Crete, Greece
Crete Greece Chania Harbor Balos Lagoon and Samaria Gorge
Crete is the largest of the Greek islands, roughly two hundred and sixty kilometers from end to end, and it feels less l...
Istanbul, Türkiye
Istanbul Turkiye Hagia Sophia and Bosphorus Ferries
Istanbul is the only great city in the world that straddles two continents. The Bosphorus Strait splits it between Europ...
Kruger National Park, South Africa
Kruger National Park South Africa Self Drive Safari Camps
Kruger National Park stretches roughly 350 kilometres from the Crocodile River in the south to the Limpopo River in the...
Madeira, Portugal
Madeira Portugal Levada Walks and Cabo Girão Cliffs
Madeira rises steeply out of the Atlantic Ocean far off the coast of Africa, a volcanic island of sheer cliffs, forested...
Meteora, Greece
Meteora Greece Cliff Top Monasteries and Hermit Caves
Few places in Europe look as improbable as Meteora. Above the town of Kalambaka in northwestern Thessaly, smooth gray to...
Muscat, Oman
Muscat Oman Grand Mosque Mutrah Souq and Daymaniyat Islands
Muscat is a capital that never stopped feeling like a port town. Its low white buildings run in a thin ribbon between th...
Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh Scotland Royal Mile Holyrood and Arthurs Seat
Edinburgh is one of Europe's most dramatic capitals. A castle sits on an extinct volcano above the city, a medieval Old...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Petronas Towers and Batu Caves
Kuala Lumpur grew from a muddy tin-mining settlement at the meeting of two rivers into a capital of gleaming towers, and...
Mallorca, Spain
Mallorca Spain Palma Cathedral and Tramuntana Villages
Mallorca is the largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, and it is far more varied than its reputation for package beach hol...Ad
Chefchaouen, Morocco
Chefchaouen Morocco Blue Medina and Rif Mountain Waterfalls
Chefchaouen, often called simply Chaouen, spills down a mountainside in Morocco's Rif range, its lanes and stairways pai...
Kathmandu, Nepal
Kathmandu Nepal Stupas Durbar Squares and Newari Food
Kathmandu sits in a wide bowl of a valley at about 1,400 meters, ringed by green hills with the high Himalaya visible on...
Lake Bled, Slovenia
Lake Bled Slovenia Island Church Boat Rides and Castle
Lake Bled is one of the most recognizable views in Europe: a green alpine lake, a tiny island topped by a white church t...
Scottish Highlands, Scotland
Scottish Highlands Glen Coe Loch Ness and Ben Nevis
The Scottish Highlands cover the rugged north and west of Scotland, a land of long sea lochs, bare mountains, ruined cas...
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Yogyakarta Indonesia Borobudur Prambanan and the Kraton
Yogyakarta, which almost everyone in Indonesia simply calls Jogja, is the city where Java keeps its traditions closest t...
Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona Spain Gaudí Gothic Quarter and Beach Days
Barcelona is a city you can read in layers.
Siem Reap and Angkor, Cambodia
Siem Reap Cambodia Angkor Wat Sunrise and the Bayon
Siem Reap is the gateway to Angkor, the vast former capital of the Khmer Empire and one of the most important archaeolog...
Zanzibar, Tanzania