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Visit SlovakiaSlovakia can begin in Bratislava with a castle above the Danube and end beneath the jagged High Tatras, with wooden villages, caves and hilltop ruins filling the distance between.…
Visit SloveniaIn a single journey, Ljubljana's riverside gives way to Alpine water, limestone caves, vineyard hills and a narrow edge of Adriatic coast. Slovenia's appeal is not that everything…
Visit Socotra Island, YemenWalk beneath dragon’s blood trees whose flattened, umbrella-shaped crowns look unlike almost anything growing elsewhere on Earth. Socotra sits in the Arabian Sea off the Horn of A…
Visit SomaliaSomalia's Indian Ocean coast, old trading cities, poetry and layered cultures offer a story far larger than the country's security headlines. Liido's blue water and Mogadishu's ar…
Visit South AfricaFrom the top of Table Mountain, Cape Town spreads towards the water while cloud moves over the rock at eye level. Elsewhere the country changes scale again: long coastal roads, hi…
Visit South KoreaIn Seoul, a palace roof can frame a glass tower and a night market can turn one street into a meal. Travel farther and the country changes again: Busan opens to the sea, Gyeongju…
Visit South Sudan when official advice permitsThe White Nile moves through Juba and then into a country of wetlands, savannah and communities whose histories long predate the world's newest state. South Sudan could one day of…
Visit SpainSpain rewards the moment you stop treating it as one destination. A late table in Seville, morning light on Granada’s stone, a crowded market in Madrid and a path above the Atlant…
Visit St Fagans National Museum of HistoryWalk between historic buildings, working crafts and gardens spread across the grounds of St Fagans. This open-air museum near Cardiff lets families experience Welsh history as a p…
Visit St Marks Basilica, ItalySt Mark's Basilica rewards slow looking. The gold mosaics, marble floors, domes and layered façade are not simply decoration: together they show how Venice used faith, trade, art…
Visit StonehengeStonehenge appears first as a familiar silhouette and then becomes stranger as you approach. The stones are larger, the gaps more deliberate and the surrounding earthworks easier…
Visit Sudan when official advice permitsSudan holds histories on a scale that deserves more attention: the Nile passing ancient Nubian sites, the pyramids of Meroë rising from sand, Red Sea communities and cities shaped…
Visit SwedenStockholm appears across water rather than along one centre: ferries cross between islands, ochre buildings line the old city and everyday commutes share the harbour with excursio…
Visit TaiwanTravel through an island where night-market energy, mountain forests, hot springs, temples and fast modern cities fit within remarkably easy reach of one another. Taipei is the na…
Visit ThailandBuild a route from Bangkok's river and food streets to northern temples, national parks or a southern island rather than trying to collect the whole country. Thailand's variety is…
Visit the Acropolis in GreeceClimb above central Athens to the Acropolis and stand among some of the most recognisable surviving monuments of the ancient Greek world. The Parthenon dominates the hilltop, but…
Visit the ancient ruins of Tikal, GuatemalaTikal is a major ancient Maya city set within the forests of northern Guatemala and protected for both its cultural and natural importance. Monumental temples, plazas and causeway…
Visit the Archaeological Site of Delphi in GreeceThe Sacred Way climbs above a deep green valley, passing the places where ancient cities once displayed their offerings before reaching the Temple of Apollo. At Delphi, landscape…
Visit the Ashmolean MuseumMove from ancient sculpture and archaeology to paintings, ceramics and objects that have travelled across centuries. The Ashmolean in central Oxford is the sort of museum where a…
Visit the Baths of Aphrodite on Cyprus’s Akamas CoastA shaded pool sits beneath fig trees and limestone near the Akamas coast, attached by tradition to Aphrodite and Adonis. The place is modest, and that is part of its appeal: lands…
Visit the Blue Mountains | AustraliaFrom Echo Point, sandstone pillars stand above a valley that seems to continue without edges. Walk away from the lookout and the Blue Mountains become less a view than a changing…
Visit The Box in PlymouthMove between giant maritime figures, natural-history collections, art and archives in a building designed to bring Plymouth’s stories together. The Box offers enough variety for a…
Visit the Burj Khalifa, United Arab EmiratesThe Burj Khalifa’s observation decks turn Dubai’s rapid urban expansion into a view that can be read from above: dense towers, transport corridors, desert and Gulf sit within one…
Visit the Carioca Landscape, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilRio de Janeiro's UNESCO-listed Carioca Landscapes are not one monument but a relationship between mountains, forest, gardens, city and sea. The activity suits travellers who want…
Visit the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, FranceNotre-Dame is familiar before you arrive, yet the restored interior changes the encounter: pale stone, coloured light and the knowledge that fire, craft and five years of patient…
