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Dubai dazzle ahead of Expo 2020

A stopover in Dubai usually entails snatching a flavour of the emirate’s rapacious appetite for the razzle-dazzle. The arsenal of

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Road-tripping NZ’s weird and quirky art galleries

While the Hundertwasser Toilets in Kawakawa are well-known as the ultimate roadside art gallery stop-off in New Zealand, there are

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Transfixed at Tswalu Kalahari Reserve

It’s the immensity of the wrinkled desert canvas that finds you catching your breath, on final approach to Tswalu Kalahari

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Mega pursuits in Mexico City

Flying into town at night, the infinity sprawl of twinkling city lights graphically illustrated why Mexico City’s is bigger than

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Johannesburg Heart and Soul

Gazing across the sprawling green canopy of confronting, troubled Johannesburg from the Munro Drive lookout, the blaze of purple haze

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Spirit of Santa Marta, Colombia

Sun-toasted and sultry, it’s one of the Caribbean’s hidden gems. Santa Marta is not just the oldest city in Colombia,

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Romance and drama of Riga

En-route from Vilnius to Riga, an extraordinary inflexion point on my Insight Vacations’ guided journey of the Baltics was a

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Tootling through Tallinn

Peering out my Tallinn hotel window, the early morning curtain of swirling mist was lifting from the Old Town, as

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Classic seduction in Cartagena

Cultured, sensual, characterful and radiating a carnival of colours, Cartagena is the sort of place that lustily sweeps you up

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Winter journey into the soul of Fiordland with RealNZ
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Winter journey into the soul of Fiordland with RealNZ

Some journeys begin with expectation; others unfold into quiet revelation. The full-day coach trip from Queenstown to Milford Sound belongs

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Queenstown in Winter – a frosted dream of majesty and motion
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Queenstown in Winter – a frosted dream of majesty and motion

When winter arrives in Queenstown, the alpine town undergoes a transformation so vivid, so achingly beautiful, that it feels as

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Timeless tranquility-A Moselle river journey with AmaWaterways
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Timeless tranquility-A Moselle river journey with AmaWaterways

Europe has many faces. There’s the grand and the familiar Paris at twilight, the spires of Cologne, the vineyard-laced Rhine.

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