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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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Destination GuideBend Travel Guide
Oregon's high-desert outdoor capital, a 100,000-person Cascade-Mountains-and-Deschutes-River town with 30+ breweries (more per-capita than any US city), Mount Bachelor skiing, and the famous Smith Rock climbing gym
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Destination GuideDoor County Travel Guide
Wisconsin's Great Lakes peninsula, 480 km of Lake Michigan-and-Green-Bay shoreline, 11 historic lighthouses, 250+ Door County cherry orchards, and 5 state parks on the 'Cape Cod of the Midwest'
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Destination GuideMackinac Island Travel Guide
Michigan's no-cars island in Lake Huron, 500 permanent residents, no motor vehicles allowed since 1898, the Grand Hotel's 660-foot front porch, and the world's only place where you can ride a bicycle on a Victorian-era car-free island
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Destination GuideNewport Travel Guide
Rhode Island's Gilded Age summer capital, a 24,000-person colonial port and yachting center on Aquidneck Island, with 11 historic 'summer cottages' (read: 70-room mansions) from the Vanderbilts, Astors, and Belmonts, and the famous 5.6km Cliff Walk
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