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Travel GuidesHouse reefs off the beach, 30-meter visibility at Koh Rok, hawksbill turtle encounters, and dive sites in a national marine park. Koh Lipe's underwater world is the main event.
StoriesTala has run a beachside pension in Samoa for 15 years. She has opinions about tourist behavior, the best ocean trench swim, and why sleeping in an open-air fale with no walls is the whole point.
Travel GuidesOne is the gateway to the Pamir Highway, the other to Kyrgyz alpine lakes. Both are cheap, both are surrounded by mountains, and both deserve your attention.
Travel GuidesBoth have salt lakes where you bob like a cork. Both sit in deserts. But the experiences couldn't be more different.
Travel GuidesRabelo boat cruises, azulejo train stations, UNESCO terraces at sunset. The Douro has more to offer than what's in the glass — though what's in the glass is excellent.
StoriesBorn 800 meters from the Taj Mahal and raised in a pietra dura family, Rashid Khan has watched tourists come and go for 30 years. His Agra looks nothing like the guidebooks.
StoriesKenji left a Tokyo salary job to run a guesthouse in the cedar forests. He has opinions about tourist behavior, yuba, and why winter is the real season.
Travel GuidesShould you sleep inside the fort? Are the camel safaris worth it? How hot is too hot? And what exactly is dal bati churma? Everything, answered straight.
StoriesIsabella grew up in Coral Gables, works in Miami Beach, and wants you to know that the city's soul isn't on Ocean Drive. It's on Calle Ocho.
StoriesRice terraces at dawn, a homestay family's rice wine, Fansipan in the clouds, and the best VND 40,000 pho of my life. Seven days in Vietnam's highlands.
Travel GuidesYear-round sun, an active volcano with vineyards, the birthplace of morna music, and beaches that look Photoshopped. Here's why this mid-Atlantic archipelago deserves your attention.
Travel GuidesIs Valladolid worth visiting? How do you get to Chichen Itza from there? Which cenote is best? A travel consultant who's sent 200+ clients to the Yucatan answers every question you have.
