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While learning about Bali’s history, ingredients and flavours, I discovered that authentic Balinese food is steeped in the rituals of Balinese-Hindu beliefs. Planning a visit? Be sure to participate in a street food tour or local cooking class. BALI
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Editorial Director: Maria Pieri Editor: Pat Riddell Managing Editor: Amelia Duggan Deputy Editor: Amanda Canning Commissioning Editors: Lorna Parkes, Georgia Stephens Assistant Editors: Sam Kemp, Angela Locatelli Senior Editor: Sarah Barrell Executiv
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Editor’s Letter
Think of Argentina and the likes of football, tango, steak and wine might instinctively come to mind. Dig a little deeper and perhaps you’ll realise you’re actually a little more familiar with the eighth-largest country in the world than you first th
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Photography Competition 2024
This category celebrates photography that tells a story from any stage of the culinary journey from field to fork. Perhaps you’ll capture scenes of fishing or a harvest, chefs busy at work at a street-food stall or vendors selling their produce at a
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Bluejay Linklater and Edouard Cadotte, Saskatoon, Canada
Historically, when nomadic First Nations tribes in Canada’s Great Plains arrived at a new site, a group of 30 to 50 people would perform an energetic dance to flatten the tall prairie grasses ready for the camp. Today, the tradition is kept alive by
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Rådhuset Metro Station, Stockholm, Sweden
With the Swedish capital being so compact and walkable, many visitors never get the chance to discover Stockholm’s remarkable metro system. From the 1950s, in an effort to bring art to the people, the government started hiring architects, painters an
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What’s Cooking
Located on the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula and home to several wide, sandy beaches, Busan has long been where South Koreans come to unwind. But the country’s second city is now coming into its own as a culinary destination, with its boat
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Golden Years
In a region known for exhuberant celebrations, expectations are high for the Caribbean island of Grenada in 2024, when it will mark 50 years of independence from Britain on 7 February. Amid the fireworks, parades and costumes at the golden jubilee, t
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A TASTE OF The Philippines
Filipino cuisine is dominated by the bold balance of three elements of taste: salty, sour and sweet. These flavours stem from a medley of cultural, historical and environmental influences that have shaped Filipino culinary traditions for centuries. S
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Edinburgh
Start at the tram stop at Picardy Place, a recently remodelled plaza atop Leith Walk. Look out for the statue of Sherlock Holmes, marking the birthplace of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the fictional detective’s adventures. If it’s a clear day, w
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Helsinki
Finland’s biggest city is also its most stylish. Once the home of influential local architect and designer Alvar Aalto, the capital’s art nouveau core is today complemented by contemporary Nordic architecture and offbeat design hits, including clothi
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A Year Of Adventure
With further expansion of the Good Night Train network due in March 2024, families will be able to book a central European rail odyssey all the way to Prague. Start with chocolate-tasting in Belgium’s capital, before museumhopping in Dresden and Berl
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Llandudno
A Victorian favourite once billed as the ‘Queen of Welsh resorts’, Llandudno has kept much of the charm that made it so popular. The curving promenade framing Llandudno Bay, the aroma of fish and chips wafting in the air, pastel-coloured art deco hou
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Coffee Table Travels
Based on the social media account A Pretty Cool Hotel Tour, this book celebrates the romance of themed hotels and retro getaways. Its gallery of Champagne pools, heart-shaped tubs, Jetsons-style motel suites and clamshell beds is accompanied by text
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Stargazing
Coffee is a stargazing essential, as much about keeping you warm as it is about keeping you awake. This stainless steel jug from Yeti can be counted on to keep yours hot for hours, with double-wall insulation and a thick lid for heat retention. It’s
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A Three- Night City Break To Lucerne
As far as natural settings go, Lucerne is hard to beat. The city is spread across a lake and surrounded by the Alpine peaks of central Switzerland, making outdoor activities and excursions popular year-round — be it a paddle steamer cruise or a skiin
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Geoff Nicholson
The memories of my first encounter with the California desert are so clear and intense that sometimes I wonder if I invented them, but I don’t believe so. I was hitchhiking across the States —it was the 1970s —and I was a young Englishman ‘on the roa
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Bear Grylls
My first real travel experience was going down to Dartmoor National Park, in southern Devon, with my dad. We went horse riding and wild camping, but it was winter and I was only six and was absolutely freezing. I remember my dad saying to me: “It’s O
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Top Stories
How theatre is evolving Kabuki and Noh artists are pushing boundaries in old traditions, using innovative tech and manga. Seven video cameras we love Whether biking or diving, these cameras are your best bets for capturing sights and sounds. Welcome
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Six Of The World’s Best Mountain - Rail Trips
Since 1881, this old steam train has been a beloved part of northeast India’s landscape. Bright blue against emerald-green tea bushes, it weaves in and out of low-hanging cloud, giving a comical toot at every turn. Built by British colonisers, the ra
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Plan A Foodie Weekend On The Suffolk Coast
Candy-coloured beach huts, smart bakeries and shrieking gulls —you’ll find all of these along Suffolk’s coast. It’s a scenic stretch, where estuaries slink to the sea through marshes and reeds —havens for birds, otters and seals. There’s plenty to su
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Beyond The Travel Section
See Spain’s fabled Alhambra as few have ever before This remarkable fortress is considered the crowning glory of Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula. We were given behindthe-scenes access to its darkest recesses. natgeo.com/history How Covid attacks
