Beaches & islands
Lofoten's Beaches Under the Midnight Sun
North of the Arctic Circle, Lofoten's beaches sit beneath jagged granite peaks, and in summer the sun barely sets on them.
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Wildlife & safari
Tracking jaguars by boat in the Brazilian Pantanal
The Pantanal's flooded rivers hold the best odds on Earth of watching a wild jaguar hunt in daylight, from the low seat of a skiff.
Slow rail journeys
The Canadian: four days across a continent by VIA Rail
Toronto to Vancouver by transcontinental train trades speed for a slow unspooling of prairie, mountain and lake that no highway or flight can match.
City breaks
48 hours in Porto
Two days is just enough to fall for Porto — river light, port lodges and a city that rewards walking.
City breaks
Forty-eight hours in Edinburgh's old and new towns
Edinburgh splits neatly in two — the brooding medieval Old Town piling up toward the castle, and the elegant Georgian New Town laid out in honey-stone crescents
Wildlife & safari
Gliding by mokoro through the Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta is a rare inland river that never reaches the sea, and the quietest way to experience it is from a hand-poled mokoro sliding silently between
Boutique stays
A clifftop boutique hotel above the Amalfi coast
Between Positano and Ravello, a handful of small hotels are terraced directly into the limestone cliffs, close enough to the drop that the Tyrrhenian Sea seems
Adventure & Trekking
Ciudad Perdida: The Jungle Trek to Colombia's Lost City
Four days of dense Sierra Nevada jungle lead to more than a thousand stone terraces built by the Tayrona centuries before the Spanish arrived.
Beaches & islands
The Outer Hebrides' Improbable White Sands
On Scotland's Atlantic edge, the Outer Hebrides hide beaches so pale and so empty that photos of them are routinely mistaken for the Caribbean.
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