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On a still summer morning on Washington State’s Orcas Island, I rented a pair of tandem kayaks from a sleepy-eyed, flaxen-haired attendant barely out of her teens, who quickly returned to painting watercolors in the tall grass beside the weather-beaten sales kiosk. A gentle wind went shhh through tall hemlocks as my family paddled, two by two, to a rocky islet at the center of Mountain Lake, on the flank of Mount Constitution. There we clambered ashore, and the kids, Agnes and Rex, immediately b…
10 days ago
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On a wet January morning at Somalisa Camp, in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, a tall, rangy paramedic named Elvis Tavengwa is instructing about three dozen bush guides on the finer points of first aid. “Come on,” he shouts at them, so animated he’s almost hovering above the floor. “Your guest is in cardiac arrest. What are you going to do?” The guides, dressed in every imaginable shade of khaki and olive, look at one another, uncertain. “He’s dying!” Elvis screams. “Chest compressions! I need c…
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I have, of late, been thinking a lot about the relationship between traveling and reading. One of the ways that I fell apart a little bit during the first year of the pandemic, as so many of us did, was that I largely stopped reading books. By early 2021, I had resolved to change this, and the return of travel helped me do it.
That spring, I read Animal, Vegetable, Junk, Mark Bittman’s marvelous social history of our food systems, en route to Hawaii and arrived on the Big Island full of question…
2 months ago
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It has been astonishing, in the 10 years that I have been involved exclusively in travel journalism, to see the way that wellness travel has exploded and diversified. Some trends, like forest bathing and adaptogenic smoothies, have carried with them a whiff of faddishness, but so much of what we have come to think of as wellness travel has felt so useful for helping us navigate this chaotic, confusing world: programs to better our sleep and nutrition, to practice mindfulness, even to improve sex…
3 months ago
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It’s a new year! (Or will be soon, depending on when you’re reading this.) Which means another edition of the Gold List, Traveler’s annual compendium of our editors’ favorite hotels and cruises, our 30th time doing it. It’s wild to think back to where the world was when we put out the first one I was involved with: Pete Buttigieg was about to win the Iowa caucuses, Japan still thought it would be hosting the Olympics that summer, and COVID-19 was just an alarming headline about a seemingly dista…
5 months ago
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Like so many travelers, my family spent the first couple of years of the pandemic dreaming of visiting a place that was very far away and had become very, very inaccessible to visitors. In our case, it was South Korea, where my wife was born. We’d last visited in 2015, when our daughter was learning to walk and our son, as I’ve often joked since, was with us but we didn’t know it yet. We promised the family there that we’d be back within five years, but COVID-19 intervened.
As they got older, th…
6 months ago
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I just returned from a week in Washington’s San Juan Islands (a trip you’ll be able to read about in an upcoming issue), where more than once I found myself thinking about how the sense of interconnectedness travel sometimes imparts can feel, dare I say it, spiritual. It came over me during a nighttime kayak ride on a bioluminescent bay off San Juan Island and on a midday paddle with my son across a mountain lake on Orcas. I felt it again watching my children build forts on the same driftwood-st…
7 months ago
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“I’m having déjà vu,” said Chi, my wife. We were in a modest, slightly antiquated room whose contents included a few pieces of lacquered furniture, folded sleeping mats, a rotary phone, a CRT TV, and an old sewing machine. It was a facsimile of the kinds of multipurpose living quarters that many middle-class Seoulites occupied during the decades of postwar economic growth that turned South Korea into one of the world’s most developed nations. But for Chi, it was a portal back to when she was six…
9 months ago
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The September/October issue of ‘Condé Nast Traveler’ celebrates design movements in Milan, Tangier, San Miguel de Allende, and more.
9 months ago
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Dive into the season with the July/August issue of ‘Condé Nast Traveler.’
10 months ago
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After two decades on the East Coast, native Californian Jesse Ashlock is ready to admit that in the warm-weather months, New York and New England are the places to be.
11 months ago
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Introducing the new classics on this year’s list.
about 1 year ago
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The April issue of ‘Condé Nast Traveler’ takes readers stargazing in the Atacama Desert and hiking through northwest Greece—and spotlights the top travel specialists for 2023.
about 1 year ago
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Start planning your 2023 adventures with the latest issue of Condé Nast Traveler, featuring our 29th annual Gold List.
over 1 year ago
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The December issue of Condé Nast Traveler celebrates cruising’s triumphant return, Manhattan’s stylish new crop of hotels, and more.
over 1 year ago
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Aboard Silversea’s new purpose-built Galápagos vessel, passengers can expect encounters with giant tortoises, blue-footed boobies, penguins, and sharks—and a deeper understanding of where we all came from.
almost 2 years ago
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For the 26th edition of Condé Nast Traveler’s Hot List, we’ve indexed the best, brightest openings around the globe.
about 2 years ago
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The April issue of ‘Condé Nast Traveler’ features stories about canoeing in Tahiti, cruising in the Caribbean, and more.
about 2 years ago
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Tracking Yellowstone’s elusive—and polarizing—wolf herds is a window into the park’s wild beauty.
about 2 years ago
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Travel builds bonds with those we hold dearest and helps us empathize with those we don’t know at all.
over 2 years ago
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Our newest launches, Gold List and Iconic Itineraries, will help you plan your future adventures.
over 2 years ago
