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With global travel on hold, can Japan’s ‘tiny homes’ still help revive its rural towns?

Ligaya Malones

With global travel on hold, can Japan’s ‘tiny homes’ still help revive its rural towns?

A different view: How has the pandemic affected people and nature in Iraqi Kurdistan?

Leon McCarron

A different view: How has the pandemic affected people and nature in Iraqi Kurdistan?

Retrospective: Crowds, chaos and community at the Tehran Derby

Steve Madgwick

Steve Madgwick

Retrospective: Crowds, chaos and community at the Tehran Derby

Can India’s sacred instrument save itself from extinction?

Meenakshi J

Meenakshi J

Can India’s sacred instrument save itself from extinction?

How a volcanic eruption saved a tiny Indonesian island (from itself)

Marco Ferrarese

Marco Ferrarese

How a volcanic eruption saved a tiny Indonesian island (from itself)

A deep dive into an underwater art world

Erik Trinidad

Erik Trinidad

A deep dive into an underwater art world

In search of (the real) Vodou in Haiti

Paul Clammer

Paul Clammer

In search of (the real) Vodou in Haiti

Want a crash course in Armenian culture? Hop on the ballistic bus

Steve Madgwick

Steve Madgwick

Want a crash course in Armenian culture? Hop on the ballistic bus

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The wildest trip I’ve ever taken involved total silence and no passport

Tayla Gentle

Tayla Gentle

The wildest trip I’ve ever taken involved total silence and no passport

The Maasai school teacher using tourism to empower women

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Lisa Scott

Lisa Scott

The Maasai school teacher using tourism to empower women

More than a market: Where the women of Manipur sell, debate, trade and protest

Eileen McDougall

Eileen McDougall

More than a market: Where the women of Manipur sell, debate, trade and protest

Can Indigenous tourism help protect the Great Barrier Reef?

Shaney Hudson

Shaney Hudson

Can Indigenous tourism help protect the Great Barrier Reef?

From ‘unwanted’ relics to tourist attractions: Can travelers help save Canada’s only reindeer herd?

Karen Gardiner

Karen Gardiner

From ‘unwanted’ relics to tourist attractions: Can travelers help save Canada’s only reindeer herd?

Not visiting Uluru because of the climbing ban? You’re missing the point

Oliver Pelling

Oliver Pelling

Not visiting Uluru because of the climbing ban? You’re missing the point

In photos: The last ‘canoe people’ of the Venezuelan Delta

Adriana Loureiro Fernández

Adriana Loureiro Fernández

In photos: The last ‘canoe people’ of the Venezuelan Delta

In photos: Mares and deck chairs at a remote Welsh country fair

Lola Akinmade Åkerström

In photos: Mares and deck chairs at a remote Welsh country fair

No phones, no wi-fi: The Viennese cafés that force you to talk to strangers

Luke Waterson

Luke Waterson

No phones, no wi-fi: The Viennese cafés that force you to talk to strangers

How soon is too soon for post-Isis tourism?

Sarah Reid

Sarah Reid

How soon is too soon for post-Isis tourism?

The woman who went around the world in 80 trains

Meera Dattani

Meera Dattani

The woman who went around the world in 80 trains

Sign of the times: Can Bangladesh’s rickshaw artists survive modernization?

Souad Msallem

Souad Msallem

Sign of the times: Can Bangladesh’s rickshaw artists survive modernization?

