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Arenal, Costa Rica

Arenal Costa Rica Volcano Hikes Hot Springs and Bridges

Arenal is the name of a volcano, a national park and a lake, and together they make one of Costa Rica's most popular reg...

Athens, Greece

Athens Greece Acropolis Plaka and Cape Sounion Sunsets

Athens is a big, energetic modern capital built around some of the most famous ruins on earth.

Bora Bora, French Polynesia

Bora Bora French Polynesia Lagoon Snorkeling and Beaches

Bora Bora is a small island with an outsized reputation, and the first view from the plane explains why. A dark volcanic...

Cape Town, South Africa

Cape Town South Africa Table Mountain and Boulders Penguins

Cape Town sits at the foot of Table Mountain, between two oceans and a string of beaches, vineyards and rugged peaks.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Copenhagen Denmark Nyhavn Tivoli Gardens and Smørrebrød

Copenhagen has a gift for making city life look easy. Bicycles outnumber cars in the center, the harbor is clean enough...

Helsinki, Finland

Helsinki Finland Suomenlinna Sea Fortress and Public Saunas

Helsinki is a capital that feels close to the sea at every turn.

Hoi An, Vietnam

Hoi An Vietnam Lanterns Tra Que Village and An Bang Beach

Hoi An is a small riverside town in central Vietnam whose old quarter looks much as it did when it was one of Southeast...

Interlaken, Switzerland

Interlaken Switzerland Jungfraujoch and Lauterbrunnen

This guide covers the best places to visit in Interlaken and the surrounding Bernese Oberland, with practical notes on t...

Luang Prabang, Laos

Luang Prabang Laos Dawn Alms Round and Kuang Si Falls

Luang Prabang is a small town with an outsized reputation.

Marrakech, Morocco

Marrakech Morocco Souks Riads and Jemaa el-Fnaa

Marrakech was founded in the eleventh century by the Almoravid dynasty and became one of the great imperial cities of Mo...

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia

Plitvice Lakes Croatia Turquoise Waterfalls and Boardwalks

Plitvice Lakes National Park is a chain of sixteen visible lakes in the forested mountains of central Croatia, each spil...

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Samarkand Uzbekistan Registan Shah-i-Zinda and Plov

Few cities carry their name the way Samarkand does. For more than two thousand years it sat on the trade routes linking...

Santorini, Greece

Santorini Greece Oia Caldera Sunsets and Volcanic Beaches

Santorini is what remains of a volcano.

Seychelles

Seychelles Island Hopping Mahe Praslin and La Digue Beaches

Seychelles is an archipelago of granite and coral islands scattered across the western Indian Ocean, northeast of Madaga...

Singapore

Singapore Hawker Centres Gardens by the Bay and Little India

Singapore packs a remarkable amount into a small island. In a single afternoon you can walk from a Taoist temple in Chin...

Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm Sweden Gamla Stan Vasa Ship and Archipelago

Stockholm is built on fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea, and water is part of almost every view....

Torres del Paine, Chile

Torres del Paine Chile Base of the Towers and Grey Glacier

Torres del Paine is the kind of place that rearranges your sense of scale. Three pale granite spires stab out of the sou...

Antigua, Guatemala

Antigua Guatemala Volcano Hikes and Colonial Ruins

Antigua Guatemala sits in a green highland valley ringed by three volcanoes: Agua, Fuego and Acatenango. For more than t...

Berlin, Germany

Berlin Germany Brandenburg Gate to the East Side Gallery

Berlin is Germany's capital and largest city, and few places carry so much recent history so openly.

Cairo and Giza, Egypt

Cairo and Giza Egypt Pyramids Sphinx and Egyptian Museum

Cairo is a city of extremes: the last surviving wonder of the ancient world on its western edge, a medieval core packed...

Kandy, Sri Lanka

Kandy Sri Lanka Temple of the Tooth and Tea Country

Kandy was the last royal capital of Sri Lanka, a mountain kingdom that held out against Portuguese and Dutch control for...

Karachi, Pakistan

Karachi Pakistan Burns Road Biryani and Mohatta Palace

Karachi is Pakistan's largest city and busiest port, a bustling seaside metropolis with colonial era landmarks, crowded...

Kraków, Poland

Kraków Poland Market Square Wawel Hill and Kazimierz

Kraków was Poland's royal capital for centuries, and unlike many central European cities it came through the Second Worl...

Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon Portugal Trams Viewpoints Pastries and Sintra

Lisbon spreads across a cluster of steep hills on the north bank of the Tagus, just before the river widens into the Atl...