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Morocco is not the first place most surfers think of when planning their next adventure. Morocco has two oceans to choose from: the Atlantic coastline (which is the larger of the two), and the Mediterranean coastline. Each coastline offers pretty ...
The question isn't why people visit the Philippines. The question is why so many Europeans and Americans visit once and keep coming back. 1. No Language Barrier The Philippines has two official languages: Filipino (Tagalog) and English. English h...
Mile High City Adventures Denver blends urban sophistication with outdoor adventure. Here are the top places you should visit during your trip. Outdoor Activities Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre — Iconic outdoor concert venue and hiking area...
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda When most people think of East African safaris, they think of Kenya or Tanzania. Those are fantastic countries — but they are not Uganda. Uganda is different. It is greener, wilder, less touristy, and of...
Quick quiz: What is 30 miles long, sits in the western Pacific Ocean, has stunning tropical beaches, World War II history everywhere you look, a unique indigenous culture, and belongs to the United States? If you said Guam, congratulations — y...
Singapore defies easy description. It is a city, a country, and an island all at once — a place where a 10-minute taxi ride takes you from a gleaming financial district to a Hindu temple festooned with carved gods to a Chinese opera house to a Mal...
Chile is one of the most geographically extraordinary countries on earth — a sliver 4,300km long and nowhere more than 180km wide, stretching from the driest desert on the planet in the north to the sub-Antarctic wilderness of Patagonia in the so...
You already have an image of Mauritius in your head: pristine beaches, turquoise lagoon, luxury resorts. That image is accurate. What most people miss is everything else — the volcanic interior, the deep cultural hybridity, the food, the history,...
Ethiopia is unlike anywhere else in Africa — and arguably unlike anywhere else on earth. It has its own calendar (currently in the 2010s while the rest of the world is in 2026), its own writing script, its own time system, its own Orthodox Christ...
Cyprus is the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, located at its eastern end — closer to Beirut than to Athens, closer to Turkey than to Italy, but very much a European Union country with European standards of infrastructure, food, and safe...
Antigua and Barbuda is a two-island nation in the Eastern Caribbean, sitting between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It's small — Antigua is about 108 square miles, Barbuda about 62 — but within that size it packs more variety than many...
Italy has a well-worn tourist trail: Rome, Venice, Florence, the Amalfi Coast, Cinque Terre. They're famous for a reason, and they're worth seeing. But Italy is a country of 20 regions and thousands of years of layered history. What follows are ei...