Everything we learned about the future of travel from the Tourism for Tomorrow awards

Holly Tuppen

Holly Tuppen

Everything we learned about the future of travel from the Tourism for Tomorrow awards

Nepal’s widows aren’t settling for subjugation any more

Nicola Zolin

Nicola Zolin

Nepal’s widows aren’t settling for subjugation any more

House music in Pakistan? Meet the innovators cranking up the volume

James Shackell

James Shackell

House music in Pakistan? Meet the innovators cranking up the volume

These women are blazing a new trail for equality in Nepal

Sponsored by The Intrepid Foundation

Tayla Gentle

Tayla Gentle

These women are blazing a new trail for equality in Nepal

Connecting America: How the nation’s oldest railroad still brings people together

Leon McCarron

Connecting America: How the nation’s oldest railroad still brings people together

The social enterprise that’s changing lives and cleaning up Cambodia

Sponsored by The Intrepid Foundation

George Wright

George Wright

The social enterprise that’s changing lives and cleaning up Cambodia

Did these epic Iranian sand dunes bury an entire civilization?

Marco Ferrarese

Marco Ferrarese

Did these epic Iranian sand dunes bury an entire civilization?

The complex ceremony of Canadian fish-kissing

Mike MacEacheran

Mike MacEacheran

The complex ceremony of Canadian fish-kissing

How refugees saved Riace, the tiny Italian town that could

Nicola Zolin

Nicola Zolin

How refugees saved Riace, the tiny Italian town that could

On the Incense Route: How frankincense helped changed the world

Emma Thomson

On the Incense Route: How frankincense helped changed the world

In photos: Life lessons from Sweden’s reindeer herders

Lola Akinmade Åkerström

In photos: Life lessons from Sweden’s reindeer herders

All aboard Kim Jong Un’s ‘Orient Express’: Taking a train across North Korea

Allie Dunnington

Allie Dunnington

All aboard Kim Jong Un’s ‘Orient Express’: Taking a train across North Korea

Inside the Cambodian ‘factory’ set to turn street kids into business owners

Sponsored by The Intrepid Foundation

George Wright

George Wright

Inside the Cambodian ‘factory’ set to turn street kids into business owners

What on earth is forest bathing? (And where on earth did it come from?)

Amanda Ogle

Amanda Ogle

What on earth is forest bathing? (And where on earth did it come from?)

Behind the mind-boggling human carpentry of Catalonia’s castellers

Jen Rose Smith

Jen Rose Smith

Behind the mind-boggling human carpentry of Catalonia’s castellers

All-nude travel for the masses? Behind the rise of the ‘nakation’

Cam Hassard

All-nude travel for the masses? Behind the rise of the ‘nakation’

In praise of the storied Gold Rush saloons of America’s West

Shoshi Parks

Shoshi Parks

In praise of the storied Gold Rush saloons of America’s West

Burning Man on motorcycles? Welcome to The Rotten Race

Alex King

Alex King

Burning Man on motorcycles? Welcome to The Rotten Race

British Columbia’s sockeye salmon run is bizarre, beautiful and bittersweet

Jennifer Ennion

British Columbia’s sockeye salmon run is bizarre, beautiful and bittersweet

In photos: The mesmerizing and surreal Pushkar Camel Fair

Annapurna Mellor

Annapurna Mellor

In photos: The mesmerizing and surreal Pushkar Camel Fair

What do melting glaciers have to do with Norway’s Viking relics?

Shoshi Parks

Shoshi Parks

What do melting glaciers have to do with Norway’s Viking relics?

Where women rule: The Nepali foothill community of Panauti

Lola Akinmade Åkerström

Where women rule: The Nepali foothill community of Panauti

The tiny Indonesian village where dancing is a social currency

Marco Ferrarese

Marco Ferrarese

The tiny Indonesian village where dancing is a social currency

Gunfights, cow theft and love songs: The ‘singing wells’ of Namunyak

Gavin Haines

Gavin Haines

Gunfights, cow theft and love songs: The ‘singing wells’ of Namunyak

There’s no Tinder in the desert: How Chad’s Wodaabe nomads find love

Tariq Zaidi

Tariq Zaidi

There’s no Tinder in the desert: How Chad’s Wodaabe nomads find love

Why winter is the best time to tackle Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway

Caroline Eden

Caroline Eden

Why winter is the best time to tackle Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway

