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Here's everything to know before packing your life onto two wheels and hitting the road

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A small country that's big on hospitality, ancient history and culture, and numerous Unesco World Heritage sites, Jordan offers endless opportunities for adventure. From afar, it’s often unfairly lumped in with regional conflict and, as such, overlooked by timid travelers. But in reality, it’s a welcoming and peaceful destination not to be missed.

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The castles dotting the are each worthy of their very own fairytale. These magnificent structures have survived wars, fires, dozens of generations, and stood the test of time. From the Greek Islands to the rocky cliffs of Scotland, each castle brings with it hundreds of years of human history, and perhaps a ghost story or two. And while most are built with brick and stone, their individual stories are all unique and intriguing for visitors from the world over to enjoy.

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From old favorites to long-awaited special trips, these are the drinks destinations at the top of bartenders’ post-pandemic travel lists.

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Despite the endless political turmoil, England surged into number two spot of the best countries to visit in 2020… but who topped the list?

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Peyote comes from northern Mexico and southern Texas, and has a long history as a hallucinogenic drug. Here's everything you need to know.

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

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With a swimming pool, spa and even a squash court, the Oryx Hotel inside Doha's airport is almost a destination in its own right.

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Snag some of the best spots to pitch a tent during peak season

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Settle down against the trunk of a nearby tree in your local woods and join Sweden as she reads you her own chilling story.

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1,796 Likes, 4 Comments - Man of Many (@manofmanytastes) on Instagram: “The pyramids are out of bounds via @matiasderada”

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From 1896 until the 1930s, showmen would travel the country staging wrecks at state fairs.

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From salsa, to tobacco plantations to diving on the coast of Cuba, here are 20 things you shouldn't miss in this exciting island country.

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Built 14 years ago, this whimsical jungle compound remains a benchmark for sustainable construction, transforming light-on-the-land living—a wastewater garden, a vegetation-filtered pool—into an effortless communion with nature. One of the family's latest wonders is the bamboo Aura house (shown) in the Green Village. Designed by architecture and design collective Ibuku, founded by John's daughter Elora, it is available to rent through BoutiqueHomes (from $245 per night). More https://www.trunqd.com/post/56009

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Get Exclusive NordVPN Deal Here: https://nordvpn.com/wendover Watch Jet Lag: The Game at http://youtube.com/jetlagthegame Buy a Wendover Productions t-shirt:...

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Formed in 2018, the Responsible Tourism Collective of Goa is a group of 20-odd tourism businesses that is committed to promoting responsible and sustainable travel. We find out how they are working to reinvent this popular beach destination for the better.

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For teens in Bali, adulthood bites different. Balinese teens come of age with a traditional ceremony that involves grinding down their upper canine teeth—a metaphorical and physical break from their animal instincts and ancestral roots. This ceremony is seen as the final responsibility a parent has to their child. VICE Indonesia follows Gek Sri as she undergoes her own “defanging” ceremony to see how Bali’s youngest generation of adults is taking on a tradition with deep roots on the island and ask whether a new set of teeth is “adulting” or actually adulthood. Cover illustration by Dini Lestari. Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.co.id

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Planning out your 2020 travels? Here are hotel suggestions perfect for a spring, summer, autumn or winter trip

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My friend April, adventurous sailor and world traveler, had told me of Moonhole not long after we sailed our boats to the Caribbean island of Bequia. The story was one that captured my attention and drew me in instantly. It was a story of an American — Tom Johnston — who dreamed of living a life at one with nature, a life of peacefulness without the trappings of society, without electricity or technology. A story of how that same American, in 1964, founded a community of homes that were built with materials only found on the small island of Bequia — whale bones, rocks, shells, concrete, discarded anchor chains, etc.

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The Library Room Ca'Sagredo Palazzo is one of the finest rooms in Venice and a step back in time to the baroque grandeur and opulance of the 15th Century. This era, when the rich and powerful traded silks and spices through this gateway to the East, was the foundation of Venice's pivotal role as the commercial heart of Europe.

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A mini documentary on the history of the incredible and mysterious ancient ruins of the city of Nan Madol “the Venice of the pacific” on the island of Pohnpe...

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Greed, gringos, diesel, drugs, shamans, seaweed, and a disco ball in the jungle. What happened to Tulum has happened before. Ibiza gave itself over to the DJs, and Mykonos fell prey to the Instagram hordes, but both places had a good run before the fall. Tulum, however, completed the full evolution of a trendy destination in record time: the arrival, in order, of backpackers, hippies, rich hippies, scenesters, and eventually bachelor parties. In January, one of the organizers of a conference called Summit — “a TED–meets–Burning Man–type learning festival for entrepreneurs” — described Tulum to me as the ideal spot for the “intimate 400-to-500-person event” spread over 21 hotels on the beach. Paradise first opened for renovation in 1970, when the Mexican government converted mostly empty land on the Yucatán Peninsula’s northeasternmost point into a vacation destination. Cancún now welcomes 6 million visitors a year with its gorgeous beach, a strip of all-inclusive resorts, and Señor Frog’s serving tequila shots. That success led the government to rebrand 80 miles of beachfront to the south as the Riviera Maya, including what was once a quiet fishing village called Playa del Carmen, where there are now four Starbucks within ten blocks. Tulum, meanwhile, was little more than a truck stop a few hours south, with a Mayan fortress on the beach where tour buses disgorged visitors for an afternoon. Unless you were looking to get off the grid, there wasn’t much reason to stay. Beachfront hammocks went for $10 a night, or you could sleep at the ruins, under the stars.

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Not all multi-day trekking experiences are created rugged; some allow you to conquer challenging terrain by day and luxuriate in utter comfort (and maybe a hot tub) by night.

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4,147 Likes, 91 Comments - Travel Escapes

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A train journey through the Elbe Sandstone Mountains between Germany and the Czech Republic. Peculiar rock formations and the river Elbe shape this beautiful...

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In the 20th century, movement came to mean cars, especially as the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the 1950s came around, at which time President Eisenhower, "inspired by the awesome system of roads he saw in Germany," authorized the construction of a national highway system, the replacement for storied but non-comprehensive interstate roads like Route 66. From then on, the United States saw an enormous surge in both car ownership, auto-industry employment, "the middle class, suburbia, fast food," and a host of other phenomena still seen as characteristically American. "To say that modern America was built both by and for the car," as Rugnetta puts it, "would not be an insane overstatement." But he also notes that the idea of the road trip itself goes back to 1880s Germany, when Bertha Benz, wife of Benz Moterwagen founder Karl Benz, took her husband's then-experimental car on a then-illegal 66-mile drive through the countryside. The first American road trip was taken in 1903 by a doctor named Horatio Jackson and, as the Rough Guides video above tells it, involved a bet, a dog, and — the whole way from San Francisco to New York — no signage at all.

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Wild, weird, wonderful -- there are many ways to describe the Crazy House (also known as Hang Nga Guesthouse). This quirky attraction is found in Dalat, a relaxed mountain resort town in southern Vietnam.

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Take these adventure holidays in Jeju Island, Peru, Hong Kong, Uganda and Iceland

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