Travel
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Fez Is the City That Shows You What the Medieval World Actually Looked Like
There are cities that feel old. And then there is Fez. Fez el-Bali — the old…
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Dubrovnik Is Worth It. You Just Have to Go at the Right Time.
The honest version of a Dubrovnik travel guide has to begin with the problem, because the…
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Tallinn Is the Medieval City That Time Forgot to Ruin
Most medieval cities in Europe exist in fragments — a cathedral here, a castle wall there,…
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Medellín Is the Most Surprising City Turnaround in the World and It’s Still Going
In 1991, Medellín had a murder rate of 381 per 100,000 people — the highest of…
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Oman’s Interior Is the Most Beautiful Place in the Middle East That Nobody Talks About
Everyone who goes to the Gulf goes to Dubai. The malls, the skyscrapers, the restaurants, the…
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Lisbon Is the European City That Does Everything Right and Somehow Stays Humble About It
There is a quality of light in Lisbon that photographers talk about the way musicians talk…
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Kotor Is the Best Medieval City in Europe That Nobody Is Talking About Yet
Here is the problem with telling people about Kotor: the moment you describe it, it sounds…
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Chiang Mai Is the City That Teaches You to Slow Down and Mean It
You arrive in Chiang Mai expecting a stopover and leave having rearranged your entire understanding of…
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Muscat Is the Middle East You Didn’t Know You Were Looking For
Muscat sits between the Hajar Mountains and the Gulf of Oman in a series of bays…
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Seoul: The City That Does Everything at Maximum Volume and Somehow Makes It Work
Seoul is a city of ten million people operating at an intensity that makes Tokyo feel…
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Zanzibar Is Not Just a Beach. Stop Going There Like It Is.
Zanzibar is consistently ranked among the world’s top beach destinations, which is accurate and almost entirely…
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Kathmandu: The City That Lives at the Intersection of the Sacred and the Chaotic
I arrived in Kathmandu on a Tuesday afternoon and spent the first hour convinced that the…