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If you want to get away — really away — you don’t need to be rich. Here’s how.

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Break out your hiking boots.

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Dora the Explorer has nothing on the this Dora.

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There have been some things that I have done, as That Girl At The Party, that have become instant forever moments. Last night provided was one of those occasions. I had a complete blast at the small event held by Memphis Travel in the Raines Law Room Library at The William Hotel last night. Hosted by Milton Howery III, the Director of PR for Memphis and his colleague, Kevin Kern with Angie Marchese from Graceland, this elegant and intimate event featured yummy food, great cocktails (y’all know I am alcohol-free but the other folks seemed to be enjoying them!), and engaging conversations from our perfect hosts.

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Baguettes are the newcomer to UNESCO's list, but check out what else is on it.

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Six Life-Changing Travel Experiences at andBeyond As the world re-opens, travellers are not waiting any longer to tick off dream destinations on their bucket lists. So, what makes a trip truly life-changing? Award-winning luxury experiential travel company andBeyond has curated several outstanding experiences in unique destinations, for holiday-starved travellers. From up-close encounters with big cats

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In Easton, Maryland, Bluepoint Hospitality is bringing the best of big city service and hospitality to a charming town that represents the best of America.

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Go to https://public.com/rll and you’ll receive a free stock once you open an account.*This is not investment advice. Offer valid for U.S. residents 18+ and ...

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And no one can figure out how it was built in the first place. ----- Satellite images are shedding new light on a mysterious city built on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Explorers first discovered the ruins of Nan Madol nearly 100 years ago, on the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia, the Independent reported. The island is situated about 1,600 miles from Australia, and 2,500 miles from Los Angeles, California. Some locals in Pohnpei refuse to go near the ruins of the city, believing it to be haunted, according to the Independent. Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft even took inspiration from Nan Madol for the fictional, sunken city of R’lyeh in one of his short stories. “Why would somebody build a city out in the middle of the ocean?” archaeologist Patrick Hunt said in a new episode of the “What on Earth?” show on the Science Channel, which discusses the satellite images. “Why here, so far away, from any other known civilization?” The city, which thrived from 1200 to 1700, was built on coral reefs, and is connected via a series of canals. Nan Madol served as a major political and religious city in Polynesia, and some locals call the ruins “Soun Nan-leng,” meaning “Reef of Heaven,” according to the Pohnpei Visitors’ Bureau. The ruins include tombs, baths, and temples. Nan Madol is made up of 92 artificial islands spread across 200 acres, Smithsonian Magazine reported. Some of the walls are 25-feet high, and the total weight of black rocks totals 750,000 metric tons, making it a larger undertaking than the Egyptian pyramids, according to the same report. Without the use of pulleys or other tools, the mystery lingers as to how the city was ever built. “We don’t know how they brought the columns here and we don’t know how they lifted them up to build the walls. Most Pohnpeians are content to believe they used magic to fly them,” an archeologist from Pohnpei told Smithsonian.

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Which one would you choose?From the Panama to Bali, there are gorgeous islands all around the globe where the oceanfront setting is almost as beautiful as the low cost of living—making them excellent additions to your retirement plan. For example, you could live comfortably off $3,000 per month on the French-influenced island of Las Terrenas in the Dominican Republic or on as little as $1,600 per month on Isla Colón off the Caribbean coast of Panama.

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On its route between Dete and Ngamo Sidings, the "Elephant Express" offers guests an utterly unique safari experience.

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If the walls of Le Bokor Palace hotel could talk, they’d probably crank it up to a scream. Located at the top of a mist-shrouded mountain in southwest Cambodia and first opened in 1925, the venue re-opened this spring, after spending decades as a derelict shell beloved of GoPro-touting travel vloggers. Before that though it survived several darker episodes. In the 1970s for example it was a stronghold of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge forces – as such it’s seen a good deal more death than, say, your average Holiday Inn.

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An Observable notebook by johnburnmurdoch.

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Thinking about moving abroad? These are 20 of the best countries for American expats.

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The essential travel guide to Cuba, including food, travel, culture, and what you'll need for your trip.

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Not all who bar hop are lost.

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At the height of the Soviet Union, just 30 in every 1,000 Soviet citizens owned a car. Even the scrappiest lemons cost a fortune, so instead of driving to work, lots of people took the subway—which, turns out, was a bit more glamorous than you might imagine. Chris Herwig rode the rails for his new book Soviet Metro Stations, a whirlwind spin through 15 subway systems in seven countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. The stations are surprisingly gorgeous—less like the dank, pee-doused tunnels you find beneath New York or San Francisco and more like the ornate museums and posh hotels above them.

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Because we're ready to plan again.

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Sliding into a bathtub after a long day is one of life’s little luxuries, but there’s nothing quite like the restorative buzz from a dip in a proper thermal…

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A biodiverse state park in South America’s largest savanna is home to natural springs, sand dunes, and sparkling waterfalls.

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From Alabama’s rock-and-soul capital to Wyoming’s stunning parkland, from the oldest city in the US to the jaw-droppingly beautiful beaches of the States'…

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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 most delicious restaurants to eat at in Tokyo Japan. Enjoy eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner at these tasty locations around the city.

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Before restaurants were shuttered and schools closed, travel writers were grounded. No one wants to get on a 24-hour flight to New Zealand at the moment, and even if they did, New Zealand’s closed. For many travel writers, non-stop travel isn’t so much a job as a manner of living — one that is now on pause. Many have returned home to hunker down and wait, and hope for the best, and plan their next big trip. Here’s where 39 of them will head, once the all-clear sounds.

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325 Likes, 3 Comments - SCENT OF RAIN° ⚓️ (@thescentofrain) on Instagram: “Times like these°”

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MANY an interesting craft has slipped quietly out of Vancouver harbor, during its fifty years as a port, through the First Narrows, past Prospect Point, and melted into the track of the setting sun upon some mysterious quest. But it is altogether likely that no more interesting craft, or one carrying a more interesting complement, has left this port than that which left a trail of smoke behind her she passed up Point Grey upon a certain January day of the present year of grace. The Gunner—a j not inappropriate name “mystery ship” in the I Great War, and engaged pretty regularly since then in the hardly less exciting pursuit of rum-running, was off upon a treasure hunt, her objective being Cocos Island, 3,000 miles away.

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