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In 1988 Abramović and Ulay trekked from opposite ends of the wall to meet in the middle, but this Herculean piece of performance art was doomed from the start
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Jane Dunford, who is self-isolating alone, finds this interactive virtual holiday a great way to meet people and exercise
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Can you name the world’s highest, southernmost and most Michelin-starred cities? Take our quiz and find out
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Words on a page can bring the world to life. Readers select the travel books and novels that made them go out and discover it by sparking their imaginations
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How to search the sky and what to see, from moon and stars to planets and the International Space Station. Go on a journey of billions of miles … from your garden or an upstairs window
Armchair journeys
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Music is the easiest way to transport yourself from confinement. From bossa nova to Bollywood, we go on a virtual world tour
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With Parisians allowed to go out for only an hour a day, a Belleville resident explores her suddenly peaceful district
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Escape the lockdown by losing yourself in the stunning virtual landscapes of walking simulator games
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Egypt’s classical wonders are off limits but a royal tomb is one of four sites where 3D modelling gives us a fascinating glimpse of antiquity
Photo essays
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On a climbing trip in Australia – to the rock formations below Mount Wellington near Hobart – Murdo MacLeod gets more drama than he bargained for
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On a 9,288km journey inspired by the centennial anniversary of the railway’s completion in 1916, photographer Annie Ling captures life onboard the Trans-Siberian Railway, and beyond the carriage window
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Amid the quarter’s busy streets, a thousand workshops maintain centuries-old craftmaking traditions. These workers’ ancient skills are celebrated in a new exhibition at London’s Royal Geographical Society
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This centuries-old teahouse in Sichuan province and its regulars are a world away from China’s modern megacities
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Unesco has named the capital of Rajasthan, India, a world heritage site, partly for its jewellery and artisanal traditions, which continue to thrive on one of its main commercial streets
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Our project to document communities undergoing rapid, irreversible change took us along the frozen Zanskar river, which connects Ladakh and Zanskar in north India
Spotlight
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From a bull in a saree shop to a sundowner in Timbuktu, Guardian photographers pick their favourite moments
Why I love ...
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The 89-year-old naturalist and broadcaster is brimming with enthusiasm for his latest TV series, Great Barrier Reef, and the wonder of filming underwater in a submarine. The first of three shows starts on BBC1 on 30 December
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The oldest national park ranger in the US tells us why she’s proud of the second world war home front park in Richmond, just across the bay from San Francisco
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Travel classics
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Ahead of a new Patrick Leigh Fermor biography, Kevin Rushby visits Greece's Mani peninsula, home of the great man and unsung resting place of another British travel writing giant, Bruce Chatwin
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In this age of mobile phones, cybercafes and satellite links, it's harder than ever to truly escape ... but not impossible. Dervla Murphy, who has ventured to the ends of the earth with only the most basic provisions, explains how
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Fellow traveller Eric Newby recalls his encounters with the great Wilfred Thesiger.
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Just as top men in Levi Strauss are said to wake up in San Francisco wondering whether anyone is going to want to buy their jeans any more, so booksellers must have begun to wonder whether the apparently insatiable demand for travel books will suddenly end, never to return.
Where we're dreaming of
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Marcel Theroux looks forward to revisiting his friend’s dacha in the countryside near Moscow
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It's become a mountain biking trail – but we meet the postman who had to walk it three times a week until 1990
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We can all dream, at least. Writers around Europe on the places they can’t wait to revisit once they can
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