Victoria Falls Send us a tip on great waterfalls the world over and win a £200 hotel voucherThe GuardianThere are few natural landscape features as thrilling as torrents of water hurtling down cliffs, whether they are in Iceland, the Highlands, Yorkshire, Croatia, Brazil, Hawaii or Australia – the homes
Travel 10 of the best things to do in Vevey, SwitzerlandThe Guardian - Sandra MacGregorOn 18 July, the peaceful town of Vevey, on the shores of Lake Geneva near Montreux, transforms into party central as it hosts one of the world’s biggest (and rarest) wine festivals. The Fête des Vignerons
Albania On the trail of the unexpected – a road trip around AlbaniaThe Guardian - Fiona DunlopWas it a wolf? As our car swung round yet another tight bend deep in the Albanian countryside, a gangly, shaggy creature watched from the edge. No doubt it was, as we had just left a nature reserve where
Travel 10 of the UK's best water-sports venues and activitiesThe Guardian - Antonia WilsonBounce, hop, dive and jump through Atlantis, a new aqua park at the National Diving and Activity Centre in Chepstow, Monmouthshire. It has five floating zones, each increasing in difficulty, with Total
Bali Young, entitled and over there: the rise of the begpackerThe GuardianAppearance: Grubby, down on their luck, not from round here. Do you mean backpackers? They’re often rather grubby. Not quite. Begpackers are western backpackers, most often travelling in south-east Asia,
Travel French leave: fun places to stay on four routes to the south of FranceThe Guardian - Carolyn BoydFrom the north-west ferry ports (St Malo, Cherbourg, Caen, Le Havre) down the west of France, via Nantes and Bordeaux, to the south-west These three luxurious treehouses and a wooden gypsy caravan make
Travel 20 of the best campsites in UK and Europe by public transport: readers’ travel tipsThe Guardian - Guardian readersA train journey to Ardrossan from Glasgow, a 50-minute ferry across to Brodick, Isle of Arran, and a short but beautiful bus ride will bring you to the gate of Seal Shore campsite, Kildonan, on the extreme
Yorkshire Dales Exploring the Yorkshire Dales by electric campervanThe Guardian - Dixe Wills‘It’s a bit like a Super Mario Kart,” the owner Kit had joked. And halfway up a steep hill, I got my chance to prove it. Flicking the thrilling “turbo” switch on the dashboard, I rocketed skyward. Well,
Travel Summer holiday rush as deals spark last-minute travel boomThe Guardian - James TapperThe great British holiday getaway is usually the most anticipated weekend of the year, a culmination of months of fretting and planning. But this is the year of the last-minute summer. Huge numbers of
Travel One goes mad in Dorset: camping on Scout islandThe Guardian - Jane DunfordThe first time I hear a peacock scream it scares the bejesus out of me. I’m sussing out my tree tent – cleverly strung between four sweet chestnuts a few feet off the ground – and the sound stops me in
Travel 20 of the best campsites in the UK and Europe accessible by public transportThe Guardian - Dixe WillsIs there a more thunderously wonderful view from an English campsite than the one enjoyed from Park Farm? This tiny sloping triangle of grass on the edge of the North York Moors lords it over a sumptuous
Travel (UK) Beckenham Place Park: London’s newest green spaceThe Guardian - Adam McCullochAncient oaks and luxuriant lawns stretch away from a spectacular Palladian mansion. A crescent-shaped lake glints amid trees in a shallow valley. People linger over picnics and wander off to woodland kids
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka bombings: three months on, tourism workers tell their storiesThe Guardian - Emma BoyleMay and June are the low season in Sri Lanka, but this year, following the Easter Sunday bombings, tourism ground to a halt. Hotels were empty, beaches were deserted and popular attractions that had been
Travel Museum of underwater art to open on Australia's Great Barrier ReefThe Guardian - Antonia WilsonFrom a colour-changing figure warning of warming seas to a sunken skeletal greenhouse encrusted with coral, a new museum of underwater art in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef marine park aims to raise awareness
