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Were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay really the first to conquer the world’s highest peak? We searched for a camera that could rewrite history.

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The UK's Post Office has released its annual City Costs Barometer of the most affordable city breaks in Europe. Prague comes in at No. 10. Which nine places are even less expensive for 2019?

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For a country with 7,000 years of history, Malta isn’t usually a place that comes up often on your radar of potential vacation spots. It gets overlooked for other Mediterranean spots like Cinque Terre or Positano or Corfu. Here’s why it shouldn’t. On a map, Malta looks like just a peek of land below Sicily; you’d miss it if you weren’t squinting with the intention to find it. But this Mediterranean nation is a unique gift that keeps on giving for travelers who like food, wine, beaches, and history. Two majorly important Caravaggio paintings are here under one roof, in one of the most jaw-droppingly gilded cathedrals you’ll ever see. The island is home to the oldest free-standing structures on the planet (yes, older than the pyramids). They make a very tiny quantity of very good wine, and more than enough cheese to eat along with it. Most recently, its claim to fame has been Hollywood’s use of the timeless landscape for filming (i.e. Game of Thrones, Gladiator, Assassin's Creed, Murder on the Orient Express). With tourism numbers growing wildly every year, it’s time to visit Malta.

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22-24 May 2022Via Verde de Ojos Negros is a pleasure to go cycling on, especially if you go downhill. It is the longest Via Verde in Spain; it used to be a r...

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Venetian towns abound in Croatia, Slovenia, Greece and even Cyprus. The Republic of Venice commanded the Adriatic, and much of the Mediterranean.

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The Midway Atoll is a small atoll situated in the North Pacific Ocean. It is an unorganized, unincorporated territory of the United States.

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In 1950, a young Australian mining engineer named Ben Carlin set out to do the impossible: circumnavigate the globe, by land and sea, in a single vehicle. In Half-Safe, the latest story from The Atavist, James Nestor sets out to uncover Carlin's fate and fin

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Support your local independent menswear shops. These are the stores that are meaningful to our communities and in our lives. These are the places we all want to continue to exist. Please get out and visit these places and share the list with likeminded friends. If there’s a shop you want to nominate, please do so in the comments below.

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Can this form of low-cow cost, independent travel really survive a new age of social distancing, test and trace, potentially rising flight prices and constantly changing travel restrictions?

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As a veteran travel writer is reminded on a short jaunt from his home in France, you don’t need to go far to get away. “Small travel,” he finds, has its own rewards.

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This Spanish town is perched on a cliff formed of hundred-thousand-year-old lava flow, has a medieval church, and is known for its sunsets.

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These otherworldly landscapes and awe-inspiring natural wonders need to move to the very top of your travel list.

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From quaint farm stays to over-the-top treehouses, these were the most wishlisted Airbnbs in each state in 2020.

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Tales of mysterious ruins have long enchanted travellers from afar, but those stories may hide something even more fascinating – and adverse.

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I’ve traveled almost everywhere in Cuba: growing up on the island I spent my summers traveling from Havana to Pinar Del Rio to discover all of its treasures: Cayo Jutias, Vinales Valley, Cueva del Indio, Las Terrazas and much more.

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Are you ready to see some of the most incredible places in the USA? Check out our ultimate United States bucket list for ideas on places you MUST visit.

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South Pacific villagers worship a mysterious American they call John Frum - believing he'll one day shower their remote island with riches. ----- In the morning heat on a tropical island halfway across the world from the United States, several dark-skinned men—clad in what look to be U.S. Army uniforms—appear on a mound overlooking a bamboo-hut village. One reverently carries Old Glory, precisely folded to reveal only the stars. On the command of a bearded “drill sergeant,” the flag is raised on a pole hacked from a tall tree trunk. As the huge banner billows in the wind, hundreds of watching villagers clap and cheer. Chief Isaac Wan, a slight, bearded man in a blue suit and ceremonial sash, leads the uniformed men down to open ground in the middle of the village. Some 40 barefoot “G.I.’s” suddenly emerge from behind the huts to more cheering, marching in perfect step and ranks of two past Chief Isaac. They tote bamboo “rifles” on their shoulders, the scarlet tips sharpened to represent bloody bayonets, and sport the letters “USA,” painted in red on their bare chests and backs. This is February 15, John Frum Day, on the remote island of Tanna in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu. On this holiest of days, devotees have descended on the village of Lamakara from all over the island to honor a ghostly American messiah, John Frum. “John promised he’ll bring planeloads and shiploads of cargo to us from America if we pray to him,” a village elder tells me as he salutes the Stars and Stripes. “Radios, TVs, trucks, boats, watches, iceboxes, medicine, Coca-Cola and many other wonderful things.” The island’s John Frum movement is a classic example of what anthropologists have called a “cargo cult”—many of which sprang up in villages in the South Pacific during World War II, when hundreds of thousands of American troops poured into the islands from the skies and seas. As anthropologist Kirk Huffman, who spent 17 years in Vanuatu, explains: “You get cargo cults when the outside world, with all its material wealth, suddenly descends on remote, indigenous tribes.” The locals don’t know where the foreigners’ endless supplies come from and so suspect they were summoned by magic, sent from the spirit world. To entice the Americans back after the war, islanders throughout the region constructed piers and carved airstrips from their fields. They prayed for ships and planes to once again come out of nowhere, bearing all kinds of treasures: jeeps and washing machines, radios and motorcycles, canned meat and candy.

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Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and offers. No mode of travel is more American than the road trip. It’s a national rite of passage. Dating back to Model T days, folks have been hitting the wide-open road to explore every nook and cranny of the 3,000 miles that …

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All the places in Atlas Obscura in the United States, on one map.

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Since the birth of the USA on July 4, 1776 with the Declaration of Independence, the country has been at war for 93% of its existence. It all started with the American War of Independence from 1775 to 1783. Now, to most Americans that conflict was more than necessary. Had it not taken place it is doubtful that King George III of Great Britain and his Parliament would have simply waved goodbye to the Thirteen Colonies and wished them well for the future.

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Creative ideas and art transport Tirana, Albania’s lively capital city, far from its Communist past.

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47 Likes, 0 Comments - Ishani_Thakar (@ishani_thakarr) on Instagram: “#arts_moonlight #moon_of_the_day #moons #light #stars #digitalart #paint #painter #paintbrush…”

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72.9k Likes, 955 Comments - Travel + Leisure (@travelandleisure) on Instagram: “It's the million-dollar question: What will travel look like as the world begins to reopen? There's…”

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In many countries in Southeast Asia, such as Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, the arrival of spring also marks the beginning of the new year. Songkran (สงกรานต์), as the festival welcoming in the new year is called in Thai, is often celebrated with playful water fights on city streets over the course of three chaotic days. Over these days, cities turn into playful battlegrounds. Children emerge armed from their houses and bands of revelers gather on the sides of the roads ready to waylay passersby. This, though, is a war with water. [The Conversation]

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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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On the outskirts of Havana, in Cuba’s largest public housing project, lives a 94-year-old barber turned diplomat turned artist named Hector Gallo. For the past 30 years, he’s worked on creating his art installation “The Garden and Gallery of Affections.” We went in search of this “garden for the spirit” and ended up spending a day with Mr. Gallo, his wife, and his grandson, David, who tells his story here.

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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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So many pit stops offer salty, sweet, and crunchy bites worth pulling off the interstate for

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25th September 2017 The wind shrieks, its fury unmistakable. The rain pounds a tumultuous percussion on silk-thin fabric. Beyond, outside, just...

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