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TJA tree-lined capital nestled between mountain ranges that serves as the gateway to the legendary Pamir Highway, where the National Museum showcases Silk Road treasures, the green bazaar overflows with pomegranates and walnuts, and the world's second-tallest flagpole once towered over Rudaki Park.
IndiaA UNESCO World Heritage complex of 25 medieval Hindu and Jain temples covered in extraordinarily intricate erotic and divine sculptures — the pinnacle of Chandela dynasty art, set against the wild backdrop of Panna National Park's tiger-roaming forests.
Utah's first national park — a cathedral of sculpted sandstone where the Virgin River carved 2,000-foot vermilion cliffs into a labyrinth of slot canyons, hanging gardens, and vertigo-inducing spines like Angels Landing that draw hikers from every corner of the planet.
StoriesA first walk through Bukhara starts in confusion — locked gates, unsigned lanes, a carpet seller at your elbow — and ends with a 900-year-old minaret stopping you cold. Here's how the old city earns it.
StoriesChen Wei has lived on the Li River for 40 years. His Guilin is nothing like the one in the tourist brochures.
StoriesAsk any seasoned guide in Cusco and they'll tell you the same dozen things — which circuit, when to enter, what train class is worth it, and the tourist traps to skip.
TipsThe e-visa catches, the wadi shoes I forgot, the 4x4 I should have rented — and the OMR 2 biryani that made up for all of it.
StoriesI came for the erotic carvings. I stayed because a sound-and-light show narrated by Amitabh Bachchan made me cry about a dynasty I'd never heard of.
Travel GuidesKampala is more than a gorilla-trek layover. From the minaret at the Gaddafi Mosque to a street-cart Rolex and the Ndere Troupe's drums, here are 10 things to do that make Uganda's capital worth its own days.
