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Category: Travel & Discovery

Travel stories and articles that discover, inspire, and capture the imagination. Travel ideas and articles, destination reviews, odyssey pieces, to-do guides all from the roads less-traveled

Pick up Our Founder’s New Book—On the Face of It: A Traveler on His World, Starting at $4.00
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Pick up Our Founder’s New Book—On the Face of It: A Traveler on His World, Starting at $4.00

December 3, 2023December 4, 2023

Travel literature is naturally difficult owing to the simple fact that destinations are almost always more interesting and dreamy…

60 Meters—20 Years: Artist Yip Yew Chong’s Painted Singapre Throughout 70s and 80s now Display for the First Time
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60 Meters—20 Years: Artist Yip Yew Chong’s Painted Singapre Throughout 70s and 80s now Display for the First Time

November 30, 2023November 30, 2023

It needed a simple title—the remembrances of a quarter of a human life, spanning two decades of observations and…

What to Expect Before Going to Azerbaijan–a Country that’s Difficult to Nail Down
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What to Expect Before Going to Azerbaijan–a Country that’s Difficult to Nail Down

November 15, 2023

It was a late spring day when I told a friend of mine I was planning a trip to…

What Makes the Perfect Forest for the Perfect Fall?
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What Makes the Perfect Forest for the Perfect Fall?

November 6, 2023November 6, 2023

Depending on where you live in the world, you may be opening this story with every tree in your…

The Best Baklava in Baku: A Sickening Quest for Enlightenment of the Turkish Sweetmeat
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The Best Baklava in Baku: A Sickening Quest for Enlightenment of the Turkish Sweetmeat

October 27, 2023October 27, 2023

Baku as a destination can be said to have it all. In the Azeri, there is a people that…

Must See: Giant 16th Century Turkish Baths to Reopen in Istanbul as Part-Museum Part-Antique Spa
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Must See: Giant 16th Century Turkish Baths to Reopen in Istanbul as Part-Museum Part-Antique Spa

October 2, 2023

Following an extraordinary 13-year restoration project, Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, a historic bath in Istanbul, reopens this September after centuries…

UNESCO Heritage Sites Class of 2023: Central Asia Winning Out
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Class of 2023: Central Asia Winning Out

September 25, 2023August 2, 2024

The 45th Session of the World Heritage Committee took place in Riyadh from the 10th to the 25th of…

Danish Traveler “Thor” Visits Every Country Without Ever Taking a Flight
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Danish Traveler “Thor” Visits Every Country Without Ever Taking a Flight

May 29, 2023June 28, 2023

A now-44-year-old Danish traveler named Torbjørn Pedersen believes he is the first person to have ever visited every country…

Military Hardware from D-Day Litters the French Normandy Coast Road all the Way to Omaha
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Military Hardware from D-Day Litters the French Normandy Coast Road all the Way to Omaha

May 19, 2023June 29, 2023

If you decide this June to take off along the 514 departmental road from the ferry port at Ouistreham,…

Some Unlikely Countries That Have Digital Nomad Visas
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Some Unlikely Countries That Have Digital Nomad Visas

April 21, 2023July 12, 2023

With East Asia reopened for tourism, the COVID-19 travel insanity is well and truly over, and there are going…

Choosing Ancienne Over Avantgard With a Journey Through the Dahar, Tunisia
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Choosing Ancienne Over Avantgard With a Journey Through the Dahar, Tunisia

January 24, 2023July 17, 2023

In southeast Tunisia lies a landscape marriage between generations of subsistence human activity and the desert ecosystem; as artificial…

Europeans Go Mad For Skiing—at Cervinia it’s Easy to See Why
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Europeans Go Mad For Skiing—at Cervinia it’s Easy to See Why

January 9, 2023June 30, 2023

Of the 20 regions of Italy, Valle d’Aosta is among the lesser-known components for everyone who doesn’t like to…

Date Palms Built the Modern Adventure Captial of the Tunisian Sahara
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Date Palms Built the Modern Adventure Captial of the Tunisian Sahara

January 4, 2023June 30, 2023

Tozeur, a city in the south of Tunisia is probably one of the most unique to be found anywhere…

Le Mans Hosts a Hundred Years of Endurance Motor Racing After a Thousand Years of History.
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Le Mans Hosts a Hundred Years of Endurance Motor Racing After a Thousand Years of History.

December 19, 2022June 30, 2023

The 1971 movie Le Mans, featuring Steve McQueen, had no scripted dialogue for the first forty minutes as it…

The New Cycle Route From Paris to Mont-Saint-Michel is Fueling Dreams of Escape
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The New Cycle Route From Paris to Mont-Saint-Michel is Fueling Dreams of Escape

November 21, 2022June 30, 2023

There has been something of an exodus from Paris following the pandemic in France. A migration. Not that the…

Lake Garda is Pure Italy and a Treasure House Destination of the North
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Lake Garda is Pure Italy and a Treasure House Destination of the North

October 5, 2022July 3, 2023

Northern Italy is famous for many things, her lakes not least of all. As part-time residence of George Clooney,…

The ‘Fungiatt’ Northern Italy’s Mushroom-Mad Mountain Men
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The ‘Fungiatt’ Northern Italy’s Mushroom-Mad Mountain Men

September 16, 2022July 5, 2023

It was still dark out when Brother Paolo arrived at my gate, calling me on my cellphone. For early-morning…

Venetian Murano Glass Studios and Their Blazing Ovens Survived COVID Only to Face European Energy Crisis
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Venetian Murano Glass Studios and Their Blazing Ovens Survived COVID Only to Face European Energy Crisis

September 8, 2022July 20, 2023

The furnaces which burn from dawn ‘till dusk on the famous Venetian island of Murano are hot enough to…

Everything to Know About Traveling to Malaysia’s Perhentian Islands
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Everything to Know About Traveling to Malaysia’s Perhentian Islands

August 17, 2022July 5, 2023

Story at a glance… Malaysia’s Perhentian Islands are an inexpensive and remote paradise for snorkeling and beach-going. Just a…

There Are 4 Million More Digital Nomads Since Last Year, and Another 24 Million Are Getting There
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There Are 4 Million More Digital Nomads Since Last Year, and Another 24 Million Are Getting There

May 17, 2022July 20, 2023

Digital nomads—people who spend the majority of their working year traveling the world, working remotely from their computers, are…

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