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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
8 min readSouth 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
8 min readAldous 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
8 min readPortugal'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
8 min readPanama'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
8 min readSouth 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
8 min readEgypt'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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