Meet the Cape Town graffiti artists helping transform their township

Tayla Gentle

Tayla Gentle

Meet the Cape Town graffiti artists helping transform their township

Half-man, half-fish: The surreal lives of Madagascar’s nomadic fishermen

James Patrick

James Patrick

Half-man, half-fish: The surreal lives of Madagascar’s nomadic fishermen

If you live in Taipei’s Dream Community, this Indigenous festival is included in your rent

Mark Daffey

Mark Daffey

If you live in Taipei’s Dream Community, this Indigenous festival is included in your rent

The art of mending memories: Inside the world’s oldest surviving doll hospital

Priyanka Sacheti

Priyanka Sacheti

The art of mending memories: Inside the world’s oldest surviving doll hospital

The baseball team redefining what it means to be young and Vietnamese

Travis Hodges

Travis Hodges

The baseball team redefining what it means to be young and Vietnamese

The incredible life and times of Japan’s most influential artist

Shafik Meghji

The incredible life and times of Japan’s most influential artist

Meet the families keeping Rajasthani block printing traditions alive

Lorna Parkes

Meet the families keeping Rajasthani block printing traditions alive

In photos: Is this the world’s oldest and smallest religion?

Leon McCarron

In photos: Is this the world’s oldest and smallest religion?

Adventure.com turns one: Our favorite stories from the past 12 months

The Editors

The Editors

Adventure.com turns one: Our favorite stories from the past 12 months

Lagom: Is this the secret to Swedish happiness?

Lola Akinmade Åkerström

Lagom: Is this the secret to Swedish happiness?

Is it time for Leeuwarden to step out of Amsterdam’s shadow?

Nori Jemil

Nori Jemil

Is it time for Leeuwarden to step out of Amsterdam’s shadow?

To haggle or not to haggle: What do the vendors say?

Andrew Fenton

Andrew Fenton

To haggle or not to haggle: What do the vendors say?

Forget Paris, Valletta is Europe’s lesser-known cultural capital

Juliet Rix

Juliet Rix

Forget Paris, Valletta is Europe’s lesser-known cultural capital

Give an adventure: Travel experiences you can gift

The Editors

The Editors

Give an adventure: Travel experiences you can gift

Inside the Integratron: A sound bath in a desert spaceship

Claire Hannum

Claire Hannum

Inside the Integratron: A sound bath in a desert spaceship

What’s it like inside Tokyo’s capsule hotels?

Paula Froelich

Paula Froelich

What’s it like inside Tokyo’s capsule hotels?

There’s no crisis in paradise: Tracing Greece’s youth ‘hippie trail’

Alex King

Alex King

There’s no crisis in paradise: Tracing Greece’s youth ‘hippie trail’

In defense of getting naked when you travel

Ben Groundwater

Ben Groundwater

In defense of getting naked when you travel

These photos will transport you to the desert utopia of Burning Man

Nicola Bailey

Nicola Bailey

These photos will transport you to the desert utopia of Burning Man

The last wanderers: Inside the lives of Mongolia’s nomads

Susan Portnoy

Susan Portnoy

The last wanderers: Inside the lives of Mongolia’s nomads

Win tickets to the Adventure Travel Film Festival

Meera Dattani

Meera Dattani

Win tickets to the Adventure Travel Film Festival

How 43 president heads ended up abandoned on Virginia farmland

Kelly Paras

Kelly Paras

How 43 president heads ended up abandoned on Virginia farmland

Inside the Vatican: The untold gay history

Adrienne Jordan

Adrienne Jordan

Inside the Vatican: The untold gay history

How this giant golden egg is helping a sinking town in Sweden

Jenny Hart

Jenny Hart

How this giant golden egg is helping a sinking town in Sweden

How the art world is bringing awareness to climate change

Jenny Hart

Jenny Hart

How the art world is bringing awareness to climate change

Angelina Jolie’s Cambodian genocide film now on Netflix

Meera Dattani

Meera Dattani

Angelina Jolie’s Cambodian genocide film now on Netflix