Visit the Chocolate Hills | PhilippinesFrom the high viewpoint on Bohol, one rounded hill becomes ten, then hundreds, repeating towards the horizon with a rhythm that photographs struggle to hold. In dry months the gra…
Visit the Colosseum in RomeThe Colosseum is most revealing as one part of Rome’s imperial centre, connected physically and politically with the Forum and Palatine. Its surviving structure helps explain how…
Visit the Colossus of Rhodes site in GreeceAt Mandraki Harbour, boats pass between two columns topped by bronze deer and there is no colossal statue waiting between them. That absence is the beginning of the visit. The Col…
Visit the Dominican RepublicThe Dominican Republic becomes more interesting when the resort road ends. Beyond the familiar beach image are the streets and courtyards of Santo Domingo, green mountain country,…
Visit the Eden ProjectWalk from a reclaimed Cornish clay pit into vast covered biomes filled with rainforest and Mediterranean planting. The Eden Project turns plant science, climate and regeneration i…
Visit the Everglades in Florida, USAAt first the Everglades can look almost level and still. Then an alligator's eyes break the water, a heron lifts from the sawgrass and the slow movement of the whole landscape bec…
Visit the Fitzwilliam MuseumClimb the grand steps and enter galleries filled with paintings, sculpture, manuscripts and objects from the ancient world. The Fitzwilliam Museum gives a Cambridge day out a sens…
Visit the Forbidden City in BeijingPassing beneath the Meridian Gate, you enter a city built as a sequence of thresholds. Vast courtyards lead to halls with golden roofs, and the formal symmetry gradually gives way…
Visit the Galapagos Islands ResponsiblyIn the Galapagos, wildlife changes the usual distance between observer and animal. A sea lion may sleep beside the path, marine iguanas gather on black lava and finches move throu…
Visit The GambiaThe Gambia follows its river inland from the Atlantic, narrow on the map but expansive in experience. Coastal towns give way to mangroves, fishing communities and bird-rich wetlan…
Visit the Gold Coast | AustraliaOn the Gold Coast, surf reaches a long bright strand while the city rises immediately behind it; turn inland and the horizon becomes rainforest, waterfalls and the ridges of the h…
Visit the Great North Museum: HancockCome face to face with natural-history specimens, ancient cultures and the Roman world of Hadrian’s Wall. The Great North Museum: Hancock gives families a broad visit with a stron…
Visit the Herbert Art Gallery & MuseumStep from Coventry’s cathedral quarter into galleries covering art, social history and the city’s changing identity. The Herbert gives families a useful indoor base for understand…
Visit the Historic Areas of Istanbul | TurkeyStand on Istanbul’s historic peninsula where the Bosphorus, Golden Horn and Sea of Marmara helped shape an imperial capital. Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, Topkapı Palace and the…
Visit the historic centre of Avignon in FranceAvignon's walls hold a city whose scale changes when the Palais des Papes rises ahead: part fortress, part court and a physical reminder that medieval power once moved away from R…
Visit the Historic Centre of Lyon, FranceLyon gives you the rare pleasure of walking through roughly 2,000 years of city life without turning the day into a sequence of isolated monuments. Roman remains, the lanes and co…
Visit the Historic centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco in MexicoBegin where the Zócalo opens between cathedral, palace and the buried city of Tenochtitlan, then end the day on water among Xochimilco's bright trajineras. The two places reveal M…
Visit the Historic Centre of Prague, Czech RepublicCross Charles Bridge on foot, wander into the lanes of the Old Town, and keep going until the skyline starts to fill with towers, domes and the mass of Prague Castle above the Vlt…
Visit the Historic Centre of Vienna | AustriaStart beneath the patterned roof of St Stephen's Cathedral, then let Vienna's historic centre unfold through medieval lanes, Baroque churches and the broad Ringstrasse. The compac…
Visit the Historic Centre of Warsaw in PolandWarsaw's Old Town looks centuries old, yet much of what surrounds the Market Square was painstakingly rebuilt from ruins after the Second World War. The colour and bustle are real…
Visit the Historic Walled Town of Cuenca in SpainWalk into Cuenca’s old town and the geography hits you first. The historic centre is perched between the Huécar and Júcar river gorges, with steep streets, stone walls and buildin…
Visit the Ivory Hills in ChinaIf you have seen the so-called “Ivory Hills” online, this is the real place you are probably looking for. “Ivory Hills” does not appear to be a recognised official attraction name…
Visit the Japanese Gardens in Kyoto, JapanKyoto's gardens turn stone, moss, water, clipped plants, borrowed scenery and seasonal change into carefully framed experiences. They are not one uniform Zen style: temple dry lan…
Visit the Jigokudani Monkey Park, JapanJigokudani Yaen-Koen in Nagano offers close observation of free-ranging Japanese macaques in a steep mountain valley. The animals are managed through regulated feeding but are not…
Visit the Kaieteur Falls in GuyanaFly deep into Guyana’s interior and watch the Potaro River suddenly disappear over the edge of a vast sandstone escarpment. Kaieteur Falls plunges about 226 metres in a single maj…