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  • A man paddleboards with his dog with kayaks in the background.

    A local’s travel guide to Austin: what to eat, see and do in three days

  • Two men on either side of a bar.

    A local’s travel guide to New York City: what to eat, see and do in three days

  • A woman inspects inventory in a display unit in a furniture store.

    A local’s travel guide to Washington DC: what to eat, see and do in three days

  • The art deco district in Miami Beach, Florida.

    A local’s guide to Miami: What to eat, see and do in three days

Destinations

  • Wonderful Venice<br>GettyImages-537474133

    A break from the accommodation mega-sites: the best alternative booking platforms

    Airbnb and Booking.com are the market leaders but a new wave of smaller accommodation platforms are offering an alternative – and trying to give something back to local communities
  • Paige McClanahan in Paris.

    The good tourist: can we learn to travel without absolutely infuriating the locals?

  • Christmas gifts for travel lovers.

    The best Christmas travel gifts: 38 presents for explorers and armchair travellers

  • Gelfingen, Heidegg Castle Places along the Route 1291, cycling route in Switzerland

    How an ebike gave me the legs to tackle Switzerland’s contours

  • An instructor helps a kitesurfer perfect his water start on the Stagnone Lagoon, Sicily

    From face-plants to flying across the lagoon: how I learned to kitesurf in Sicily

  • Long Bay, Negril, Westmoreland, Jamaica<br>R5DMAA Long Bay, Negril, Westmoreland, Jamaica

    Jamaica holidays
    My Rasta father showed me the real Jamaica. After he died, I wanted to share it with my kids

  • Manhattan Bridge, NYC<br>Manhattan bridge seen from a brick buildings in Brooklyn street in perspective, New York, USA. Shot in the evening

    Brooklyn for all budgets
    10 places to stay in New York’s coolest borough

The Americas

  • Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro

    £600 for cheese? The Brazilian beach scams that cost visitors dear

  • A terrace in Rio's largest favela, Rocinha, which has become the city's most talked about tourist attraction thanks to a series of viral drone videos

    ‘It’s one of those lifetime things’: viral videos turn Rio favela rooftop into tourist hotspot

  • Açaí on sale at a market in Belém, Brazil. Two men look at camera, one without a shirt on.

    From the Andes to the Amazon: a six-week riverboat adventure to Belém, Brazil’s gateway to the river

  • A man standing with his arms around the shoulders of two women, all wearing traditional Mongolian dress, with horses behind them

    From the Gobi to Ghana: 10 of the best community tourism trips around the world

Europe

  • Two cyclists ride mountain bikes with fat tyres through a snowy forest trail at sunrise

    It’s snow time: the best winter activity holidays in Europe for non-skiers

  • Red deer crossing a sand path in the middle of a forest in a wildlife park, the Veluwe, The NetherlandsLargest National Park in the Netherlands.

    Cycling in the wild heart of the Netherlands: an autumnal break in the Veluwe

  • A line of skiers in colourful gear pose single file on a snowy slope in Les Deux Alpes

    ‘Meet my new après buddies!’: a joyous group skiing trip in Les Deux Alpes, France

  • A snowboarder flying through the air with snowy peaks in the background

    Carving out a greener future: how the Swiss ski resort of Laax is meeting the climate crisis head on

Africa

  • Whitewashed buildings behind high stone walls on the edge of the sea

    Exploring Rabat, Morocco – this year’s Unesco World Book Capital

  • An aerial view of an outdoor market in Marrakesh during sunset.

    Mysterious Marrakech: why I never tire of Morocco’s Red City

  • A hiker on the summit of a mountain with a low sun

    Hiking on the roof of North Africa: a trek to Morocco’s tallest peak

  • Surfers walking across a beach to a calm sea

    Could a surfing retreat in Morocco conquer my fear of the sea?

Asia

  • A composite of Tessa Lu carrying a child next to a man and the skyline of Malaysia

    I hoped my children would have epiphanies while visiting my homeland; my father suggested we go swimming instead

  • Two people stand on rocky ground looking at a waterfall, with selective color highlighting foliage and blue water

    Kindness of strangers: When we were lost in the Thai rainforest, a fellow backpacker picked me up and carried me home

  • Muslims attend Eid al-Adha prayer at the Dian al-Mahri Mosque, also known as Golden Dome Mosque, in Depok, West Java, Indonesia

    Muslims gather for Eid al-Adha in Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia – in pictures

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  • Tourists video a train travelling through a tiny street in

    Why it seems like everyone in Australia is travelling to Vietnam

Australia

  • Aston Brown hitchhikes towards Western Australia.

    I hitchhiked from Sydney to Perth, and found comfort in the company of strangers

  • An aerial view of Tumbulgum, with a river winding through green hills

    Byron Bay’s ‘daggier neighbour’ named in Lonely Planet’s 2027 Best in Travel list

  • Coral reefs above the Houtman Abrolhos islands.

    Salt flats and ancient riverbeds: aerial photography from Western Australia’s midwest – in pictures

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  • Two sky-blue coloured mushrooms with a circle of darker blue in the centre of their caps

    Mushroom trip: a mycologist’s tour of the Tarkine

United Kingdom

  • Dunnottar Castle's ruins sit atop a grassy Scottish cliff at sunrise, under colourful clouds

    ‘Expect goosebumps!’: to celebrate Halloween, readers choose the spookiest places in the UK

  • A view of an abandoned slate quarry amid a rugged landscape in Snowdonia (Eryri national park), with a lake in the background.

    ‘Looming stone towers like Maya temples’: a hike through Snowdonia’s slate country

  • A ruined castle on a grassy rugged clifftop overlooking the sea

    ‘The view from the Mournes was CS Lewis’s idea of Narnia’: how Northern Ireland inspired a magical kingdom

  • A view across a valley towards sunlit hills with wind turbines and a village off to the left

    ‘How green are our valleys?’: in the footsteps of miners on south Wales’s new forest trail

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    Healing waters: 10 of the best spa towns in Europe for a restorative autumn break

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