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University of New Mexico
The US’ surreal alien landscape
BBC Travel - By Ted Alan Stedman
Hidden in the remote stretches of north-west New Mexico, the Bisti Badlands are one of the US’ most surreal sites.
Colombia
Colombia’s buzzing comeback city
BBC Travel - By Ian Neubauer
Bogota, Cartagena and Medellin top most travellers' lists, but only one in 20 visits the vibrant, buzzing city of Cali in the country's south. In 2016, the Colombian government and the Farc rebels signed
Ozone
The world’s most expensive wine?
BBC Travel - By Mike Randolph
For the last 11 years, Hilario García has been making some remarkable wines in a rather unusual way, and the results have captured the interest of wine buyers around the world.
Falafel
Does Egypt have the best falafel in the world?
BBC Travel - By Dene Mullen
Gone are the chickpeas so ubiquitous in most other countries; here, the main ingredient is broad beans, which fry better and result in a lighter, fluffier take on the popular snack. It’s Wednesday afternoon
Venice
A communal meal on a massive scale
BBC Travel - By Elisabetta Abrami
Each July, Venice unites to remember its liberation from the bubonic plague that decimated more than a third of its population between 1575 and 1577.
Outer Banks, NC
The US land forever leased to Britain
BBC Travel - By Brian Carlton
Every May, the US Coast Guard and the Royal Navy hold a ceremony on a sliver of North Carolina land where four sailors are buried. Residents on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina’s Outer Banks first heard
El Salvador
For Salvadorans, pupusas mean comfort
BBC Travel - By Laura Kiniry & Daniel Kavanaugh
Pupusas – stuffed corn-flour tortillas grilled up like pancakes – are a staple food in most Salvadoran households, and a symbol of home for immigrant Salvadoran communities worldwide.
Festivals
Where rockets bring the rain
BBC Travel - By Tim McDonald
Thailand’s Bun Bangfai, or rocket festival, is a pyromaniac’s dream. But it’s also a celebration that taps deep into local legends.
Baltistan
The village that lost its country
BBC Travel - By Dave Stamboulis
Turtuk was part of Pakistan until 1971, when the Indian army occupied the village during a border war along the Line of Control and never gave it back.
Armenia
The boat-shaped ravioli of the Armenian diaspora
BBC Travel - By Bridget Gleeson & Ignacio de Barrio
For thousands of Armenians who resettled in Argentina, comfort food and community were key to keeping cultural traditions alive.
Mali
The massive mosque built once a year
BBC Travel - By Peter Yeung
During La Crépissage, residents of Djenné, Mali, work together to repair and rebuild the Grand Mosque, the world’s largest mud-brick structure.
Vienna
Does this schnitzel define Vienna?
BBC Travel - By Anna Muckerman
The Wiener schnitzel is as emblematic of Vienna as classical composers – but one family-run eatery serves a cutlet so classic that it embodies what a schnitzel should be. It’s 11:15 on Bäckerstrasse street
Manipur
India’s progressive egalitarian society
BBC Travel - By Ben McKechnie
Ima Keithel – or Mother’s Market – is the largest female-only-run market in Asia. No men own businesses here, and it has always been this way.
The birthplace of modern nature healing
BBC Travel - By Mahima A Jain
In the 19th Century, Europeans travelled to Bled, Slovenia, to seek out the natural healing treatments of Arnold Rikli. Today, his methods are making a comeback. The azure, 144-hectare Lake Bled darted
Amsterdam
What’s it like to live in an over-touristed city?
BBC Travel - By Lindsey Galloway
Locals explain how the influx of travellers has affected them, how authorities are responding and how visitors can remain respectful of people who live there year-round. Global travel and tourism continues
Oman
Oman’s ancient biblical scent
BBC Travel - By Christopher P Baker
Used for millennia as a perfume and panacea, frankincense was once prized more than gold. Wisps of frankincense smoke wafted through the bazaar as I plunged through the crowded, labyrinthine passageways
Pasta
Italy’s city that revolutionised pasta
BBC Travel - By Lane Nieset
Known as the ‘Città della Pasta’ (City of Pasta), the sleepy coastal town of Gragnano in Italy's Campania region became famous in the late 1700s for its ‘white gold’, or macaroni. As a sea breeze blew
Archaeology
A trattoria with a hidden, ancient underworld
BBC Travel - By Vicki Salemi
Quo Vadis, a restaurant in Puglia, is finally able to open after a 19-year delay caused when its owner serendipitously discovered an ancient world hidden underneath it. “Finally. I’m happy!” proclaimed
Parallel Universes
A bizarre journey beyond Earth’s borders
BBC Travel - By Laura Kiniry
The Kcymaerxthaere is our global link to a ‘parallel universe’. So why don't more people know it exists? There's a well-known saying from Ralph Waldo Emerson that goes: ‘It's not the destination, it's
Tibetan Plateau
Comfort food in the harshest climate
BBC Travel - By Nyima Pratten & Daniel Agha-Rafei
Roasted, ground barley flour, otherwise known as tsampa, is inextricably linked with Tibetan people, binding the diaspora across the Himalayan region and further afield.
Mercedes-Benz
How Germany became the country of cars
BBC Travel - By Sarah Staples
In 1888, Bertha Benz set out to prove that her husband Carl’s Motorwagen was safe and ready to sell. Fast forward, and Germany is still the country of premium cars and car culture. At the edge of the Forest
Onions
New York’s beloved ‘black dirt’ onions
BBC Travel - By Shane Cashman
Pine Island’s unique ‘muck soil’ is high in sulphur, which increases the onions’ sugar content and makes them perfect for cooking. When Cheryl Rogowski, a farmer from Pine Island, New York, talks about
Santa Claus
In Spain, a celebration of victory over death
BBC Travel - By Olivier Guiberteau
The festival of Santa Marta de Ribarteme is an opportunity for those who have survived near-death experiences to give thanks for their lives.
Ancient Greece
The revival of a second Greek language
BBC Travel - By Jessica Bateman
The language of the Pontic Greeks – ethnic Greeks who settled on the coast of the Turkish Black Sea – evolved completely differently to the language in their homeland. On a warm June evening, I was making
Nachos
The world’s largest nacho?
BBC Travel - By Robie Flores
Made with 59kg of cheese, it can feed up to 350 people and it unites two communities at the US-Mexican border.
Museum of London
The baffling origin of London Stone
BBC Travel - By Olivier Guiberteau
London Stone has been a landmark for centuries. And where facts and science have failed to provide a definite history, myths have flourished. London’s Cannon Street is a frantic mêlée during the morning
French Revolution
Why the French love to say no
BBC Travel - By Sylvia Sabes
Although the default answer to almost every question, request or suggestion is a disheartening ‘non’, a ‘oui’ is often hiding in the context of what is being said. “Non, ce n’est pas possible. I keep you,
Knights Templar
The secret seat of the Knights Templar
BBC Travel - By Addison Nugent
Under the cobblestoned streets of Paris’s chicest district lie the remnants of the mysterious Knights Templar’s mightiest stronghold. It was a beautiful spring day in Paris and I was on the terrace of
Dallas Cowboys
How transhumance is the future
BBC Travel - By Antolín Avezuela
For centuries, in the flatlands of southern Spain, one of the country’s longest cattle migrations has occurred. But now, technology is opening up new possibilities for farmers.
Lanzarote
The Spanish island where astronauts prepare for Mars
BBC Travel - By Mike MacEacheran
In 1969, Nasa astronauts landed on the Moon for the first time. Fifty years later, scientists are in training for the next mission – and in a place few would suspect. About once every week at around 21:00,

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