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Frommer’s Best Places to Go in 2025

Travel NewsDecember 3, 20246Views
Santorini, the most-visited Greek island, is incredibly beautiful—just ask any of the 3 million-plus tourists who descend on this tiny speck of land every year. The crush can be so intense that last summer, the local government asked its 20,000 permanent residents to stay off the roads to make room for all the visitors (the…
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Frommer’s Best Places to Go in 2023

What’s travel without a little turbulence, right? Tourism’s big return following the easing of Covid restrictions has been bumpier than we all hoped, thanks to understaffed airports, high gas prices, and other global woes. But while the skies still haven’t entirely cleared, it’s not impossible to find silver linings. For one thing, borders have reopened…
May 5, 202470Views
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A Photo Pilgrimage to the Planet’s Most Spiritual Places

You don't have to think of travel as a spirtual experience, but plenty of seekers have thought of their spiritual experiences as a form of travel. Every pilgrimage, sojourn in the wilderness, journey of self-discovery, and quest for enlightenment is, after all, a trip of some kind, whether actual or metaphorical. Maybe that's why…
May 4, 202472Views
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7 Places to Swim With Whale Sharks Responsibly

Although Meekan has studied whale sharks since 1996, they still surprise him. For years, researchers believed these filter feeders only consumed microscopic sea life and small fish, but it turns out a recent study led by Meekan recently revealed they eat seaweed, too. These record-breaking fish are now also considered the world’s largest omnivores. Some…
May 4, 202490Views
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A Tour of Places from the Hit Netflix Show

Any Emily in Paris pilgrimage has to start at No. 1 place de l’Estrapade. This is where our heroine lives in a chambre de bonne, the name for what used to be maid’s quarters about a century ago. Emily's place appears to be a good deal larger than most of the broom closet–sized rooms that…
May 4, 202477Views
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Iconic Places Where 007 Movies Were Filmed

James Bond has probably flown to more places than any other U.K. icon, with the possible exception of British Airways.  From the fictional spy's first onscreen appearance in 1962's Dr. No and through all 25-and-counting installments in the hugely successful movie series inspired by novelist Ian Fleming's suave creation, Agent 007's cinematic adventures have stood…
May 1, 202477Views
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Frommer’s Best Places to Go in 2024

The long saga of life on Earth frequently goes through rough spots in the narrative, but even in the story's darkest passages, bright spots always abound. The world is as wide as it ever was, and it’s still brimming with positive things worth discovering and celebrating.  The human drive to venture to new places, meet…
May 1, 202462Views