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Highway 2 isn’t the quickest route across Washington state – and that’s exactly why you take it.
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Despite being a quick 45-minute turboprop flight from Ho Chi Minh City, Con Son is a world away from Vietnam’s well-beaten tourist trail, with inexplicably few Western travellers.
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In many cases, these routes are less travelled for a reason: they feature terrifying drop-offs, unpredictable mudslides and a complete lack of concrete paving. Yet people still go.
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If the point of travel is to challenge ourselves, then naturally we should seek out the most “difficult” destinations, like India. Not to change them – but to change ourselves.
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Forget Claddagh rings and Connemara crosses. Ireland’s new designers are creating utterly original, expressions of pure joy.
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The often-misunderstood religion is playing a key role as the Caribbean country recovers from the earthquake that devastated it just five years ago.
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Why you should travel solo
Forget navigating the needs and wants of a group. Travelling solo means savouring unique experiences entirely on your own.
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