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County Wicklow
To drive south of Dublin and cross into County Wicklow is to be confronted, almost immediately, with some of the most soaring, timeless scenery the Emerald Isle has to offer. This is the ‘Garden of Ireland’: a forested realm of steep, glacial valleys
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Bali
There’s something powerfully compelling about Balinese food. Whenever I arrive back home on the island, my taste buds immediately cry out for local cuisine. I head straight to the eastern outskirts of the capital, Denpasar, to my favourite warung (a
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Argentina
Visitors to Iguazú Falls often overlook the wild Misiones region surrounding it —but one lodge working with the area’s Indigenous Guarani people is hoping to change that. Words: Sarah Marshall Thumping with a million mini heartbeats, the jungle nev
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RHYTHMS & FLAVOURS
Several thousand recruits are lined up. Evenly spaced and immaculately presented, they stand on rows of shelves reaching almost to the ceiling. Alessandro —the fleece beneath his waxy, army-green lab coat zipped up to the neck against the carefully c
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Boston
Anchoring the oceanfront Rowes Wharf, this heavyweight hotel is the host venue for the Boston Wine & Food Festival, a three-month event that kicks off every year in January. It’s also home to one of the city’s finest seafood restaurants, Rowes Wharf
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Spend A Winter Weekend In Lucerne
Known as Switzerland’s ‘City of Lights’, Lucerne shines brighter than ever in winter. Sat on the shores of a crystalclear lake and surrounded by snowdusted mountains, the dreamy pastelcoloured landscapes of Lucerne in winter once served as inspiratio
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The End Of The Rainbow
HOT, STICKY AND ACHING FROM TWO HOURS OF HIKING STEEP JUNGLE TRAILS, IT’S A RELIEF TO LEAP OFF THE LAVA ROCK LEDGE AND FEEL THEM ASSAGING EFFECT OF THE CHURNING OCEAN AS I ENTER THE WATER BELOW. As I resurface, my hiking companions follow me in. Soon
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Carved In Stone
Continuously active since the seventh century, lively Virupaksha Temple is one of the signature landmarks of Hampi. Covering around 9,900 acres in the Indian state of Karnataka, the city was the last capital of the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagara, a fl
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The Craftspeople Of Sarawak
Malaysia’s island region of Sarawak is a treasure trove of relics and rarities. Take a stroll down Carpenter Street in Sarawak’s capital city of Kuching and you’ll see stalls selling wood carvings, colourful beadwork, blankets and the woven mats that
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Hiking in New Zealand
To walk across New Zealand is to experience some of the greatest landscapes in the world. From moss-carpeted forests to sun-drenched mountaintops with impossibly far-reaching views, the country is blessed with an almost unfair share of natural beauty
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Manchester
“It’s fantastically therapeutic,” says Bhaggie Patel, ceramic artist and co-founder of Manchester’s Imprints of Earth ceramics studio. “Sometimes I’ll be sitting at the wheel and I’m so engrossed in what I’m doing, I don’t realise it’s turned dark ou
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Take The Leap
“Trust the grip,” my canyoning guide, Filipe Ferreira from Madeira Adventure Kingdom, tells me, more than once. Still, I step slowly. Rushing freshwater sluices past my extragrippy boots and over smooth boulders, before plunging over a 40ft drop, whi
National Geographic Traveller (UK)3 min readInternational Relations
EU Travel Rules
In October, European Union officials confirmed a new timeline for the introduction of the Electronic Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS), a USstyle visa-waiver programme for short stays. It had originally been earmarked for a 2022 lau
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Montreal
Montreal is the city equivalent of your cool transatlantic friend. It has the high culture, style and gourmet food of the most elegant corners of France, and the informality, innovation and gregarious warmth of North America. The capital of the Frenc
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Ask The Experts
Oliver Smith Travel writer Jarrod Kyte Product and impact director, Steppes Travel Peter Grunert Editor, Lonely Planet’s Electric Vehicle Road Trips: Europe Rob Stewart Founder of Ski Press and co-host of The White Out Podcast Dr Dipti Patel Direct
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Bucharest
A confluence of multicultural neighbourhoods, belle époque avenues and functional high-rises, Bucharest wears its past on its sleeve. While the Ceauşescu regime sought to erase all traces of the city’s history in the early 1980s, today, the Romanian
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Winter Olympics
First held in Chamonix, France in 1924, the Winter Olympic Games will return to their birthplace for the centenary celebrations, which will include a programme of cultural exhibitions and sporting events The number of women who competed in the 1924 W
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Alternative Winter Experiences
There’s no better time to sink your teeth into Transylvania than winter. One of Europe’s wildest corners becomes a smidgen wilder in the colder months: meadows are buried under drifts, bears snooze in woodland burrows, church towers and castle battle
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Winter Sale
+ DISCOVER UNIQUE T RAV E L AND FOOD EXPERIENCES FOR A SPECIAL PRICE BY TAKING A DVA N TAG E OF OUR BIG WINTER SALE. FOR O N LY £3, OUR NEW THREE-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION OFFER GIVES YO U ACCESS TO AWA R D WINNING T RAV E L WRITING AND PHOTOGRAPHY FROM TH
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In The Next Issue
Discover the country in all its diversity: drive the Garden Route, explore the wine regions, sample Cape Town’s best food, go hiking in the Drakensberg mountains and enjoy cutting-edge art and culture in Johannesburg PLUS BERLIN, CANADA, COLOMBIA , D
National Geographic Traveller (UK)1 min readDiet & Nutrition
EXPERIENCE THE WORLD THROUGH FOOD & TRAVEL …
Visit the Main Stage to watch the likes of Nadiya Hussain, Richard Corrigan and Ravneet Gill as they showcase their favourite flavours. The Wine & Spirits Theatre is back — and it’s bigger than ever. Sample tipples from across the globe with our sele
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How I Got The Shot
This particular shot was taken in the Kazinga Channel, Uganda. Hippopotamuses can open their jaws almost 180 degrees and an adult’s open mouth can span up to 4ft. They’ll display their tusks in this way either when they’re yawning or if they want to

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