Jaipur The jewellers of Jaipur's Johari Bazaar – a photo essayThe Guardian - Harry Johnstone, photography by Christopher Wilton-Steer‘Sir, want precious stones?” a man asks me, quietly. I am on the Johari Bazaar, one of Jaipur’s most notable thoroughfares, a straight colonnade screened above by the facades of adjoining houses. Everything
Travel Send us a tip on off-the-tourist-trail Europe to win a £200 hotel voucherThe GuardianEurope is full of nooks and crannies, places that most visitors haven’t come across and that don’t attract floods of comments on TripAdvisor. Your tip could be about a village, a town, a nature reserve,
Travel Alternative city breaks: Łódź, Poland – discover its culture, food and nightlifeThe Guardian - Kit Macdonald‘If it doesn’t fit, it fits perfectly,” is something of a buzz-phrase in Poland’s third-largest city, and it doesn’t take long to see why. It is a place where the next surprise – a fantastical, seemingly
National Parks Peace amid cascades: national parks in Croatia and BosniaThe Guardian - Mary NovakovichIn the 15 years since I last visited Plitvice Lakes national park, much has changed in this mountainous region of Lika, near Croatia’s border with Bosnia-Herzegovina. Hotels, apartments, B&Bs and campsites
Travel 10 of the best UK beer gardens: readers’ travel tipsThe Guardian - Guardian readersPerched above a bend in the Tyne is this no-nonsense Geordie boozer with great real ales. Its beer garden has the best view of the Tyne bridges, with the Baltic art gallery and the Millennium Bridge in
Travel Take the kids to … The Miniature Pony Centre, DevonThe Guardian - Deborah Nicholls-LeeThis former cattle farm in Dartmoor national park is home to 69 equines and a host of farm animals, birds and creepy-crawlies. You don’t have to be horsey to enjoy it as there’s stacks of stuff to do,
Travel A local’s guide to Stockholm: 10 top tipsThe Guardian - Jens LinderThe Stockholm archipelago is surrounded by clean waters, so the wild bathing opportunities are numerous. A good spot in the actual city is Långholmsbadet, a small beach on the north shore of Långholmen
Travel Flower power: an orchid hunt in south WalesThe Guardian - Kevin RushbyWe have arrived in a broad grassy hollow within the dunes of Kenfig nature reserve and ranger David Carrington has set me a task. “There’s an orchid within six feet of me. Can you find it?” It’s not an
Travel Himalayan highs … and lows: trekking in NepalThe Guardian - Ed CummingOn the second morning of our trek up Poon Hill, in a clearing in a rhododendron forest, my friend Ali and I stopped for a breather. Rarely has the word been more apt. I had to speak through my panting
Travel 10 of the best restaurants in Brittany, FranceThe Guardian - Carolyn BoydOyster lovers should try them freshly caught at Cancale’s beachside market. The town, which is not far from Saint-Malo, is the oyster capital of Brittany and a number of blue- and white-striped stalls
Travel 10 of the best hotels, B&Bs and apartments in Brittany, FranceThe Guardian - Carolyn BoydThe characterful Ty Mad hotel, whose name means “good home”, is set in a stately manor house with 15 airy bedrooms. Neutral decor makes the most of the natural stone walls, wooden roof beams and double-aspect
Thomas Cook Can Thomas Cook find a path through its perfect storm of woes?The Guardian - Rob DaviesThomas Cook is suffering from an interminable holiday nightmare. It has been struck by a combination of high debt, intense competition and one-off factors including last summer’s heatwave. Brexit uncertainty
Travel Great Brittany: exploring the Emerald CoastThe Guardian - Carolyn BoydWe’re sitting on an empty beach, a wide sweep of white sand overlooking the emerald sea, and we can’t quite believe we have it all to ourselves. Had we flown to far-flung shores and taken a boat to a island,
Travel Wild swimming lake to open in BeckenhamThe Guardian - Isabel ChoatA 285m-long swimming and kayaking lake opens in south London on 20 July, creating a natural recreation area and putting the south-east suburb on the map for outdoor swimming enthusiasts. Created in 1800
