This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). As evening settles over Indore, the narrow lanes of Sarafa Bazaar undergo a nightly transformation. Jewellery shops pull down their shutters and burners are lit; woks clatter, cooking oil heats and the air fills with the rich aroma of sizzling streetContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Idris Gawr was an early-medieval king of Merionydd — at that time, a kingdom in the southern mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia). According to folklore, he also happened to be a giant whose nightly habit was to climb the great mountain thatContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In the calm, bright morning, the frontier settlement of Puerto Natales feels like it’s catching its breath. Beyond the wind-raked waters of Last Hope Sound, the Paine massif rises — a snow-bound cathedral of glaciers and granite spires. Their beauty drawsContinue Reading
Surrounded by green hills and rugged coastlines home to albatrosses, penguins and seals, the South Island’s second-largest city is also one of New Zealand’s most distinctive. Roughly 225 miles south of the city of Christchurch, Dunedin sits in the Otago region on the wild southeastern coast. The area was populatedContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Looking at the winter landscape in Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, you might think little goes on here during the year’s coldest months. The ground, blanketed in a thick layer of powdery snow, is frozen solid, as are rivers and lakes. TheContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Switzerland’s sporty mountain resorts have traditionally offered far more than just downhill skiing. In these long-settled local towns, getting from A to B in winter has often required ingenuity. In Arosa, a horse-drawn sleigh takes riders from railway station to hotel,Continue Reading
Booking affordable airfare can be a turbulent process. Prices rise and fall day by day, or in some cases, hour by hour. In the past, frequent fliers swore by loose strategies to find deals—book on a Tuesday! No, on a Wednesday! Never on a weekend! But experts caution that manyContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Cutting through Peru’s Sacred Valley like a lifeline, the Urubamba River is fed by ancient glaciers and flanked by Inca ruins, terraced farmland and eucalyptus-covered hillsides. It’s along this historic waterway that I find myself donning a wetsuit and helmet onContinue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). When Eric Peythieu was growing up in Chantemerle in the French Alps, he and his friends had a simple way of deciding whether you were a proper skier. “We came to the top of this slope,” the 58-year-old ski instructor remembers,Continue Reading
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In the Tokyo pleasure district of Shibuya, amid the nightclubs and the love hotels, an electric sign flickers a pink slogan: ‘Music from the BYG’. I walk through the door and find myself inside a classic rock ’n’ roll drinking hole.Continue Reading
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