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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.
Travel GuidesBoth are colonial-era retreats in the mountains. Both have lakes, tea, and mist. But one is a UNESCO train ride and the other is a cliff walk above the clouds. Here's how to choose.
SeasonalWhen the Christmas lights go up along Bahnhofstrasse and the fondue trams start running, Zurich transforms from an expensive city into an expensive city you don't mind paying for.
StoriesCasablancais will tell you the same things: skip the taxi, look up at the balconies, eat by the sea, and never let anyone 'guide' you off the boulevard. Local wisdom, distilled.
Travel GuidesAlexander passed through. Genghis Khan burned it. Soviet planners nearly demolished it. How one city survived everything history threw at it.
StoriesFourteen rooms finished out of two hundred planned, a throne room with no throne, and 172 nights slept by the king who built it. A walk through Neuschwanstein from dawn to dinner.
StoriesCarlos grew up in the shadow of Arenal Volcano. He watched the town transform from a farming village into an adventure tourism hub. He has thoughts.
