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A bluegrass fiddler travels to Vienna to learn how to sing—and how to embrace the city’s most famous art: opera.

A subversive band of Portland chefs has a new grocery store: the ocean. You’re going to want to taste what they’re cooking up.

A traveler journeys to the heart of Grasse, where jasmine grows and memories linger.

An arctic voyage is a sensory experience unlike any other. At the southernmost tip of the world, everything feels ephemeral—but that’s the magic of it.

The dish is ubiquitous throughout the country, though nobody quite knows where it got its unusual name.

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

On the Caribbean island of Tobago, you’ll find sand, surf—and the fastest goats on the planet. Now if they’d just run in a straight line….

Traditions on the Brink of Change: Photographer Eric Lafforgue

AFAR chose a destination at random—by literally spinning a globe—and sent writer Ryan Knighton to Egypt’s sprawling capital with just 24 hours’ notice.

A writer travels to the Horn of Africa to find the source of a global obsession.

Stay where the chocolate is made.

You don’t necessarily need to know how to wield a paintbrush to participate in these seven art-filled tours.

Hoi An’s iconic noodle dish was tangled in mystery for decades. Then writer David Farley came to town.

For cross-country skiers, one winter destination rises above the rest: humble Hayward, Wisconsin, where, for a glorious weekend, their obscure sport is king.

After a string of personal losses, a writer heads to Tamil Nadu seeking solace from her sorrows. It takes two temples, a palm leaf astrologer, and the driver of a velour-lined taxi to make her feel whole again.