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The year to come is all about small places, incredible locations—and very few people.

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15 countries. 16 states. 33 adventures. Your travel bucket list just got a whole lot longer.

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20 best day hikes in the world for your bucket list: Kjeragbolten, Trolltunga, Tongariro, Machu Picchu, Great Wall of China, Half Dome, the Narrows.

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Since first arriving on the fabled Indonesian island in the 1970s, Canadian John Hardy has gone from jewelry-brand founder to environmental trailblazer. He and his wife, Cynthia, a silver-haired California native, are well-known around Bali for establishing the “bamboo cathedral” Green School, which instructs future generations in how to be eco-savvy. Some 500 children under the age of 12 now attend, and there are similar projects underway in New Zealand, South Africa, and Mexico.

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For our November/December 2019 issue, AFAR editors journeyed to every continent and returned with tales of waterfalls in the jungle, helicopter flights in the mountains, and martinis in the bar car of the world’s most famous train. Read on to be inspired for your next adventure.

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The battle for the Pacific island of Saipan during World War II is one of those well-remembered battles between Japan and America, one made worse by the mass suicide of local Japanese civilians who jumped off cliffs, fearful of capture by the Americans. Post-war US military histories focused on the heroism of the battle as US troops obliterated the Japanese military garrison on Saipan, ignoring the experience of the local Pacific Islanders and the Japanese civilians who had settled on many of the islands in the 1920s and 1930s. On the anniversary of the battle, we need a new way of looking at the Pacific War, one that includes the social and cultural aspects of the war and not just the fighting.

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In the 20th century, anthropologists fell over themselves to study the “cargo cult” phenomenon in the South Pacific. But was it really a new religion—or just a Western fantasy? ---- ONE DAY IN 1900 OR 1940, or at some point in between, a man whose name was John Frum—although he might not have been a man, and his name might not have been John Frum—arrived on Tanna island, in an archipelago that was then called the New Hebrides but is now called the Republic of Vanuatu. He came, someone told me, in a plane that could somehow land in the bush without needing an airstrip, but I also heard that he simply walked up from the sea, and that he appeared, mysteriously, in a village one day. His home might be on Tanna’s tallest mountain; or nearby, inside of the island’s active volcano, which shoots lava and smoke into the sky every night; or in my own country, the United States, thousands of miles away. He may have appeared first as a tiger, although Tanna is deep in the South Pacific, where no tigers live. Then again, that may have been only a dream, and the tiger also could also have been only a cat, and John might have appeared first as a black man with a mustache, before finally returning in his final form, that of a white man who could magically speak the native languages of the island. Anyway, he came, and that much almost everybody agrees on.

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Mr & Mrs Smith shared a post on Instagram: “Almost adrift in the Adriatic Sea, Aman Sveti Stefan occupies a converted 15th-century fishing…” • Follow their account to see 1,857 posts.

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Cabin vacations: Even those who hate pitching a tent need to commune with nature. Book a cabin in the woods to unwind and unplug.

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Nearly 25 years ago, CNN Travel's Global Editor Barry Neild journeyed across Europe by train to Morocco with barely $100 in his pocket. Looking back, he says he was an idiot, but the kindness of others and the sense of adventure inspired years of globetrotting.

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The best hotels in the world span every continent except Antarctica, though Travel + Leisure readers show an affinity for properties in Europe and their own backyard: the United States.

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For over a century, like the other Hawaiian Islands, Hawai‘i Island depended heavily on sugar cane as a major component of its economy. The story of how sugar barons controlled the Kingdom, Territory, and State of Hawai‘i in the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth need not be recounted here. Global competition ultimately brought an end to Hawaiian sugar, and today it continues in a much reduced form only on Maui. Even so, if we look closely, we can still see the influence of sugar, especially in North Kohala. Sugar production needed water, an enormous amount of water. To produce a pound of sugar required up to 500 gallons of water. One million gallons was required every day for even a relatively small 100-acre plantation.

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A tree-lined walkway in Barcelona and a bustling riverside thoroughfare in London all make media company Time Out's hot list, but which street is named the coolest?

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A lot of folks right around the world at the moment are wishing they had a quiet, self-contained island to which they could retreat and wait out the

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Guide to plan your visit to the fun village of Setenil de las Bodegas and with troglodytes houses (Andalucia) - Tips + map + photos + video

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Someone once said, ‘if you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space’. Agreed. . . . ⁣ ⁣ ⁣…

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In anticipation of Tomorrowland’s 15th anniversary, the Belgium-based festival commissioned Danish artist Thomas Dambo (previously) to build seven of his world-renowned trolls throughout the De Schoore area in Boom. Like his previous installations in Copenhagen, South Korea, and northern Illin

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It's time to take a hard look at how we live as digital nomads, says travel blogger Geena Truman.

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Nobody uses the Nilgiri Mountain Railway to get from A to B, but for the sheer joy of riding in a train that passes through 16 tunnels, 250 bridges and 208 serpentine curves.

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#bougainville #papuanewguinea #paradise There are many incredible islands in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, however, there's one to which I returned time an...

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Canal tubing in the man-made canals that were used to water the sugar cane fields. The float included five man-made tunnels with the longest being 3/4 of a m...

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Its dedicated, sagelike maker isn't at all upset.

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70.8k Likes, 942 Comments - Travel + Leisure (@travelandleisure) on Instagram: “Ronda, the largest of Andalusia’s famous white towns, is a mountaintop city set dramatically atop…”

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"It was like a dream come true."https://youtu.be/8MG5gFtZ3U8"No question about it, this is lotus-eater land. Name your pleasure and you will find it at hand....

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A compilation i put together of some of my favorite drone clips over the years! watch more on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/samkolder/ Music By JAIN h...

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At the age of 21, Lexie Alford has already visited all 196 countries in the world. That makes her the new Guinness World Record holder for youngest person to travel to every country, by three years. (There are 195 states widely recognized as countries, plus Taiwan.) With a family that ran a travel agency, Alford traveled widely as a child—by the age of 18 she’d already hit 72 countries. That’s when she decided to sprint for the world record, self-funding her trips via work as a travel consultant and some sporadic sponsorships. She documents her experiences on her blog and is now working on a book.

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Located just over 1,500 miles from Japan, Tinian was an ideal launch site for the U.S. 509th Composite Group and 313th Bombardment Wing. But first, a massive construction project had to be undertaken on the north end of Tinian. Working for more than 45 days and nights, troops built docks, airport runways, barracks, an administration building, oil storage facilities, weapons depots, an air-conditioned bomb assembly building, and two bomb loading pits. The result, North Field, was the largest airport in the world at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBP0IKaPZxI

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Many of us love nothing more than packing our bags and heading off around the world. Now we can save money iny these cheap countries traveling.

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