface in the wet season, cactus islands and Colorada/Verde lagoons on a 3-day jeep tour to the Chilean border
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Joshua Tree Travel Guide
California's high desert — Joshua Tree National Park's surreal namesake yuccas, boulder fields with 8,000 climbing routes, and one of America's darkest night skies
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Albuquerque Travel Guide
New Mexico's high-desert capital — host of the world's largest hot-air balloon fiesta, the longest aerial tram in the Americas, and the country's most distinctive Native-Spanish-Anglo cultural fusion
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Galway Travel Guide
Ireland's bohemian west-coast cultural capital — traditional music sessions in every pub, the Cliffs of Moher 90 minutes south, and the Aran Islands by ferry from Doolin
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Easter Island Travel Guide
The most remote inhabited island on Earth — 887 monumental moai statues carved by a Polynesian civilization 800 years ago, 3,700 km from the nearest continent
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Atacama Travel Guide
The driest non-polar desert on Earth — high-altitude Mars-like landscapes, the world's best stargazing, geysers at 14,000 feet, and the gateway to Bolivia's Uyuni salt flats
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Yangshuo Travel Guide
Southern China's karst-mountain landscape — limestone peaks rising from rice paddies, the iconic Li River bamboo-raft cruise, and the country's best rock climbing
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