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Growing up as an Australian beach kid, I’d assumed our entire coastline looked the same — wide and sunkissed. Only when I got older did I realise how wonderfully complex it is, with myriad adventures to be found and ancient stories to be heard. AUSTR
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National Geographic Traveller
Editorial Director & Chief Operating Officer: Maria Pieri Editor: Pat Riddell Deputy Editor: Amanda Canning Commissioning Editors: Lorna Parkes, Georgia Stephens Assistant Editors: Sam Kemp, Angela Locatelli Senior Editor: Sarah Barrell Associate Edi
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Editor’s Letter
Many think they know Australia — sometimes before they’ve even been. But once you’ve seen Sydney and its sights, the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru and the wine regions, you’ve only really just started. Maybe you know Melbourne, Perth and the Red Centre?
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Smart Traveller
Foreign crews buoy the UK fishing industry, and yet remain largely unseen. Looking to show the diversity of that world, I spent a morning with Solomon, Mantas and Phil, a crew of Ghanaians on board the Stelissa, a small boat fishing out of Newlyn in
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Big Picture
I happened across this bed of mussels while exploring the intertidal zone of Praia da Ursa, a spectacular beach on the Atlantic west coast of Portugal. I’d noticed them on a previous visit some days before but the rising tide prevented me from taking
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Crafting Perfection
If Carlsberg did family rivalries, they’d probably be the best family rivalries in the world. Jacob Jacobsen, founder of the Danish brewery, and his son Carl disagreed about pretty much everything, resulting in such impressive beef that they created
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Unusual Day Tours
To truly get under the skin of a destination, find a local expert. That’s the idea behind the immersive small-group day tours that National Geographic runs in partnership with travel operator TUI. The new series offers unique experiences in over 100
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Food Heaven Or Hell?
Beloved in Southeast Asia, but polarising for travellers, the spiky durian fruit has a flavour that few will forget. Found in markets all over the region, it’s not so much the taste — somewhere between custard, cheesecake and caramel — that jars, but
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A Taste Of Rome
History isn’t just seen and felt in Rome — it can be tasted, too. Like the city’s ancient monuments and narrow streets, local cuisine is rooted in tradition, each dish telling a story of passion and resilience. At its heart, cucina romana (Roman cuis
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Serra de Tramuntana
The largest of Spain’s Balearic Islands, Majorca is sometimes said to lack the defining quirk of its sisters. It’s not as irreverent as Ibiza, not as bohemian as Formentera, and is too big and popular to have Menorca’s characteristic calm. It might b
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Düsseldorf
Founded in 1288 as a fishing village, Düsseldorf has evolved into an unofficial capital of western Germany, cultivating a reputation for fashion, finance and artistic flair along the way. Today, the city speaks to both its past and present — nowhere
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The Amazon To The Andes
With Paddington in Peru in cinemas from 8 November, interest in family travel to the Latin American country is set to be ignited in 2025. The third film in the franchise sees the bear and his adopted family, the Browns, leave their home in London to
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Audio Adventures
What happens when the show comes to town — and when it leaves? From Paris and Vancouver to the district of LA where pre-Olympics development threatens to displace residents, this unflinching series focuses on the impact of the Games via interviews wi
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North Pennines
Set between the national parks of the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and Northumberland, the green mountains of the North Pennines rise like dragons’ spines to form a rugged dividing line across the country. The region offers some of the finest quali
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Arik Kershenbaum
Gasping for breath, I pull myself up on razorsharp limestone crags and emerge from a dense jungle thicket onto a plateau. The vista borders on the spiritual. Spread out as far as the eye can see are sugar-loaf mountain peaks covered in thick green, m
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Travel Tech
Block out unwanted din with these noise-cancelling earbuds. The charge case delivers a total of 24 hours’ battery life, and a 20-minute charge is all that’s needed to gain two hours’ use. The Bose app allows you to adjust noise-cancellation and sound
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A Seven-day Trip To Montenegro For Four
Part of the Oliver’s Travels collection, which features luxury holiday villas around the world, Hilltop Retreat is a beautifully restored, 400-year-old stone property overlooking the Bay of Kotor in Montenegero’s south west. There are five en suite b
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Annette Arjoon-Martins
Groundbreaking conservationist, pilot and airline executive Annette Arjoon-Martins has spent much of her career pushing doors open in traditionally male-dominated fields. Through her conservation work at the Imbotero Research Center in Guyana’s remot
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A Guide To France’s New Fine-dining Destination
Best known for its port, Northern France’s sprawling Pas-de-Calais region has long been popular with weekending Parisians drawn to its dune-backed, sandy beaches, medieval cathedral towns and tranquil, UNESCO-listed waterways and marshlands. As you m
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Top Stories
Can tagging locations help make travel more inclusive, accessible and environmentally friendly? The northern region offers a bounty of sensory experiences, from climbing to sipping spritz Milder temperatures, wildlife migrations and special events co
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Should You Worry About Mpox When Travelling?
