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I've scoured the internet to find the best travel blogs out there. It's impossible to check out a few of them and not instantly be filled with wanderlust.

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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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If you prefer white sands to a white Christmas, you're in luck. I've compiled a list of warm winter holiday destinations where the temperatures rarely (if ever) drop below 50 degrees, regardless of the local season.

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In Morocco, people don't call for an Uber; instead, they pile into Grand Taxis – battered but colourful old diesel Mercedes that are North Africa's answer to Cuba's vintage cars. Many diesel Mercedes (especially the W123 240D model) from the 1970s and '80s have spent their twilight years as Grand Taxis in the sun, after being shipped over when deemed too old for the European market. Here they have become part of the fabric of society, providing an essential long-distance travel link for locals as well as a colourful snapshot for tourists, much like the old American cars in Cuba. But not for much longer, as the Moroccan government is keen to rid them from the country's roads.

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Throughout history, people have moved across the great expanses of the globe to establish communities. Some of them have even grown into large cities which h...

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ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS anyone notices during a visit to Cambodia, is the unbearable heat. Sweltering and oppressive temperatures and humidity beat down on travelers wading through the dense tropical jungles of the Southern region. Incidentally, when a larger and more aggressive group of travelers, the French military, made their way through the country, they also found the weather brutal and unforgiving. As the unfamiliar temperatures began killing off French troops, the occupying European power needed to create artificial respite. Their answer to the tropical problem was Bokor Hill Station, a small resort town for French soldiers in the region.

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

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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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To get a better picture of what summer travel may look like this year, we turned to a handful of experts for their predictions. Here’s what they said to expect.

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@Marianny Dey took me into Petare, where she was born and raised.Petare, situated on the outskirts of Caracas in Venezuela, is Latin Americas largest barrio....

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The serenity that attends a vehicle-free zone is priceless—here’s where to find it

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A viral tweet about a rebuffed seat-swap on a recent flight made people wonder: Who actually chooses to sit in the middle?

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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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An exclusive interview with the revolutionary yogi on the pandemic, solo travel, wealth, and racism in America.

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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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IN THE 1960S, FIDEL CASTRO faced many challenges by becoming an ideological enemy of the United States. One was being seen as the tip of the Soviet spear, a menace to democracy just 90 miles off the coast of Florida. Another was that America maintained the Guantanamo Bay military base, which was capable of sheltering 50 warships, on the southeastern tip of Cuba. But arguably the most vexing issue for Castro, especially on a sweltering summer day in Havana, was the United States cutting off Cuba’s dairy supply. That was a problem, because Casto was obsessed with ice cream. When he was still a young revolutionary in the jungle, a wealthy supporter, Celia Sánchez, sent him an ice-cream cake via mule for his birthday. When the rebellion succeeded, he established himself at the Havana Libre Hotel, where he habitually enjoyed the cafeteria’s milkshakes. In “A Personal Portrait of Fidel,” novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez described Castro polishing off 18 scoops after Sunday lunch. His affection for ice cream was such that the CIA attempted to poison his milkshake. “That was the closest the CIA got to assassinating Fidel,” a retired state security general told Reuters in 2007.

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Had I Moved Onto Another Scene? La storia di Michelin inizia nel 1889 per mano di due fratelli francesi, André...

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Historic Hotels of America® offers travelers spectacular experiences and stories to take home with them, but some offer more than the usual textbook history. The historic hotels included on the 2021 Top 25 Historic Hotels of America Most Haunted Hotels list are locations for ghost tales of Revolutionary War soldiers, jilted lovers, unexplained footsteps, as well as friendly spectral bellhops.

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Ernest Hemingway had just returned to London, after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, when he ran into Roald Dahl, then a British Royal Air Force officer. Hemingway told Dahl he’d witnessed a soldier escaping a burning tank on Omaha beach. Dahl responded that Hemingway should include the scene in his next piece for Collier’s, the […]

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It is hard to imagine navigating the streets of the world without help from Google Maps. However, while most of us use the app to find our way around, there are some people who use the Google Earth option to 'travel' the world or look for interesting occurrences in the endless collection of images.  One Imgur user could put Google Earth under his hobbies, as the guy spends a lot of time exploring various areas of the map and snapping screenshots of places he found most interesting.

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When I was young I would pore over National Geographic magazines and dream of adventures like this — train hopping through the Sahara Desert on one of the world’s longest trains. I had dreamt of the oceans, of the sand, the loud clattering noises of the train, the cold, the wind, the scorching sun. The unknown smells and sounds of the desert, and all the discomfort that goes with it. That visceral experience was exactly what we got as we slithered night and day through the vast uninhabited desert, sleeping on top of Mauritania’s infamous iron ore train. Our unconventional 700km journey took us right through the Sahara to reach the coast, where we were hoping to find a place of forgotten shipwrecks and unknown surf. https://maptia.com/jodymacdonald/stories/journey-through-the-sahara

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A drive down Bolivia's infamous "Death Road" takes travellers into a world where two resources have provoked fascination, misunderstanding and controversy for centuries: coca and gold.

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Taiwan is a must-visit destination for fans of the great outdoors. From sprawling national parks to magnificent mountain peaks, whether it’s a leisurely stroll or a more challenging climb, Taiwan’s got you covered. Read on for all you need to know about how and where to hike in Taiwan.

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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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My dad was one of the only people with a good-for-life, go-anywhere American Airlines pass. Then they took it away. This is the true story of having—and losing—a superpower.

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IN OREGON’S COASTAL forests, hikers enter an ecosystem fed by frequent rain and moderate temperatures, where enormous evergreen trees thrive and support wildlife, mosses, and — most tantalizingly for enthusiasts of both food and the outdoors — several types of edible mushrooms. Mushroom hunting takes hiking to a whole new level.

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From far-flung destinations to places closer to home, these are some of the most beautiful cities in the world.

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Video clip of a day-trip to Bokor Mountain, in Kampot Province, Cambodia. Filmed with DJI Mavic Pro, GoPro 4 and Zhiyun Evolution Z1 Music credit : Epic Gree...

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South Delhi's Sidecar was ranked number 91 on the World's Best Bar list in October, India's only entry in the top 100. What makes Sidecar's rise to the top even more remarkable is that one-half of the bartending talent behind it is Minakshi Singh.

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This massive underwater dump just off the coast of Espíritu Santo, an island in the Vanuatu archipelago of the South Western Pacific is called Million Dollar...

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