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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 a gravel path through vineyards, with forested hills beyond in Slovenia's Vipava valley.

    A slow travel success story in Slovenia’s secret valley

  • Pine branches frame a rocky Cres Island shoreline overlooking clear turquoise sea near Valun

    ‘Lapped by the turquoise, crystal seas’: readers’ favourite unsung European islands

  • Aerial view of pyramid-shaped futuristic white apartment buildings beside a marina full of boats

    Architourism in France: the retro futurist seaside town near Montpellier that’s out of this world

  • People relax at outdoor cafe tables under umbrellas in a piazza

    ‘Everything you’d want from Italy, all in one place’: Brescia, Lombardy’s hidden gem

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

  • 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

  • A sunlit landscape of mountains, trees, grass and wildflowers with a white building in the centre

    It takes a village – the pioneering tourism project breathing new life into India’s mountain communities

Australia

  • 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

  • Three people standing on a viewing platform at the top of the Tomaree coastal walk, looking across stretches of beach and coastal vegetation in the late afternoon

    Whale watching and skinny dipping: three leisurely days on the Tomaree coastal walk

  • A campervan displayed in a transparent glass case on a white pedestal with a price tag in a gallery setting

    Mansions on wheels: Australia’s growing obsession with luxury RVs

United Kingdom

  • Colourful fishing boats moored in Pittenweem harbour, lined with white-painted stone buildings

    Boat trips, swimming and seafood: 10 of the UK’s best harbour towns and villages

  • Marcel Theroux Three Men and a Boat Lonely Planet London www.jamesbedford.com

    My best ever British holiday: ‘I’ve travelled further, at greater expense, and had nothing like as much fun’

  • Aerial view of Hengistbury Head beach with dunes, beach huts, and people walking near the sea

    ‘Tuscany may be beautiful, but do they sell sticks of rock?’: readers’ favourite UK holidays

  • A hiker walks down a path on a rocky summit, with valley and further hills behind

    ‘I came to the Highlands to give something back to the hills’: a volunteering trip in Scotland

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