The spreading of any disease is unsettling. But when the World Health Organization (WHO) announces an international emergency — as it did with mpox (formerly monkeypox) in August — there’s a more urgent sense of concern. What is mpox? The viral zoono
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Beyond The Travel Section
On a long-distance trek across China, one of the most industrialised societies on Earth, this adventurer found a fading corner where machines are yet to replace ancient tools. nationalgeographic.com/culture What lurks beneath the waves? State-of-the-
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Transylvania
Transylvania’s name derives from a Latin term meaning ‘beyond the forest’, but it’s the destination’s gothic links most people have a hard time looking past. Over 125 years after Bram Stoker’s Dracula was first published, this region in central Roman
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Kansas City
In the space of 10 minutes, what was a small scattering of people outside Chef J BBQ has become a sizeable queue. Under an azure dome of Midwest sky, the November air is crisp in Kansas City’s West Bottoms neighbourhood as midday approaches. There’s
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Maldives
Set on whale-shaped Kothaifaru Island, a 45-minute seaplane ride north west of capital Malé, in the secluded Raa Atoll, Alila Kothaifaru Maldives has a clean-lined, low-fi aesthetic that will appeal to fans of minimalist design. A 20-minute walk arou
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Outdoor AUSTRALIA
A multi-day trek along the Great Ocean Walk uncovers intriguing tales from Victoria’s maritime history and ends at one of its most iconic natural features After inspecting the steep staircase, which tumbles down the golden cliff in fits and starts th
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OF TIDES & TIME
IN WESTERN ESTONIA, DRAMA UNFOLDS NOT IN THE LANDSCAPES, BUT IN THE STORIES THAT BUBBLE BENEATH THEIR SURFACE. My first inkling of this comes when I board a car ferry called Toll the Great, bound for the island of Muhu. The modest strip of land I fin
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The Forgotten Mountains
THE CROWDS THAT FLOCK TO LAKE BLED LIKE PARCHED GAME TO AN AFRICAN WATERING HOLE DON’T BOTHER SIMON KOŠČAK IN THE SLIGHTEST. HE WATCHES THEM WITH PERPLEXED DETACHMENT FROM HIS LOFTY VANTAGE POINT, SIX MILES AWAY AND MORE THAN 5,000FT UP. THIS IS ROBL
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In The Shadow Of Giants
The longest and highest trail in the region is the 15-day Annapurna Circuit, which encircles the Annapurna massif. The trail starts in the green lush lowlands, where rice grows and villages burst with life. As the elevation increases, the landscape b
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The Big Trip New England
In many of the stories about the origin of the United States, one place recurs: New England, the northeastern region comprising the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. This land was, of course, inhabi
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EUROPE Shades of Green
What do Dublin, a capital city renowned for its embrace of the arts, and Grosseto, a lesserknown city in southwestern Tuscany, have in common? While these cities differ in architecture and atmosphere, both have been recognised for their smart travel
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Belfast
“I remember this area in the 1970s, it was a riot — quite literally, at times,” says Dolores Vischer as we stroll along Bedford Street in Belfast’s Linen Quarter, on the southern edge of the city centre. “I say literally because I remember The Clash
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Nice
Think of Nice and hot, languid summers spent lounging on a beach are likely to spring to mind — along with luxury yachts, five-star hotels and elegant movie stars. But come to this eastern corner of the Côte d’Azur outside the summer months, and gone
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Ask The Experts
Where are the best spots in Mexico to experience Día delos Muertos? One of the most important dates in the Mexican calendar, Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a time for remembering deceased relatives and friends, as well as commemorating the c
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Airline Seating
Some airlines are using seat selection to give their passengers even more input into what happens once they’re on board. Over recent months, new policies have been introduced in Asia that go as far as providing information on who you might sit next t
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Berlin Wall
The number of days the Wall divided East and West Berlin. Today, this history is recounted at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Barneur Strasse The number of people who fled over or under the wall, including acrobat Horst Klein, who used a tightrope. Over
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Hotel Awards 2024
Revamped Hotel Badeschloss, Austria Romantic Bolthole Hotel Corazón, Spain City Star The Fifth Avenue Hotel, US Food Hero Farasha Farmhouse, Morocco Beach Sanctuary The Potlatch Club, Bahamas Wellness Haven Jacumba Hot Springs Hotel, US Remote Sleep
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IBARAKI Japan’s Natural North
International visitors to Japan’s Ibaraki prefecture usually come for Hitachi Seaside Park, where fields of blue nemophila and red kochia show their dazzling colours every spring and autumn. But Ibaraki, and in particular its rural north, is certainl
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How I Got The Shot
Tell us about this image. It was the middle of the summer and I was working on a cover story assignment on Italy’s lesser-known towns and cities. My long trip along the country’s Adriatic coastline started in Rimini, one of the main destinations feat

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