Boutique stays
A ryokan night in Hakone
One night in a Hakone ryokan is less a hotel stay than a small, deliberate ceremony.
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Adventure & Trekking
Crossing Norway's Besseggen Ridge in Jotunheimen
The knife-edge above two impossibly blue lakes is Norway's most photographed day hike, and it earns every one of its warnings.
Wildlife & safari
Watching the wildebeest brave the Mara River
Nothing in East Africa matches the noise and nerve of a wildebeest column throwing itself into the crocodile-thick Mara River at the height of the migration.
Beaches & islands
Raja Ampat: Island-Hopping Indonesia's Last Frontier
Off the western tip of New Guinea, Raja Ampat's scattered limestone islands sit above the richest marine biodiversity on Earth.
Adventure & Trekking
Kamikochi to Yarigatake: A Scramble Through Japan's Northern Alps
From the postcard valley of Kamikochi, a two-day scramble leads to the sharpest summit in Japan's Northern Alps.
City breaks
Valletta: A Long Weekend in Europe's Smallest Capital
You can walk across Valletta in twenty minutes, which is exactly why it rewards slowing down.
Boutique stays
Inside a restored riad in the Marrakech medina
Step off a noisy derb and through an unmarked door, and the medina falls silent. A restored riad turns its back on the street and inward to a cool courtyard of
City breaks
A long weekend in Vienna
Imperial grandeur, coffee-house culture and green spaces — Vienna is built for a slow, civilised long weekend.
Slow rail journeys
The Flåm Railway, one of the steepest normal-gauge lines on earth
Twenty kilometres of switchbacks and waterfalls connect the fjord village of Flåm to the high mountain junction at Myrdal.
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