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Art + Culture

Getting to Know Seattle: the Arts, the Social Challenges, and the Rain

March 14, 2014 01:40 PM

Water Sports

The Remote Beach Town of Your Dreams Exists in Canada

When you pull into the Pacific coast town of Tofino, you leave behind the Canada you thought you knew.

January 30, 2015 05:49 PM

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Eva Holland

Food + Drink

Wandering Chef: Rob Zack in Poland

May 30, 2013 11:21 PM

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Jen Murphy

In the Magazine

A Creative Way to Find Calm in Kolkata’s Chaos

In India’s most contradictory city, artists and intellectuals improvise their way through the commotion.

September 6, 2013 04:42 PM

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Eric Weiner

Health + Wellness

Embracing the Cycle of Life in India’s Holiest City

When a traveler faces grief in Varanasi, his perspective on life and death goes up in smoke.

May 9, 2014 08:19 PM

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David Farley

Epic Trips

Take a Rare Look Inside One of the World’s Most Remote Regions

Following the path of Marco Polo, photographer Frédéric Lagrange captures the challenges and beauty of everyday life in an unforgiving land.

January 30, 2014 12:29 PM

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Liv Combe

Family Travel

Do You Really Have to Stop Traveling When You Have Kids?

She was born to travelers, and born to travel. Now, on her last trip before giving birth to her first child, writer Freda Moon reconnects with the origins of her wanderlust—her parents.

October 14, 2015 05:28 PM

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Freda Moon

Weekend Getaways

Scandinavia’s Secret Islands are the Ideal Summer Getaway

The Åland archipelago is the most relaxing place you’ve never heard of.

October 6, 2014 02:10 PM

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Lisa Abend

Epic Trips

Patagonia Can Make a World Traveler Out of Anyone

Here’s what happened when the lure of clear streams, endless skies, and elusive fish brought two best friends to the ends of the earth.

July 2, 2015 07:28 PM

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Chris Woolston

Travel Tales

Why Did I Bring a Teenager to Venice?

On a trip with a young traveler in tow, a writer reflects on her first Venice adventure—and how it changed her life.

January 31, 2013 06:07 PM

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Emma John

Founder’s Note

Founder’s Note: Reflect, Refresh, Recharge

March 24, 2012 05:34 PM

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Greg Sullivan

Food + Drink

Wandering Restaurateur: Jay Thomson in France, San Francisco, and New York

July 29, 2013 03:58 PM

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Jen Murphy

Epic Trips

Is Classic Train Travel the Antidote to Modern Life?

On a luxurious journey from Singapore to Bangkok, writer Chris Colin lifts the veil on the magic—and mystery—of rail travel.

May 22, 2013 05:59 PM

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Chris Colin

In the Magazine

Spin the Globe: Marisa Meltzer in Mind-Bending Mongolia

AFAR chose a destination at random and sent writer Marisa Meltzer with 24 hours’ notice to a land of cashmere goats, yak slippers, and near-naked wrestlers.

August 19, 2014 09:00 AM

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Marisa Meltzer

Restaurants + Cafés

Why Aren’t We All Living the Dream on Kauai?

Chefs and cowboys, chickens and mongooses, guitars and King Kong—they’ve all found new lives on Kauai, an island where the only constant is change.

March 18, 2015 09:00 AM

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Chris Colin

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