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Sapa Beyond the Viewpoints
Sapa is sold through one image: green rice terraces curving beneath misty mountains. The landscape is real. The timing is not guaranteed.…
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Two Weeks in Vietnam Without Pretending It Is Small
Vietnam looks narrow on a map, which has encouraged generations of travelers to mistake it for small. The old version of this…
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Five Days in Singapore Without Treating It Like a Layover
Singapore is often given forty-eight hours and a list of photogenic architecture. Five days allows a better question: how did a small…
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A Night Out in Singapore Should Not Depend on a Secret List
The old version of this post was a list of Singapore speakeasies, complete with addresses, passwords and breathless descriptions of unmarked doors.…
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Marina Bay Is Better on Foot
Marina Bay is usually photographed as a collection of objects: three towers with a ship on top, a lotus-shaped museum, artificial trees…
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A Working Holiday in Australia Is Still Work
Australia’s working-holiday programs are often advertised as a year of beaches interrupted by occasional paid shifts. The beaches are real. So are…
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The Great Barrier Reef Is Alive, Damaged, and Worth Seeing Carefully
The Great Barrier Reef is often written about as if it were one flawless underwater postcard. It is neither one place nor…
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Three Days in Melbourne, Not Melbourne Plus Everything
Melbourne is a city that rewards wandering, which makes the phrase “must-see weekend” slightly self-defeating. The best three days here are not…
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Five Australian Beaches, Five Different Journeys
Australia has enough coastline to make any list of its “best beaches” collapse under the weight of geography. Turquoise Bay, Whitehaven, Wineglass…
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What Skydiving in French Polynesia Actually Requires
Skydiving in French Polynesia is easy to sell. Put a lagoon beneath an open aircraft door, add one photograph of a person…